Alexandria daily advertiser. [volume] (Alexandria [Va.]) 1803-1808, 1807-07-08

every part, and they seemed to move bv H..
impulse Of a single mind. It was thus Tia,
both leaders and followers sco-operated beast
and hand together II was thus that they Set.
tied and effcctuated their plan, and comrnana-
ed the respect of the world and it NAV not b.
omitted, that ii was thus by eyineing their own
determined energy at arf eventful rnornent.
I they engaged the alliance Of the v;rtuous AMI
Inflated Louis.--Nor CAM here forbear to re-
mark that, had the resolution of our ancestors
been reserved for later and still scyerer trials.
1 were they even now exposed to the last Of tic
rebellious and miscreant successors OF taae
hapless prince, it is not to be believed they
| would have stood trembling and Tributary At
the nod of the
g Bloody, remoYseless, treaeAevoas, kilsdiesa II.
lain,'' -
who. while he sits sreeking Oh the violated
throne Of the Bourhons, aims by his plots and
his Inyrnlidons to ransack and snhjngate the
universe.
A nation which has thus once signally pre-
flied, and indeed been brought into lie, by&l,,
early avail Of ccrrecs and high -lGiaeled prinsi.
pies, ought ofaH others 70 be most watcbhii
OF It's own integrity, and ever selicitous to az
rest tile progress of decay. ftsoH seriously 4
to understand, what has. been so bitten ilIiss,l
trated, that there may be an age:when, the ges
Mus of liberty has as fatal an enemy to esleoua-
ter in the corruptionof manners and .senii-
ments, as it formerly encountered .thetv-
rants of the tine. 1t ought to- be anxiousy .ap-
priced of all these pemls, which Chiefly bespt
It's vital spirit of religion, of honor, and Of
union and eyena !. youthful censor oueM
not to be disdailsed willie kcgpoinfs. to soluo
of the most predominant symptoms Of a.
larm. - j,
The effects of a proaigal and premature
growth, the gigantic strides of luxury and
9opulence with all their rctincplents and dc.
sifes, land the introduction ef all those fashion
able modes and arts which, by conccalng tie
grossness of vice, serve TO recommend hefao
a reader access, when yelled In. the llabiii-
nlents Of delicacy--all these have been re-
peatedly traced, laIncnted aad rcproVed..- :.
Iheir tendency no doubt is to. weaken every
sacred and noble tic, BY inducing a sor,jiirl, az
arrogant and. vouptaous cEeminacy, with
has been commonly noted as a characteristic
feature OF commercial ranancss. But il isne
less certein, however opposite; the extremes
may appear, that the same people may be 1t
encey proiuseiy efeaisssse @llsn Dasely ilibeyel;
and, ina region too, vast and extended as this
is, inhabited by such motley descriptions,
where the scheme of government itself may
perhaps partake in sort of instructive thrif-
illness with the great mass OF interior popa-
latlon. whose supreme good lies in increasing
1>cr Ky fsop Iauf
the canker of jAenuriosssneas on the one hand
should blend its evil with tic food Of ea-ssuy,a-
sancy Oh the other to ccYote and undermine
all the. strong holds Of NATIONAL security and
happiness. There is a possible, mixture in
the disposition OF states, as we'll as ct iDdWi-
duais, Winch combines the worst properties
OF the NEST Welding, lille and dissc.ute waste
with those OF a selEs:sss mean and deceitfn So
wing; and, as if soodseouid eyer result asa
medium from such combination ofthe vilest
ingredients, it not unfrequent!y happens, that
"a delusIye riosti'un, composed OF the dregs OF
all sorts errors, not less despicabic but n,uch
less innocent than the ordinary quackeyles OF
life, VIII seek with the brazen front OF every
pretendsrto pass itself of as the sphccihc
OF true political economy. Unless We ere
the favored people, unlike the rest OF tho
earth, who at different periods have all had
their :" false teachers. OF different kinds and /
degrees, it is not imposslbls we may be one
day destined TO witness Che. agency Of sucha
counterfeit; and in that case, i we, would
know how to detect It's mockerles, to dis F.
tinguish the trte economy .fromthe false, 1t
may be useful now to lear in mind, that the 3
frae ocouomy does not consist IN petty and
tesnporizing expedients, but in the copnpre-
hensive arrangements ola weil-appointed and
well-ordered revenue; that it does not consist
in the mere escape ofexpence BY demolishlns
or stintings the bulwarks of national protection
and glory, but in their proyidcnt care ana
timely employment; that it valmteth net II b
anI If, m eyar,orate In the vi