Alexandria advertiser and commercial intelligencer. [volume] (Alexandria [Va.]) 1800-1803, 1803-08-03
/. POLITICAL cAIEcaIsM.

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.,;or What IS liberty
oas So Liberty is an gel; she IS
a e.., horn q heaven; she IS goddess
= M :, ubo refuse to worship her, are un-
. : ~ i breathe the vital air:
s' = Ist1is goddess visible !
She S always invisible to man N
e ,,,t,. nor can eivik,sed man fully
~ . ,s What SIZE IS The sayag<, al,
oass sr,os<. only,s k1sosvs her Charms, ard
: ',ss bawls Of nectar from her hands.
O. q. Since liberty IS invisible, how IS IT
.,owo that she really exists
i EIsr existence IS known by 81.
...,tural, Of rather tveftfnqtayal at
Anus d INSPIRATION; ard it's also known
t'om the works Of her hands.
q Have some mea been fayoured
:, : rxtraordinary measures OF this aida
tus or inspirations :.
a. Yes; there have been apostles q
Eaerty--sublimatrd souls; who painted
With unutterabie fervor for a near com
man;on with the goddess - such were
the French phiosophists; such also were
Robespierrc, Marat, Danton, and hun
dreds Of Others, in the French republic,
who fred with the holy zeal OF liberty,
sacrificed millions Of human victims at her
shrine.
O. What are the zUo,ks OF hoefty,
which manifest her existence
A. The works Of liberty, which mani
lest her existence, are very many and We
" wonderful to tell. In Republican
France, above all countries, the works OF
liberty have appeared, in numbers and
;ublimity, such as to excite most pleas
ng asronishn,ent :--tbtye a pretty prosfr-
Ute, dressed in white, was enthroped in a
temple as the representative Of the q
less, and was worshipp d by that sslig6f-
med people. There tsete was paid due
tribute to the goddess liberty; not of sill
YER and gold, but Of the lives Of mirlads
Il men, women and childreD.-How au
rust was the scene, when liberty, in the
I'LL exercise of her prerogatives, erected a
thousand Bastilss; when blood howed
rom guillotlnes, like rivers; when the
,roans aud wa.lings of repr06afes, met
Nth the mockery and derlslon they de-
served when the waters ofthe river Loire
we're discoloured with blood and choaked
with human coyses; when sans-caloffes
took rank of mobiles, and rent the afr with
shouts Of viOs Ia lf6srfe Cara was
over the widespread gallo re-
siions; ca ira was responded, in this coun.
ny, BY every friend of the equal rights of
nan.-Ah, that was glorious day
Never was hbersy 50 triumphant; ne
yer were her works so manifest.
@. Whar are your ideas Of the liberty
# political opinion.
A. Iglory init as the irth.right Of
very freedom American; it is dearer
han life itself:-stripped of thar, | should
fell myself a slaye--a groyslling worm Of
the dust.
Q. Wherein eoz,iis the liberty of po-
itlcal opinion?
A. The liberty of political opinion
consists in tbh, that every man, nay, that
very woman and child, in the United
states, have free permission TO think as
The leaders of the democrats think :--and
boldly aver, and Will maintain it, that
my act or edlct, that should contravene
ms liberal construction of the liberty of
'olltical opinion, would be an aea of .spo-
'tleal intolerance" both despotic and
wicked"
Q: What are the peculiar privileges be-
'nglng to those whose political opinions
re perfectly orthodox ?
A. They are cherished in the bosom
t our holy church; all their neral Of.
rnces are blotted out, or covered with
he mantle of charity their follies and
1eaknesses are never marked against them;
them exclusively belongeth the priyl-
.ge of eligibility TO Offices Of all grades,
o. a, Il.