Virginia Argus. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1796-1816, 1810-05-15

tne rederal'sts triumphed in rkesr
assembly Ticket in the City of New.
York by the spcstacy Of James Cneet-
ham. fhis is the age OF Revolutions
and the age Of Apostacy.
The present wars of Continental Eu-
jrope began by killing one Austrian
Princess and it seems as if they would
end IN the wedding of another. Tie
man who should have predicted such
a thing fifteen years ago would have
been accounted mailman. What 4.
il to which we give the name of human
sagacity &. And where is the indivi-
daal Who nreality can sec into futuritv
much farther than his nose! When
the Preach Killed their king, all France
lraved for repyhio. And now tha,
bonaparte has destroyed every thing
| like Kepublic, all France piories in
his imperialism. Ought not these facts
20 teach as to hold fast what we have
Igot to beware of those who are for
|paHinS dorvR our institutions and to
turn deaf ear to the hue and cry of
revolutionary apostates in our own
country, whose clinquant oratory is
mere jaoobin rant
It's a melancholy reflection tina. all
the republics If antiquity have been
devoured by monarchies. Has this
result proceeded from the intrinsic
lmhecility OF republican government,
or from their parsimony, or from
popular ingratitude |? II is fact thar
there Is not salary attached to any
ohce In the government of the United
States, which could seduce man of
exalted talents from the walks of pri.
vase life. Men of that class. then.
eannotbe procured for money to serve
the public. And how few are there
who will accept an Office from motiySasi
OF patriotism, when that PATRIOTS m ID,
certain to subject chem to denunciar1-'
on and calumny. Jefferson, the glory !;
o. ms age and nation, after all his dis.
interested services to his country. is
haunted in retirement by such whip.
stcrs as MIR. Randolph and there are
A nericans who couatenance the latter
IN his unsracious philippines May we
not trace the fall of ancient republics
to source which threatens ours to
wit; the countenance which the peo. I
pie too often give to Denlagogues
Oar merehants will now be pushiar
out to sea. Whether they will ever
safely get back again, is another affair.
AT any rae let them never complain
against government. IHey liquid
Aabe it 50.
The Spirit Of Seventy-Six(a news.
paper published 6etroeen Vas,inrron
and Georgetown, in the District of
Coiumbia,) nas asserted, in relation to
the Baltimore Wing, what's not true.
lhe Wing was originally opposed to
Mr. Ma!isoa's elevation to the Pre-.
sidency; and, in fact, for a'time, was
one OF the warmest advocates O a pre-.
ference for Governor Clinton. Final
iy, however, the W.aig acquesced in
the will OF the majority. This fact is
not advanced to derog ate. in the least,
from the Wing; but to shsw h9rv verv
BEwILDERED the Spirit is in its gya-
vest declarati0ns to the public. Tho
language OF the Wing is no proof that
Mr.. Madison has lost a single frieni
1T is rather an evidences that those who
were not from the first his supporters,
nave seized very early opportunity
to revive their animosity through the
medium of the press.
It is thought by some political lin
gusts, that there is mistake in Mr..
.Randolpn's signature Mittius for, say
they, if he intenIsd that tue name
should designate the man, as was the
custom of the Romans, it ought to be
NatabiGs, which signiGeth ckmgca-
tile. o her linguists, differing from
these first, and judging the style of
12atius, think that the word ought to
be llatir, from the French) to mute I.
as the birds do or certain occasions.
However, we leave these cdifyiug spc.
culatiUns to those who are better vers-
cd IN the lAnglage Of political aposta-
cy than we are.