Alexandria daily advertiser. [volume] (Alexandria [Va.]) 1803-1808, 1803-12-28

- conviction, in direct hostility to
hls On, conscience, he should raise, BY his
nis 90" ,o;ce. man 10 the presidential chair,
ss va whose incapacity and inludicious
es.ss,;Sn,strasion ofthe government, his coans
a.'D' loud be involved in train OF evils,
~ should terminate in its ruin, show could
a'' :ss,;fvit. to his conscience, to his God,
q 8 lie world? It would be directly CONTRA
= :, al!iussi6able rules of moral conduct;
$, nd that policy which is atwar with moral
:,s,;ce. rarely advances the substantial hap
ss;;ness Of nation.
w, rannos refrain now from calling on the
es.r,I rradsrto perufr The following independent
f.o,men,s, from the pen q a,naa v'ao ~So''e.''y
hs,angs 10 the democrats party L ls sae hFis
,,me we haveey f-ea wsss r On nat. lie P :
.ssbazatd his darling popularity, by eoahng oat
aa.n,v and houealy with his ientimsnss on the
oeof,oi;csl doctrine Of the i.fahi5hty s ne PEE,
/" The fensiments Of the people are certainly
.o,;tsd 70 feipett vixen they can be afiy AID
l,,ly i. GRAINED; but the noife ofataeteD IS too
osro miasken for the public Voice. ln0uga Z
s,,;or;sy OF me people are always honett 10 tarif
s..we ailI they are Liable 10 Itnpoilti0n, AMI
.s.o,ab want Of correct information, often err.
Th. lsa1r, IF td< istalli5'lity # tie p<opls i
-, aerieta BY experience. Its lpecies Of Can't
~ which the mot flag ans proceedings are often
a,e,ea aud iaaiaed. The poiSisa! dogma, that
r. ,rople csndo no wrong, is as abfurd, when
ss,,;.d 10 The popullr foscrrig of America. as
, ~ j. kereaisary monarch OF Eaglani. That
o.oae arc politically otnaipateat Is tree, but
bnt thar they have moral fighs TO will their
own des;rutiion, is FepcRerous, and coald ne
yer have originated, bus in the heated brain of
maniac. Whenever the people Though want
&c correct information, the articles of defisulng
men. or th. prevailing decisions OF The times,
warmed by passion, AMI enlivrned by colliGon,
are urging meafures in direct hoitility TO the 70
lid ia,ereits of the country, II behoves good men
90 opoef the needless torrent, and fave their fair
inheritance from defoiation.
ssThese obieryations viii doubtless appear to e.
ysr,Is ad. r unneceHa y, oeeaufI felf.evidcnt &
certainly ihould notthavc made,lhem, had cot the
iniqaiiy and treachery of o2po6ag the majority
Of the people. been painrel 10 glowing colours,
and Jared US in the face from every page of the
publications sgainG Mr. Burr. Fortunately the
very men whl profels 20 much isnGoility and q,
lcitude on this fubjett, are the Left who hould
have intro luc, 4 ii. How, il may be afkcd, was
the administration of the government transferred
from federal TO republican hands, bur by a syfte-
matte oppoftion TO the prevailing party, by IN
seafng exersions to expofe the errors of majo-
risy Of the people; and wirh due Difference to
their maiefy beitfpaken, | am NOT yet prepared
to fabfcfibe to their infalhbity, norwithfanding
the induary Of The wife men who have been lrtesy
imported, and their aGtttionate efforts TO en-
tighten thea."
He then applies hisrod TO the poifetiors of WIN.
S. Pennington, fattlous demsgogue nov living
in New Ierfry, and Of one MIR. Gilbert Living.
fon, at PougnlSeepfe, aod Of whom we do NOT
remember to have heard before, bur if he is oaly
boar fsal, as the writer tells as heis, he might
a well have bsen fpared notice. In DER ncxs we
proppfe exhibiting, N the moa advantageous
light, the picture which this friend Of MIR. JEFF
isrion's administration has afforded Us, OF the
ways and means Of making PleGient of the y
States.
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