Alexandria advertiser and commercial intelligencer. [volume] (Alexandria [Va.]) 1800-1803, 1803-09-12

be well governed ,ha, is. to ba 'saa
mutual rights and duties Of Ii. e.. lave n.
which be lives, enforced by lsa'sh
KEEP. fscrcd and permanent -, and |
which ought TO be the bulwark ana 10y,
tcttioneof them, has Of late been ~. Pc. /
ed TO be made the inftumcnt Of ~. .npt.
itrutfion. Government implies Dow. a q,
command. OF power and conn., 'a%
are more or lels defirous, while g.. u al
wiling TO own the trusn, even - a., &c
own hearts, that they are us6,,.a 's''
them. 10 grafp power has eve, 4 ''
the view of iome in every couat,v a
democraeies it fccms 70 have been Il. Ia "a
of the majority. When the candid.
for power are numerous, the vsr;.,
itratagems to fucceed will be ares, !, 4
long eaeblilhed governments, whsr. ~ =
people have learned from cxpc,isnc. u =
excellence of their laws and coaGi,uS,.'
the only way they arc aaailsble is h.
yiolens pretence of attachment 70 thar ~.
a;tution. This is the cafe in Eopl,ra
But IN new eltablihcd governments, fS
as the American, the candidates have.
courfe to other means: they are for eve,
turning the little that has been done, ,n1
building up new fabric, with new mai.
rails brought from the flint quarn., 4
the rights 81 man. And the people A.,
bamboozled like children with pronils, of
dnc things. which not only never will
but never can be performed. Their eye,
! are cunningly drawn away from then
real rights &c ideal rights, exiting only
in found, and in the hot blaak fnlOk. Of
metaphysical brains. I'll. multitude AZ.
bewildefrd by the empires of the righ,
Of man, with the magic lanthorn hsdosy
images Of rights fuppofed to exit in them
before they had either power to exerul.
or inte!leas to conceive rights, and in.
deed lcarcely acnlc or perception to diair
! guih perce2tiblc objects, while theirhocu,
| pocus lhowman, VINO fits behind the LAM
tern, deafening and confounding then
with jargon and CHILDBIRTH, picks thsi
pockets of their real rights. They fp;al
Of equal rights, when they mean tia
Rrange paradox equal rights in ever
man TO govern the reit- jufly conGderin
thu, nothing leis than fuch fweeping pro
petition can give them Chance for eve
attaining thar eminence. And they pre.en
to enligh'en the people, when they onl
| mean 70 inAame and blind them.
Without abating one atom of our sir
cere respect and attachment for trre Re
publicanism, we maintain that 1t is a sor
evil in a government not to be fenced
against the everyday usurpations of thc'
base, ignorant and wlckedly ambition
men, who, for their own private end
would be forever breaking down the be
| institutions, that they might build the
Up again in their own way; and won
resolve government down to rs first Ii
tural rudimeuts nay, extingrish tho
themselves if they could, aud fabrica
others, false ones, in their place, IN osd
| TO erect new code suitable &c lhenselY
and their faction.
In the Rights which society going up
Justice and moral sense, allow to NE
there are some called peye9 and some a
5eyIes. OF perfect Rights, we consid
| one 10 be that Of a Judge to keep
place, "qaam dir Sc bene gss'fvit."
imperfect Rights | bold one to be Ii
| which man hiding an office, such
post master or collector, has TO keep III
! place SO long as he discharges the duEy
it with integrity, fidelity, aad advanta
to the public. D,cor paley, that WI
and anlable moral philosopher, malnla'
that the violation Of an m1egisR o0'i8
tion, is not of.en less criminal IN MT
and religious view, than Of perfect OBJ
gation. !" Mach greater guilt says he
iaculred by Disappointing worthy cano
date CT place, than BY hieh'pg %
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