Alexandria daily advertiser. [volume] (Alexandria [Va.]) 1803-1808, 1805-06-12

hlSn over, and dtetort every circumstance
TO suit their purpose for how knoweth ig-
norance whether they speak truth or false
hood. five look TO the ancient republics,
we find them eternaiiy huctuasing, often
raging like the sea under storm upon an
ocean of doubts, cabals and intrigues Of
demagogues. And if those modern essen
ces which have borne the name, some with
more, some with less pretcnsions to it, of
republic, have suffered less from the class
of e.isturbers, Is will be found, on close
inspection, tina. they werelin general aris-
tocratic republics, in which the wise go
yerned, and the people were simply pas
siye, and in some cases free. The mass,
however, wanted information, and when
the tempter came, when their eyes opened
10 the wild uproar of democracy, as it
Aoated onscvery breeze that blew from ia.
Goblin France; and when they heard the
stempters, the deceivers, the demagogues,
whispering fond tale in their ears, incapa.
BILE of weighing the value of what they
heard, of determining what was feasible.
what impracticable, of looking into the
womb OF time for the consequences, or
distinguishing that which was only transci-
entity fair and promising from thar which
was eventually good or pernicious-they
fell--and are at this moment under the do
minion OF ferocious, iron.handed des-9
potism. They would, in defiance of all
remonstrances, listen 60. their oily orators,
their fair spoken demagogues. their ha-.
ranguers-,hey believed them sincere, and
they found them base betrayers. The waas
Of knowledge was their ruin.
five survey the world from the first i'm. !.
portant traces of its history, to this period,
we shall find no State more deserving the
name of republic than the state of Com
necticut, which contains within it the means
Of perfect and permanent republic.
With all that ardent love of liberty which
animates physical force to deeds of patriot
ic pith, they have the discretion, because
the information, to direct it, and prescribe
its bounds. With all that zeal and enthu-
siasm in the cause Of freedom, which fur.
nishes demagogues with the readiest means
Of ruling them, they have the Information,
the reading, the general knowfedge, which
enable every individual to anticipate the
plans and wiles of those specious subtle e.
Monies Of human peace, and to provide
against, to resist, to deride them. In a
word, the diffusion of sterling knowledge
which reaches every individual the lthick.
ness oftheir population, which enables them
communicate and unite their knowledge,
nd brirs i into Suiiori ssetiss IN one bo-
dy, and with one consent: their frugalityf
their industry, and their reverence for re-
ligion, all conformity producing temperance
and consequent GOODNESS of reflection, and
steady habits of thought and action, mark
that state as the permanent sanctuary OF
by grasping at the shadow. There liberty,
planted in firm, rich soil, well tended, dali
true freedom and MISREPRESENTATION.
al freedom which loses not the substance
| ly aud hourly inspected, dressed, trained,
and fudiciously trimmed the root nourish-
ed by the rich manure of genuine, unafect-
ed patriotism the wild redundancies, aud
useless shoots which idly seek the Clouds.
but never fail to bend down into the earth,
Chose superAuities, the sustenance of
which exhausts the trunk, dwindles the
fruit, cankers the whole tree, and brings it
TO the FIRE; and on which the monarchic
desnots bud their MachiaDeh and the demo.
cratic graft tseir Ubas} will flourish, when
IN other places It will be spoken OF as a gem
long lost, and their highest boast will be,
H6ertas fur.
1t is in that state we now see patriotism
and reason insrenching real republicanism,
first against the soft cajolery, and now a.
! gainst the bold and audacious attacks eve.
ny day made upon it by party, in which
the eye of ordinary penetration can easily
discern united the two fold evils of monar-
chic and democratic despotism; thatworst
of monarchic (so be sure, not yet heredita-