Alexandria daily advertiser. [volume] (Alexandria [Va.]) 1803-1808, 1805-10-30

has long Deem OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES eos"Ay "
change the form of our government, In It's
most essential points to change it entirely.
Il was expected thar popular clanor would
aid the conspirators, and that the desired
obiests might be radically effected with lit
lie difficulty. Had the resolutions OF Ran
dolph, Nicholson and Breckenridge, the
endeayor 70 remove the seat OF govern.
nens, the petition of the New England
Nlississippilaad company, &c. been bro't
On the sapis three or four years since, 1t is
highly probable THAI the Democrats would
have been triumphant 10 each ofthelr wish
ca. Their delay till the subsidiug OF the
hrst unmanly fury and resentment OF party
victory, will occasion their defeat. Among
the democratic members of congress, and
AMONG the democrats generally, there are
men of understanding and reflection, who
have been misled, bus have since had time
to consider without party heat, TO weigh
well the conduct of their leaders, and to
discover the Improperly, the dishonesty
aud the destructive tendency OF much OF
their conduct, and of maay OF their mo.
sives.
The federalists, conscious of the correct.
ness Of their views and their political de.
portmens, have remainedsin general silent
and sorrowful spectators of the baneful cur
rent of democracy and corruption, unable
to divert or to impede it. the revolution
in public sentiment, that has taken place,
and Is still fast taking place In different parts
of the union, has not been occasioned by
the effort or intrigue OF the federallsts, bat
by the operation of that fund Of good sense
in the great body of the people, which will
generally take right direction when un-
swayed by misrepresentation aud Preludi-
.ces.
I, is true that the editorial labors of the
federal editors, have not been without very
considerable influence in maintaining the
the correctness of their principles, and ex.
posing the proAigacy, imbecility and evil
tendency of the opinions and the measures
of democracy: bat the principal ground on
which we build belief of the return OF
wholesome times is, the opportunity aud
the disposition exhibited SO generally to re-
feet, to pause to weigh well past mea.
sures; TO examine the tendency of the pre-
sent; TO discover errors and to abjure
thea.
In Pennsylvania are the most combusti.
BILE materials for political conflagration.
There have been already two Instructions
in that state, and she rs but now saved by
the reelection of M'Kean, from the hof.
rors of high civil 7eommo,ion, perhaps
from ruinious confusion, and from blood
shed. What has occasioned the violent
struggle they have experienced I? The de-
,ermination of Dune, Leib, and few o.
theirs, ,oget the power OF govern nnent In
TO their own administration, the efnolu-
ments and the honors of offce.-On what
grounds did they found their hopes OF sue.
cess? On the expectations, from the pre-
vious success of intrigue, nsissepresenta.
ton, and working ON the passions, and
,preiudices Of the ignorant and the needless
many, that they should not be unsuccessful
in again obtaining by the same means, the
same end. Heaven be praised they have
been disappointed: the great expert
ment of overturning constitutions, which
was to precede the greater attempt or
the constitution of The union has brought
confusion on its authors ;--has given US
strong confidence in the fruitlessness o
Randclph's and N:cholson's endeav0ur.
| hereafter, has indeed almost convinced IL
that the edge is takes from the sword Q
democracy, which however and By whose
| ever wlvlaed, will hereafter do little harm
except TO them that hold it.
! To be able 10 succeed IN theif1endesvos4
! TO destroy sl1c federal administrations, the
| democrats were necessitatedso invent some
| good reasons monarchy, arlstocracy, th'
enmity of the federalists to liberty, to tbs
rights Of the people Sc. were made I'M
aos,ensible causes of opposition. Ie be a
| Bile 10 effect revolution in Pennsylvania