Alexandria daily advertiser. [volume] (Alexandria [Va.]) 1803-1808, 1804-08-24
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!. tits laughable, to witness the dlsPostloA
Of the democrats, to denounce each otner,
upon the slightest difference ct political
opinions and to hear what severe sarcasFns
.thev will throw out, against those who
|deviate, from What is supposed, the :! efter-
soaian standard. aEti IS an old saying, that
'of all quarrvls--" family anarTeis~ are
1.-THE. worst lie thi, be true, the demo-
cratic family, composed OF Frenchueh
and Americans, is in a sad, asi>ost &c.
p!orable dilemma ;'having lostno It's leader,
this would be talking aristocratic langla55@,
but in ,hejmodern philosoPhic style, lis faith
full servant, Saint Napoleon, alias EM?efor
Ronaparte. Some of MS old adhcrcuts
among US, who lately regarded him with as
n.nch asrotis., &c ,hAy.do their God, appear
to reaounce hlna with naournful reluctance;
and are still disposed to loiter around him
as the Guardian Of the Freedom and Tus.
tice, Liberty and Equality of universal man.
Others remembering their curses .agalnst.
royalty, & their neutrality-suspicious. ofven.
geauce and ruin, upon every man woman
and child, disposed to live under monar-
chial form of government, wishing to be
thought :conslstent--even in the goody
work Observation-Disclosures denounce
him as an usurper, and military tyrant.-
they indirectly acknowledge that the Fe.
dsralists had more Just conceptions of his
object, and of the termination Of his con-
sulship, than they had and thev now ca
gerly pantfor the Bloody feast Of another
revolution, whose object shall be to repub-
hcshise France, and send Bonaparte to his
brother jacobins, Danton, Marat and Ro.
5bespierre. Marx reader that many of those
personally known to you, who within three
years past, hailed Bonaparte as the Guar
dian God offberty, not only in France, but
throughout the world, and who represents
ed Aaron Burr as the FIRST and best man in
America, Jefferson only excepted
M'Kean, as = firm, upright and inae xivle
honorable Pierce Butler
ofSouth Carolina, as the stay and staff oil
that state and last though not least, James
Thompson Callendera prodigy of disinter-
ested patriotism. of transcendent talents
boundlessPoliticalik knowledge; author ofth;e
Prospect Before Us, and the Boson friend
of Mir. Jefferson have, alas! for the ver-
satllity Of democratic alteration! anathera.
tised these SOUS oflibcrty and equality, and
IN their paroxisms of rage, fully and be-
,yend contradictions, established those ctara-s
,es alledged against the m by the federalists
ar times past.
The .unkindess thrust, however. which
the sweet tempered Democrats have given
to their brethren, IS their frequent asser,
ton. that al the respect shewn by thsir
former friends to the memory cfGeneraI
Hamilton, has proceeded from haired TO
Burr that is, in plain English, that they
are men ofno principle Of Justice or decen- !
cy; but will justify any means, however
wicked, abandoned and accnrsed, for the
attainment Of their, object, and the grat;i-
cation Of theirrevenge. This is a ralu,a-
ny for which the t'ederal;sts in some states
would be persscetcd with all the rigor Of
.the lay, even without the privilege, secur-
ed by the sedition act, Of giving the truth
in evidence. Is 1t possiblr that the Demo
Gratis have at ! myth GO ncided in opinion
with tue Federalists--that some of these
liberty and equality gcury, VINO SO fire.
quently and furndy talk about the right Of
the sovereign people-of their attachment
to the poor, and their jealousy of the arbi-
trary power ofthe rich and virtuous, are
not.acsuated by any sense ofjustice, or love
of national liberty; that they are. for the
most part, not only destitute Of moral rec
sitnde, bat thar they VIII carry their enaai-
ty to political opponent, almost beyoad
the bounds of credibiiity! They will epen-
~ advocate, sfthey are to be believed, the
coaducs OF any person opposed to theis ene-
my, however criminal may have been his
conduct--however evident his guilt. We