Alexandria daily advertiser. [volume] (Alexandria [Va.]) 1803-1808, 1805-08-28

Evsr high 10 osite or FoweTerrespsctaeie
tor his character and services thwarted
their plans or incurred their suspicious,
they Instantly decreed hisruin they de-
rounced him to the nation, as an apos'ate
from republican principles, and they ne
ver ceased TO persecute him till his dessrnc-
ton was completed. They managed the
members of the convention as their tools;
| and they held the whole nation as with a
| bit and bride. 1hey held opinion itself in
letters nsomuch that there was no other
way of escaping persecution, disgrace and
ruin, but by applauding the patriotism and
obcying the mandates of the jacobn club.
! Now let the reader look at home, and
he may see system in operation, which is
the express image of the system that was
pursued by the jacobin junto in Paris
There is in this country a combination ct
men who arrogata the right of designating
the persons to ell the principal Offices in
the government and who assume the
power of confronting the legislature and
governing the nation. The members of
this combination, mostly taken from GER
tain large states, $ hold evening meetings.
to decide what shall take place or prevail"
ia the national legislature, and they suffer
inothing" to come fairly" before our natl
onal legislators, "that is not either brought
forward by one Of the party, or has not
their previous sanction" Meeting toge.
ther in the night and shutting themselves
up in conclave where no mortal can see
or near them, they propose, arrange, and
deter mine the measures of the government.
After the members of this combination or
iunto have prepared their measures, they
offer them to the national legislature, which
is " degraded to a Registers Office, used
merely to record the measures, which may
have been produced" at these nightly meet
ings Of the iacobinic fraternity. IF the
members of the legislature quietly submit
to this mockery of legislation, well but
if any, belonging to the democratic party,
presume TO dissent or object, the Virginan
Hotstur, Mr.. Randol phi, rises in foam of
rage and lashes them till he almost bares
their bones and however conscious they
may be to themselves of honest views and
intentions, they are made to trembls under
his lash like culprits.
The combinations Of which we are speak
public broscribtion and 1enunciation, which
was pursued by the Jacobins in France.
He that doubteth, is politically damned.
IF any draw back, if any finch, if any re-
fuse to work like horses in harness, if a.
py venture TO whisper an objection to the
drspotism in which they are held, they
are INSTANTLY denounced as apostates from
republican principles. A hue and cry over
the whele land is raised against them. 60
The mighty Duane, the organ Of the con-
binstion and consequently the organ of
the public will, lashes them with his cozv-
skin. The minor-prinss hufl reproaches
upon them; they are hunted down and
they must either make their peace by the
most AFFECT submissions, or sink un6:r
loads ofopPr obrium. Opinion itself is held
in vile bondage, by the terrors Of a punish
ment which is bat little less frish.ful than
that of the B0zc-string in Turkey, or tie
GniAstine in France.
Let the reader extend mis- view, and he
may see combinations in particular states,
branching cat from the ll0ther. Club ct
Washington and a2iliating with it.
4 joGso in Pennsylvania raised Mr.. RI
Kean to the chair OF the government: and
SO long RS be strictly eonfornea to the
views and passively submitted 10 the man.
dates of that jun!o, it approved and APP
plaudet his administration bot as soon as
he was ssen independently to exercise his
own opinion, he was marked for des,rac-
sion.
Fhe same scenes are reaciingin the state
! Of New-Eork, the city whereof is seeming.
| ly becoming, in respect 10 the other parts
of thai large Sac, what the city Of Paris
! was, in respect to ,he other departments of