Alexandria daily advertiser. [volume] (Alexandria [Va.]) 1803-1808, 1804-05-16

irpediinens that lies il sieir way TO fupren,s pow
er, and TO rsze TO the ground every rampant
which the wiidom aud virtue OF TIE Ggen who
founded the freedoms of this country, snd tormed
the Federal Contribution, had erected 10 Occur.
the people from the iron hand of opeseaion, and
the Conlfi,u,io ion from the aGaules Of arifocratic
or monaschic defpetifm on one hand, and OF ahe
other from the ruthlefs fangs aud fury of demos
cratc tyrants, and the wiles of crafty unprinci-
pied demagogues, maddening and then driving
into their tolls the unthinking multitude.
If fozethin is not done. and that loon too,
to Cop this furious torrent of political iraud-
cutting It's way through the land by means of
private wrong and inju&ice, The time is not long
that we fhsll have liberty 20 fpeak or to write
VIC will therefore m k ufc OF the liberty while
IFS exits. TIE gteat code Of cur freedom and
rights, which we once thought written in too
ltrong hand TO b. eraied, will foon be oblte.
rated as eifettualIy as it is in france. Free.
dom will fly, and I" .@e lvas eurs" will be al
Americans will have TO Gay of her. For either
God and Natuc have ordained wrong, Or this
is truth, that tybers JaJ9iceis nat, Freed9M can.
not be.
For this reafon il is the duty Of every man
to lift his might aganf injaaice, in whatever
hape it. may appear, OIL in whatever d,(guife he
may detect it. Ga the political writer and
public journalif, it is peculiarly Incumbent to
ftep forward ard fand in Tie breach, while life
or breath is lcir to him. $50 tcsms Of reproach
can be 100 bitter, no aiperity co ha.h or cutting,
no iudigna tion too warm, no refcntnent too
ffrong, for the perpetrators of fach leif evident
wickcdnels. There are many, We know there
are, we every oay hear them, who fay, g why
it is true, we it, il is abominable but
there is no fear OF America, flle Will be free in
lpi,- of them" We are always forty TO hear
this, becapie it is by fuch faifr, i'll Judged fccu.
rity, nations are lof. They arc inaakeu.-
f" France qvNs 10 be jGjee," was the gafconade
Ct every FIcnchman in I7qz-5.- The pious
prieRs of democracy, Robefplere, Maar, Tailien,
Danton, &c. gave out the .erle, and the multi
tudc fnng, or braycd, or fcrcamcd the fata,
plain all over France, What are they to day?
What may we be ten IL doz years hence
We do not want wicked demsgogucs any more
than Frafc did, nor do we want culEbe nut.
titude, as Pennsylvania flGws. Ncithcr d. we
want ambitious, realeis foreigners. Switzerland
as well as Corfca, may vomit forth iacobin,
and dcipofic ufurper. This bufnefs of the i'm,
peachments, therefore, mutt be kept alive, ard
full and fair expo!ure of it repeated anG echoed,
and repeated over and over AGAIN, till the pubic
hall undesftsud it, deferve their fate, by pur-
po(eIy lhutting their eyes ard ears again0 the
truth, ana runuing willtuiy blind and deaf ineo
the guiph Of political defFucfon. The letter and
memorial of judge Chale, if perfectly and clearly
undcrfood, you'd fpsak home TO the heart and
! understanding Of any man. IthaIi be our talk
TO exhibit them and the whole cafe TO view, in
every haPc into which induitry can mould, or
| language, lueh as ou.a, pseftnt them.
Courier.