Virginia Argus. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1796-1816, 1807-06-13

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All the rest of the union pronounccs.
Connecticut to be exactly the opposite of
all TINS character, but who can hes; Judge
on this subject, the citizens OF other states
or our noble selves
Little Delaware is about to leave federal
ism, so that all the patriotism, inte iligence
and ropu5licanism of this great continent
IS to be concentred in this narrow compass,
equal in dimensions TO the county Ct rrum-
bull, IN the state of Ohio ! What pity
that 1t could not be spread, SO that every
part of the union might have the benefit OF
it
lobe patriotic and enlightened would be
hardly blessing, if we were not also bes-
SEQ with an empowering sense of our SUI
periority, and even this would be but Il
partial blessing, if We could not in every
newspaper publish to the world how much
we are beyond the rest of them.
When federalism abounded in the union,
we were not SO highly estimated as we de-
served, but now the fedora lists Of other
states, even the ESSer jUnfo, lock up to
us us the last hope of expiring forWsm,
just as We look up to Russia, AS the last
hope of tumbling monarchy, or as we look,
in these latter days to the Pope OF Rome,
IS the only uphclder OF holy hierarchies
and OF the union Of Church md State,
which Mr. Webster justly honoTs with the
name of ToRYIsM
Like the mighty crash of meeting thun-
ders have the late elections stunned our
ears. Where are governors Lewis and
Strong Gone or Just gong, by appoints
ment of large majorities, to tel! governor
Gilman that federalism is found out, that
new names cannot deceive, that neither
Of > fggyfr fsaga &,
can ticket brokers can succeed, thai the
heGd quarters cfSound hrinciNieS are now
in possession of the enemy, that OLD sixty
ten stories, and new sixty ton stories are
NJ longer correct, that black Sal viii serve
no longer, that Park is discouraged, ard
that SELFRIDGE is walking to and fro in
the earth, dung monument of the safety,
with which one man may shoot another IN
State-Street
Do we dream Or are We awake Where
is the great federal majority in Congress
Where arc the federal heads of Depart
mentS = Where is the glorious national
debt, once rolling up like mountains On
mountains, seeming to reach the skies
Where are the excise, the charming land
tax, the stamp act, the army, the navy, the
J fat contracts? Where is the political BIZ
| bic of Mr.. Adams?
| Alas! all the glory Of federalism is sunk
| in the abyss of democracy, and the best
| interests OF this country are committed 10
men without talents, morals or religion.
Turn out, federal shop boys, and young
| lawyers III this enlightened STATE, the most
| stupid * ignorant oty Gu Is wiser than the de-
mocratic Solomon W 18th all his secretaries.
| AT the last election King and Pinckney
had Il votes. Mr.. Jefferson only 1862.
Now mark the depravi-y of democracy
its leaders preferred l6Z lubbie votes to IA
| nobility votes.
! FederalistS have been hitherto overdone
with modestv. They have not told, thro'
every minute OF every day in the year,
how patriotic and enlightened they are.
Federal retubHcans &! ! l call on you 10 a.
wake, and not to cease publishing your own
eXcellencieS. 1t is true that none will be-
lieve you let then the fault stand TO the
charge oft their disbelief, not TO that Of vcur
supineness. A century of sasconade may
place federalism Uithin a century Of where
she might have been, if the interests of the
many, instead of the glory of the JegV, had
been the object of her eNersions.
The following s'alemen, evmces the complete
triumph of repubcanisn in the important state
Of Massachusetts. The government in all It's
elective departments is now democratic
JAMES Sullivan elected Goyeyn0r.
lie had 81 954 votes.
And Caleb Strong, 1890
Levi Lincoln eieesea Liept. Gvve,nor.
Be had ~ ,645 out of70 4S6.
In the Senate, Samuel Dana, republican. mas
been elected President. lie had 20 vo,es out Of
50
In the House of Of Repre- senla ives, Peea
Moreton, republican, has been elected Speaker.
He had 240 votes out of 331.
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