Alexandria daily gazette, commercial & political. [volume] (Alexandria [Va.]) 1808-1812, 1812-06-16


their poisonous seeds. To these we were In
v;,ea 70 extend the arm Of fellowship, By the
man whose head yet cherished, the visions
they inculcated /; and who, whilst be tostered
the persons, could not but feel hatred against
the government, that prosecuted; as he sup
posed; both them and their tenets---ambltious
70 attain the first Office in the government, at
onco to crafty his vanity and his revenge, to
try the force of his philosophic whims, and
fondnes, for innovation he like Millions hend,
drew into his service, all this mass of corrupt
and corruptipg agency, to effect his object
Unhappily for Us, they succeeded but too
'well--The depravity of human nature, soon
lends itself to the arts of those, who make 1t
their business to cover and adorn its atrocities,
and the history of mankind in the ruin of
republics; bears ample testimony to the
force of this remark. We soon heard the
declaration, even in our assemblies that
/" they hated learning and learned mem
and we were taught from the high au-
thority of Presidential wisdom to suppose
6 That our Indians were the only free peo-
pie upon earth, because they had no LAYS,
and no magistrates TO heTUert those LAYS TO
their ogyn nu7TaoseS"--that whether we belley-
ed in one God, or iii twenty Gods, was OF no
import to the society; that an empty treasury
was the best preservative against foreign ag-
erosion that deception and intrigue should
be substituted for manly virtue and conscious
rectitude in the management Of our national
concerns and that the attainment Of Office.
by which ignorance and vice and impudence
might live upon the labors ofthe people, was
the ultimate aim and sure reward of democra.
tic violence and pretended patriotism. The
contempt with which such principles had been
treated in England, joined to the adherence,
with which they were viewed by the federal
lists of America, made the government of G.
Britain the object OF hatred TO the combined
mass of foreign and of native innovators.-
France was the natural enemy ofEngland, her
yet labored in the race they had
began, the friendship of France therefore be-
came their FIRST object. Taught by the max
inns of their creed, to disregard the means in
obtaining the end they had in view, republi-
cans refused not to assist and TO be assisted by
the worst of despotisms. Such has been the
fermenting mass Of inAamable materials, that
has been working, under the auspices of mo-
dern philosophers and wicked and banished
subjects tbs ruin OF the British nation, s. with
it the ruin of every thing that vice, ignorance
and rapacity can fear and abhor. Can we
hope for, ought we not to deprecate their
success? Can VIC calculate upon 1t, when such
men are to encounter principles, from which
the god of nature has never vet withdrawn his
ultimate support. That the impressment Of
seamen, that commercial aggressionS are not
the real causes of the war, must be apparent, |
when we know that France has injured and |
insulted US more than England has done; and
vet they pretepd to postpone war with her, |
upon pretence of successful negotiations
which they know we have no cause to expect
except by becoming parties in that war, which
has for its object the ACKNOWLEDGEMENT of her
empire, and the fatal destruction of all who
oppose it f; when we consider also the con-
slant declarations of these men, before they |
came into power, that the peace of the coun-
try and the interests of the agriculturalists,
should not be sacrificed to the protection of |!
commerce and when we see by their recent
refusal to secure our seaboard and maritime |!