Alexandria daily advertiser. [volume] (Alexandria [Va.]) 1803-1808, 1805-09-07

DALLAS and his ,fellogO address
ers Of Philadelphia.
-att.mpt 70 level, never equaze. In all
ipofvarious deferPtions iomc delcrlP.
SsrmaA The Jewellers therefore only
srt,tbe natural order Of things they
-sfSocisty. by ietting up in the AIR what
the frucfure requires to DC on the
BURKE.
J, your party, and your chief
I'VE taken no small pains to en-
leveling system in America,
We il all the authority which such
.aon as yours, and yoar advice and re-
1amepdation, could bestow upon it, In
minds of rash, and misguided multi
de, non were of the priesthood OF the
exealing church, and long preached the
doctrine efequality. So long as you stood
in that rank IN which alonesyou could as
Jewellers efTectuallv act to your ownadvan-
tage, you practised in conformity 10 your
dwelling precepts but now when you have
got into thar rank in which you must be
sufferers by those doctrines, you have con-
yeniently reversed bosh.yout practice and
yonr precepts. As the whole art of the
sort of levelling which you have SO long
cultivated aud pursued, consists In pulling
down, and not in raising up, you were adj
mirable hands In that destructive work so
long as the Federalists lowered above you,
because in them you had much TO ruin
YOU pulled them down therefore TO level
with yourselves and who will deny that
the fail was great indeed. But as nothing
but the immediate hand of God interPosng
BY miracle could raise up the mass now OPP
posed to YOU, even to your level; and as
they feel disposed to try the very same ex'
pertinent upon YOU, which you before so
successfully tried on the Federalists, you
all at once put up the helm, change your
course, and shew your stern TO the level
ing system, bidding it adieu, Il IS to be
hoped forever. The public writings OF
you and your party, which in execution |
own surpass belief, manifesNy shew that,
while YOU are TOO sullen as we'll as cunning,
10 Acknowledge your real sentiments, you
inreraally feel that your conduct must Dc
fraught with mischief. own that you
have critically nice game TO plays IL you
do not expose the atrocity of Jewellers, and
the folly of the levelling system, so as to
turn the hearts of the people against both,
YOU Will yourselves be levelled with the
very dregs of your race and country: and
# kou-do so expose thern, you proclaim
aloud the impurity OF your past political
lives. have no great opinion OF the etti-
cacy of death-bed repentance-ne faith
IN the sincerity of the contrition OF the
sick. Intruth it is to be apprehended that
the utmost extent OF, you present virtue
is rather attrition on account OF the evil
about to be done to you by the jacobins.
than remorse for the evil which you, when
1acobins, did TO others. fl am mistaken
in this, Portuguese Inquisitor ought TO
be damned for cruelty. who would wish
YOU much worse punishment than the CON-
pany of your own feelings. Bitter must
be Your food, and hard and sharp as new.
" broken rock must be the very down that
pillows your head, If you feel like men
aud christians those abomiuable practices
in yourselves, which as politicians you
have so admirably exposed, and so vehe-
mently reprehended in others.
Whether am right or wrong in fact, or
whether you will Be pleased or vexed at it.,
sincerity obliges me to declare that whene-
yer see an act Of yours-which necessarily
involves blunder or aviee, defect In
tae intellect, or flaw in moral sentiment.
cannos in justice refrain, from attribu,ing
the fault rather to your hearts than to your
heads. Of the excellence Of your Mtellec.
tual movers, the world have manifold testi.
rnony while party zeal;tself, profuse IS it
always is in general dec}anatory praise of
the virtues of It's leaders, has not recorded
single act to throw into the scale OF your
hearts. l mast therefore consider some
Of those bold truths in your address, where
YOU maintain principles in contradiction to