Alexandria daily advertiser. [volume] (Alexandria [Va.]) 1803-1808, 1805-08-31
Franl.ths CHARLESTON CouRlER.
CO2REGIDOR's ed LETTER.
20 Nessrs. DALLAS aadhistsllov address
srs of Philadelphia.

Ihas shee politicians proceed, whilst little notice IS
taken OF their doctrines buc when they TO be
mined UPON he plain meaning of their words, and the
ire teeacy OF their doctrines. their equiVoeations and
liapesy contradictions comes into play" Burke
II would be pleading the cause of your
hearts a little too much at the expence OF
your understanding, and patching up your
political integrity with violations ct arash,
so attribute your conduct for some years
past. TO error. Your late address proves
the yigor and sagacity of your minds aud
he clcarness efyour conceptions, Judge
.M,Kean or Governor M'Kean, Mr.. Dali
las, and DR.. Logan, have read too much TO
be ignorant ofthe best principles of policy,
if they had only the virtue to act up co
their knowledge. 1t was not on the day
when the diaboiical spirit, which they gene.
rared and nourished in the state, was turn
ed opon themselves, that they were lirst 10
learn The mischieyous effects likely to re-
suit from IL. It was only whsn they could
make it instrumental to their own private
views, that they were blind to It's evils
But when il became an Instrument 10 the
hands of Others, they could open their ayes
at oncezto all tia consequences, and TO all
lis enormIties. Whatever had been record
cd In the history of the world, from the first
DAYS of Greece 70 the last Of gallo lacobin-
ism; whatever had been written upon the
subjsct from Aristotle TO Edmund Burke,
had long been known to than; and their
faculties beng trained TO reasoning, and
sharpened by the exercise ofthe most intel
lectual professions, they must nave reason
ed from causes 20 consequences too close
" and certainly not to have foreseen
from the beginning THAI the storm which
they have lately affected TO discover, ana
which they may be credited for sincerely
Ianen,ing, since il blows directly In their
teeth. They knew as well as any other
men, tnas The successful viilaicy OF the
French rcvolusionists and con6scators was
ssif,SAmerica. as well as other countries, 100
n1(ieh admired not TO be initiated. and
!. too much envied not to rivalled. They
knew that when the standing order OF a
:, state is overturned, aud the texture OF Its
constitution torn, misrule must follow, with
anarchy and ruin IN its train. While they
for their own purposes were vaporiog a.
bout despotism they in their hearts knew
that there was no more to be feared from
the " falsa species libertatls," which the
ears of the ignorant multitude are as open
and ereedyto receive, as the decelvers and
demapogues are TO pour it into them. Like
all of their trade, they talked OF reforming
whea they meant only to rule, and OF the
rights of men, when their only purpose was
TO enrich themselves. To the mean, the
ilGterate, and the stupid, they would give
the sovereign power, because the mean,
stupid, and illitcrate could, withthe great
est facility be cheated oft; but when they
found mors rufian and forward rapacity
had clutched the deposit, they then pro-
tested against its being placed there again.
Standing in the middle between their su-
perior's in talents aud knowledge, the fs-
9eral.sts, and the m0b.ocracy OF the state,
they with one hand fight the former with
s privilege, and with che other they dash
nrerogatiye in the face of the latter, the
former thev pepper with the democratic
musquetry of the Rights of Man, and thun-
dernpon the latter wleh the whole artillery
OF law, logic, and learning.
Tksy help giddy popalace to usurp the
rule of the stare, that they may usurp It
fom them again; and in doing so, they al
most abeminable usurpat;on, upon the
preroqatiyes of nature, and treat the tool
ish battered multitude as men do spunge,
TO absorb the power of the country, and
saeoto squeeze them dry of it--.but the
sounge being SEIZED by other hands, they
would rather burn il, than leave it there.
Like an interposing body betWeen two
lights, they cast double shade, and re-
aect the gloomy and Opaque outline of their
own mishapen body, upon either side.
One party they hate, because they are III
jured by them; the other tl>ey hate, be-
80. DIR haue done thens WONG: aShan-