Alexandria daily advertiser. [volume] (Alexandria [Va.]) 1803-1808, 1804-11-27
From the caAsLrsTss cotsrsR.
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! wont to burst into OidLt VI 'CPio o"'.o
and censure at every gross public violation
of truth! Has yourlate accident, or has a
nv thing else sunk you into q moral apathy
which the people of this country have tor
some time conceived to be equally toreagn
TO YOUR reason, your taste and your COM
.plexionsl,feelings How is it with you, II
you softer TO pass unlashed the following
daring attempt to deceive the peoples
the following shameful biushless, unprin-
cipIed assertion.---" These. gentlemen Che
Federalists1 non assume to themselves the
exclusive title Of tsderalists, and denominate
their opponents ati.federaAsts,, 10hen IN fact
then zveye the rea! friends Of the constitution,
and enemies only .of'the eccyescencies zohich
. fnanciering theories Threatened TO attach to
it-Jor it can no longer be doubted but1hat
the menaychicdl system zoas tafer1oo0enz NTH
the noUe!tieseffndncr."
call upon the whole body of demoera-
tic writers to step forward, and poins out
single instance, in which the whole pre-
sent Administration mir. Madison except
cd) did support, defender approve OF the
adoption of the Federal Constitution. |
scall upon them to deny that every man of
them, except Mr.. Madison, did oppose,
and with much violence, its adoption. As
some ofthem will deny it, or any thing
else, If it suits their purpose; when they
have done so, will put them down with
damning proof. Litere Scribte nlanent
but who is there in mer'ca---who is thei'e
in Europe that looks to American politics
and does not know that the persons now in
opposition modelled the Federal Consti-
,ulion, and carried it through all the diff
culsles, ebstructons and opposilions thrown
in It's way BY the Iefersons, the Clintons,
&c. &1.-in a word, by the very men
who are now In power, and who have
from the outset to the moment IN which
write been called and considered antilles
Ieralists. lfayear ago any one OF the
| Iefersonian party had heen asked whatpo.
litical man hewas, he'-woul aasMer anti
federallst." 1.-The was asked what the
,Washingtonians, the Adamsites, the Ha-
miltonlans, and so forth, were, he would
say Federaiists. But, says this writer.
/" They are enemies oniyto the e.1crsssencies
Gift, 0ndthe 5Snaneiering theories thattsrea-
tened to attack it," Very extraordinary IN
deed! It seems then that before the Fe.
deral Constitution was completely enacted
into law, and (of course before it had ex-
istence, those wise men of Virginia could
see-sxcressences upon it, and prognostlca-.
ted that tfnancierins theories threatened TO
attack it. You may have heard, Mr..
Editor, Of the D0ctorssof the Sorbonne IN
Paris, contriyiag mode OF baptizing chill
dren before they were born. Singular
enough. you will say, but far surpassed by
the doctors of the Democratic Sor65n7e
of America, who could see warts, and
wens, and excressences, upon that child OF
those worthless and wise men of America,
Washington, Hamilton, Madison (alas,!
and others---the Federal Constitution, even
before it was completely hegotten; and
for fear of having their tender, delicate
nerves shocked by the sight of such mon
ster: tried every method to procure its
abortion: failing in that, to strangle IN the
birth, and failingin that, to tear it all IN
pieces. Yet itcame forth, and grew. ana
was slightly to look upon; and now that
they have Topped off the excressenees, OF in
other words, got rid of the child's whole
family. father, mother, and all, they begin
10 think it time to grow enamoured OF 1t.
wish to know however what are those
warts, and wens, and excressences, to
which they would have us belieye they al
lude. y as an independent Judiciary a
ware' If so they have indeed got rid Of
it, and cur to the very bonein the operation
WAS the second article of the ,constitu-
ton awart? Ifso they have got rid of 1t.
Was parity offegislasion a wart? It so
they have got rid oft. Was the freedom