Alexandria daily advertiser. [volume] (Alexandria [Va.]) 1803-1808, 1804-07-21

milliots Of people. BY dividing the exn.
tditure among them, we shall find, that
the maintenance Of their internal rev.
and security, their independence, theirn
tional honor, and their commerce, in 4
time of Washington, each individuals;
one dollar aaS sixty six cents, in four ye,
that is to say, forty cents year: An
for the chastisement OF the French .,
fcroachers, in the presidency Of Mr. Adam
four dollars and eighty cents, in four yea,
that is, one dollar and twenty cents =.
annum each, more than they now paw /,
national disgrace, commercial ruin, ma,
time insignihcance, shame, and he bank
ruptcy OF thousands, under the ecgn9m,
OF Mr.. Jefferson. Ii would be better Il,
wealth had no existence, and that pcod
| had nothing beyond bare support, SO t1r
might preserve their honor and indeper
dencc, than that their wealth should b,
come the pandar of political pollution, q
be made the Instrument at once Of patlon
deception and national disgrace. And sur,
4y It were better that every individual md.
country subscribed one or two dollars eva
ry year, than thai the pride and the honor.
able feeling OF the nation should be staut.
down with penurv, or chased away BY tn
humping cant of beggary and prytendes
want. Lazarus, when laid covered oys
with sores at the ,ich mans door, was nyl
thing to the spectacle which our parsimoI
nists Economists they are not would ma5d
Of this nation. 10 those who really lovA
republican government, it can be no pleas,
ing sight to see the once august ana almi1
rab!e republic CT America walking aoouI
with a poor-box and brief IN lis aaadI
thrusting its sore leg in the face OF passerI
by to excite compassion, begging alnII
and saying 70 individuals as they pa@I
+" Your charity fer the honor Of he rem5.
lic." Yet this would be better thaa to HI
her perish, or to feel as well as hear Ii
poor mouth she makes every momeE
through her present organs. " Forl5 Cen
year, or one dollar and twenty cents 4
year." extra for the safety and honoTcI
ones country!! Why the sum could b
raised BY private subscription, upon muc
less worthy or necessary cause; lew "DS
name and well disposed persons who h0
hearts to feel for the afflicted" couldmai
a collection 10 that amount, in as short
time, as they make a collection for bns
bag-pipers at country hops IN Ireland III
America, America! what art thou Genet
when ia the hour that cast your eyes who
way you viii, all around YOU calls Ter en
ny thing that is great and magnanimou'J
counsel and iii acJion, nothing IS to
heard from you bat the pitiful Pig-yhiaeo
be8gary and distress, issuing from yo ;
dearest organ--yolr pocket; like tn dos
full little voice 0. .)L.ster Iackey, crc
oar, help, hcipn' from the satchei Of
ventriloquist.
Thus it appears tisat the saving Of who
the present administration and Us aSeD
SO loudly and triuaPhantiy boast, has pr {
duced consequences at which they oa5aaE
trem6le, and thag the Naste o. which th'
continually accuse ths former adm.nls'S
lions has produced consequences at "A'
if they have any feeling, they Ought
blush. OfalI things, if they are wise, 'b.
will avoid comparisons with their Pfeo
cessors. Cenauri1g tbera as they 90, tai
act as absurdly as Queen Elizabeth, so
vain and anourous, though Jealous ON.
reputation for beauty though "deo&
ugly, had the weakness TO be contl1a'
extorting from foreign ambassadors
from her slaves and cour.ierS, compHms'
to her o,;n face and person by comPaG@
with the most celebrated beauties d "Do
she could hear; and who was ever N
wringing tron her servile depera.0t3,
acknowledgements Of the superiority Of
charms to those Of the Incompatible w
Queen OF Scotland, Whons she hated, a
for whose I,tC0l CHI. thirc-pd nor a HUI 81