Alexandria daily gazette, commercial & political. [volume] (Alexandria [Va.]) 1808-1812, 1810-07-31
From tie Connecticut Mirror.

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she Wing, calculated TO shew ia what man
ner the legislature, aud executive OF the Y.
States are treated by foreigners, who are
employed in editing newspapers IN this
country. In doing this, We by no means
intend to have il understood, that We are
anxious to defend the characters thus attack
cd. They are the guardians of their own
henor and if they have the meanness to
submit patiently to such insolence, IN the o.
pinion of all vir,uous and respectable per-
sons, they zoiN deserve it. But We should
think that the democratic majority OF con-
gress, would bite their fingers for vexatlon,
when they see such marks of impudenee, in
"A Be. of low vagrant scape goats ut not
something worse) from the justice OF their
: own country, and reflect, that they are m
. debsed for the benefit to ffe gracious aispo-
sition Of their great patron, Thomas JET
fe,soa. He found it convenient to render
this country an assytum for oppressed h1-
nsaaity," which, in plain English, means'
"a receptacle for culprits, who by the laws
>,of Great Britain, ought TO De IN Botany
& Bay. but who have had the good luck to es.
cape to our shores. Not only so, bas when
g he had them safe landed, he found 1t still
more Convenient for his own purposes, to
use them as his tools that is, to edit nezps-
papers in his srrv;ce. No wonder that such
fellows grow to be colonies and when CO.
1onels, that they become imPudent, and
5 treat their patrons with insolence.
AS another specimen of foreign nGnaers,
we, this week give a passage from the Au-
rora of Jalv Attn, the anniversary Of hide
pendtnce - Brigadier general Duane
resolved not to be out-done in this game BY
!. ANY of his rivals, and as if jealous of his re-
sSpItation, comes OUT III ss~o>'"e~ 80 hold "a
s.,ha, of his nsighbor Irvine, and attacks the
majority in congress over the head and
shoulders. with as little ceremony as 1t they
we're parcel of bog trotters, consendlhg
.over dish Of potatoes and whiskey. We
hope the New England democrats, who
fbave the honor ofa sea, IN congress, esPe-
.cially the most distinguished amongst them,
>v;z. such as Messrs. Yarnum, Seaver. Ba.
con. Cuts and Cook, will get hold of this
compliment 10 their understandings and
virtue, and demean themselves hereafter
little more strictly according to the Irish
standard of political integrity and patriot
ism. -.
rs Those who voted for repeal of the
: embargo, we repeat 1t, are accountable tor
: all our troubles, and are totally unworthy
of publc confidence in anv season OF great
exipencv. We shall indeed De told that
.ome of them erred honestly but it mat
tiers not what may be their moral qualities
or their integritys 8 curse upon them they
have undone the country"-their virtues
sfhey should display at home, where their
mal;gn imbecility cannot unhinge a nation
A1m-n uniting virtue fit for times of danger,
ithinselligence & constancy ofmihd, should
heaent TO replace them. If this be NOT done,
the government must meet shock, re-
curing stronger nerves and more tortitude
70 redeem it from destruction.
q The tenth, Congress have done more to
shake the foundations of the American re-
public. than it would be possible for the
3 armed hosts of Europe to accomplish by
force. They abandoned the sacred palla.
dunn Of the constitution and laws at the ar
tiGcial scream of a corrupt faction domineer-
ing over the legislature of Massachusetts, !;
By forsaking the best measure of policy that
human wisdom and a free: pacific people
could devise, they have shaken the coma.
dence of the people m the principles of re-
preventative government.
Il :. By abanaOning the eescutioe in a crisis
when the operation of its wise policy was
onthe verge of cohsunmating al its saga
eious purposes; it viii be in vain to EXPECT,
that any esecutive endowed with wisdom
equal even TO that which we have lost, can
ever again risk itself with a legislative body
composed of such Trail, incompetent, and
nerveless men.