Alexandria daily advertiser. [volume] (Alexandria [Va.]) 1803-1808, 1804-01-11

exercise SELF ssyernMens as they ever werc--ahd
if they would give their votes only fof the best
and wiscst men, aud would not only tel the
6res of faction, but would 1t every new election
quiet them as they kindle, ifthey would only do
what il is impossible they should, then, Why then
the Fsdesaists would be in power agsioj We
should again have officers in great power and
trust, whom their foes even when in power, dare
not accuse, instead Of men whom she.r fssenda,
though lured By the hopes Of flse, scarcely dare
to puff.
Bat we know that a soiy Of interrupted jciti-
gems who are NOT open tobrbes, arc nevertheless
OPEN to aartsry. We know that The bassst
wqe,ches are the rloss skiIiul Aatterers and that
pawcr NIL! thus foEaw favour. We know that
fs{ieps will inevitably ss'font up y the soil OF
freedom, ard .hat thcse wiii supplies or peryerr
the truth. and fabricate talseboods. Thus well
disposed psopss viii .ea ii disposed liacR. Thus
an eniig htrncd people will be lead away ~ de-
lhsons. Thus prosperous people will be souTed
with disconsents, and agitated with terrofs ard
intrgues. The brightest political sky viii soon
thicken with vspours. Darkness and tempest
viii succeed. There will BE- nothing bat pas.
SONS and crimes. All that /: not fear, viii be
fury.
There is a regular and hitherto irresistible
progress in the passions. We have less vice and
iignoraace, we have as yet less NIB than began
the revolution in Paris. BIT we are men and
let Tallcyrand say What he will, We have passi
ons. We import mob by hundreds, and we are
rl2king haste IN tie work of corruption. We
are in the hands OF demagogaes who pretend TO
serve liberty, BY aggravating lis experienced and
most fatal pJopensltcs: they have broken Gown
lis rarnparts aid furpishsa arms TO its.insadcrs.
What remain: then to arrest our prone descent
toward that wide yawning pitlnto when all o.
ier free republics have 0lindy pfecipltated them
selves! What but that all those citizens who can
see should OPEN their eyes, now while though
late it is nos too late That tFf fate of France,
50 unworthy Of liberty, SO incapable OF It should
BIZ our warning. That we should mark the point
at which we are, corresponding with the time Of
sheg Roland land Byi5s0t adninlstrali OF France.
And that all true patriots should exert themselves
to put off the evil day as long as possible by pro-
curing the election of at least an able and eloquent
minority in our councils. Talents are on the
Federal sldc--lrt us employ them. By delaying
our faie, time and eyents may yet perhaps save
us in spite of ourselves. Instead of innovations
in The constitution, which will lead to more in.
noyations, let us adhere toit a; il n-reverence
it, defend it. and if we do not sacrifice ear lives
for it, let us devote them TO is cause. The rules
of our cunduc and the reasons Tor them are fully
exhibited in Wa,hington's last address to the
nation. Let US stu y those principles. let us in.
cnlears them, Ter US resort 10 them TO repel the
sc II RI
designs--calumnies as absurd sslnalicions, which
yet have gained credit. The confession Of our
political faith is to be round IN that address,
. Our dangers are manifest aud great, but The re-
sources for our security are NOT yet exhausted.
Our republic is in peril, bur not ye; TO be despair
edpf.
(Frederick- Torvn Herala. J