Alexandria daily advertiser. [volume] (Alexandria [Va.]) 1803-1808, 1805-07-11

that oughtto be remembered, and fshem 2,
bcrs. most abundan,lv, that, and that only
which it would be happy tor him It ne could
FORGET aud erase for ever from the memory
&c mankind. to wit--himself--not forget
Ing Gas usuaD his compilation from other
mes,'s brains, Common Sense.
The good or evil which befall nations
are attributed Gotten to be sure improperly
to the conduct Of their rulers At the time.
Queen Anne will for ever have the glory
of her good reign, and George III. the
blame of his bad one. Yet neither were by
any means so instrumental In the incidents
Of their times, as you are In those: OF Anne
RIGA for the last five years. Kelly upon 1t,
sir, posterity will hold rigorous inquisi.lon
upon your conduct and your motives; IN
which they will and it difficult to account
for certain appearances of very extraor.
dinary nature. Notwithstanding all that
can be said, they will be puzzled to &C
count how it should have happened that
during your Presidency, and wherever.
your friendship and influence extended,
disrespect TO that Great Man to whom the
world concur in attributing the indepen-
dence of this country Washington should
have been the fashion with the high. flying
liberty men: Why. those who dared with
their unhallowed pens to calumnia.e him
were your favorites: Why being the ma
gistrate of a eouatry protesting the Chris
tan religion, and the friend, and next but
one Successor in Office to Washington, YOU
shot kbe the patron of him who attacked
and endeavoured TO overturn the one, and
e. ossly vilii6ed the other. And on what
grounds of opinion respecting Yourself and
your private sentiments, MIR. Paine, in an
essay very adulatory to you and your party,
should so far commit you and insult the A
merican people, as TO depreciate Wash
ingten, and bring charge against him of
saying sterRly and with naughty tone to
person who had crossed the project of
standing army, with which Mr.. Paine very
plainly insnuases it was the design of
Washington to enslave the country, and
with haugkty tone, "And pray sir, 1vhat
right haze you, thar are but a private citi.
zen, to interfere in matters Of government /?
The language of faction, and the logic of
interested partisans, will be forgotten when
these things will be spoken of. When it
will be asked upon what inverted pFinci-
pie of thought; upon what vague, unde-
fined hoped; for what possible object. or
by what means such system of policy
should have been created or even contem.
plated, as that by which the government of
this country, and the disposal of its power
was gradually passed down, as it will soon
be seen to be, from the wisest and best, to
the lowest and worst men in the commu-
nifty. Look sir, to 'he struggles of power
between that party which was late all our
own, now split into two parts, and cutting
each others tn oats with more inreterat
malignity than ever they cut the federaiiss'
If you have time TO consider it, what must
be YOUR sensations to find Gov. MsKeaa,
once the idol OF your party, denounced in
terms disgraceful to language by the very
m who held him up to the world as an
object of worship and admiration. Read
the fulsome, bloated praises, which but
few months ago the democrats bestowed
upon him: Read the horrld invecsives
they publish against him now: Both done
by ,e very same hands. Can both BE-
true? The pc pie have been deceived in
either one or other instance. How then
can they in any thing trust the deceivers
If Mr.. M'Kean was bad, they are worse
than impostors in praising him into popu-
larity. IF he was not bad, they are more
than ordinarily wicked to caiumniate him.
s-fiave you read the letter of your demo.
cratic friend Mr.. NJ. Lyon, TO your favor
lie editor, now the head of new faction,
Yourself IN your speech, your friend Pane
In his last letter, yoar party every where,
have denounced the federal presses as abu.
sive and calumnious. Read Mr.. Lyons