Berkeley and Jefferson intelligencer. [volume] (Martinsburg, Va.) 1802-1810, 1804-03-09

From dc CHARtRsTon CouRIRR.

Inc Complaint oi It - Often stepping
stone 70 power, power astepping stone
10 abuse. md abuse again 10 complaint.
and thus they run onla MILL horse round.
furnishing the base trader in politics with
meana Of Inception and proft, at the ex-
pense, NOT only 81 the public purse Chat
Is comparatively Of riRing eviD but Of
the publ tranquility and comfort. In
fact thSst who arc the greatest complain
srs whfR hey have no share in the go,
.vefnmeht or power Of the state, never
fail % give the greatest cause of COM
plant when they get into it. The most
lesvd, babbkng hound Of the whole pack
Of demagogses, always becomes the most
thorough PACED fawning courtier and
he who when Aat boasts most Of. his own
purity, and mist loudly impeaches that
Of others, neSee fails when III to become
corrupt even I'd rottenness. The very
abuses which that description of men
when in Office practice, are the very
things which furnish them with all the to-
pics by which whenout Of Office they en-.
deavour TO render government IN the ab-
straet odious 70 the people. In truth,
power appears not more odious or more
mischieyoas I'M their invectiyes, when as
demagogues hey adulate and beguile the
people, than II is, made bytheir practices
when As public officers they plunder and
Cypress them The people see it, yet
the people never mend. Thsy listen
with langiisffng regard to the dema-.
gogue Of to-dty, who is to be their be-
trayer Tomorrow, though all the while
he is reminding them that he who is their
betrayer and plunderer to-day was but
yesterday their demagogue and idol.
1t was from q correctview Of the heart
Of man as he ever is found to act in po-
kticaf capacity, and 4 conviction of the
truths we have stated above, that the fe-.
deraiisTs s4eaIsdlyr foretotd, and over
and over again aPprized the people, ex-
horting then to keep the prediction in
remembrance, that as soon as ever those
flaming scas Of licentiousness under the
abused name Of liberty, the democrats,
got into power, they would demonstrate
to the convection Of the country what their
real views were-whether they sought
power to seit for patriotic purposes, or
for the purposes Of peculation and that
rs soon as they got the vigilant guardians
Of the state out Of power and themselves
fast in IL, their ambition and ayariee
would be 100 many for their prudence,
and they would fall out with each other
in scramble for Office, influence and
pelf. Those predictions are verified,
and the party which BY art and gross mis-.
Of their adversaries, and
ifit were possible still more to them.
selves, ous,ed the federalists, present
ut this moment to- the northward
a spectacle to the public eye the
most ridisalous, and il a people could
be improved by such things, the most
edifying imaginable. 1he game Of the
French from f792 TO 1896, is playing
there in al its parts, and all it, modee-
the stake is the same-she object the
principle the sane&words
run equally high, and the words are pref
~ nearly the same, as those of which the
French jseobins made use at that detest-
able period. Assassination 10 not conn
mitted it IS true-as yet il is only preach
ed. The guillotine Is not yet erected in /
the streets--it still remains locked up IN
the bosom but If we are to form con-
lecture from the language which is held,
tits probable we shall soon hear of the
stiletto, the poinard, and the NATIONAL