Alexandria daily advertiser. [volume] (Alexandria [Va.]) 1803-1808, 1805-07-03
Fran the Boston Repertory.

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/ no pains 20 get good name for their party
and to ix bad one upon their betters. It
is we'll remembered that they once boosted
of the denomination Of aeobi,as, and by
1 their clubs became formally affiliated with
the mother club of Paris. In the progress
of liberty ia that happy country whose
constitution the Chronicle says IS model
! for all free republics, ethe enlightened
! government" as length found the bayo-
net the prettiest instrument imaginable
TO obtain for "iuturiate man his long lost
rights" Then down with the Iaccbins;
| sall France then Kissed with excavations a.
l'gainst these blood thirsty monsters. Loud
shouted the Chronicle; down with the
Jacobins.
The men who had nothing good 10 their
principles, soon felt the necessity ofclaim-
T ing every thing good by their party APP.
pellation. They successfully called them
selves antitederaIists, democrats, the peo-
pies friends, and finally republicans. To
make such a name stick upon. dirt, to.
glue gold leaf upor gresse, was DO easy
matter. Il was often sarcastically request
led that the clubs would shsw their mem-
bersin pr accession, that they would; print
la fair catalogue of their names, and allow
the people to laugh at their ".friends" at
leisure. They most unklndy refused to
set this comedy be acted for the public d..
version.
But when MIR. Jefferson made his fa.s
oIcne h. SEa-
tunity when he was using his political
whitewash, TO daub on the name of repub-s
licans; we ale all federalis,s, all republi-
cans. said he. Every body laughed at the
awkward absurdi.y of the phrase, but few
however have supposed that he submitted
from policy to the disgrace of talking nom,
sense. Yet, there is little doubt that the,
object ofhis speech was TO give an Official
currency TO the name of republicans and
as the ted:ralists ale more likely to be
ground between the upper aud neither mill;
stone, than to see through either of them,
they let the Jacobirs strip off their old
rags, foul as they were with blood and dirt.
and bedeck themselves with the barror ed
6nery Of the republican dress. AccoFa-z
ingly. there was nota newspaper that did
not nauseate it's readers with the word res
publican.
Belt remembered however, by the fe-
dssasssss, and they were warned of it at the
time, the party that tamely suffers itself TO
be rotbed Of It's good name will soon have
nothing left to be robbed of. The federal
lists are republicans, they ever were such,
aud so was Washington. IF the Jacobins
are republicans, then light and darkness are.
precisely the same. Satan and Pain are
two apostles. Washington and Jefferson
might be proved to be and would pass for
twin brothers. SO might Pil!ory Nichols,
and John Adams or Rufus King and the
sagacious Munroe.
The Sederalist who ever allows the Ia
coblns to take the exclusive name of re-,
publicans, is poor spirited creature. BY,
refusing to allow the name they must at
length take some other, and that of Demo.
crat is at their service. Democrats they
are, the leaders excepted, who are Jaco.-
bins. Democrats, then let them be in
print and in discourse, and let no federal
| newspaper ever disgrace its types by the
mean surrender of our proper and till very
lately undisputed appellasion.
Tocheat any man out of his christian
name is ever deemed gross cheating; and
one would scarcely expect that Tom Paine
and his party would do it.
No, content with the impudent impcs-
ture of taking the best OF names for them.
| selves, the Jacohins have toiled hard TO
I give he worst they could'to,he federalists.
/ Anglo iederalists is one suc,,, mcnarchi,ts
| is anolher-and they both shew how boldly
the jacobin deceivers rely on the cullibility
of their ignorant rabble. Was Washing
tton an anglo federalist and a monarchist ]?
Yet no federalist hesitates to praise his adj
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