Alexandria daily gazette, commercial & political. [volume] (Alexandria [Va.]) 1808-1812, 1811-03-02

with which the spirit Of frudal policy, ia
vorable only to the mobiles, had burden.d
them and conscious ofbeing the of the
most considerable orders in The state were
ambitious Of becoming the most powerful"
All this was natural. But there is no
sufficient reason for impeaching the general
iategri'y Of their motives.
While the emperor was absent in Elan
ders, the commons OF CASTLE organized
themselves by the name OF the Holy Tun.a,
and presented to their sovereign remen.
STRANGE, drclaratory of their rights, which
has drawn frem the celebrated Robertson
this animated eulogium. :" The grievances
complained OF, and the remedies pro.
posed, by the Eoghsh commons, in their
contests with the princes of the house Of
Stuart, particularly resemble those upon
which the Juata now Insisted. But the
pr'n i7ies of liberty seem TO have been bet.
ter understood, at this period, by the Cas-.
tilans, than by any other people ia Europe
they had acquired more liberal idc as with
respect to their own rights and priyledg.
they had formed more bold and generous
SENTIMENTS Concerning goverRment and
discovered an extent OF political knowledge
10 With the Ensiish themselves did NOT
attain until more than Century alter.
wards"
The Holy Junta did not meet with the
success which th5r cause deserved. They
were unfortunate, and most historians have
devottd them 10 inismy. Robertson has
done them ample justice. IL the approoa-
ticn of SO sagaeious a historian, they are
more than recompens, for the reproaches
cast op"n their memory by many less res.
pec,a5le and less solid writers.
Mr.. Bentley, exnlts in the triumph Of
one emperor over tbs Holy Junta, and in
The triumph Of anoIhee emperor over the
Juntas of Seville and Badsioz. Our ex.
tidsise republicans sneer at the .piris of
aaiioe, when tina, spies is sxerted in ia.
Vol ct reedo!n and nationa! inde pe ndence.
They iore,eli with pleasure " the dssipa.
ton OF the clood wihvut tempest" when
the " cloud" isapends over the mos, odiou.
of all d spots, and threatens a tempest"
destructive to tyranny. These republicans,
themselves, arc evidently described by the
Apostle Jude, in Language not unlke their
own. Cl2uds they are 1Vitilot zvu.cr, cor.
ried ubcu: Of winds. Not only so, they
are, also, Trees zvh7se fruit zvithereth,
soiih0ut fruit, t7oice dead, picked up BY
the r0ots; raging sva0es Of the sea, toam-
ing out lheir o7vH shame wandering stars,
TO 1ohom IS rsserved the J!ackuess of dark
ness f9rcver. We speak Of the leaders OF
the democratic party, being we'll convinced
Of the good intentions of the mass of their
followers But dre adlul indeed is the
thought, that, in this last Of all republics,
and at a moment when there is no longer
prospect that any other republic will ever
exist, Al least till the great age of the Mil
lennium, the lr sders of ,he party who pro-
claim themselves exclusive republicans,
those leaders who are so successful in max
ing the great body of the people believe
that they are really the only republicans
that they rule the people as ,hey pleas,
should b. avowedIy the -ncmies Of every
friend OF freedom in every other quarter of
the glooe, and should openly and boldly
prar for the destruction Of all who venture
to resist the cruel mandates Of the most
cruel of all monarchs. Strange that the
oniy true rebu6l cans Of the United States,
should eXult and triumph that the = proud.