Alexandria daily advertiser. [volume] (Alexandria [Va.]) 1803-1808, 1804-04-27

atiOfi were InluStu inlo ITO Vites'ot GU F
nlied a fund from which the contingent
charges OF the public concern might be de-
frayed, while the people were cajoled INTO
astonishment, admiration, and gratitude for
those necromantic statesmen & fnanclers,
who. they were led to believe could hight
battles without arms, repel invasion and re-
dress wrongs with paper pallets torn from
the dusty pedantry Of the closet, and IN
crease the treasures Of a nationb by diminish
ing its revenues. In this honorable spirit
Of policy, the President comes TO Congress
with Message in which he tells the Re
representatives. Of the People, There is a
reasonable ground Of confidence that they
may new safely dispense with All tie IN
teraaI ta,ces,'' comprehending excises,
stamps, auctions, licences, carriages and
refined sugars, and then he says that the
remaining sources, ofrevenue would be SUI
fcien TO provide for the support OF go
vernment TO pay the interests Of the pablo
debts, and to discharge the principals. -
The word Of command being given, it fol-
lowed of course that the thing was done
TIC ldASS -WCIC ICPGdlCd.
The slightest consideration Of the nature
of the taxes SO repealed, Will throw album
dant. light upon the views of the party who
repealed them. Equality was the word to
the ear, but the gentlemen wisely reflected
that though the 7oord was useful, the thing
was hnm5ug. They knew that is was one
Of the irrevocable DEGREES Of COP and ma
ture, that right and power should ever b.
two different things--that whatever they
might pretend to say of the equality Of
mems rights, unequal purses will ever
make unequal powers and opulence for
ever have an ascendant influence over po-
verify. They knew that luxury was the
concomitant OF opulence, and that when
they fattered, fostered and paid court to
luxury, they were in reality paying court
to the very throne ofinauence. The poor
mans brown sugar, molasses, bohea tea
and salt, therefore, were, taxed because
poor men possess no influence, but are In
huenced by the rich--and pleasure carri-
ages and refined sugars were relieved from
the burthen of taxation, because those who
alone can use them are rich, and therefore
possess influence.
Let US not here set up against this
wretched imposture, the himsy jargon with
which the mass OF the people are perpetu-
ally cajoled, viz. that there exists no in
Auence of the kind alluded to. The ma
nagement Of elections now is our evidence
we say the management: For the fact is,
that elections are now SO managed, that
what is called the voice of the people is
rarely more than the zviN of one, or a few.
The phantom OF election floats in the I'M
agination, while it often, or in fact general
ly happens, that the representative is as
much, and not a ot more, the choice Of
the people than is a member of rotten be-
rough in England returned by the sene-
schall by order of the lord Of the manor.
The American who will not see this as.
plainly as he csn the sunat MONDAY is little
wiser than the truant child, who to prevent
himself from being seen by his school mas
ter claps his hands on his eyes, and walks
on selfblinded, till he stumbles and breaks
his nose or his neck.
The result of all his scheming on the part
OF the political shepherd, and Of cullish
credulity on the part of the political sheep,
is such as mediocrity of intellect might
have nationally expected, and as the fede-
ralists from the outset predicted. The in.
<terest and honor of the whole nation were
abandonedto crafty one part of it; and
that part has been grati6ed at that perniei-
Gus price, only to make its,nAuence subser-
Went to dcspotism, which though fora
moment voluntarily Submitted to, Is as
mucha despotisn as if it were obtained
and sunported BY a raercenarSL snl1lie11.