Alexandria daily advertiser. [volume] (Alexandria [Va.]) 1803-1808, 1803-10-22
H. S. TURNER.
October 10.
Fran, the Charleston Courier.
( DEMocRlcIES UNGRATEFUL.

DEMOCR4CIES ONGRAI EfOL.
Thepiece of competition which the luminous
eGayiR in the National IatelHsearty offers to th'
public, under the name of /oasd yta/oaisg, appear
when applied TO the paragraph which lately ap
peared in this paper, fomething like thofs face
tious productions yclepr g Cy9n Rending," the
merit of which conffs not in the relation and
agreement of the paris, but in their incongrury
and oppoGton to each other. We cannot, how
ever 70 far acrI6ce truth to ceremony to call 1t
realoui.g, bu' we allow it to be (o3ud. 1t is
what SHAKESPEARE Jays oth3s.
&c Told by an idiot, full of sand and fury.
Signifying nothing
Says this found reafoncr 1t !, eommoa OBJ
jea1n ag4jxa FREE STATE, that they are xv-
grateful 6utI t5isk shall be a6hn slequ the
esntrary, Nat they are murb nsrt gratetni fban
arbitrary princes, and are rarely xagrafefal bHt
to tbsse qUbo x{e them 1asratefalJy." Nav good
readers compare the words of his flit fcntence
of the soax9rtasoss,, with thofe of our paragraph
and fee if you can how it appiiss. Obfcrye too,
for mercy fake, what fort of sand rrasosiag that
is, 10 which we arc called upon TO make matter
otfaa, and htorical evidence, yield up the VIC
toy!
Wbo di55raised Heyeales?" was the qucf
,ion put by wife man to one who undertook TO
defend and panegyrize a perfon who had not been
attacked OF cenfured. So we FAY, who has &C.
culcd Free States FLEEING ungraiefnl? Who has
laid that If,bL,a'y Princes are grateful Ger
tainly VIZ never have, nor do we recollea ever to
have heard any one else. This device OF fight
ing with fhadows, and declining all CONTEXT with
fubaancc, is aale, and unworthy Of bold demo-
cratic gladiator, Its indeed iorry, fhabby de-
vice. tits cunning Gmuiating the folly of Oak
otiim; poor policy aftaing the generous, cou-
rageous extravaganza of the knight Of the Sor-
roqvfal Cssatexasee, and conjuring up giants, en-
thanters, wind mills, and wine kins TO fight with.
No, we repeat il, we never did accufe or even
fufpea free natts Of ingratitude; nor did we
ever iuiPed arbitrary brinees, or any other arbi,
trary government, Of gratitude. On the con-
trary, we coaiider ingratitudc as one of the inhe
rent difeales of fate either already defpotc, or
clofely verging upon defpotifm. Oar paragraph
fpoke Of The mgrantrde Of demscyacits, which when
pure we reckon one of the veiy WORT fpecies Of
of defpotifm.
And here, once for all, as it may help to save
much trouble in future, and put down this unfair
mode of side wind Misrepresentation, we beg leave
TO have it understood that when we speak ct un-
mixed monarchy, unmixed aristocracy, or unmix
ed democracy, we consider ourselves TO be speak,
zig OF despotisms very vicious, but not equally.
vicious, unmixed democracy being so much worse
than unmlXed monarchy, as the serpent Hydra
was so much the worse by the in6nlsivc power of
reproduction of his seven heads, than he would
have been if, like common snakes, he had but
01e head 10 6it 4oit6, Orn Aft. Aristotle lif We
NAV venture to set the authority OIL that old FASH
oned philosopher against the enlightened Doctors
of the modern pbilgopby Of The @ambles and ssews)
is entirely of this opinion. He had cons; dcred
the different forms of government with all the
attention he could bcsrow upon them. His dis.
cernHlent, though not perhaps on a level with that
OF our oaad reasoaer, is not altogether 80 low as
60 De sighted and he, speaking of democracies
and tyrannies, says to this eaaa: s. The etbi-
cal e6araSer is all tbe s7me 5oib fxtyejtf le,bo.
hsn 0Otr The better elaDss Of tbe eifixeas; anld
-eress are. III fbeose, svbst ordinances and ary,a,
are in fbt of6tr: The denagegaes toe, asa The
e0arf aOorifr, are nat agf1egaeaty the Jane ;den.
sicalmen, end always bear q el9lf analogy !: and
fbsle haze the principal pouvrr, each in tbe;y re
,ffaiVe farm Of government, }avasrifes mil The