Alexandria daily advertiser. [volume] (Alexandria [Va.]) 1803-1808, 1808-07-07
THURSDAY, july =, 1903.
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TINE Subscriber, anxious to establish :.
a Paper whose contents and principles
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TO feelings warm in the defence OF llDert.
and the trEe interests Of the country.
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rancor on the one hand, or OF overWeenme
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terest Of the community, or wandering from
the established standard Of truth.
In the natural course OF affairs, It VIII
sometimes be necessary, from want OF po-
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should be supplied with moral disqulsltlohs,
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Improvement in Canals, public Roads, and
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have had the tendency to retafd the gro" ~
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