Alexandria daily advertiser. [volume] (Alexandria [Va.]) 1803-1808, 1804-06-22

our eyes shall be clouded with en- yeioFd
will be at a loss to find ADEQUATE n'a.:
for the mad, the paradoxica co,,,, o'lsSs
the European nations. Nav tbeysns %
be at an equal loss for ours. rra yer
when considering how the enormous @ n
er of France should have bent 4 sn Nv
of the nations of Europe. one after ana
Their, to It's yoke, historians will CIV
/" we own, that it is at this dav Out Of a..
'powerto form probable coritc;pre ~
what the means were by which COVER
ment continually tottering on The uusta,a.
sea OF usurpatlon, and yet boldly menacie,
and actually invading The rights and inSss
pendence of every nation on III. e,ra
could have cdalrived, as it is apparent ii
did ether 10 bliAI the posentates Of + =
ropsa TO al Sense u their danger, or 10 ,sr
riFy them from pro.lding asa.ls theirov,
ruin by timely reslstaa5c J: asd az RE y.ru
time .ghen liberty was n wH.l word
the war hoop from pol. to'pAe, II. 1.n,ls
of every place seemed most abjet, in reaEtv
and to sink and crouch With a mearnes. !,
pusilanlnity unknown in modern hjsforr
TO the tyranny fan insignificant beag
whom was but six yeas oefore an obsllra
heegarly adgenturer.
The transactions of ti,;s day are $50 with
instruction, il wewould have the resolution
tomake use oft. 1t requires no depth Of
reasoning, no great penetration, no txt i
ordinary sagacitv to see them IA their true
Point of view, and to draw lst ia4erences
from them for our own conduct. In the
first place let us be assured from what has
passed in France confirmed by The excep.
tonless history of all times and all coun.
tries, that when people go beyond cer.
tain point in liberty, they set within tie
bounds oflicentiousness, and turning their
backs upon true liberty, advance at every
step they take nearer TO despotiSm. And
let Us be further assured that the despotism
which is crectedbypopular RIGHTEOUSNESS
mislaklng its way TO freedom, is as much
worse than that which has been gradually
softcning down from feudal tenure, as the
iron~handed, sanguinary despotsm Of Ho.
nsparte is more oppressive and il olerab!e
than the neliorated reign of the "gen'le
race of Bourbon in the mild and merci-
full administration of Louis XVI. OF ihe
latter of whom it is too little to say, mat
he was always doing or wishing to DO good
to the people; while of the former it is not
too much to aver, that in the short time it
has been known that such creature exist
ed, there SEEMS not an interval IT his his.
tory free from the planning or the perpe.
tratlon of evil; and that the good done by
all the sovereigns upon earth would not
atone TO the oppressed and disgraeed hn'
man race for the moDst.ous mischlets
which he has commtted-whTch alas! he
may yet commit. He is now driving onhls
worst career-but, when TO stop, or be
stopped!!!
Every ship from Europe bring us some
new fact from which we must be mad, ii
We do not take new warning From the
conduct Of Franceto other nations-at this
moment to Dcnmark-can weinagae that
II It answered MS purpose, ana c'old w
done with equal facility, BonAp arte would
spare us? No, asslredIy not. Nosal The
priggish compliments of our PresidenuI.
speeches. toab- cuhghtaaed government OF
France, (mercv On us, why did they not
say just too?) nor all the sneakirg adulati,
on of our ingenious Ambassador, with an
his letters and communications, written i'll
Washington, to be written en'emp0rs oye
him again at Paris, Chose compounds OF
rashness and timidity, of Ignorance ald
aaectation; of insolence TO power IN
sincere amity with US, and meanasss 70
another over in but treacherous Pretsen'l'
ons to amity9 would save US one day irout
Gallo inroad, if it answered the views o.
the consul, or forwarded hairs breadtH
Que OF his projects.
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