Alexandria daily advertiser. [volume] (Alexandria [Va.]) 1803-1808, 1804-10-01
that arrest, every mind was str,,s !.

They had cause tor being SO. He ~.
either guilty, or he was innocent. Was
Was he guilty What Morear, :,
modest soldlsr, who never aspired bn, 'us
the head of armies, never seemed for ~ az
but in the field OF battle in all otber " .:
cumstances distinguished from his fs,, lu-
citizens only by the simplicity of his mo-
ners. Moreau! who had never beuD ,ho,,
to possess wish for personal elevate !
who never even desired to imagine that h.
successes could open for him road to now W.
er; not even at those epochs when France
harr4ssedby the oscillations of weak Cover,
ments, would have regarded the ambition
OF Moreau as It's greatest blessing! Tb,
nan, who, in the midst of his yictorir,
was heard only to utter che wish, taat b.
speedily securing the independence ofb,
county, he might be restored to that ori.
vscy, whose delights, with those OF eIou
divided his heart, aud were bis only pa.
slons! What could that man SO rems,k /.
ed Tor his moderation, who was hero ?.
ven amongst heroes, could he descend 10
become traitor 10 that cause, and con.
spirer against that government, which +.
had SO long supported. SO often deiendeds
The most brilliant aed best established viz.
luz is then become 10 more than lorg and
dastardiy hyPocrlsy,if MORGAN can be per.
hdIcuS.
" as he innocent? VIVA, then must y.
think OF that government, ill then SO wei.
tt, of CIR confidence aad love, which, De.
parting al once from TIE respect which i
protested for individual liberty, threw ,.
nominous chains upon one Of its gceatf.t
warriors: rscompensed by criminal acca-
sauons, general, rendered sacred by he
many eminent services which he has p5r-
formed, by the many victories which he
has balned, by re many clvick crows
due TO him fer the pr-sorvaticn of ent,
armies, and Tor TIC vast territories wh4l
he has annexed to the French Empir.
What guarantee w,Il vulgar citizens h&.
against oppression, Il one Of ths most jjlu,.
triou5 ...,....... bit We SO 9.--.. SueA
an ieea would &c soo 4Larmiag.--- w
must ende@vour 70 Tepei it - 6ut via
il, let as also baniSa 5.e afi,tciRg idea .Et
{ General lioroau co..la ever STAN us la1.
refs
Nloreau has not betraysdhio giory-Es
/ is innocent.
! Nor has the government bel.edir us justice
there was cause OF alarm.
| Moreau, in his prison, was TIE same"
in the midst Of armies, the true tilendd
bis country seeing only her, and av%'
incapable ot sacrificing his respect tor To.
! public order, to any regard tor his person.
safety,
lust toward. himself, he has not neglect
ed his own defence. Jusg towards the g.
yernmrnt that prosecuted him, he has 0?,H
" acknowledged, THAI the measures OF "ht9
he had become the obj@c!, were occasl99na
by suspicious winch II wasneceSsary sh0u'
be destroyed.
The, either are, or ought to be. alFe'9I
dissipasca. The c;rcuw stances conns'oa
With his case, are now 10 be given, VIII \
slnplicity, to the public. We demand ~
indulgence for him; We ask Tor ouf'S y,
only that attention which We can lay c'A''
10 by 50 many tides. !.
For four mouths general Nloreau ."
been denounced, by the public rep0F"J
.hq Grand Judge, by PiaeaFds printed Az
affixed 20 puoiic places, BY the oFpS" s
generals 10 their armies, and BY aaaI'%
from al The puo.ic authorizes, ano 'E0'
| great number OF military corps.
Doubtless all these productions Oh I.~
though perhaps hlile irregular aiS% ,c
( great an iau,ia1le attachment to INC
yeinmenG. Eur they don't prove ana w.
nog be admitted to prove aay thing nv *. /
Above al thev prove nothing agaO'' /
accused. a person accused IS not? /
j1dgcl by generals: their condition '~ az
declares against the sldea that that lAsY ~, E