Alexandria daily advertiser. [volume] (Alexandria [Va.]) 1803-1808, 1803-11-30
COMMUNICATIONS.

COMMUNICATIONS.
To the Editor efths " E1poslrof.'
SIR,
I have the honor of being subscri-
Der to your paper, and although do some
times advertise in another paper, did not
suppose tito be amatter Of suchiInportance
as 10 make a Philosopher angry, or yet,
cal, forth contemptuous language, :a3for such
/ suppose, you wisfayour dip and ducke, to
be understood, although you did not favor
us with definition ofthe elegantp phrase
As you seem to be chagrined, that you do
not possess exclusively the advertising Gus
tom of the Republicans, | must give you,
what conceive to be, the reasons why you,
do not, though the task appears in some
measure suPeriuous-as you seem to give
apfetty good guess at them, when you say
that an adherence to principles formerly
laid down may be the cause, for [ will do
you the justice to say-you have been firm
whenever a measure hostile to the interests
Of this Town has been agltated--you have
been found among It's most jealous advo-
Gates, steady to your purpose--you have
pursued your course, let the work be clean
or dirw-you have not shrunk from per-
forming it: witness the civil remarks you
made on a large majority of the citizens for
daring, In contradiction to your opinion,
to express their disapprobation of a Terri
torial Legislature; witness also the dupli-
city Of your conduct in respect to the mill
tia law, and as an instance of your delica-
cy to the feelings of others; witness the
avidity with which you published a piece,
recommended by no one quality which
could make it either interesting or amusing
to the public, but merely because it might
please the fool who wrote it, and injure
the feelings of numerous religious socie-
ty. Thus far, sir, give you credit! you
have been firm because those to whom you
are a tool were SO; but if yoat are possessed
of this frmness, this adherence to princi-
pies, your philanthropy, your republican
moderation, should teach you to bear with
weaker brethren. Hoping that myself, and
the rest Of those whom you have denounc-
ed, may in future be honored by your con-
temptuous silence-I must for the present
at least subscribe myself, what you are
pleased to call, a dip and QUICKER
REPUBLICAN.
FederaIiRs have been charged with deGgns 10
file TO the liberties Of the people, in attempting
to give undue freng h to the executive branch OF
the government 10 attempting to give it IN IN
hucnce too powerful which would enable ii to
overlap the barriers provided by the conititn-
lion. This charge originated from the circurn-
aance that Federaliits have been conitantly en-
gagged in Importing the contributions power OF
| the executive, agana the encroachments OF tnotf
who would not hc6tate to precipitAte this with
the otter branches Of government, in the detuc
tive vortex of pure democracy. The real
friends OF the country exerted every nerve to
prcierve the contribution in its pristine excellence,
and TO every branch of he governments IN the ex-
ercite of the powers vsfed by this iil9rument.
The den,a.catlon Of the powers OF the d'fter-
ent departments of government, was diFnet
ard the letter and the ipirit of the contribution
luaifed the icderalias in the principles which
| they commended. It was from the honorable exer
ciie OF this duty, that they have been unJa'ly
charged with attempting 20 infule an energy INTO
the government, which was notcontcmpia'ed by
| the contribution; with strengthening the execa,
tive; and with Aarbouring defgns TO impoie on
US the subttance OF monarchica government. BY
a candid review Of the principles consended forby
the federa!ias, it will be fsen that on all conti
tutional queaiors they have been warm fupPort-
ers of the government, and firm adhefenis to the
conaitution OF their country .---But inftances
have occurred during the federal administration of
the government which afford iuffi1ieh5 evidence
of the disPofition Of apary who were then in the
minority, to weaken if nor defroy the eodsfituti-
onal barriers eaablifhed between the legiiatiYe