Berkeley and Jefferson intelligencer. [volume] (Martinsburg, Va.) 1802-1810, 1803-09-30
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60 Vtttlna fepubteane are. Mr. Ma.
OLSON md bis coadjutors have amused
you with he empty sound OF he Soye.
reign people. See Mr.. Madis6frs re-
ports q he Committee % he Alien ana
ssditlon laws page 81. : The anthbfily
of Constitutions over governments and
of she sosefeienty ofthe people over con.
stitull0ns are truths which are II uilfimes
ncCetsafy 10 Be- kep, II inind.D yVhaf
hypocricy9 Mr.. Madison assisted n
sfofminS your Constitution and laws. and
thereiore oaght 70 know shat your kO-
sernmeas D not governments of the 3 Is
sersikn people Z he doss know and Is
sinnbg e2l1Ifms IN Ills closet e Ii6er;,,.
exclaimed, % he ROmsns 20 servile
sace who hug yourclAins. p This tkan,s
pion Of dsmocraey merely 10 amnse fon
has sirnaaed you tise sovereign DeoplS
md langhsin his Sieve % ses you .spleas-
Cd viii arattIe and tiekIed with 4 straw >
How astonish,ng TINT you, fr6ni whom,
The, doctrine of equal fights and equal
previleges are continually eiiarant.
should ,be 50 much deluded q TO idolize
IN decd, what Won reprobaic il words.
Be not deceived, your government Is NOT
the goyefnmenf &C the sovereign paopie.
tits the governmentofthe sovereign free.
hoLderaYi Nomani i sntitied tosote fut
. member either ofthe State 81 Federal
governments unless Ne Is q freeholder,
and there are three times as many that
ore no freehoiders Is thar are vet these
Who have ne vote pay taxes for al the
Tea, Sugar. &c. they buy. How does
this comport with your declaration .of
rights, /" That an men are by nature =.
qually free; &c. That oil power Is vessed
IN and consequently derived from The
people That III men having suiiciert
evidence Of permanent common interest
with, and attachment % the conmunity,
have the right of suffrage and cannot IS
taxed or deprived of their propertS fog
public uses without theirsovr consent o.
that Of their Representatives. How mak
ny thousands an there n fhis stzte thae
pay taxes 70 tleY Federal Aoverhmens
withouk their conscnf and without being
represented q II Bnthov must Il snr-
prize an enlightened foreienefs b behold
&C the different elections those frerborrf
sons of nature. those delndsd saislitesof
Virginia rspublioanistn. aftending the
elections and qaarrsI q in tiefencel Of
those nst,ral rights and equal erssileges
whichthey never possesssta How de-
scripsive of themis the following alisEosl
". a traveller making The ,ynfo Eu.'
rope had bis attention drawnbs,h sighti
and noise ofa largr concohrse ii people 4
advancing nearer he beheld ansuhiect IN
the shape Of d d pas confined n an siroa'
care and elrvs e. taove the nobs arpttad
| this Object ,hs people were. da1cing md
singing, shouting and jumping and maxi.
| ink use pf The most expressive GsstuFes
d enthusiastic Joy. Enqniring The name
Of this phenomsnons Re was told thsy
called 4 liherty.a' ~ ali .i7sss,slli
Thus Virginians are yon worshipping.
| an unknowhG God. Your Liberty Il Fe6na
fined snd Jour rspublieanism ) only )
shadow Miihont . substance. Open
your eyes and you win behold the ten
drill pf Afisiocrscy entwihed atonnd
your liberty pole, your equal privileges
are confined TO = Synecdochc, your cleo
| ton laws and your declaration Df rights
form soleeism, your freedom II enly
az empty sound, and your eooll ~ -,
tural rights were = borntp .klbsIt /. -.
and waste their sWeetnetf bh' q II =
ali, The patriotic solder whose: Arb
was reused At The call Of his country Is
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