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

crimes and follies 81 a recent late--ln fayoro q
all:those hateful sequences which had con-
tinued to flow, In rapid and multIor1n series,
hike de vouring lava frsm the Jaws OF that com.
no,,nd mass Of gull that porte and con-
lsiye shock of disorders in the political frame
of the old Werld--that volranick eruption,
whose fires are still unsated and nnquenched,
scattering around the vapors and blaze 81
q psstilence and war; Z, and shedding abroad
the cleans Of baleful light visible above
and athwart the confines of our own horizon,
20 Like the nseteors of q troubled Heave'i: ''si
+ When We refer to the uses, the lects and
1.-THE means Of the American resistance, we
perceive at once abundant marks OF its dis.
tinctive character; and there IS also presented.
eopieus theme of self -exan alton, provided
1--WE are not afraid to 6 commune with our own
hearts" in estimating the temper ana aspect
of the times now before US. We shall Ind ~.
those annals the most Impressive and salutary
fpfecepts Of political rectitude,, provided we
dare pause for a moment
fhe deuisus paths syhere svanton ancy1e afs,D
and listen 70 (s'ectures andreproofs of q sober
reality. s.i
TWAS not to the uses Of rapine and of fraud
| that our forefathers converted the boon which
they had. attained by their probity and their
valor. Their province was, not to change, but
to saye--not to confound, but to regulate mot
ts usurp, but to restore. Having passed their
minority, they no longer remained under the
|tutelageo of the parent state !; but they cid not
therefore deny the control Of conscience and
Of reason, or consider themselves absolyeds
from the supremacy ofslthe law, moral and
divine. Having removed whatever of evil ex-
listed, they were still more anxious to retain
1.-THE. good and, with the least possible indulg-,
,ence of alteration, they were careful to pre-
fserse inyiolate all tksir municipal institutions,
the entire body oF their jurisprudence the
Jules and precedents of justice, the duties and
Obligations of public fidelity, and the whole
stock of manners, habits and sentiments, which
had descended from "theoldentime. They
d net seize upon freedom, as
G "a n j77an,6euu NTH zral to Destroy
b, they rather cherished genial and steady
h5Sne, lighted at the affairs Of Faith, impart-
lnE the glow OF Honor and the radiance of.
NIL.
s TN the otyecta winch were ayowed from the
announcement, there was nothing of ruth
= confusion or fantastic novelty. TWAS not
Cg tempest In which g all the fountains Of the
great deep were broken up 10 efface every,
vestige of the ancient regimen; nor was it a
wild Utopian voyage in quest Of untrlcd bliss,
the visions of hypnshAris, ...,a all
Sacd STUFF as dreams are snade Of ~
Having indeed been pressed into the quar-
rel, and compelled, as itssee1ned, to venture
on that g sea of trouble" rather than abandon
forever the safeguard of every free anil liberal
privilege, our men, Of might and of ceanci,
found themselves hurried on by the current
of events, and the view from the helm became
gradually enlarged, until fate committed US
at last to the broad eXpanse of sovereign and
independent power. But though this ensued
from the storm, the original objects of con-
tention were confined to a few great land
marks of immunity, obvious and simple IN
themselves, but so highly venerable and mo
aentoas, that they can never be lost sight of
without admitting the dominion of sespotisnl,
and over whiohit is to be hoped that no I. ex-
travagant and erring fend'' will ever be suf-
fered to pass, however specicus or plausible
his disguise, without incurring.a prompt and
indignant chastisement. 1t is not my pur-
pose at this time to.dwell and comment on
the Inherent franchise OF self-legislation the
icvying of simposts, which twas maintained
heColonists had brought hither along with the
representative principle: But / do intend q
very special and opposite alIusion to those ]
other cardinal principles of security O, person
and property, Wick were then deemed SO
deeply staked in ansimpartial administration
of permanent and independent and eiiggnlted
tribunals Of justice, and in the efficacy Of the
old paramount remedial chartered writ O fla:
heass Corpus. In the document which, J. sog
often appealed to onthis day 1t may be Wflfto
recoilect, that among the enslnaeraflef oi