Alexandria advertiser and commercial intelligencer. [volume] (Alexandria [Va.]) 1800-1803, 1803-07-08

freedom, With It's Coiisotiii'as'.~ -,
ever releIt from one nation being govern
ed by thelaws Of another, and IN me en-
acting Of which the governed has no par
ticipation, we ourfelves, fellow citizens,
bur for our enlightened, Indignant and
maenanimous patriotiim, would long tince
have furnihed, to the weeping friends OF
representative government and rational II
berty, truly deplorable example, and
to rejoicing ,yrants, whole plealure It was
to opprels and enAaye, motive OF proud
triumph and exultation. Whit Birth
colonies, and not freed from the prehure
of difficulties infeparably attendant on the
efabIilhment Of new countries, and which
for long time retard the growth OF their
prolperity-thc Britifh government, with
an injuaice aggravated by the unnatural
circumstances OF its being wantonly praa-
ticed by a wealthy parent towards her
child, in the INDECENT helpleilness OF IN
fancy, lordidly conceived, and oppreaive-
~ attempted to execute the plan OF aug
menting her revenue by taxes 70 be rallied
in the colonies, under authority of acts OF
Legislature, in which our countrymen
had not, nor could they have had 70 an
| fwer u(eful purpofe, any representation
whatever. We were to have been go.
yerned by laws, the operation of which
our Legislators could feel limo other way
than that of pecuniary benefit, or grstit-
cation of lawlefs ambition nor did their
avaricious and ambitious views futfeF them
for moment, to contemplate the opera
ton of fuch laws under any relations the
neceilary confequence of which govern
| ment, according TO the uniform reiuit OF
experience, would have been the hard,
but common fate of other nations, under
fuch circumstances, one complete oPpreiii-
| on, degradation and miery. Behdes IL
| !ufrating, in manner mott yaluably IN.
| ftrutaive, the evils that of ncceilify relult
! from the want of representative govern
n,enr, this attempt fellow citizens, made
and pelliifed in by the government OF a
| nation, than which none, at that day,
underttood better the principles of rational
and productive liberty, nor praeticed more
of them in the management of her own
internal affairs perGlted in too, In oPpo-
fition to the fagc councils OF her bcf and
mott enlightened patriots, and proven to
be in direct hofillty with both the char
tered and natural rights of the colonifts,
by the incontfovertible arguments of their
| eloquent petitions, addreiies and remon-
| frances, has mott awfully and melnorably
| demonstrated truth, too often before and
fnce demonstrated by the words of I'm.
partial hiFcry, that wherever there exits
| power unduIy limited and reitrained,
whether in the hands of individuals or ma
tions, it will, il mutt, from the necefi-
| ty of human nature, be abuied.
In further con(aency with this truth,
the mott infruttive. though painful leaon,
that hiitory teaches thoie who have rights
and liberties to protect and iecnre, the
Brisiih government, after long period
ofdifputc, in which Che alternately delft
ed from and reverted to her wicked pur-
pofe, according as influenced by conlide-
rations of found policy, or fimnlated to
the abufe of power, by the impulies of
avarice and wanton ambition, at length
determined to enforce her unju& pretenfi.
ons by The fword. The colonies, during
the whole of this period, though ever
ready for fuch an adjuament of differences
as would have protected and lecured them
in the enjoyment of their inalienable
rights, had daily become more confirmed
and united in their determination to reGf
The meafures of renewed tyranny they
knew the benefits of freedom, and had
learned iome of IT'S mott fundamental prin-
ciples and valuable doctrines, from that
very nation, the government of which,
| then frangely infatuated by views Of am.
bition and avaIice, was contemplating
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