Alexandria advertiser and commercial intelligencer. [volume] (Alexandria [Va.]) 1800-1803, 1803-06-23
Fr0m toe Chs sLssTos CouR1ER.
OBSERVATIONS
ON JUDGE CHASE S CHARGE, AND THE
REMARKS THEREON IN THE Ma
IIoNAL INTELLIGENcERs
OBSERVATIONS
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THOSE politicians who are for having
governments in a perpetual fate of altera-
i-tion, afesnot only milehievous as quacks
and empires from their ignorance Of the
contribution of man, but are aifo rniichiev-
Gus from improbi,y, ike fcne knayiih
furgeons who keep wound continually
openand exert all their art in preventing
it from healing, in order 10 lecure 10 them.
ielses a continuation of probing and pro-
fit. Common ierie would dictate, that
one ofthe greatef pehble per!eetions, In
deed the fue- qua.asn ola good conititutl-
on, would be its probable peTmanence ):
but thofe men will have il a matter Of,
every days new moulding; thing Of
change, not TO governor guide The people,
bur 60 be perpetually governed, guided,
and turned toply turyy, or infds-out by
every new ies Of men. a thing in isfelf
abfurd, since il allows no one point ar
which the government ought to be per
mitted totand. TIE writer before Us
has, by INDUCING in tboie chimeras,
Aounced and houndefed into many con-
iradiefory notions While he inhifs that
the form Of government IS all in all, and
Of courfe mutt mean thai there is Tome one
poinr of conititutional excellence from
which a departure would be bad, he5inflts
upon the nations having aright TO annul
it. Nay, he goes the length OF faying,
that though the laws protect the peIfoa
and property OF every man, ths fillit is
the form Of government Which aloneis Of
importance. He cites, with view 20
cenfure Judge ChaGe's exple ii;on, s'Whers
$ ever the laws project The peffon and
(" property of every man, true liberty
6 exits, whatever The government is !"
Whether il be from a jufnbi:ng Of crude,
half concoacd notions, ariiiog from unde.
fined terms s. ambiguous WORDS, or from
determination to cavil at every thing, he
here appears TO very contiguous diiadvan
sage; for We refer 10 any man Of com
mon ienfe what more certain or rather
what other lympiom can there be coed
government than the protection Of pe,ion
and properly; what is the end, the !ole
object of government Protection Of per
fon and properly In which protection is
of cou.fe included ,hat Of pestonai free
dom. But this will not content our phi
lolophic politicians they mutt have a
certain form of goyernment, and no mat
ter how productive OF good any other
may be, they renounce it. Like tAe phi.
|. lofopher met by Lemuel CULVER 10 his
travels, who refuled to eat pudding
which The whole company were praifng
and dcvouring, becaufe on enquiry he
found that the pot in which it was boiled
was not of that lhape called paralzsA,.
fiffaon, as the protectors of HE Romilh
church held all prayers, MATES and acri-
fees to be mere rnllities, if offered under
any roof, or! within any walls not built
in the form of cro(s, thofe fanatics will
not accept the bleiiirg Of protection of
perion AID property, unlels they are saar.
ed that it flows from form of govern
ment exactly fhaped to jacobinifm. Per
haps a more perfect illuaration of the
weakness and folly ofthe writer's objetti.
on could not be thought of, than that
which he himfef has made choice of--the
fun. /" As well, lays he, might we at
firm the tun to be of no importance 70
long as we enjoy its light and heat
Hitherto men have been con3ented with
the benefits of light and heat, as the only
ones they can politely expect from the fun,
and the bea and greatef Of the human
race have proera,ed their fouls in graft
iude and admiration before the Omnipo-
tent who has created that ftupendous lu
minary. But this willsnot ferve our new
tangled, Frenchifed philosophers of the
rights OF man and the age of reafon. =
There is foneshiug they have found out il,
the fun OF great Importance 70 mankind