Alexandria advertiser and commercial intelligencer. [volume] (Alexandria [Va.]) 1800-1803, 1803-04-20

~, ambition, and that their fSa'a'-
mal Thoughts ) 80,
s5ese j tier Gsssls 7atf q man, f041
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: ,,,fj<r'd ~ Jnrm3f; 2aa NOTHING :
BUT WHAT Is NOT.
e ,be;r exits law by which Mr..
,,'a8v lay under disqualification, i sA-
VA % MIR. sioomss aIio unleis we
e ,'"s ,bss laws, ike fome interpretations
' y hen, are made in favor e democrats
~ osa;sG republicans. #, on The con-
=. ~ me deciGon in the cafe OF Mr..
STONES was legal, and if II is true that
:. having contract did not diiquaiiiy
- I'm. WHY lbould i; not be decided 10 IN
byor Of MIR. Moody. Nay, we venture
- ,asrt that two cafes being pfeoiieiy the
l,me. the law was fronger in favor OF Mr..
slady than of MIR. Elocmes --fes his
mn. Moody's) cafe being the lsif decid-
,d uOor, the law, if right in the former
eaIc Of Mr.. Hoomes, was fortified by the
rr,cedenr of that decihon.
liza law excluding contractors does ex-
"A. il is founded on the principle that the
d,fpolal Of contracts ineceiiarily lodged IN
The executiye) would afford that branch OF
the government the means OF undue inau
,oce over rhe members of the legiilatuis.
Ie, il be conGdercd then in this lnfsnce,
with what angular dexterity> they have
sontrived at once 10 adju6ge the law with
partial iniuaice to either one or the other,
and at the fame time to violate the fun
damsntal p.inciple of the law itlelf. They
exclude the tederaliff who is evidently
not under ,he influence of the executive,
and they retain the democrat who Is a.
yowedly one Of that political party, and
of courle influenced by the executive.
This is doing things with vengeance.
What can be hoped when for fnch trivial
advantages, ihame and decency are openly
abandoned. What mutt the people of
Europe think of a commonwealth, the
cgiaarure of which deals out laws and
juttice BY different ftandards of mealure
10 the peopie-to the federal republicans
one, to the democrats another-julf as
their own knavith huckAers and chand-
efs, keep two different iets of weights &
mealures, one for buying and the other for
Filling.
When the Senate refufed certificates to
ethree juitices of peace, the democra-
tic advocates of that meafure deprecated
the making fuch precedent. Ridicu-
lous what are precedents to them Why
even ju& as much as the iermon on the
mount, or any offs divine injunt1ions--
nothing more---and that is little enough
in all confidence. To them and TO their
Tribe, all authority is wrong, and the
more fortified with u6ge, time and pre-
rsdent, like an old icrsant CT the fate, the
more wrong and the foonel got rid of.
iaS IS their long:
Huzra my boys, throw by law books,
And iend them TO the palry cooks;
None bata blockhesd ever looks
In there, or gives glance, fir.
Their muay roles l can't abide,
throw all fuch fcrup'lous train Aide:
Ger all our idol then hall ride,
Like Bonaparteo'er France, Fir.
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