Alexandria daily gazette, commercial & political. [volume] (Alexandria [Va.]) 1808-1812, 1810-08-27

Music! l confess thy power,
From whatever source il springs;
But the swiitest flies the hour,
When>sweet Philomela sings:
From Knickerbrocker's History at Nrzv.
York.
Showing the great importance of party dis.
tinc1ions.
For some time the worthy politicians Of
New Amsterdam, who had conceived the
sublime project of saving the nation, We're
very much perplexed by dlsssntions, and
strange contrariety of opinions among lhem
selves, so that they were often thrown into
the most chaotic uproar and confusion, and
all Tor the simple want OF classi6cation.-
Nov tits a tact we'll kaown to your expe.
rienced politicians that it is equally n-ces.
safy to hayea distinct classification and no
mcnolaIngc in politics, as in the physica
sciences. BY this means the several orders
Of patriots, with their breedings an9 cross
breedincs, their ataaities and varieties may
be properly distinguished and known. Thus
have arissn, in different quarters of the
world, she generic titles of Gueifs & Glib.
beiios, Round heads s. Cavaliers, Big en-.
d'sas aud Little endians, Wing and Tory.
Arissocrat aod Democrat, Republican. a ,a
lsrSC ohm observation-disclosures 70
s 71iseT "TtR certain mongrel party called
SMd; which seems to have BEEN engender.
90 between the two last mentioned parties,
AS mule is produced between horse and
an ass--Snd like a mule it seems incapable
OF procreatlon, fit only for humble drudps-
ry, doomed TO bear successfully the bur
then OF father and mother, and to be cud-
gelled soundiy Cor It's pans.
The Important bcuca: of these d;stinc.
tons IS Obvious. Ho" very MANY ssrenu.
Gus and hard woklng patriots are there
whose knowledge IS bouodsd by the poIiti-
Cal vocabulary, and who, were ,heynot ar
ranged III parties would never knov their
own minds, OR which way to think on
SUBJECT; 50 that by following their own
common sense. the communitv ui,rht often
tall into that unaninty, which has been
clsafiy proved, BY many excellent writer's.
to be tatal to the welfare OF republic, Of
ten have seer q very we'll meaning hero
OF seventy SIX, noat horribly puzzled to
make up his opinion about certain men and
ms asures, and running great risk of thirk.
ing right; until ail az once he resolved his
doubts by resorting 70 the old touch stone
OF wing aud Tory; which titles, though
they bear about as near an affinity to the
present parties in being, as do the robus-
sious statues of Cog and Maeog, to the
worthy London aldermen, who devour tur-
tie under their auspices Al Cu;Idhall. We,
are they used on all occasions by the sove
reign people, as pair of spectacles, thro'
winch they are mi,aouiously enabled to see
beyond their own noses, and to distinguish
a hawk from hand saw, or an owl from
turkey buzzard
We'll was it recorded in holy writ, " the
horse knowethhis rider, and the ass his mas
ter's cribs" for when the sovereign people
are tkns harnessed out, and properly yoked
it is delecsabIe to behold with what
system Z harmony they Jog onward, trudp-
ing through mud and mire, obayinp the
commands of their drivers, and DRAGGING
the scurvy carts of faction at their heels.0
How many a patriotic member Of Con.
gsess have known, Loyalty disposed to
adhere to his party through thick aue, tb;o
but who would often, from sheer ;pnorance |
or the dictates of conscience and somn,on
sense, have stumbled into the ranks Of his