Alexandria daily advertiser. [volume] (Alexandria [Va.]) 1803-1808, 1805-08-15

our <tuhdered commerce to protection, and
the loud cries OF our sea-faring citizens a.
gainst the robbery and personal violence of
tue free5ooters of every nation. Ger har-
bo.lrs are b!ockaced by the most contemp-
tible crulaers.: and, as an eternal .epYoach
70 ths American name, our brave seamen
the immediate agents of an ungratefui GO
vernment, have languished tor years In
the dungeons of barbarous foe.
Where is the American, who can read
the recital of their sutterings. without exe-
Grating the adm abstraction, that has thus
prolracted their wrongs!
Inculcating the drtestable doctrine OF
distinct interests among the members OF
oar national family, the man, who ought
to have considered himself the common
parent OF that familE, has acted the part OF
cruel s,ep.father, and has delighted 10 dis
solve those ties of fraternal attachment,
which should have bound the agriculture,
commerce, and manufactures Of the Ame-
rican nation IN general union, and In the
bonds of perpetual friendship.
The farmer has been instructed BY this
philosoph;is. this party 2ealo., 20 regard the
| artzan and he merchant, not as his bre-
thren and friends, but as his Interiors, his
rivals and dependents; and preference
OF agricultural pursuits has been sIudious-
ly eyiaced, calculated to epgender all the
evils Of jealousy and dislike.
Let any man peruse the following pas
sage from Nir. Jeferson's Notes on Virgi.
MIA with attention let him compare them
with his practice in public life, and he
will perceive bigo:ed attachment to cpini-
ons, that degrade the meanest capacity,
and course ofactlon whict IN the page of
Impartial history, when the passions and
preiudices Of the day shall have subsidized,
will sink tie character efTHOMAS .1EF-
PERSON, beneath thai at any statesman
zuho has ever attained the e!evat!ng suffrage
ofa free people.
Extract tro@ ,feBe' on's Notes an Vrgi-
mia.
"Those who labor in the earth are the
chosen people OF God, if ever he had
chosen people, whose breasts ne has made
his peculiar deposit for substantial and
genuine virtue"
Page 324 r. T. Rawle's edition.
:" The proportion which the aggregate
Of the other classes of citizens bears in "a
ny state to that of its husbandmeu, is the
proportion of its unsound to its healthy
parts, and is a good enough barometer
whereby to measure its degree OF corrup-
ton, While We have land to labor then,
let US never wish TO see our citizens occu-
pied at work bench, or twirling distaft--
Carpenters, masons, smiths, are wanting IN
husbandry but fol the general operations
Of manufacture, lei our zVork shO4S remain
IN Europe. 1t is better to carry provisions
and materials to workmen there, than bring
them to the provisions and materials, and
with them their m"nners and principles.
The loss by the transportation OF commo-
dities across the Atlantic will be made up
in happiness and permanence OF govern.
ment. The mobs Of great cities add just
SO much to the support of pure government
as sores do to the strength Of the human
body"
Pages aa5 g 52e."R. T. Ra50ls's eai-
ton.
i" Perhaps to remove as much as posi-
! bic the occasions of making war, it might
be better for US to abandon the ocean alto
ge5her, that being the clement wherein we
Shall be principally exposed to jostle with
other nations: to leave to others TO bring
what we shall want, and to carry what We
can spare"
g repeat it again, cultivators of the
earth are the most virtuo,ts and indepeAdent
| citizens. /. might be time enough to seek
employment for them at sea, when the land
nc longer offers it,
Page S444-R. Z. Ra,vls's Edition.
We will not insult the Negroes OF St.
Domingo, by comparing the vengeful, but
exported, threat in the Haytian Coastitu-
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