Berkeley and Jefferson intelligencer. [volume] (Martinsburg, Va.) 1802-1810, 1805-08-09

tends Of monarchy, who assume all the
forms cftcrrDr, imagination can lend
Those, who are suffering under the ty-
ranny Of this power, who see nothing
clearly, except in the twilight, and be-
lieve nothing but what 10 preternatural
can end no relief in truth. The actual
sutFerings Of men admit Of many allevia-
tons. but those inflicted BY the power Of
fancy, are Is ineurable Is they are into
lerable.
II ought never 10 be forgotten, that
popular governments are destroyed BY
popular means. Political dreamers, who
love 70 inhabit the metaphysical worlds
oftheir own creation, think nothing so
nnpropitious az stability. Projects Of
reformation, therefore, and experiments
upon man occupy their thoughts, Till
they behold him issuing from the pro-
cess, gorgeous, renovated being, ca
pable Of self-goVernment, without preju.
dices or passions, alllight, and all ensr-
gy. These are numerous sect, who
dislike the old modes Of moral and poll.
tical Improvement, by repentance and
legal restraint, and find il more eonve.
nient to yarnish private vices with pub.
lie zeal, 10 sink secret SANDER in ntiver-
pal charity, and compensate for iydivid-
tal injustice, BY q jealous attachnent TO
the rights Of man. Such men aye the pi-
ohcers 70, anarchy, who smootbthe road
FIR men Of less speculation, wpo having
nbthing TO lose, and much to gjin hy con-
fdsion, pursue the business Sf plumber
md vengeance. The timid and the neu-
trail, who claim Notection fsr their mo-
Iteration, with the philosophers them
selves, whether they yiek, or resist are
hll victims alike ill a length, these
Evils find their own sad cure in the au-
thority Of one, who must maintain By
force what he has acquired BY. fraud and
violence. All history teaches this ms-7
truth; il isla turnpike-road,
where every milestone, is the grave.
stone to some Republic.
On this subject, sven in this country
experience is now intoxicating her les
sons. In Pennsylvania, democracy has
already made progress enough 10 teach
uswisdom. The project of a conventi-
% to new noodle the Constitution is
supported BY certainsoeieties,
Who stile themselvest the friends Of the
people. This is the second class of pat
-iols in that state, a. hostile to the first
IS both were originally 70 the Federal
SIS. Governor M kean, and his friends,
Who have taken the less popular name Of
constitutionalists, have been six years i
n Office, obtained in the struggle with
he Fedralists, BY arts which have now
retuEned to plague the inventers.-
Then they affected 10 tremble at the deep
aid schemes Of the Federalistsi now
hey -tremble indeed. AZ the projects of
heir own pupils, who intend 70 have
lome practical benefit oftheir instructi-
,ns. They know what this friendship
or the people means, and they have
more dread Of il, than others, for they
must be the frat objects ofits embraces.
The weapon ofthe patriots Is reformati-
IN. The present Government has too
much Of restraint in L !; in some instan-
.es, ithas kept ignorance and infamy out
i Office, and used the power Of law 70
punish contempt, offered TO the solemn
tribunals Of justice. Fol. this Judges
nave been impeached, and the whole
system Of jurisprudence assailed. The
lvowed mention Of the patriots Is to re-
luce the power Of the executive and Sc
nate TO make the Judiciary dependent,
md Of course corrupt, and the popular
,ranch supreme over all. Then frequent
elections, universal suffrage, and uni-
,ersal arbitration win introduce the poli-
ieal millennium Of Pennsy lyania.
Lis certain, that among these friends
IF the people, who are trampling upon
whatever l. sonnd in principle, or has
been found useful in practice, are ineiu-
aed the mostignorant men in the state,
Is wellas the most desperate IN fortune
and in principle. Who has ever heard
nf The falenfs the yirtues ~ ,,,,l,r;1 80.