Berkeley and Jefferson intelligencer. [volume] (Martinsburg, Va.) 1802-1810, 1803-05-06

of protection, against their foul calumny,
and invective. With hands still warm
andreeking with the blood Of their best
citizens, they dare to make sacrifices at
the Temple ofliberty--and set up claim
to the exercise Of every privilege which
government guarantees TO It's own citi->
zens. Restless and factious at home,
they can bear no restraint upon their con-
duct, but with unparalleled impudence
dare 10 dictate TO the councils Of eur ma
ton. Ever foremost in intrigue, it is
on the ground of an election that you see
the foreigner in his native shape No
man Is so busy as himself--none SO rea-.
dy 20 End fault--none so soiieitous in the
success of his candidate as he is--and
none may venture to assert so eager, TO
make black appear white to you, as this
illustrious son of some cnslaved or sa-
wage people What impudence !! And
yet It Is fromthese foreigners-these pre-
eious runaways from the gallows---these
oppressed sons Of humanity, as Mr.. JEFF
ferson emphatically calls them, that the
politics OF our country are to obtain their
complexion-our legislatures are to be
dictated to---and we are to receive with
huuilitythe maxims of polity and go-
vernment. Such characters may indeed
teach us that governments are only sun-
necessary restraints upon the conduct of
mankind-that rebellion against them is
therefore iust--that each one having q
claim upon the good things of this life,
robbery is no crime, and that adultery,
which crafty priests have hitherto taught
Us to condemn, Is bur unnecessary exerti-
ON ofthe energies Of population. These
my countrymen are some Of the adyanta-s
ges which we shall experience from the
Introduction Of fd(eigners-but what,
Others we shall be likely to derive from
this motley crew, Ihave yet 70 learn.
i return from this DEPRESSION. have
been impercsptibly led into it to great
er length than / expected, in order to
refute the opinion 50 very generally re-
eeiyed, that it is the sound policy of this
country to encourage Tor promote the in
PRODUCTION Of Foreigners into 1t. / main
tain that sound policy dictates a step d.
| rectly the reverse and whilst this rage
for inviting them hither continues Anne
RIGA is taking 10 her bosom reptiles which
invigorated by the genial rays of freedom
viii dart the venemons poison into that
very bosom which warmed and nourish-
/ ed them. trust have proven the i'm
policy, Of appointing Mr.. Gallatin on the
| ground ofhis being "a foreigner but from
the precedingremarks, / would not have
il inferred that am opposed to foreign
ers under any circumstances rphdteprr,
participating in the Offices ofour govern
sment. Far from it. Selfish indeed
must be that heart, and narrow and con-
tracted the powers Of that mind which
would harbour sentiment like this.-
When foreigners have resided some time
among ~; when they have given strong
substantial evidence Of their attachment
to our constitution, and moreover, &C.
quifed some property among US i when
they have distinguished themselves from
their unciyilized countrymen who gene
| rally 'infest our shores, by their orderly
conduct; their obedience to the laws;-
and when necessary, their ready aid in
compelling The execution Of them; then,
and then only, have they claim to parti-
cipate in the Offices Of our government
But in Mr.. Gallatin's character do we
diseeyer any traits like these! Is he not
openly charged in the public prints. with
having promoted the Western Insurrec-
toni Was he not the secretary Of q COM
mittee whose incorporate conduct Ger
fainiy tended to kindle the fame of rebel
lion in that part of our country; Of a
committee that entered into resolution
that they would neither eat nor drink, nor
hold fellowship with the men who advo-
Gated the excise law: that they would
regard the officers appointed to collect
taxes on distiIiation as their most invete-
rate enemies, and would spurn them with
contempt from their doorss Did he not
avail himself Of the amnesty act! In a
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