Alexandria advertiser and commercial intelligencer. [volume] (Alexandria [Va.]) 1800-1803, 1803-08-19

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while It opens to him new train e y
affords new means for discussing i; + ny y
anallze, to combine, to compare e :, =, +
those operations Of the intsllea = 'ua
insight into the movements of II. SNp
heart, and from what men Of such - saaF
description have done, or thonrs. .A
felt at such or such times, and on s s@ss
sncll occasions, to form Mcclure ~ )
men Of like descriptions viii do, o. ,s lug
or feel at another TIME, and On oc,.. s'
nearly similar, is the art Of che poli,,:..
Without this he may be talker, :.
guesser, but he cannot be the ssatesm,,
1t is for this reason that the ocor,,.'
ces of every great nation in Euroos
constantly published in the prints o o' =.
ry free country, and make up the Cow.
sation anu study of the day, as much
do their own domestic concerns. e.. e.
people are not constantly informed Of ",
is going forward in surrounding nado'
how shall they be able to form an cpni,,
whether their own statesmen are COW.
right in the management of their extern
connections and concerns.9 and if h.
public prints do not discuss the subts
fully and fairly; in which discussion lmr
be included the characters, views, Zen.
pers, prejudices, attachments ard Inc,
lectual powers Of the great ieadingeHr,
ent men, whose opinions ard condua
chiefly throw light upon the subi.a.
If the greatest writer's in modern tin,,
have thought it beneficial to MANKIND d
bend the whole force of their intellectual
eye upon the dusky obscurlty Of sntst
history--if the shelves of the STATESMAN
and scholar are loaded with voluns
engaged in discussing the merits Of Ne
cause between Rome and Ca.shage, Span
and Athens ; if the greatest men hav.
thought it subject worthy of their whole
labour to justify or to lnculpate Cicero
or Pom2ey, or Caesar can he be wrong
who studiousiv strives to call the eye O.
the people Of America at this day to toe
transactions in Europe; to disentangle tn.
complicated tissue of national or party
politics, or of general political import,
which are so knoty ..snd perplexed tAa
even those on TIE spot can with difficulty
unravel them? Surely not. I'opoiuoat
to them, how they may be affected, wha
they have either immediately or ultimate.
ly to hope or to fear from the issue to
reveal to them all the springs of though
and action, and te that end to hold Up
faithful portraits Of those personagts from
whom that thought and action flow, eau
not be said to be irrelevant or ipjudlcloui
but is on the contrary the duy Of thos;
who manage public prints.
It has been said that there are in q:
country French party, and an EnSlHs
party we do not believe there is eitief'
But ofthis we are sure, that the country
is divided into two parties, one aiiecl!
rhe principles of the French revolution
the other abhoring them. lnsnch co.,
nia how are the people to Judge! II teI
suffer prejudlccs to wrap themi they Az
done with the truth at once. but now
are they to Judge FROM the dogulG o
the leading partisans ?--Certainiy NO.
Bit from the whole compound mass o.
the fats and the reasonings ufon Oo''
sides, sifted, compared, and examined v
themselves.
Buff, to use the words of ShaSeSpst &c,
/" they 4viA not I<rve God .b1raglf M " y,
vil bids them" --if they Will not O' e
this or that truth, because it CONES ~. !.
a federalisr, or anti federalist; and = "0 :"
national hatreds, however excusaOi'' :
from national partialities, hossys' gu. 49,
bic, they shut their eyes against any r; :.
of the evidence, or the reasoning up" "
and exile from their thoughts any l = !,
rial circumstances then they afs ~ ..-
tile dark forever, to be led like Olp''9 :.
by the first person who chuass !" ~ =,