Berkeley and Jefferson intelligencer. [volume] (Martinsburg, Va.) 1802-1810, 1804-11-23

a1TtO"p III WHICH nc hluNSSs4 AAiAG 0AuAS
in the Novel, aud Joseph Surface, in the
Play, he is al virtue, piety and morality
without but all vice, sel6shness, ma
lice, and deformity Eithin-He becomes
in the general eye, kind of sacred cha.
racter which it issinlul to suspect or ex-
anime, till some accident, some failure
ID a wicked plot, some detection in ali
atrocious crime---the discovery Of let
ter or the falling of screen, discovers
the villain, and developes, all at once,
his crimes. In like manner, the politi.
calimpostor affects more than sommeh
purity OF intention he is all nuns flesh:
he has scarcely the common appetites Of
his nature; and as for passions, he dis
pises them. He wonders how any one
can care for his own advantage, and con-
yenience, or for the advantage and con-
Esnience of his children and relatives.--
He is quite hurt that great being, like
man, should be so base and unpatriotic
as 10 put the paltry concerns Of hfial or
parental duties and affections, which he
calls prejudices, in competition with the
love Of civism and again, how he can
be SO prejudiced as to be attached to any
country in particular, when his heart
should be above STOPPING to less than
the all comprehensive embrace of the
universe. HeinSsts that the duties Of
man are, to DO FIRST cosmdPollte, next
a patriot, and last, If at all, n good IA
Their or good son with special care not
to loose an atom Of his natural rights and
liberties, BY submitting to the controul
ola parent. Then adverting tn patriot
ism, he flashes in the face Of the rnulti-
tude whole train of political fireworks
serpent boxes full of liberty whirl-
wheels Of naturd rights crackers Of
combustible promises; and squibs of
false stories and calnihnies. Liberty and
natural rights being at the tail Of every
thing, as the Latin word fms brings up
the rear Of every book, whether written
in Latin, English, French. or Spanish
or Physics, Laws, Politics or Divinity.
When the designs OF this kind Of per-
son begins to develope itself, and to as
sumo little shaps-when the future
Toad advances. from the loa,hsome
Spawn to the more loathsome Tadpole,
the 6rst thing the discerning eye per.
ceives is an ultimate view to destroy those
very rights of which my political impos->
tor speaks so much and so loudly, by
DESTROYING governnaents,< and those con-
ventions Of ciVl society, from which a-
lone rights are acquired, and to which
alone true liberty owes at once its birth,
its protection, and is only possible secu-
rity. In vain the true friends Of men
1.-THE wise) point out the danger; the
stupid. headstrohg multitude, rush on
like Moths upon the Asme Of candle,
and will not allow themselves to be dis
suaded, or find their error, till their
wings are singed to the body, and the
poor mcaly fools fad themselves spraw-
ling and helpless in hot tallow, or At the
bottom Of the candlestick.
That rights arise along with govern
ments from the conventions Of citil soci-
ETY. and are not derived from nature, are
truths which the people do not commonly
know, because political impostors find It
conducive tcthe progress Of their wick
ed designst to keep them out Of sight, and
men are more willing 70 believe whate-
yer tends to hatter them at the time than
TO serve them eventually; and in general
prefer the, quick Are Of pleasure to the
lasting permanent glow Of comfort, tran
guilty, and true equzble moderate con.
tent. :e-.~ser~sr
Those impustures therefore artfulIy
array those fetious natural rights, agains,
the true substantial rights Of contention,
and by their cunning MISREPRESENTATION,
enlist a. majority of the people ON the side
Of the former, which Of course gain the
victory, so that whenthe hsttle is svet
the people End their real rights dead on
the field, and nothing remaining but their
impostor--their demagogue who having
now nothing bat 6ctious rights (hatuFal
rights) t. resist him, makes what use Of
.hs N he nIeasss ht.nds them IN his vsIl