Alexandria advertiser and commercial intelligencer. [volume] (Alexandria [Va.]) 1800-1803, 1803-04-02

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Vice Pieiident, or mtm5ffs Ct euler bs..l1
If c0nereA # fbe United Styles IN .
cireJlaI letter from the lad convention t.
the Governors Of tie ieverai tt4,es il the
union, fgned, 9" George Clinton, freii
dent" are thefe expeditions: Our "a end
men.s will man:left that none Ct item
originated in local views, as they ale
fuch, as, if acc ded to, mut equally at
feet every fate in the union"
Flom theie documents it appears tkat il
has ben the the opinionof the democratic
republicans N this tate, thar The liberties
OF the nation would be greatly endanger-
ed frcm she emigration Of foreigners to
tbs country; and thar, to loGan this dan
ger, il was necenary TO exclude them
forever, by an express clauie in the con-.
ttitu.ion, from eligibility TO The places Of
Pretident, Vice PieGdenf, or members OF
either houfe of the Congress ct The United
States. This opinion, they declared, did
not originate !" 10 local views, bur was
fueh as fnua equally affect every fate in
the uuion.'
We aicend from this high authority to
an authority which Iome may deem para
mount TO the contribution itlelf. MIR.
JeFelion in the Notes on Virginia, pub
hhed 1901, rcaking of the population
of this country, fays " Here / will beg
leave 10 pfopofe doubt. The prefer.
deGte Of America, is 10 ,roduce rapid po-
pulasion, by as gre t importation Of tar-
eigueys as pofllble. Buf IS ibis touudsd
in gooa paAry 90 Are there no neon
venisnces TO be thrown into the fcals, a.
CAN'T the advantage expected from mu!-
Fipiication of numbers, by the smpayta
tiou Of f0,eigue,s2 l; is for the haPpi
nels OF rhole united in fociey, 10 hafmo
nize as much as poGble, in matters which
they mutt OF necetigy traniact together.
Civil government being the fole OBJECT
of forming lociesies, its administration
mutt be conducted by common content.
Every fpecies OF $ vernm@nt has It's lpe.
cidc principles: Oar, perhaps are more
peculiar than thaie Of any other in the
unive7ie, II is a eompslft,ox ef'fbe t1eyf
principles Of The Englg6 CoaFitafion,
with others, derived rom natural right
and realon. To thele, nothing can De
more oppoled than the maxim of ablo-
lutte monarchieS. Yet from fuch We are
expect the greatcf aumder Of em,granfs.
They viii bring with them the principles
Of the government they leave, imbibedi IL
their early youth; or if able to throw
Them eff, it will be in exchange for an
unbounded lesntioulneis, padlng, as is
ufual, from one extreme to another. L
would be miracle were they to flop pre-
cifeiy at the point of temperate liberty.
Their principles, with their language,
they will lranimit TO their chiidien. In
proportion to their numbers, they 1viN
@uye 4vab rs in The AegyQafiou. They
viii infufe into it their ipifit, warp and
bias It's direction, and render ii a hetero-
eeneous, incoherent, difraeed MATS. ]
may appeal to experience, during the pre-
fert contef, for veridcation of thefe con-
lectures but if they be no, certain in
event, are they not poaible, are they not
probable !? Is il not iater to wait wish pa
thence for the attainment of any degree OF
sopulation deired or expected? May not
our government be more homogeneous,
more peaceabie, more durables Suppofe
wenty millions of republican Americans,
brown all of fudden into France, what
would be the condition of thar kingdom?
IF it would be more turbulent, lefs happy,
efs ftrong, we may believe that the addi-
ion of half million of foreigners, to our
prefsnt numbers, would produce Gmilar
effect here"
Such qpe,e the fober thoughts, the
avowed fentiments of our leading demo-
erals, at time when they were 10 man
ner free from the bias of party views and !.
objects at time too, when the liber .
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