Alexandria daily gazette, commercial & political. [volume] (Alexandria [Va.]) 1808-1812, 1810-04-14

avery member d ssssIsss when e takes
his seat. I could Sct for a,moaaens think
OF owing my liberty % an act which might
sndanger the existence of tke governmspe.
Although / have always been 10 the habit
oil finding Fault with what Ibid not like. |
never would Join any party in dscIaiming
against what I did like. In the case Of Jays
,rsa.y I said, thss considering whas we had
TO give, what ws received BY e. Yves %
much as We could expect, salthough IL made
concessions which I did nor like. Had I
been in congress at that time, I should have
voted the appropriations. Iw;ll finish this
lstser which has already been spun out be.
yoDd my intention, with my opinion on the
AdAmsS and Russian mission. see no
national benefit in mission 20 Russia. We
have nothing 10 do with their politics. Our
imports from, thence are Of articles we have
the means OF producing; and If we were
obliged for a few years TO do 50, after that
We could furnish them rs cheap as Russia.
But John Adams, who had during long
life, enjoyed thr benefit of living in high
s,he on the emoluments Of public office, and
calculated that his SON Quincy should inhe-.
rit after him, finding thar. the exclusive re-
publieaps had approached fast tor that ma
ehivsliau;sin, to these detsstable principles
wh;ch4chaEaSserize bis public writings, par
iicularly his defence OF the constitution of
ths u. States, and finding that his service
would be well resolved and rewarded by
the men In power, who were mach in want
OF help to get OUT of the mire-knowing
also thar his son Quincy by his syeophau-
cies had made some :. snail pace" advance
into favor, he concluded that he would aid
,hrm. If they would pay well. A foreign
mission seemed a. It were natural 70 tts ia
miy the favor after the second attempt
to 1orce it on the >Ssnate, was granted, If.
ter that very sarus senate had declared they
saw no Necessity for the embassy. I viii
not say that th=. administration was taken
in by the Ad4nsss, out If aay honest re-
public AN supPoses the Adsmses have chang
ed thsir principles, that republican is taken
10. do lhen, the Adansss, the justice
TO say, they nave adhered to their prinei-
p!ssi I pride myself and congratulate then
on ou- ssverally having adhered ~ the
principles we. posed thirteen years ago.
As far as,I have seen John Adams's late
writings, he has not retractrd one syllsble
OF his poh;ical errors the same doctrite of
" passive obedience and non resistance" to
the powers that be, may be seen running
through the whele OF his old and new wri-
tngs. His fasorise project Of hereditary
executive and hereditary nobility 10 NO
where, that { have seen abandoned. "A.
for Quincsy's famous letter abusing hi.
colleague, can see nothing in it which re.
publicans, even embargo men, are bshol-
den TO him for--Nos syllahle in favor Of
dur.b embargo; bas there Is great deal
in that fashionable cant in which the presi-
dent and his secretaries are considered ~.
'nonomous with the government of the ma.
,iop, as well 40 OF the fuisoanc doctrine Of
pa.siveobediencs aud DON resistance. Be-
fore the .Adasnses could be truly entitled
TO the favor and fall confidence of meR OF
real republican principles, il behoved both
parties 70 stew 70 the wvrld that those de-
testable principles Tending TO monarchy, that
attachment. 10 the form OF the corrupt 60
yernmxn, Of England, the moss stupea.
dous. fabric Of human invention,* were re-
linruishsd and given up by father aad son.
/ must lay by your,lester and postpone
answering your OGher Questions, until lea
sure Will admit Of my drvoting listle more
time 70 the subjects to wh;sh they relate.
i am, very respectfully, -
~ Your ebsdisns servant,