Alexandria advertiser and commercial intelligencer. [volume] (Alexandria [Va.]) 1800-1803, 1803-07-08

.eosa;on af reasor,---but confidence Of ex..
per;ence-as one Of those results, it IS IN
controvertibly proven by argument, and
demonstrated by experiment., that for
man, being destined BY the laws Of his
nature for social intercourse and happi-
ness, to live happy III society, he must be
independent and free: he must be previ-
ously protected and secured ia his pfopef-
" and person against every species OF
attack, that individual or national iRjus-
tice may mediate and make on those
his most sacred AID inalienable rights
for without independence and freedom,
the inestinlable blessings of such protec-
tion and security, reason and experiment.
both forbid his aspiring to the enjoyment
of that substantial, refined and elevated
happiness, which highly improved state
Of society is capable of afforoing "a state
of society, for instance, iii which religion,
morality, arts, sciences, literature and all
the valuable relations and employments
Of social life are maintained, cultivated,
improved and their blessings generally
diffused. The power whose peculiar pro.
vince it is to furnish this important pro.
lection ard security, and thereby dispense
the blessings Of rational liberty, is gov
ernment-wh;ch, to answer in the best
possible manner its true and legitimate
purposes, should, through the medium of
representation, derive It's authority from
the governed, as well with respect to its
fundamental, or constituted powers, as to
laws enacted and executed under their
sanction. The political principle, that
government, to answer best its purposes,
should derive authority from the governed,
is another we'll supported result of those
Investigations which have had for their
Object the true character and happiness of
man. It is supported not only by the
opinions Of such inquirers, as have made
themselves most accurately acquainted
with the definite nature and appropriate
objects of government, but also by the
evidence of facts and apprehension his
rory, the faithful record Of the virtue and
vice, happiness AID misery, caused in So
ciety by the different notifications of the
powers of government--too truly informs
US, that governments of whose constituted
powers this principles not the basis, of
I the authority of whose laws it is not the
| cardinal point, can, will and have restrain.
ed and limited individuals in the enjoy
/ msnt of their essential rights, for other
purposes than those Of protection and secu-
rity. Yes, often as her sacred page la
| inevitably ipstrncts rs, for the most wan
ton purposes of the most wantcn ambition.
The same high authority further Informs
US, that they have done, that they will do
more--they have impored and will Go
SO, whenever opportunities offer, laws up
on whole nations of individuals separate
and distinct from their own, & have most
vigorously enforced obedience to the pro-
visions of such laws, however tyrannical
in their spirit, however oppressive in their
operation: And here, fellow citizens, to
illustrate in more particular and detailed
manner, the tyranny and abuses of such
governments, / could ad1uee from the
same dignihed source Of evidence, hume.
rous and striking examples, both of ancient
and modern times; bur Of such tyranny
! and abuses 10 genuine American mind
will or can require examples Of more APP
| propliate and foreibIe illustration, than
the causes that gave birth to our own re,
voIution /; | trust, then, it is wholly ua-
necessary to adduce any others on the pre-
| sent occasion-besides- of more
recent date, might, III manner unavall-
ingly painful, excite our. most poignant
sympathies with the existing suppression,
degradation and misery of a large proper.
ton ef our species. IT is for the want,
therefore, of we'll constituted representa-
tive government, as is proven by the most
ah,,adant and conclusiyr historical cyl