Alexandria advertiser and commercial intelligencer. [volume] (Alexandria [Va.]) 1800-1803, 1803-03-18

80 ration that adopts tien. L IS from
=. warm Of Idle, reis!els, 'uIbd'en. arc
f,ltioos characters, VITO nl.:le together II
our Target towns aud cites, that TIE Pea, Pea {
81 h. Country is wounded and lis Aoei-
lies ieop,rdifed. Tnefe outcsfts from ~
ronsaa focieties, ,hefe lcape!ings from the
allows are nor contented to find here a
{scure aIylun, an iaviolable protection OF
their perions, a goodly land, whieh Of
fers them food and rsiment. It's NOT
enough that they enjoy the rights q hoi
pitalliy $" that they are permitted 70 iana
quietly on cur lhcres; thar they VIII be
protected equally with our o"n citizens,
in their peIions, ana in The acqaililon and
eajoymene Of property that our courts
Of luAice are open to them 10 leek redfeis
ofiniaries /; and that they are permitted
peaeeably to return TO their own countries,
whenever they pIeale, and to carry with
then, all their effects y They deipiie and
loath this precious Mama, that is meet
family drilling upon them, and falling 10
celeRial flowers around their tents and
of whi.h they are admitted to the sratnl
tous enjoyment. No immunity, no pr
vilege, fllort of the right otluFIage which
is participation in the national ioverei2n-
~. can fa,isfy thefe naughty and trouble
lome .itrangers. No fooner are they land
ell on our chores, than they aaert their
claims in haugaty tone, and in the Ian
luase of meaace and invectlve. They
conyolfe our Tea ports /; they arrelt the
progrels Of buinsls in Congrets, by o.
truding the.nfslves, t:om time to tine, as
the all-inparrart Object of legislative at
tcntion. While as ignoran; almolt OF me
nature Of cur republican government, as
if they had come from another planet
they ineantly on their arrival aaume The
province Of political teachers and ditta-
iors : ard even in their addreheS TO gov
eminent, they have the audacity to re-
proach our laws to rour the CUP Ct lcorn
AMI iniult upon nlen, who had borne the
heat and burden Of the day during our
periloas revolution.
Never perhaps before was the govern
ment of an independent and great nation
g infalted By vaeabond frsnsefs, who
were fulfilling On its bounty. Il shsie
aliens had come over in an embodied army
fifty thoufand lirong, and with a defend
ant Of William the Conqaeror, or with
brother or couGn of Bonaparte at their
head, they might with a pretty good grace,
have detained againt the oppreflion and
tyranny Of our laws, and demand new
order of things, net as favor, bat as
their yigb.. In luch a commanding atsl-
iude, they might. have pleaded their righ
70 fhare or even to monopoly OF the
national foverelgnty, in language oflcoIn,
invetfive and reproaoh. But Ianlels con-
WINGED Of their duty by the alI-powsrfnl
logic Of a conqr-for) 15e Jastrfigu 1sofk
of this country are not YET quite prepared
to endure, from the yagrant hotdes, buffet
tings and fpufnings' return for hoipita-
litg or have they, in the +" march OF
fentimens,," attended 10 fuch an unbound
ed regard for !" oPpreHad humanity" as
to be willing that foreign convitss and
s4!lows fcapers lhould lcofnFully tread up
on their own nrcks.
One OF THE People.
NJ .;y,gugo0r> e3uLd aF.ra q clear.