Alexandria daily advertiser. [volume] (Alexandria [Va.]) 1803-1808, 1803-09-23


towards his fellow-men; and at evening re-
turning to his enjoyment in the pleasing re-
Aection Of having performed his daily task
with falthfullness.
Al mar who is infected with laziness, like
the drunkard, can be rarely reformed.
To The Editor eftbe NygAixgtos Fede,ah0.
SIR,
Ons of the feryants who waited at Lovelps
Hotel, during the laG winter and fpsing, brought
TO me the other evening, the encloied letter
which he informed me be picked up in the back
yard, The morning Tom Paine iet the CRY and
(nppoGng it to be paper Of confequeFce, had put
it in his box in the expectation isaz . reward
would be offered for Gndingit. Ii was without
cover !; Of courie, could not tell until Pc
ruled il, TO whom it was written nor at that
time who was the writer. The name fublcribed,
fe-med to be anonymous. From its contents
however, there can be no doubt Of is being
written to Tom Paine, by one Of his old fellow
traitors and diiorganizers, who fled srGm Eng
land 70 America 10 fave his neck, at or about che
time Paine acd TO France TO fave his from fhe fra
ternal embraces Ola halter, as well As to ait his
friend Anachatss Cloots and others Ia forming
contributions on his own principles o. laberty,
Equality and the Rights Of Man, for the enligat-
ened nation. The letter is OF 10 curious and In
euIsr nature, the doctrines advanced init are 10
detcRable and h:lilh, that in6uceo TO iena II
to YOU, in order that our coun.rymcn may Ice to
what point they are to be conducted, whenever,
agreeable TO the modern democratic phraie, they
| hould become efficiently exAgbteaed- That they
my Zee how very nearly we were at one time.
being involved in all he anarchy, nlaaaefes ard
bloodihed OF French Revolution. This letter
efficiently explains TO Us what hefc phlianFhropic
enlightencrs OF mankind mean, when they talk of
Liberty, Equality and the Rights Of Man. We
| ali know how lhis Gibberifh vas undcyQooa in
France, where .heie pretended Rights Of Man and
| Liberty and Eqlaliy were in full operation; and
by their opetauons, have in the fhort lpace of ten
oftwelve years produced more crime. ard OF courfc
more mifefy than that Infatuated people ever ex-
( of their empire TO that qel!od ard which in the
end have brought NOT cnly thenfelycs bur other
/ brave and gallant n2tioIs upon tfeii knees TO
foreign depot, Whole yoke is at leaf as heavy as
4 any we read Of in ancient or modern hiaory. You
| my Corn.tymen, would il all probability, have
met with iilailar fate, had aot wife, vigilant
and energetic administration detected ard defeated
the nefar;ous projects Of a fet Of Americans, VINO
ia conjunction with foreign n1iGcreants, were deep
! y involved in the guilt OF traniacions Which they
now with to bury in oblivion. But history
/ yer will FORGET, although our countrymen from
1 fckIcncf appear to have done it, the infamous
Vaccinations Of Gcnet; the intercepted letters OF
1 Fauchet, the formaionof Jacobin clubs, upon the
Paris plan, in philadelphia aud other parts Of the
Untel States, nor the fubftquene inforrettion ia
the Wefcrn Counties oil Pennsylvania the
/ lupprcGion (which not only occaiioncd the lois
of many valuable lives, bu; colt The United States
| at leaf one million five hundred ;houland dol
lars. Examine who are the por(ons, and of what
party, that were guilty of The trar.dGtions above.
mentioned You will find them TO man of the
! jacobin or Democratic party-Ray, Mf. Editor,
Is there man amonga them Of the ealt information
or candor but mutt conisfs, for he cacnot with
truth deny it, thatthe principles Of this party arc
identicaily the fame which have brought Farce,
Holland, a conildefahie part of Italy, and ali
Switzerland, INFO their pseieut enaaged and de-
graded condition.
Thcfe PRINCIPLES they adopted at the commcnce-
ment of the French Revolution; and although
they have witneGed their mlerable effects, in the
fobjugstion of that and other nations, they fill
adhere 20 them with perhaps greater zeal than if
they had produced the greatef poGiblc happiness 1
and profperity;n thoic countries where they have
been acted upon. / viii, Mr.. Editor, through
you, enquire of Dun and others of the democra
tic herd OF Editors, not forgetting the par mo-
bile lratun at Richmond, what hes become of
The two dear filters, France ard Batavia of whole
incefuous embraces they and their party were 70
very ford few years back have number of
thriT papers by ne, printed from 1898 to 800,
whole difgufing columns are filled with encomi,