Alexandria daily advertiser. [volume] (Alexandria [Va.]) 1803-1808, 1805-06-25
,sn the Yermont journal.
Mr.. ELLIOT
TO HIS CONSTITUENTS.
LETTER x.


are false, and the authors of them know
them to be false.
Who are the real friends of liberty, of
genuine, regulated liberty Is the frantic
frvolutionist more rational friend of free
dom than the sallen monarchist? Is the
man who advocates peace and union to be
considered as disorgani2er! But it is
said that the fedcralis,s are all menarchists,
and that the. principles of republicanism
and monarchy csa no more be united, than
oil and watef eaa be mingled, or than the
glare of day Add tne gloom of night can
be amalgamatrd. A few years since my
constituents were also protested federal.
lists was myself a member of the little
band who opposed in this district the adj
ADMINISTRATION of Mr.. Adams. Should I
dare TO ask my constituents, were you, IN
1873, when you supported federal candi-
dates and federal measures, enetnles 20 the
rights of mao, enemies to your own rights!
They would Instantly answer with indigna-
ton, No---we have always been republic
cans. Ii is then more than common enari.
ty to conclude. that the nnmense majority
of those. who still profess the pflaciples of
federalism are also repuolicsns! Among
the many thousands WAC have left The fe-
dsral standard, how many nave told Us
that they had been concerned in a plot tor
thS. destruction of liberty! Not one. Mo-.
narchical principles are conhled TO few
individuals in our country, and among
those individuals may be placed. some of
our most ardent republicans.
tits said that the idea OF al union OF the
people of the northern states III one grea:
political interest must prodace, a dlsi.
sion of the union: and those who say this
look with perfect complacency upon that
gigantic mass of influence which similar
union In the southern states has already
created. In other words to preserve the
union the southern states must be united
as one man, and the norshern must be di-
vided and distracted.
Miserable sophism! ABSURD and fool
ish dogma Let men here repeat that a
perfect union among ourselves would in
duce us to demand no more tnan our due
share of political weight, which would then
be Welded to US, and the union would be
preverved, and even rendeied more sc,
cure.
Various are the opinions of men of re-
Hecsion in relation TO the probable effects
of the acquisition of Louisiana. Upon no
subject have found it more difficult to
form an opinion for myself. Some believe
that a commercial connection will take
place between the eastern aud the western
states; that the people of New England
will carry to those of the Mississippi the
prod of all other parts of the world,
and export for them their own productions
and that this commei cial connection viii
produce a political one, favorable TO Us, <
unfavorable 10 the southern states. Others
argue that the inhabitants of the west will
be a shipbuiiding and agricultural Peop.e;
that their vicinity to the West India mar
kets wilt enable them to snpercede Us IN
some of the most profitable branches of our
commerce; and chat the idea OF political
connection with them, ;hoaga spleadid, is
perfectly delusise. fhe prospect indeed
is rather gloomy. But putting Louisiana
out of the question, the nun-,er Of repre-
.entasives in congress TO which the SOU
thern states are entitled, on account of
their slaves, must forever secure them a
majority 10 the councils of the union. The
slaves are not represented, but three fftns
of tAeir number added to the ,nSlnbers of
free persons and, this determines the num-
Der of representatives from the state
Were the slaves made free we could not
refuse upon our own principles, to allow
them representatives but deprived as they
are of all Evil rights, aud considered mere.
ly as property, It would be as just that the
Vermont farmer should be entitled TO a
representation for MS cattle, as the Virnl-
MAN planter for his negroes.
No northern man who has caught a sim