Alexandria advertiser and commercial intelligencer. [volume] (Alexandria [Va.]) 1800-1803, 1803-06-10
FRoM THE CaAalHsroN COURIER.
May 81 1903.

FRom THE CHARIHsToN COURIER.
B We have had occS6on more than once
80 animadvert on the aupidity, or eftron
tory, or both, with which the democratic
agents aaume to their party the merit OF
meafares excluGvely belonging to The tor
mer administrations. That there are lone
of thcle men who would not heiitate TO
utter, nay, TO pledge themfelyes for the
truth Of any aiIertioh, however falie II
mght be, is fact no lels lamentable
than true but il is matter OF regret,
that uI,on fuch authority it iliould be a
dopted by pesfous whole general charac-
ter, as il is held by the world, ought to
be above fuch things, and who owe 1t to
themfelves as well as to the community
70 rejea with contempt all inch pisiful,
and to FAY the truth, criminal articles
We who range ourlelves on the iide OF fe.
deralifm, with to take this ground: State
facts confne yourfelves to truth in your
anerl ons, and then argue upon thote facts
s. aGestions in the beit manner your can:
make The mott Of them, and 70 Will
we and then let the public decide be-
TWEEN US upon the queition. But is il not
complete confefhon of your being con-
icious that you are wrong, when you have
recourfe to deception, not in argument,
but in fact Are not the people great
~ abrfed by fuch treatmensl Are they
not .iet wrong by it? And what ought
TO be the reward of thofe who pretend.
Ing to adminiaer medicine to the public
mind, are every day thus pouring into it
the mott spernicious potion.
I" During the late war (lays para
graph in Virginia paper, copied further
iouthwa,d) {" American lailors were i'm
!" preied and compelled to fight the bat
" ties of the King of England" !" To
I" this de.eifable ignominy the late admi-
/" niNfation were tame fprdators :"
Now let the public hear our anfwer TO
this paragraph, and :" mark how plain
tale lball put it down." From the two
countries fpsaking the fame language,
and having the fame manners, drefs, &c.
it is morally impofible TO difingui(h Eng
liih, Irilh, or Scotch iailors IN general
from American. The failors of America
are of,enemployed on board Enslih mer-
chsntmen-the iailors of England often
in American bottoms. Well then !! when
the hour Of neceAity came, and the chief
defence of England, its navy came TO
be manned, preis warrants ifued, and all
were taken who appeared to be Britifh
failors thi, was unavoidable. We dare
FAY Great Britain would be thacs;ful to
any one to let her into the fecret OF
diainguithng an American from an Eng
lihman, merely by the cusof his eounte-
nance. So far then the thing was inc
yitable, and being inevitable, afuredly
does not deierve the harlh appella,ion OF
.ss de,eRable ignDminy." Zealots, how
ever, are 20 apt TO be blind, that we mutt
rather regret than wonder atthe want Of
precifon, or even decency, in mere ABB
ftratt term of their invention andiaPplica-
tion: certain kind of lame, hobbling
excufe may be made for it, therefore, and
at WORT they may plead error. But what
execute can be offered for the fubiequens
limb Of the paragraph, to wit, tina. (" tbe
late admiaJfratien svers tame lptt7ai0,,
when We lhew, a. We certainly ihail,