Alexandria advertiser and commercial intelligencer. [volume] (Alexandria [Va.]) 1800-1803, 1803-03-26

ed lie fpitis OF freedom, which ,s.' .',''',
imhibed with their mothers mix Z "'a
lift'e dependent governments weie f- las''
ed in popular elections and reprefs1t.,,'p u
and their elections were frequent ard
morally iocofru}t. Add 10 this Il. g. s.
raj mediocfity ct their clcumGspec, o :
qually removed from tie two extreme. = :.
wealth and poverty, they were tilIyrs :.
tie grcnnd, mechanics aud traders vt.r
peTfonal lndaitry had afforded them 4.
csit competence. a people thus cred ;.
'Fabi;s Of ordtE ard accufomed to brs,,t.
he Dir Of tsccoom, chiefly conaapp IS
iuhfanii4l yeomansy, fcrpIied prarer M.
teriaIs fer building up an lndepcndea, !.
publican nation.
Bat very different las been and is n.
fate Of fociety in Eurofe. Few l5<rt can
properly be called he psopls: the Qrs.s
MATS are but little better than yadaIs ot,t.
privileged orders, acd are flcceGyeIy
tfanlmi,ied, ike property, !rora one nal.
ter to another and whenever large bo3;.,
Of them have riGen and BURT the chain. of
the fsa9nlyacm, they have been ft!aOn
lcen 70 fop a, the true point Of rational
liberty. Impatient even Of the moa ne.
ceGary & wholefome rcftaints, they have
fudderly rulled from Fate Of thraldon
into horrid licen,ioofnefs; aud thei. aep,
have besn marked with rapine anlpronif.
euous laughter till, having ipent their
fury, they taniely !abmitted to Few mai.
tiers. Their irfurrettions and revelations,
fucceeded by the calm of dcfpotiin,"
have relembIed fweeping hurricane, OF
the terrible eruption Of . volcano, which,
after dcioIating the adjacent countries,
ccafes its horrible bellowings, aud itstor.
rents OF flame iubGde.
Mankind, tho fpfingirg from the lane
flock and belonging TO the fame Grca, ia
miiy, are almott infinitely diverGGed both
in point Of knowledge and morals, by the
different influences Of the governments W.
der which they live, by the MODES and de.
grees Of their education, and by their va
rious and oppodfe cufon' and habits
None therefore, but a yifonaTy, would ex.
pet that they could be infant'g moulded
into one MATS or thar men from different
and dillant nations, who had been bred Up
Under anti-republican infitusions which
had given peculiar cat to their ffnu.
rnents, manners and habits, could be in.
mediately consolidated with free repno'
lie, without greatly endangerlng isl peace
and fafety.
DR.. Tucker, q Bfitifh writer Of con-
fdersbIe note, fpeaking of the general de-
pravity OF the lower ranks of PeoP';; N
England, ays: +" May, and when tF;lf
/" ex.ravagancies have run TO that helS'!
!" as 10 call for corporal punilhn:nt 'Rd
/" the cenfure of the magiltrate, there arc
(" no hopes or profpett of reolalnlng tn'a
+" By that means. For they have mace
!" tia fort of point Of honoFt to ou'OFa's
g tie punihmsnr; as for the flame ., ana
g iofamy attending it, thois things I''aE &
/" now Gut li,sl- imprelion on them /"
g thar we have nothing left OF dg1pNm
g in OR places of chaItilsm !: and t con-:
!" 6oemen,, but the name. for ouf nov.
+" es Of correction, as they are calico a.
8. 60 lar rom anfvering the original enc,
6. Of their iafitution, that they e"r.
g more than eorrea, and bar6t' HUN
f" than refarm 70 as to make '' :. GI
+" offender, if ftnt there, 10 be 'ea'p.
g more e child of hell shan he "'' ~
g fore" ..,.,.
As free elections and reprelsn'''' sSi;, -,
the grea, pillars on which or' fs s,l9,iors
qovcrnment refs, the fa,'g Of els''' r.,
s; s the vitals of our national freedom. 10,
me then feriouny az, would l ro' ss
dop,ion Of thoulan3s AID tens o. . J"0 he
Of .uch characters as DR.. facS ,,s %
defcribes, have powerful teoae"'' a.
,.i -, Il tho nj ron :.