Alexandria daily advertiser. [volume] (Alexandria [Va.]) 1803-1808, 1805-09-14

20 ME to conult their psty little their judgment
and experience, whsn they admit the great and ehentia
advantages accruing ocety from the freedom of the
pses yet indulge thefeves peeviih and pahionatc
E.rxelamations agaiuRth abules of it.
JuN1us.
"A certain ingenious, bat whimsical moral
philosopher, has N an essay replete with
wit and pleasantly started, "a notion that it
would seem from the mortifying condition
@of nan hare below, which the writer ex-
sm3llhes By variety of ludicrous instanc-
ses, thatws are placed IA this world in a
state of punishment, for offences commit
ted In SOME other state Of existence, now
hidden from Us by a perfect oblivion .------
From your present opinions as compared
with your former conduct, one would
think, thar yea my good gentlemen had
undergone change OF that kind an conse-
qaence of which you now fcrger all you
have said or did four or FIVE years ago. A
kind OF Pythagotian statesman, you exhibit
SOFT af political metempsychosis, In which
your spirits transmigrating first from bri.
fish m9narchists into American repnbii-
cans, then from republicans into democrats
.-shence to jaccobins, and from jaccoblns
toto kind of mixt political being, a non.
-descript compound of the three, yet being
not perfectly like any one OF them, you
seem to have forgotten all your former
selves, all thaty did, all that you said,
and all the precious doctrines which you
,~once preached with zeal truly fanatical
--yon then poured forth the most furious
invectives aud anathemas upon the federal
constitution, for giving the office of Presi-
dent qualified negative even when that
power was so wisely, and for this country
SO fortunately exercised, by Washington.
Now what less than total Oblivion of all the
dogmas you uttered on that occasion could
permit you to declare as you do in your
address, that The qualified negative pose
sesssd by the executive is salutary
spcwer?' Is this, oris It not a Fat contra
diction!
How could you have the face to express
.apprehensions that the Schneidhers will
asubyert the federal constitution, If you
were not so blinded in oblivion as to for
get your own unabating, rancorous cunning
and furious public hostility, TO that consti-
tuition from its FIRST concepton down to
that day when it chiued in with your parry
TO become kind Of mongreI federalists !!
Have not you advocated every change, e.
very Innovation, every encroachment up
on it Nay, have you not ever till lately,
used the words federal, feGerakst and feds
ralisn, as constant terms OF reproach, and
&c the war-hoop of your party.
Though YOU may have forgotten the
public cannot but remember how cianor-
ously you and your party inveighcd, and
with what well simulated indignation you
detained In public against the reelection
of president Washington, protesting with
all the earnestness, aad all the fury OF de-
magogues, that no Individual however de-
serving, ought to be reelected to high of
fee.
The public too cannot but remember what
Mr.. Jefferson in his letter from France to
Mr.. Madison, said aboat the impolicy OF
the duration, and the necessity OF rotation
In Office. They must remember too the
miserable nonsense, aud hypocritical alth,
thrown out by you all about, power By be-
ing long used, being abused All this and
Eauch more OF the same kind of trash, was
the language Of you and your party. What
less than a total oblivion Of all this then
can afford you the shadow of pretext for
having SO alphabetically contradicted in
word and deed, as you have donc-for
have you not used your influence for the
reelection of Mr.. Jefferson? Have you
not rejoicsd aud triumphed in it: And
now do you not set your face against Mr.
M'Kean being put cut of Office, and use
every exertion TO get him reelected /? tho
he, the said M'Kean has been six years in
Office; that is to say two more years than
Washington had been, when you bitterly
invelghed against, and so outragsousiy OBJ