Alexandria advertiser and commercial intelligencer. [volume] (Alexandria [Va.]) 1800-1803, 1803-06-14


raile moments fufpicion Of the enemy Of
PAINE and his principles in our eyes.
Thoie are the very qualities, however,
which not only enable men to acquire IN
due popularity, and therefore render them
dangerous, but which experience fhews,
have frequently accompanied the very
WORT political principles. Ambition &C.
nerally calls them to her aid, while her H.
tents are mifchievous. WALPoLE, who
laid the fra ftone of thar ;mmenie true
tare of corruption in England, was a man
Of mos pleadng mariners; Lord BorE,
who perfected the fruaure, was eminent
for good nature, charity, and, above all,
for patronizing men Of letters; Lord
NoRTH, that WORT tool of BuTE, & thas
WORT Of miniiters, may, perhaps, be fairly
coufdered as the mott delightful. faicinat-
ing and bewitehing of human beings; and
the preient Mr.. Fox had, for many years,
in which he was not only out OF power,
but known to be hope!efs Of it, more per-
fonal friends than all the minilsers OF En-.
gland put together. It's rigid reetnude,
iesere auaerity, and the proud, unloading
fpirit which, difdains 10 ftoop, much lsfs
TO LICK the feet Of the populace, ii order
to fe,ter them il isthoGe qualities which
difinguiAl the iafe Ra,efman, who endss-
vors Got to get any thing BY deception.
Lord CHATHAM was one Of theie: his
fon, another. But if thof- agreeable ia
Tents are all Trained to further the arts OF
the demagogue, they are deteitable; they
are only 70 many parts Of a deliberate cheat
put upon the world whether they be
true and fncefe, however, OF faile and
hollow. the politician and Rafefinan cam
not be Judged by them iiinply, but by his
actions connected with them. We allow
chat worthy men, men of education and
talents; neo, 10 other ,efpetts fsgacious,
may be deceived for time and thai
even il may be the virtue and unfufrici-
Gus nature Of Dr.. BAKER, which makes
him admire the PRECEDENT, while, in toto,
he diff kes the principles Of him and his
party a, We hope to demonarate.
But while we thus give all the praile
we can aford TO the Doctors difpoGiicn,
we mua fay, that the more we admire his
Gncerity the more we mulf wonder at the
total ablence of all knowledge, the for
petfalnefs Of the whole conduit CT our
Pfetident, under which the Doctor mott
labour, thinking, as he he fays he docs, Of
him.
The Doctor ipeaks Of the principles OF
Paine, religious and political /; has he du-
Iy conhdered the principles Of Mr.. JeHer-
fon, as they appear upon record The
Doctor talks of Paine's deifm and thefs
from deifical writers. Does he not know
Of the honours paid TO, and accepted by,
Mr.. Jefeifon, from the New York lllu-
minsti-from the political Barber there !!
and from that PaDdemonium OF lnhdels,
who under the aufpices of a leading tami
Iy 10 that city, openly preach agalHit
Chsieianisy, and with all their nigh,
Gupporr The caule of Mr.. Jsferion, and his
friends and Importers IN New York
that family : Does he not know that 'hfo'
this continent, every deat and atheltf is
the friend and advocate of the Pfelidenf,
and his political principles lfhe does not,
he ihall. Has the Doctor never read
{ Mr.. Jefer(on's letter TO Calender, nol
heard Of his generofty, at the exPence ct
the public, TO hims And can ne talk OF
Warrington and Jeferfon in one hour, II
he has Does the Doctor talk Of the COO
fitution, and has he read Mr.. Jeferlon's
letter TO Maxzei, or his fon-in law, Mr.,
Epps's addreis to his conai'uen,s
We viii to fet fuch a good man right,
and will not flop till we do ii, unlcis he
lbould be, what we cannot fuPpoie, deter
mined TO be wrong.
BOSTON, June 7.