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

RIGA. If the objects thus attained are to be
perpctuated, it canfonly be by preserving, Or,
if impaired, by regaining all the resources OF
thatfcharacter; or else your Independence
itself, no longer nourished by the virtues which
gave at birth, but wasting with'th poison of
vice, even if not glcd or led captive by:
foreign aggression, will have soon run its race,
and become as
.--ss n morning dream,
!" 1aat.17its es1at 1f.On. the sllreadiag eye
If the maxim be true, that incidental events.
cannot make "a nation hktls, while the hriuci-
! hies remain that made it greg, We must be
strangely injurious, and unmndfal Of the
appropriate rneditations Of this day, If We.
Can suffer it entirely TO pass off, without some
casual notice, Of what were the sentiments and
manners Of our fundamental poiity, aud how
far they have lost or retained tEeir infiuesice.
We must be peryersely impatient If we cab
not even attend for an instant to q remen-
brance of those principles of religious are, ST
purity Of donor, and union Of public s1iifit, by
which the authors Of orr political establisi.-
ment proved themselves through long and
| artluons conflict, and to which they adhered
as the fountain Of all hope and their 8. salient
living spring of generous nd1nanly action. .
Wei knowing that piety towards heaven
Is the surGst bond of union and duty among
men. aI2 that under every popular form.
phere power is lodged with the many, as
the best security against their own Sxccsses,.
hoy ought II an eminent degree to be i'm
. pressed VITA al the Restraints of future
accountability, the actors of our revolution
were sstudious to cherish sense OF that he-
~ wo ship, founded in tie revealed will of
tie Gsd of their forefathers, and transmitted
through the:Misdoln and experience Of ages,
to strengthen and ennoble N, n nature, TO
guide and enlighten his ignorance, to FIT him
with fortitudc for the trials of lfe and to con-
sole and support him with steadfastEcss a.
midst all tie calanites thetreaclery and dis
appointments of this earthly probation.
------------ g SET and sqceef
.Asl6.s fcha,1ty o.. voiee Of lambs
g That b1cat 11lon the zpoaa'Gin, are The cords
{" Of Christian meekness, mission all aivi.e,
SC 2Ac AaSv q tore sole nia7saaie.'', 49,
Holding fast their allegiance to that law,
neither iukewarm ncr seduced amidst all the
yicissitadcs of their revolutionary fortune, our
eountrymen sought toifwoke the giyer of ey-
cry good and perfect gift and they lsbored as
1t were to consecrate the foundations of the
commonwealth by thestributes,of saeretness
and the Offices of public adoratfen and nye-
reEtiai homage. AT that time ,aifere WAS no
6 bad elninence'eof apIpphane and spurious
philosophy, which would affect to Judge the
ways and limit the operations Of Providence
by its can flinsy and corrupted rules which
would relieve the multitude from superstition
by.consigsning them a bewildered prey to their
own passions and all the imposturcs and fa-
,natisism ofsceptical humour, and which would
introduoe the millennium of aperfent equality
BY reducing. us to worse than the chaos Of feu-
dial ,discord and Gothic barbarisTn. 1t was not
q time of prevailing deprsyity, in which re-
Taxed and elstempcred morals resort to I" the
fattcring JUNCTION" Of doubt and disbelief--in
which In6delity with all bis Inu1'ky brood is
perehed ON high. a. I" vice mpatiently drinks
in and applauds his hoarse and beding voice,
while Ikea raven, he sits croaking universal
death, despair and annihilaticn to the human
kind" 1t was rather glorious opportunity,
when the citizen bucklcd on the armour of
righteousness that. he rnight fight the battles of
his country, when the politician was yet zealots
to avow5 his trustin the preeepts of inspired
writ, when the same discipline animated eye-
ry rank, and prepared them for every heroic
sacrifice, by instilling the devotionof honor,
and all the disinterestedness Of PubHs .Sfi-
+ Kit.
Under the temperament Of those ascendant
and PropAious principles. every defect was
supplied, all dangers were, hazarded andsdif-
hculties pysrcsme, and though the band Of