Alexandria daily gazette, commercial & political. [volume] (Alexandria [Va.]) 1808-1812, 1810-08-15
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From The Providence 'Gczeite.
is HE THAT uTTERETH "A ISLANDER, srs A
rooL." Solomon.

I
I. WILL you put letters on the press?
My dear daughter, pray throw a.
side that newspaper--and-and-what was
going to say? Seeing that paper in her
hand, has so confused me-! i!
Husband, do tell the Printers boy TO leave
that paper at the compiling house for the fu-
7ture. To have such stuff thrown into the
house for my children to read-is is TOO
bad! s!
Here are the fetters-the laws of deem
CIV and their female exeeutiye--no tyrans
can repeal them, and no clown can violate
them with impunity,: Such news paper may
be bound, lettered, and placed in novel Ii
s6raries but, they cannot be kept ctean.
2 The tongue IS a most noble organ.
-e. The tongue can no man tame it
is an unruly evil, full of-.deadly poison. -
" The tongue is a FIRE, world OF iniquity j;
it setteih on fire the course of nature, and
it is set on fire of hell" Livery brother
will utterly supplant, and every neighbor
willwalk with SANDER, aud they will deceive
every one his ncighbor, and vii! not speak
the truth; they have taught their tongues
to speak lies" Such is the modern as we'll
as ancient use of that most noble organ.
3. ne must stismatize the opposite party,
IN all its sections and leaders.
For such work, let printer secure his
pay during the paroxysm of the party fever
and let that pay be measured by the value he
sets on his reputation, If any thing, as a
gentleman and on his" printing ofnce, if
indeed he owns it, and it be worth any
thing, and never trust to the gratitude of a
party for you may apply to a party whae
lord Coke saws of corporation--that'ic
has no soul.
The fountain of human TbcEevolenee,
where insufficient to afford a current cock
trnsixe with the hannah race, may circulate
through little fraternities or voluntary asso-
Citations The professional gentleman, the
trade Of mystery which depends on cesto-
mers, equally with. the candidates for popn-
lar favor, insults not these bodies with i'm.
puni,y ,hesinjured will remember and re.
venge, when the party obliged will forget,
orwill neglect and slight.
4. 1es--zvhile I hve, no rich ,or~ naoie
kna0e
Shall walk in silent honor to the grave,
Official conduct, public measures audpub-
lie mschefs, may be brought to the bar Of
public reason. Let the culprits defend or
let their silence raise presumption against
them But when an attack is publicly made
on private reputation, and the nature Of the
charges renders a public defence against
them inconsistent with public aecorum, it is
like attacking with weapons an unarmed
man. tits treatment only for a villain, to
help one rascal to give to another.
S. ISLANDER none but the zvicked.
To attack a forlorn, would be pusiiani-
unity in the extreme; but where is that in
sulatsd. person? The tender charities of
blood sweeten the condition OF the vulgar
no less than of the noble. All conditions
have pride of character. Doth not the poi
soned arrow which pierces the heart ola
son, cause the mother's TO bleed Will
the tender wife feel no throbs Of anguish
for the wounds of her husband? Hath the
sister, have the daughters no tears Tor a
brothers., fathers woes? Shall your ma
liclous SANDER against one, distress SO ma
M innocent victims Pause and consider,
till the gust, the whirlwind and the tempest
of your passion subsidies he that >casteth
forth frebrands, arrows and death, to q.
light on the heads of both innocent & gull.
", is called mailman. IF you will not
listen TO Solomon, II must descend 60 ami
mails of your own grade for illustration, go
to the hogsty, where none suffer by the
knife without general wailine, and there
learn, that kindred blood is sympathetic:
and when next you sharpen yohr pen, when