Alexandria daily advertiser. [volume] (Alexandria [Va.]) 1803-1808, 1805-08-29

I fsiii beneath the WouSas "a sii'st 49, F
sonsd polgaard which you Wheised and
! s!rurped for the best and noblsst OF your
| feKog.ci.izsns, and wisis Whlchyou drove
! them from their appropriate groaad IN tne
| state. Not sentence--no, not one soil
| tary sentence of .iuse condemnation, have
! you yet proaounced. or can you ever pro-
tnaunce, against them, without passing sen.
tence of death upon your own political cha-
, 1actcr; not disclosure can they make Of
| thsir evil designs. Ia which you must NOT
as loudly proclaim your own previous I'M
probity: not dash Of the brush OF shame
can you draw across their escathioa, With
OF, emblazoning the pollution OF your own
political bearings. While on the other
hand, thsy may truly tell you that the
wrongs with which you charge them, were
taught to them by yourselves; and that FOR
acting as they do, they have your most viz
tuous lessons, and most honorable exam.
pie; that they have.oply get possession, oy
means OF your own cunning aud Wayw&gd-
ly contrlved strat.gems, OF the sots and
traps which you had yourselves laid for
others: that you cannot complain of being
treated by them in that very kind, in whlca
you (with their HONEST participation and
aid) treated your better ieIlo'w-citizens
And If you should assert that you are more
wise or more vIrtnous than they, they will
tell you, IN return, thar that is the very
reason why (accordiuS to your own prece-
dent) they ought to overcome you; sinc.
you, by the very same means, oveyesrne
rmen still more wise and virtuous than YOUR
selves. Finally, whether you are van.
quished or victorious, there will arise
from the event. this bitter course to enaw
your bosom-that in your contentions YOU
have borne testimony tc, and by ycur a.
vowsd declarations in your address. es,sb.
ed, beyond refutation, the purity and the
wisdom of the federal government: and
that if you happen TO succeed, YOU will
succeed only by recurrence to, and re.
~eognltlon OF he.principIes Of The federal
lists; and ii you fall, you will fall By those
very practices upon the public mind and
creeialisy, against watch they have, for
years with loud and inccssant voice.
warned the country, and more particularly
warned your party, under the prophetic
denuuclasion Of thar very penalty with
which you are now threatened, and which
/ much fear, you will SOON undergo. May
Sod, for the codstry's sake (not your'sl
avert the omen.
liz such circumstances, not to extend Pr
ty so,you, would be objectionable, if it
were not criminal to entertain pity for state
deliaqaents, who to crafty perverted,
,unprin cipled ambition, have by their dar-
ing and prof'gste experiments, bro't their
state to the verge OF ruin. You are out of
the pale of pity! You have robbed llber.
.ty of her beat topics OF defence, by urging
her into incurable Righteousness first and
~befraying her ln,o hazard of the most foul
poitution. You have pat the good aen of
your fellow citizens to the cruel alternative
of giving uP'tae government of their coun-
try into the hands OF vice, madness, and
blank ignorance, or Of supporting the az.
I-thors OF those very pernicloHs measures,
whie.a brought il TO that doubtful hazard
Gus and dangerous cast OF the die 10 SUBJ
'yait he dearest tights Of their state, either
TO misguided populsee land their missuid-
ers, on the one hand, or, on the other,
to those who instigated those persons to
4misguide that popnlace, and betrayed shem
! into ruin. Yes! For no ether purpose
fshan the qualification of a mere selfish pas
I.sou, compounded of low minded ambi-
/ ton, and worse, esordid avarice, you I'M
>pregna,ed them with that very Democrat
cal spirt-Which you, in your very able adj
dress have SO forciblv deprecated; drpfe.
Gated, not because il Is vicious BIZ; because
it veses you: You insdga,ed ICE people
to change; YOU urged them TO endless In
uovation; ynu ineamed them into tutbu.
3ence, WITHOUT ary.cause, ana lrritascd theal
beyond demand Of asy provoca'ion you
have contributed to suspend the public hap