Alexandria daily advertiser. [volume] (Alexandria [Va.]) 1803-1808, 1805-07-05
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%. .mocrakic party, always afford me aoun.
tda MT matter for pride and self complacency.
IT. Ae federal party, unquestionably possess.
go superiority in point of talents, and l
de- NOT hesitateso affirm, that it IS made up
81 chose who arc most distinguished 10 our
co untry for private integrity, probability
antlworth. The truth of the first remark
wiI be apparent, when we cDnsider
shle difficulties the democrats meet with in
wrlecting suitable persons 20 Sill Offices diff
Hcnlties the frdrralists never had TO en-.
.co,,nter and neyer feared. Even if were
10 admit, which by she bye shall not do,
that Offices now are as honestly 6llcd, as
they were undersh the fsdsralists, il must be
Sonreded to me, that they are not filled
q. ABLY. The fact is, democracy is not a
soil. favorable TO the growth of official nae.
.r:t. & when its harvestis to be reaPed, there
will always be found 4 lean crop. Genuine
merit spurns al The msan, petty tricks of
;rtrioue for Office, and shrlnks from the
uuhsllowed arts of the demagogAe.
The truth of the last remark, viz. that
,.he body of the federalists is made up OF
,bose. VINO are most distinguished in cur
country for private integrity, respectabili-
~ and worth, will be no less apparent,
when we consider. how large proportion
of the democrats are such men as Duane,
Tony Pasquln and Nichols: Men, who
have made themselves conspicuous by their
V infamy alone: Men who.
sa. Gould la .cpg'd iuRiee but have cascAd them
49, In europe, there Che would have aretch'd them.
s.Sr,. of these are receiving the wages of
sins; others not SO successful, bat
sxnot more vile, are gracing the pillory, or
4 rnioying the richly deserved Leisure OF
ssfprison.
Itiscurious 20 observe, what hetero.
.,renous mass democracy has formed. Men,
.-,yho were born arissocrats, and the hrst
syrudiments of whose education has been the
s>exercise of capricious tyranny over their
:sfelIow creatures, and men, who it they
ahad any inheritance, inherited nothing but
ga most mortal ansipathy 70 law, and an ins
s-.e,eratc dread of all subordination those,
>,vho call themselves gentlemen, and those,
-~who can boast Of nothing but their being
yarabonds, are BY the magic influence OF
democracy leagued together IN pursuit OF
-ene great end; the destruction OF every
sshing that is dear and valuable. Southern
Nabobs and pennyless united lrlshmen, CT.
&;zeos white men and citizens negroes are
Jointly laboring in the same vineyard. a
mass composed of suchincongruous mate.
rails. il was not TO be expected, could long
he 6rm and united nor has it been. Ie has
been broken and the rude clashing of les
divided parts is now agisating our coun'
try.
Il has been frequently observed, that
the democrats, now that they are divided
are more rancorous towards each other,
: than they ever were towards the tedsralists.
This is 4 fact and may easily be accounted
for. Ii Il could be predicated OF those
who are Immediately united only tor the
at,ainmeut of the same detestablc end, tina,
friendship existed among them, the well
known principle of our nature that the en-.
nifty of those who once were TRENDS re-
ceiyes from that very circumstance Pecu-
liar edge, would lead US at once TO con-
clusion in the present case. But as sucn a
predicate would be absurd, We must seek
for the cause in something else. Inc con
tr.,s of the democrats with the federaiists
were contests of falsehood against truth !;
Of calumny warning against the most spot.
less virtue. The restraint which the ma
ie.tv of virtue naturally imposes upon vice.
together with the absence OF that stimulus
Of nersonal irritation, which exists now,
will serye TO shew, why they were less DIT
ter IN ichring with the federalists than they
are in fighting amongst themseiEes. neir
ordinations and recriminatlons OF each
OTHER are founded on truth, and truth cuts
keen and peneuates far. Again. Inc
tools. who laid the steps, by which cunning
tnaxes have advanced themselves 20 power,