Alexandria daily advertiser. [volume] (Alexandria [Va.]) 1803-1808, 1804-03-31
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I'VE zish to know what The writer ofthat
notification meant, if indeed he had any
meaning at all, when he threw our that USE
less, ridiculous insinuation, : security q
eainst tie o:c6s and miserjes 8 LRrolbean
alutio,as.'' Fol. our pgrts, we areat a loss
&to conjecture it. Does he nean the adpal-
tery, fornicarion, murders, gan1Dilng, and
female wantonness Of those nauons--let
him look about hi m, and be convinced that
whatever effect Louisiana may hereafter
produce upon the public morals, N those
triFing things, We hays hitherto had no
particular securitg, or exemption from
Share. in them. We have our cylM-cons,
our divorces, our marriages, re-marrlages
and cross marriages, as well as the best OF
them: and unless we. except turkey,
{France is cut out Of the moral world) it.
would be cruel ironyto say that the spot
Aon which he stands yields to any part OF Eu-
rope, the palm in pluralities OF wives, hus-
bands, sweethearts and lovers. In many
parts of the union, we hold very resPec-
table rank of competition with Europe, IN
dice, cards, racing, duelling and threatcut-
ting, for the honour Of the thiag. And
reckoning BY the tail, population against
population, we venture to assert that tor
comfortable share ofnudity, for that un-
disguised, open, innocent disposition to
keep as little as possible concealed, and
lay open the inmost recesses OF the bosom;
and AS the philosopher once wished, that
the human breast was made of glass, that
the secret movements fevery heart might
be -seen--to veil the person wirh such a
transparent covering that every movement
of every muscle may be seen, our own
country may vie with any country in Eu-
rope except as before excepted, that pre-
sent sink Of iniquity, France.
Surely the writer could notify the vices
and miseries of Europe, mean the villal-
MES of Revolutionary France, or the mise
ries with which it has bespread Europe.
Those are blessings which all the partizans
and writers of his faction, endeavoured with
all their might and ingenuity to introduce
into this country.
When the writer speaks of the possessi-
on Of Louisiana securing US from danger
Gus and hostile neighbours, he only justre-
cognizes and admits proposition of ours,
whichhe and his party denied, when they
found it convenient to deny the use OF Lou.
isiana, andthe good policyoot taking pos
session Of it.
What the writer means BY saying thatth
:" Acqmsition Of Louisiana provides ns10
means Of dete7ace against an evzi sntallcd on
as BY hose from 79hom70e s'latc6es4 our III
4e6eidence. = we can little more than guess
at. Does he mean the business of slave
and ownere AS well rnighthe say it was
entailed on US BIZ the Romans, or any other
ofthe nations of the earth, al Of whom have
dealt in that business. If he were asked
why the same arm that snatched the indie
pendence did not cut off that evil at the
same time, he would not be able to give a
satisfactory answer. Ifhe gave true one.
he would saw thus: effor the same reason
we support Jacobinism because it suits
our purposes, and is congenial to our
hearts, That evil, however, is one which
will probably be set right one way or other.
The equality men of the faction are in the
direct road to complete equalization ofus
all, high and low, rich and poor, good and
bad, black and white. The apotheosis Of
an individual for an act which, II 1t were
even well done, would be only duty, is no
short stride towards despotic influence /;
few more strides and we may be assured
that though the slaves cannot all be made
free, the freemen will all be made slaves.
If, however,, those fromwhom we snatched
our independence have entailed upon us
that evil, it must be owned that it has fur
nished us-also with the means Of defence a.
gai;nst 1t. No human impudence & false