Alexandria daily advertiser. [volume] (Alexandria [Va.]) 1803-1808, 1804-01-25

exsactlysin proportion as they are 0enenclsl
and conducive to happiness when managed
with discretion, and enjoyea with humility,
thankfalness and moderation.
Ofal: the blessings which man IS per-
mitted by Providence to confer upon him
self oy virtue and wisdom, or cast away by
vice aud inprovidence, Liberty IS the great
Ell; it Is that without which, all the other
advantages oflife are scanty, dtll andinse-
cure, and possessing Of which man can en-
dure the greatest degree of worldly priva-
tons. But it IS at the sanle time above all
Others the most deceisfuI and trsacherous.
| It makes IT'S most ardent lovers les worst
victims, and wheetaes them into the most
eager pursuit Only for the parposs ot more
completely vanishing from their sight for
eyer It may be called the wine OF lite,
which, so long as men use iswlth modera-
ton, invigorates aud renders them cheer
ful and sociable, but taken to excess pro-
duces intoxlcatlon, madness and ultimate
ruin. In short. like wine it is capable OF
producing the greatest benefits or the great
est mischieis and those benefits and mis-
chiefs depend wholly upon the use that is
made oft.
The history humankind is SC replete With
proofs of the truth OF these proposltltlohs,
thai they will appear to many to be zoo evil
dent to require insisting upon, Yet evl-
dent as they are, we-see every new gene
ration rushing into and acting upon con-
trary opinions before those who have gone
before have had time to avail themselves
-of the conviction received from experience,
and to act in. conformity to it; SO that, OBJ
vlous as the truth of them may seem, 1t is
still necessary to remind the world of-them
continually, and to warn society OF the
danger they incur by not attending to them.
Irksome as the task is to us, and much
as it afflicts us to have it to say, we cannot
play the traitor to our duty SO far as to
withhold from the people, the sad, the
horrible truth, that they are at this moment
III the direct high road to the extinction OF
their real liberties, by pursuing with all
the frantic eagerness of "Youth in the
Chase" illusory phantoms, in the pursuit
Of which the hell-hound huntsmen OF De-
mocracy, with their train of haHoolng
whippers In, urge them forward with all
their art and ability. Every dav produces
some new circumstances to intimate to
them their danger. Every day some new
! instance of those who for a time in error,
were hot in the pursuit; but who convinc-
ed Of their danger, have drawn in their
! reas, and now turn their back upon the
hunt.
! The views of the party now in power be-
gin to develope themselves SO fully, that
| none bar those who labour under mental
incap2city orwllfull blindness who are too
blind 60 see or too corrupt to lay their pri-
v.lte views and interests at the feet oftruth
and patriotic virtue, can fail to discern
them or refrain from opposing their pro-
press. The suspicious that were raised a.
gainst the federal ministers of the govern
ment, but which never could be substanti-
ated, are now brought home, embodied
into certainties, against theSpresent admi-
n;stration, by some of the wisest and ablest
Of their own friends and advocates. The
popularity of that party, and the cunning
and deep concerted desiga with which they
are making use of tito intrench themselves
in power, burst from their disguise in full
unblushing face upon the public sight; and
among the mos1 wise, the most vlrtuous,
and patriotic members of the antifederal
side, the alarm has for some time bsen be-
gun. We hope not too late-We hope
that there is not vet in the official compost
ton Of our state, as IN other countries, ma
terials left to make bulwark Of corruption
strong enough to bid defiance to the ooun-
try's best and truest friends. We think
not. It is Only by their own folly and
submission to the delusiye tricks ofthe de-
magogues of a faction, that the people can
be undone.
It my be remembered. that the first Of