Alexandria daily advertiser. [volume] (Alexandria [Va.]) 1803-1808, 1805-03-30

| though they should not be very great mag,
niiers, they viii be able to see enough to
make good what advance. Now, La
| dies and Geisilhommes, (said the slight Of
hand man NOW, be Car. you shall sec vat
[ you shah see" Amidst the general im-
'!provementwhich mss taken place under the
auspices of our wise, yirtuous, and mag
unanimous chief magistrate, it must be
pleasing to your readers to contemplate
that which'seenrs to have taken place In that.
great man himself.
Considering ahas large share consist
.euey OF principle, and 'drmness OF resolve,
haseaerer had IN the composition of that
great and goed nan. The ,cilIzens OF tne unl-
on had JUST rraSon.to tre.nble with appre-
hension, that he would not suffer them a.
gainto 6 buckle Srthne ojfhis back but
that true to his own opiaons lerst laid
DOWN he would not hays suffered The chief
power TO devolve twice to the same hands.
10 their great satisfaction, however, no
doubt greatly 10 their advantage, and pros
badly to the comfsrt Of his OWL yearning
bowels, he has condescended to be '.en-
tsrced to q zuoyd afecares land for amor
! Their poor four years, to sway the demo
cratic scepsre of America, and give toit,
once more, its enlightened government.
Iaminct made of Rome;
6 But penetrabic TO yosr Kind ertrearics.
% Albeit againit my confidence and my foul"
Now it is clear that in doing this, he has
given q great proof OF his Improvement.
| For whether he has changed his opinion,
or, out of cour.sey, laid 1t at the feet ofhis
peoples wishes, it certainly is material
improvement 70 him and his affairs.
Having assured Congress of his zeal,
which NO one is weak enough to doubt, he
reminds them of the principles which he
avowed in his former Inauguration speech,
and tells them taat his conscience tells MIN,
he had, on every occasion, acted up to that
declaration. this is part of his speech
which deserves particular attention, and
perfect credit. Attention, because if he
had net told them so, they could, by no
| means, have suspected it. And credit,
because it comes from such high and un-
doubted authority, as the entire nous whis.
per Of has conscience, to himself.
! Indeed, il require. all that authority
| (greater surely cannot be- to encounter the
! seemings which go little against the asser-
ton. But what are seemings? Certain
! philos ophers tell US that nothing exists,
and that when man cuts piece OF meat,
puts it in his moath, chews and swallows
| it, he does not 10 fact do SO, but only thinks
| that he does it: 1t is not a meat, but an
idea of meat it is not mouth, but an
idea of mouth. It may be that what has
been so long taken for the Presidents first
inaugural speech, and swallowed as such
| by us all. was only an idea of speech /;
that the words " 1ue are all FedsraHsts, all
RebubFcans, were not IN reality words, bat
only ideas ofwords, and that the thing al
luded to in that speech under the name of
a constitution, was only an idea of con-
stitution. Certainly taking it for granted
that all these were not merely ideas, |
should have thou ght his practices for four
years as President We y much at vari ancs
with his professions in that speech, five
| had not the word Of his conscience guaran-
ted BY the weird of himself for the reverse.
You often, Mr.. Editor, preach Christian
ty, and ought therefore, in prepriety to
adhere closely TO It's doctrines. Faith is
entirely independent Treason and why
should you not transfer 10 our President,
speech the doctrine of St. Augustine about
faith--aa Credsre guia non est creai6ile."
| and believe it only because it is contrary to
| fact.
In this frait world We often mistake chr
desires for facts, and shink that a thing is
| this or that, because we wish it TO be so.
-Hasty conclusions are at all times wrong
those grounded upon the promises and