Alexandria daily gazette, commercial & political. [volume] (Alexandria [Va.]) 1808-1812, 1810-02-01

p2trlotisM oil those, "hos JeF eV"s.es'sr $50
have become the advocates OF the. most
worthless military despotisnh in the worid'
because forsosM they cannot endure 9 60
verumen, With hing at the Aes1 q H.-
The freedom Of speech and ut ths press,
the projections of. properly, OF personal IT,
berty and of honest fame: the trial by ju.
,ry, consisting if we compare tAe pros:eu.
items of Horn. Tooke and Hardy with
those of Fries and 'Calleptser, and Mat
thew Lyon almsst in as great purity rs
among ourselves all this and much more
10 lost on our exclusive pa,riots--because
:" Mordecsi the5ew muy SIC at the kings
gate !" To a president possessing regal
powers, and a pri.eely revenue, and living
in q palace tina. would put poor old ST.
.James',, or e, en- Buckingham House to the
blush through who's. triumphal gates of
marble Jeus and in6dels daily pass sxal.-
ing, these worthy gentlemen Can sec ne oh.
lection they arc even ready to empower
him to legislate by proclamation; but the
chief magistrate precisely to their taste is an
emperor end-aking; whose DEGREES from
his imperial camp, like the dread behes,s of
huila and Zingis, affect not his own sub.
jects merely, but the world and posserity.-
1t woald seem that although a king, per SC,
is the most noxious of all animal. in politi-
cal zoology, YET combine him with an eta-
peror, and you neutralize all his III quail
ties. This reminds me so forcibly OF an
anrcdote which came under my own know,
ledge, and which is not impairment te the
present subject, that I canoo. resist the
temptation of relating it. For little while
then, We will! Law aside the dignity which be-
longs TO our subject and Partisu!arIyto him
to whom it is addressed. A frderalist, in
the presence Of the writer of this essay, was
not long ago rrbr0&ched by a democrat,
",sith the attachment Of all tie aid ssries tc
hs party" The federalist to nv great sur
prize,, for I have no very high opinion of
the cardor of these geutIemen) frankly al.
mitted that the greater number of old tories
did support federal men and measures, but
that he must be allowed to claim the benefit
of some exceptions. Among others Of this
political genus, he instanced Mr.. {. ac-
cr,ed of having conducted the British into
Philadelphia, but (be that as it migh.l fully
con, icted Of old toryism, who had figured
IN the ranks of rcpublicanis:u and obtained
prefcrment under the grea, apostle CT that
faith. MIR. ]. Now, sir, said lac, with great
norckslanee, lis proof tha, the ob=c-
lion of your party is not to cid torvism, pure
and un~ophis,icated,ba bat t"oll ,orvism CON-
biurd ,viM fedtralisn,r which. (in your OPT
MON / supPo.e( gives activity to is virus.
,Decompose the mixture and seperaa the
federalism from the OIL! toryisn,, and Gas in
the case of Mr.. c. (this last become. in your
Judgment, deprived at once OF all its ecri.
mony." There was something suppose
in this retorr, not calculated to provoke
reply: certain it is, however, it received
none. -.
Wa.ha ,ton, have said, was a soldier
and a statesman--bred in camps and So
mates in the great school OF msskind. To
the misfortune of his country, he was sue
corded by two gentlemen OF the bar, pro-
i,s.ion of which i, has been Justly remark.
ed, that it has = greater tendency to whe,
,h- ingenuity, than to liberalizs the under.
standing or TO erlarse the heart. One OF
them at u very late period Of mis- life hsv.
inx served an apprenticeship to the trade
Of coulter a. St. James, returned (whst.-
YER helnay na,V pretend, whI,s striving to
recommend his son 10 office rank Eng.
lishman. Weak minds rspive their OPT.
mons n, second hand, great ones impose
them. His successor, having made his dc.
Att ON the theatre of The great world at the
cour, Of Versailles, came ZONE, in Cue sea.
son, in dress, taste, politics, philosophy and
re.a ion 10 short,in every .h'ns but ,he
polish Of his ganners, hpishvt French.
man. Accordingly we-and tina. Porcupine
eourished under the reign of the one, and
Duane under that of the other. Mr. Adams
would no doubt readily shift of Percurinr
or his snswer to the address of tn. Bath
county militia, or any other'of his infamous
rets,urrs, or ridiculous and wicked acts on
the political estate of your deceased friend,
e,es,.rsf Hamilton. DO not forget. p,av