Alexandria daily gazette, commercial & political. [volume] (Alexandria [Va.]) 1808-1812, 1810-01-15

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have passed an act which imposes a TAX Of
one quarter per eentum on the capital stock
Of banks and insurance companies, for the
establishment and maintenance Of schools
for the education of the poor throughout
the state.
There is nothing so disgraeefal and de.
plorsb,e in the annals of nation, as the
pr.judices and psrtiali.ies Of its ruiers.---
Whenever those persons, who are appoint
ed to preside over the dessinies Of a psople,
suffer themselves to be acted upon by love,
or hatred, Of foreign powers, that moment
their own independence, and the dignity
and happiness Of their country are destroy
eds. For in spite Of themselves, in every
momentous question, in which the foreign
relations of the country ore concerned, not
only their opinions, but their measures,
will lean to the fayorite nation, without
any regard to the manifest injury which it
may do to any other. Asjustice may not
always be on the favored side, prejudics
may so far have blind I'd them, as to see no.
thing but pescc and generosity in the acts
OF one, while every proof of friendship and
magnanin i,y given by another, will be view.
ed as deceit or hostility. While this unfar-
tunate prejudice continues, the measures of
the government arc made to bend to the
parIiAlitiss of the individual, 80 that, instead
of being foundedon the broad basis OF the
general good, they simply emanate from pri-
vate Feelings and local considerations. But
this is not all. Instead of uniting the world
in acts Of friendship towards them, they d.
vide it; and while they are arriying tho
one halt in hostility against them, they be-
come prey to the Vaccinations of the other.
When this ,infatuation has seized on the
rulers OF nation, they are already half
subdued, for whether they be corrupted by
the gold OF England ar the friendship OF
France, they cease to be independent, be-
cause, as all their pleasures are calculated
to crafty the favori,e power, they .egislate
more for that power than for themselves.
Whatever this power may ask will be 81
ven it, because 1t Willie believed that it
would not require what the other ough, not
to give. Shutting their eyes agains. the
evidence of every days experience, with
blind and implici, confidence, they will al.
low the syren voice of insidaous friendship
to point out the measures they should pur-
sue in their general policy the aid which
it becomes them to give to the establish
mens Of certain principles, and a power
thus prejusiced will suffer itself to be led
ia.o WARMTH that nation against whom
they possess such strong antipa,hies.
Having thus prepared the way for the re.
cep,ion of their opinions and policy, the fa-
vorded nation has little to do to subjugase
tito its power, and to extors from it as
right what j. before had obtained from par.
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I'm this way were Italy and Spain subdu-
ed to the power of France. Ia this way
were the powers of Holland and OF Switzer-
land seduced out of their independence, and
made hefs of the Empire of the West."
In this way are nations more effec.ually and
completely suhdued than by the force OF
arms; for while every one will hesitate to
deliver his purse, to tn. robber on the high.
way, who dsnands it with pistol in his
hand, there are few, indeed. WHO can refuse
it to the soft persnasions Of q fasorite
friend. "'.~
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