Alexandria advertiser and commercial intelligencer. [volume] (Alexandria [Va.]) 1800-1803, 1803-07-01

inp the waves 10 Nillncis 20 iiulii TUG ia6
ings Of the Tea.
? There is little doubt that the conitltu.
ron Of the United States is the belt iys-
zen, Of theory in exieenee but fsey who
call themfelvss its only friends, appear
l.aa 10 underasnd its nature. Their de.
yotion has been addrened to the temple,
not 10 the divinity which inhabi's II. o.
If they havefe any religions inlPirat'on,
i has been for htiitions Deity, tabled
God with all the attributes of blood
shirRy Moloch, ehom they have intro-
duced into the facrsd fame, and worfhip-
pca under the title oS Demotracyy I In
their fsntiment, no one bot he who joins
il their unhallowed Titse, ihouldibe per-
mitted 10 kncel before It's alter, and biefs
,ne guardian Of his country. Intolerance
has ever followed faperRitions Having
taken on themfelves the executive Psivi-
lege Of being right, they excommunicate
and ali who dare 10 differ from them IN
the interpretation Of thar which is the
common righs and property Of all.
But although the Editor Of this paper
may bring falling hoafe upon his head,
swhenever he offers anoPinioa uponths true
nature of our government, or endeayors
TO iupport the contribution Of Our country,
by preventing, as far as the weakness OF
an uncomfortable advocate will allow, rs
grols MISREPRESENTATION and abuie; though
Democracy yell, and malignity flander,
he will perlrvere in what he conhders TO
be bis duty and, as long as he is favor
ed by lbe protection Of thc laws, raife his
voice 10 expofe doctrines of the mott de-.
fruttiye tendency; which he who does
rot refit, in fome mcclure fubfcribes TO
the ruin Of focal order.
It has been Of late common millake,
that in proportion as there are fewer re-
araints 90 people, the greater is their
political and civil Liberty. ThispFinciple,,
which goes 20 the overthrow of all regu-
lar authority, has been found 10 exit, in
its mott uncomfortable fate, in a ample
democracy, which ignides, from etyno-
logy, stbs govsrsueat Of the bseb< and,
therefore, pure democracy has been cried
up as the only good government aud the
monifrous petition has been taken, thar
the government OF The Uaised States is a
democracy.
They who, having examined hifory,
mutt have obterved the evils coniequent
on The democratic principle in thosc anci-
emf countries which were denominated
free, from the tumaItuous aGembIage of
fhoulands, agitated by all the pafions of
popular trenzy, inacceilible to reafon, de-
Gliding without aeliberation, and facriGc-
ing their beR friends aud benefacfors 20
fhe mean mitigation Of low minded envy.
and jeaIoufy, may fee how irrational ard
sbfnrd it is to apply fuch principle to the
contribution of the United Stetes. They,
600, who have ohferved the effects ofeve-
ry ReP towards Democracy in France
the ravages Of defoiution in its bloody
preieripfi9ns, in itsf1fillades, in its repab
lican marriages, in It's midsight maaacres,
IL It's revolutionary tribunals and It's mi
ierable deluiion Of the Goddess, of Reafon
of Liberty, ard equality, and of the So
vereign People, mue turn with difguR
and horror from thole who tells US
ne 100 are DEMOCRATS Ill
a DEMOCRACY is a government which
acts without the check of the wifaon Of
TIE fszo, and power Of tie enc. AN A.
RisTocRAcy is government which wants
the check of the power of The one, and
the rights Of TIE uany. A AIcNARcHY Is
agovernmcnt which vets all power in
The oaf, unchecked by the wilton Of The
}szp, or the rights Of TIE rs4ny. Neither
government is good in itfelf. The evils
OF each are cured, as we'll as she bIeAipes
OF each preferved by being inserninpled.
A good contribution, then, is one which