Alexandria advertiser and commercial intelligencer. [volume] (Alexandria [Va.]) 1800-1803, 1803-04-25

againh which realon and argument ihail
no, be directed |! And ihalI thole COM
plain of rcalon and argument, the weapons
Of Whole warfare have been the groHeit
falfehood, and the mott malicious lander!
Shall the common libeiler be heard in his
demand, that not even the truth ihall be
told of him (: Ard !hall the pfoleaed adj
vocates for the freedom of the preis, be
regarded with reverence, when they en-
ploy violence and injntice to filcnce the
pre1ss of their opponents! Are she claims
to relpeta and confidence which are now
exhibited, more to be regarded than were
rbofe which appeared in the days OF our
beloved Warrington! Do the virtues, ia
Tents AMI pa,fiotifm of that fame W9b-
iaston, OF ddams, of Jay. of E1s7psr1b,
OF Pinekny, OF King, OF lines, OF Pix
ermg, of Hamilton, of MaybaA, or OF
Dexter, fade in the comparison with thoie
which are now prelented in the perions OF
the fagc OF Monticello, the Genevan !e-
cretary, or with thofe of our recently ap-
pointed Envoy TO France, thofe OF Mr..
Charles Pinckney, or .hofe Of the Wor-
ceiter Farmer
Is the filly vanity, boyilh pe'uence,
difglaing prefumPtion, and ariitocratic
pride OF thar contraction of man, Ran
dalpb, more TO be honoured, valued, and
reipeeed, than the exteniive knowledge,
the prehen6ve mind, the dlicriminat-
ing judgment, the clear, clofe and con.
cludse reafoning of Grifwold Is the
fplenetic, malignant, fcowling, and defa-
matory Giles more attic, more terfe,
more etheri=l, more terrible in debate
than Bayard Is the ihrewd EuRice, the
fpermaceti Dawfon, the gazeous Doctor,
the iyllogific Bacon, the half reafonlng
Davis, and the thinking, laundering,
Cabling Smith, equal to him, Whole wit
and elcquence could make Dum6 Legy
latnre ipeak, and a Randolph /told. Is
the fat, waddling, unwje'diy Senatorial
grunter of fpeechcs, borrowed from the
presidential itore, more vivid, more va
rious. more intereltng, more convincing
than the rhetoric of Morris ? Is the dull,
muddy, deIc,erious harangue of Brecken-
ridge comparable TO the deep, clear, full
and redtlrfs arguments Of Tracy, or Rols (?
Is the froAs, The babhling, the monotc-
nous, the hapelefs, the namelefs nothings
that proceed from Wright, to be weigh
ed againf The jue observations, and found
ftnfe Of h9neit Howard.
Has The prelent Secretary Of State more
energy OF character, more knowledge Of
men, more information relative to foreign
nations, more correG views of the inter.
eft of his county, than the man upon
whom malice and democracy and power
have emptied The Walls CT their wrath ?
Ha. the prefent Secretary of the Trea(ury
more financial xiii, more extenfve, or
minute acquaintance with the various OBJ
jets, fufceptible of impolf, hyperion ia
Guilty to equalife taxcs, and TO render them
agents in promoting the general indufry
and wealth OF the Country, than has been
evinced in the administration of Hamilton
or Wolcott /? Has the preient Secretaryoi
war more or leG' talents, knowledge,
and genius, for war minitter, than Mr..
M'tienry I! Has Mr.. Smith difcosered
more ability and information, neceaary
for we'll conducting the naval department.,
than Mr.. Stoddart
To which of thefe men, are the people
mott Indebted which of them will hiifo
ry felefs, as the founders OF their county's
greatnefs, as the armef Importers Of lis
rights in adyeriity, and as the ablea
natelmen of the times, and as having been
the mott bafcly detained, 1andeled, and
calumniatedl
1t is the aes of great men, by which
hiifory chiefly difinguifhes them, and by
which they are bef known to poaerity.
Let us anticipate the picture which hif
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