Alexandria daily advertiser. [volume] (Alexandria [Va.]) 1803-1808, 1804-01-18

4 hey nae GEietVtu 10 u!c iHouiaDu t'uEos "pe
they fell not for any 6ne Of t',ofe ,houfsnd rca
gsns, But becaufe wretehes who had deiefyed
60 die a thoufand times mgr< had fer that very
,re,if Implanted them IN the favour Of the rab-
bic.
Such revolution as thas Of France, cS rather
of Patis-for Paris made and conducted it,
was nor to be accomplished by the men haeing
any character, but by thoie w0o we're dettttnie
of all ferupes as of all pofeaons. Good men.
adorn the bet times, bat they the esllift
martyrs OF ,he WORT. The lutthine, The foitl
breezss ard moWers may gls1fen tie surface Of
the earth, and keep rs ssalons forever uniform
though forever progfei!iyesy IL ehansH. y IS
the iabsetraEecus fires, the water ipouts and
mountain hGcds, that lay lis deep foundations
bare, and bury whole region at once IN fleet
deioiston. such IS the sevolution, and iuch are
tie paiiions which are the only agents to do les
terrible wosk Such is the fpetiaeie Of France,
and luch is Tie fpirit with which the American
adlnrs,s of thoie cxctfirs arc llll animated, and
preparing 10 initiate them.
Lei Il be iepeated. then, the task Of unmask.
iug the hypocrisy OF ar Koianas and Condor
Gets and Sieyes, however propei and necessary,
VIII nor, though successful, lisciedit them with
her adherens. tew years ago, the Rhode
Island legislature made paper money. 9 Il is
not possible, said citizen Of Connecficut, TO
member Of tie Rhode Island Assembly, foryon
20 convince Them that paper money IS all aeheat =
s. Oh, yes, replied he, but they make IT tor that
very reason" The demagogues are discledited.
l { IS scstceiy possible there should be less che
rGl7er than they possess, or that any men shon!d
th,uk more neanly that they do OF one another
Its not to be expected that the ablest and best
men at cur country will ever be more disposed
than they have been 10 support the Harrington
princisies OF or government. Eat when those
p,inc,ples arc 70 be subverted and when it is in~
tended thai all which these principles have hi
therto protected should be cevoted, asin Paris,
70 excite and reward the so1s o! rapine, the good
men, the Washington statesmen will not be IN
power Lei such men, hweVer, take warning.
With dscernnlent ct the extent OF their dan
ger, let them cherish spirit CT ndissolubie unt
or. Let them above all renounce the childish
futile and perilous dependence they have hitherto
placed on the imagined morals ard discemment
If the rabbie and ,hcr leaders. And let II be
nc1eo we'll that in every country WHICH revolu-
lion has laid waste, the pFopriet3rs. the men
who h,d rights, were not piila5ed till they were
Essc deiuoed.
Fy<aeuek Ts7vn Htrad.
The to1ozoiag piece IF hunolr Is. fran the
Lancaster .JoarnGl.
We hear that Mr.. Jefferson, in the won
derful gestisn Of his plans, has hitupon one
which will certainly prove-the 9Th wonder
of the worldly 'sdrrena." 1t is this:
From the margins Of the Ohio and Of the
Mississippi, trees Of an immense SIZE and
foliage frequently fall in the water and are
a great impeachment to the navigation
They are called sa7vyers. Captain Lewis,
with a file of men, is to be employed in
roofing out those sascyers and toatiss them
INTO the gulph stream, There they WILDE
taken up BY such of our frigates as may
have escaped the dry d0cA. They are then
to be fastened to each other, in semi-cir-
cular direction, so as to form what has been
vulgularly called brush-aet; but to which
presidential language, disdaining vulgarity,
will assign the mory appropriate appellation
Of Sea Scraber. With this wonderful
Scraper, and a iudicious g exertion Of the
engines Of government" all the fish in the
neighbourhood of the 8ulph stream will be
scraped into the river Missouri. When
they are all snugly driven about athousand
miles up that river, a dam will be made of
the bones fthe Mammoth, g 5oofeet high
faced with perpendicular lime andtree-stone,
and carved into various shapes BY the hand
of Nature From this dam communi-
cation will be opened with the Salt-petre
caves and "Salt Momtain !" Here a.
gain, captain Lewis, with file of men, is
tobe employed, in scraping as much SALT
will pickle the fish, for expectation.
Its calculated that tie produce OF a single sea