Alexandria advertiser and commercial intelligencer. [volume] (Alexandria [Va.]) 1800-1803, 1803-07-09

..'n.at TO representative government
u sherry. His correct mind was duly
- with the basis Of genuine re-
Ssss,;caais,r,--tbat for representative go
fsron,-,,t. to answer best its purpose, the
..o+e,a;on of.ibcrty, the elective franchise
rfso,,la be maintained in a state OF fequl-
80 urity, and that purity depends on
s,n;c opinion being duly instructed and
f!nto,med---hence his lively syin?athies
9TH that iynporzant object hence his h
hrral donations for the truly patriotic plr-
of its accomplishment. lhss COM
s,ebeasiv- greatness of character, thus
rounded Of and completed, thus shaped
(, the most harmonious agreement with
,be true standard of varied excellence,
must. uatil man shall change he nature,
and By peryersion Of his syn'pathles cease
- admire tral,scendent virtue and talents,
.mbalm the immortal WASHINGTON IN
,bs grateful remembrance OF his species,
a,d causc him still to live in the essential
benefits they viii AID must derive from
initiating SO perfett a modslof the viz
tuously and wisely patriotic hero, states
man and CITIZEN.
Yet this facfed character, though ren-
asr,d invulnrrable by the flield Of its
a,yn,purity, has been attacked, and WASH
,ucToN called traitor and completes a.
ga,ut the representative government and
IIiberfy OF his country bar, happily foI
is ima.ostal glory, the blow was levelled
BY party fpiris: yes, by that very party
fol,it. the exiltence Of which he denounc-
ed, and its evil consequences predicted
with prophetic truth, IN his valedletory
addfefs, the political opinions OF which
eyinccd his mind 70 have been richly
aorea with the mott valuable reiults ofex
perience, relative TO the governing mo-
,iyes and ruling pa6ions OF dcignlng and
ambitious men. Party fpiris, at that Pc
Rod. of vigorous growth, and acompoilta
Of all the official paflions, uniting IN
itsown exiaenee, and ia a fate OF rehn-
ed add. concentrated nalignity, the pecu
liar properties OF each, had its objects OF
ambitious purfuit--impedimen IN IT'S way
were next 10 be removed. Under fuch
circumstances, what character more pre-
ciGely fuised 20 lis attack, than patriotic
WAsHINGroN's !? What initroments more
worthy of It's ule, than thoie unnatural
combinations Of exquilte wee and talents,
of which 100 many fplendid fpeclmens
have Of lafe years been exhibited aGongf
US, abGiag the patieut liberty OF our
country. But though fuch fnifhed MODELS
of refined deprayity, podsded of every
motive 10 do harIn, BY The sGeatial ma
levoleace Of their nature, fuppIied with
all the reqaiil;c modes Of atsionby the
mott appropriate talcnts, may cauie meal
culable mifchet for a time, yet, happily
for humanity, ADD in ipite OF the teady
maIignity of their propenGties, they ulri-
mately promote the canle ofyirtuc. They
form fuch dilgatsing and odious eonirafs
with characters like WAsaINcToN's, that
at length they free the prejudiced and de
luded of their error and intataation, and
waken them to jutt fenie of their dan
gers; when, aaonilhed at paR errors,
frightened by impending ruin, they fly
from the calamity of vice and folly 70
the protecting lhield Of virtue and vii
dom, and thus inaruSted W the fcourge
of painful experience, become the firm
friends Of rational freedom and good foci-
ETY.. Party fpirit, in all countries, mutt
be an evil, in 'epoblics il is their great
EFT curie--but for its diiaErous Influence
the iincere attachment for representative
government and freedom, transferred from
America TO France. there, like the peb-
bic in the lake, might, before this, have
covered the bofom Of Europe with the
calmly iucceeding waves of rational liber.
~. But for the fame difaarous inAu-
ence 0ur ryvf, rOuntrv tbo,oh ALL nroc