Alexandria advertiser and commercial intelligencer. [volume] (Alexandria [Va.]) 1800-1803, 1803-05-06

''S af,eotion where mode!t virtue can
pO .ly obtain hearing. So that tho
-. =. far from being worthy OF re-
:" ~ rev muf be anfwered. that they
rs no, be dangerous. Atths lame time
~ declare, that If it were no. that the
;ss,nusus,swho are always unwary, rco
a,sso on.hinking. might become the dupes
IS tboge tricks, clumfy and bnngling as
nav are. we. Glould be rather ddYoied to
,ogh az the grave conflencs, orso turn
vii, with diigoft and contempt FROM the cold,
,o,od. phlegmalic difregaIt. of ihame,-
d;f5lagea by ,hoie who advance fuch
,hiops. AMI repeat them again after they
,,vt been reflted, than 10 conGder them
: worthy Of ferrous refutation. Thole
~or,hy democrats ieem as if condemned
Or their fins, ike SgslPHus of old, cter-
nally 70 labor in rolling up bill the
buge Zone Of fallehood, which rolls down
,gs;o upon their heads, aud keeps them
II the endleis, fruisleis .abour OF the
damned.
SC Then Sifyphns, the ncarea mate in woc
Drew my regard he with Offended nerves
Aye rolls pondcrous none up rugged
rock:
vrg'd up the itscp cliff flow, with hand an
foot,
1t mounts; but bordering on the cloudy peak
Preeipiscus adown, the aopy Gde;
The rapid orb devolving back renews
Ft:rnal toll, which he, with dirt befmear'd,
And dew'd with fnioaking fweat. inceiilnt
plies"
f'heic, or fuch as thefc, are the Tartsrean
laboSrs which employ the 6L,0Sd inhabi-
sants ofthe Pandemonium eretted in Ame-
RIGA by the diiciples of France, Robelpieire
lnd the Rights sf Max.
What mind, not tainted or perverted
by the arts of the ruling party, can fail to
turn with adherence from the weekly re-
iteration as ttupid as it is falie, and as
hamelels as either, of the applauie lavifh
I'd upon our prefcnt, and the cerlure caa
spon our former, inancisrs. Already it
has been proved that thofe who now keep
the key of the trealury, not only have
got the merit of bringing into it Jingle
sent, but have 70 anfwer for having op-
Yofed almof every msaiure, sad OF hav-
ing avowed open hoRility Ito the whole OF
heiyaem Of finance Of their prcdecet1ers.
the produtfivensls of which iyaem, never
thelefs, they and their agents have now
the impudence 70 boat of as if it were
their own. Already it has been proved
10 their teeth that the caufes of the expen-
diture of the public money during the for.
ntr adminiRations not only went hand in
hand with the public will, but were called
tor by the public voice, as a deience a
CAN'T foreign ioiult and wrong; proved
loo that part of it was incurred by the
iopprellion oftwo inlurreefions, abetted by
lone of thole very men who blame that
sspence. Ifevery fegar, and every glafs
etgrog or wine drank in the Uninn, were
known to be taken from the banks & the
waters of Lethe, thofe democratic agents
sOuld not think the people of America
more aupid, more loft to all recollection
athe Pait, more obliyioDly drunk and
nieniible than they mutt think them
saea they imagine them to be capable o,
Wallowing fuch downright, direct con.
aadlttlons oftruth and matter Of fact as
'aey offer them, not once, but decies re
Pstita. Thus though over and over again
,Oiwsred, though rolled like Syfpbm
s0Rn the hill with their iallhoods on their
1saas' they come forward with the fale,
'snocratic fang ffory, that the former
sa.'1ioiitration was cxsravagant, compared
Vim the prefsnt, when any man who has
uslrs enough 10 MS pate to ill the crani-
~ Of gander, knows that the caufes for
=. .a's expenditure ceafed before the pfeient
humiliation came into Office, and that
@s'ciore to have done otheswiic than re-