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

|corroption Or fstaioa in 1888 sad 1859. when
The elections for putting the new plan OF govern.
ncnt into operation were made through the L.
States. The men who were rried, like gold IN
the fires OF our public adyerfty, the men vino
fought our battles or grew hosry in our ceaneils
w-re preferred and Tor the lake of their coun
ry, as dear to them as life, they came forward
svowedly 10 f:rve for (hort time only, and uh-
ii the people had become famewhat better ac
ooainted with the new Contribution by actual
experience of its beneaccncc and WifJoms. Alit
|of The venerable worthless who appeared in tic
executive departments and in Congress during
The iirf four years would not be unworthy OF
Greece in tie times of her Th.miitoccs and A.
rifesdes-in III. times when Che was no lcA refplen-
dest for her yiriues than her glory.
The amazing lsccefs q inc new government
was expected by many to contopnd he r'peaing
Ifpirit OF oppuEtion wlth fa7s, and fooFRae and
cnchans the lulrn malice by its fpiendour. We
were told the people never err except from the
pervcriion or the lack of ,aformafon. Fattety
United and plsiumpfion allowed that although
nor lsfs than four OF our FIVE millions woald at
tend to nothing, yet the whole people would
rightly underifand every thing; their psiions
would leep, their prsjudices yield, and their
win. as if guided by array dircd from heaven,
would be nuerr;ng and would be lazO. What
fhoold hinder, it was triumphanliy enqaireds A
government in the hands of an eahg bieaed PEG
pls, always emhued with their ipirit and acting
! f.Iely i4om their imnle1iate impufes would GER
tainiy eallie the go,den hopes OF philosophers 70
delightfully."- INDUCED IN the clofet, 20 furely and
often e. fatally disappointed on every trial, the
glorious hopes Of a people that fhouId not Only
govern themfelves but their governors. Yes, We
exclaimed in ilrain OF EMULATION to the reit of
the wotld, behold MATS OF s9veyetgn citizens,
yoy2l people who iii like Roman ienate in iadg-
msnt upon our elective kings, II
Yet theie hopes have tailed, and the enquiry
Is, 4vky have they failed Ii is not LEI, 10
iacobin impud. ace TO fay, or todemocranc folly
q Imagine, that The 'igbt men were not al frf
employed. Itis no Iels out OF the cafe to aicrbe
the failure to adv<ysty and ill., foytsne 20 which
ali governments aie liable for the Affairs OF the
nation profpcred in their hands. No one can
pretend, with any color Of ruth, thar thsfr men
were good when they were ent'utea with power,
bu, that they were corrupted and changed by the
long abufe OF it.
lis many years hnce the ruling faction have
charged corruption aud mslverfalion in off on
the Walhing'3n Federaliits. 1t is now three
We airs that an irlefiRib,e majority in Congrcfs
has put it in their power TO enquire, prefecture,
impeach and convict all offenders. And with
iucb number and iuch y fpirit in that majority,
it 10 flying great deal ct them or of our laws
tina. eeeo fnnaeente could protect the ascaied tede-
raj officers This IS certain, nothing IS left for
their protection but innocence. When therefore
With fich hearty go3o @il, as we know the
bitter maieyoltnt Jacobins woa'd ACCEPT iome
half dozen or dozcn human facrihces of impeach-
ed and difgraced FcderallRs, nane are mpescbed,
none appear, alter all he aborsve fophiary
and art of the famous committee of public ac
cu(ers, liable to impcachmens or even fafpicion,
can we donbt if we would, are re permitted Tor
an infant TO linger in our belief, that the
FEDERAL administration was 6esee add unimpesch-
able. So white and frong in honsfy that their
snemcs when they had them boand faft ftill had
no power to bur. them. The fires Of the furnace
,uto which the Idol worfhippers had caf them
played hasmlesly about without Hurting hair of
rheir heads.
On thc leaf examination of the fuhjed, every
man of Tense will therefore fee in moment that
the change Of admln,ftarion is not TO Re at.
trbuted TO any of the cauies we have been con-
iiAefirg.
I, would be deemed cruel irony if we fhould
proceed TO enquire whether The people have fourd
better men than tie excluded Federaliits, and
whether the late dfcovery effected the revolution
OF March 1891.
If any democrats without sense enough to
Judge ADD with only half enough to ask questions
about facts and to remembers tie answers, can
really believe that the old enemies Of the constiru
zion are now IFS best, nay its emily friends merely
because they say so; if they viii give them cre-
dit for p. fiotisn because it is new passion not
yet three years old, fthey viii believe that the