Alexandria advertiser and commercial intelligencer. [volume] (Alexandria [Va.]) 1800-1803, 1803-08-04

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ichoonsr Rsfo,ution, Goodwin, do. lchr.,
Jolly Raechus. EIsrper, for Philadelphia,
to failthe Gfit fair wifd.
THAT country must be in a very low
debased political state, one would think.
which ca;l afford its political writer's no
better Or worthier subject for discussion
ttap tae paltry pecuium--shc miserable
moyeay isss Of the salaries of its Officers.
The present. administration came into
power with the deceptive cant Of paper
economy IN their mouths, and they con-
tinue to htawi out s Pogeyfy, Pdvsyty,"
like blind heggars in the street, to the
annoyance Of all that hear then1--but at
the same time to their eva emolument.
Like tie Faquirs Of the East, and the beg
cling Friars Of Popish countries, they
preach ard profess poverty while their
garments are embossed with concealed
treasure quilted in cluGsily to look ike
patches. Yet it is not surprising that
they should at last believe that there is
nothing which 50 much demands. attention
as those things, when it is their nature as.
well as their habit to have themselves no
thing, else in view butthe emoluments. Of.
ofice.L.kc pedants OF every kind
they can scarcely bring themselves to-
talk out oe their billy boyse. In short,
:4lary, Office, fees, emoluments and
all that stuff is rhe Latin Of those LIN.
cost occupies all their thoughts by
day,ir nases up the patch work Of their
dreams by night--it is their alt in all
and they would make us believe that it is
the alIm all of the state too. Economy
they would have it thought is the uni
versal panecea--like certain Frenchman,
who undertook to prove that dancing
would enable man to do any thing and
every thing in life we'll; though he for
got that it could not make himself wise.
In short, economy, beggarly economy,
with its humping cant was to supply the
place of wisdom, forsitude, energy, know
ledge, and every other deslderatum in a
state. We much fear too it is all they
will give us for them.
When the renowned Sextus Quia.us
was an humble Cardinal, he, to chew his
humility, hung net up in his room, as if
to tell every one the meannels Of his de-
fcent. Economy and humility were the
virtues he affected TOO. At length, by
maaerly frafagem of the beggar-triok
kind, he got hmielf elected Pope land he
pulled down the net. On being interio-
gated by friend why he did 70, be repli-
ed, with sardonic grin / have
caught the fiji !" rhis is arang]y idea
tive Of the bold intrepid ip;rit which diff
tinguithed that extraordinary man. Bur
other fpirits attnaie our fihermen's fons
in America-now that snsy have caught
the fifh, they love the net 70 much that
they mutt be holding it up to view. They
NUT, at leait weekly, it not daily, remind
the people Of America, what FLY gulls
they mutt have been TO be cajoled by iuch
bungling beggarly devices.
We are led into these animadversions
by apiece taken from northern paper
Those apothecaries who, poorly as their
shop is stored !" with beggarly accounts
Of empty boxe," Can make up large peri
odical bills with " ditto rspeAxa,'' are
continually Juggling forth again and again
to the public, the jejune subject OF sala
ries, which has over and over again been
laid asleep. One would think they did it
from perverse malign disposition, to give
the federalists the modification OF follow
ing them over the same dirty, beaten
ground. If this be their design they shall
De grati6ed, for never shall they move IN
it without our following them; and we
assure them that we shall do it with inil-
mite disgust and modification.
1t seems, from the piece to which we
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