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

Office will become liEe pc election Of a Polish
King the certain sotbcepf civil war and blood
Shed. The councils ofthc country, directed
Gas is now too much tlP case) by the presi-
Dental will, must caus Irritation, when Gas
noWJ the ipterestsof dc part are sacrificed
to another, 6utuoreHgcan be eaheeted from
free elections.
The genius of the psthern and southern
people, differing SO m4riaIly as to the exer-
else Of power, will Al4 be another cause Of
separation. MontesqHu says" Northern
people are obliged towork much, without
which they would wanfvery thing and would
become bsrbarians. his is the cause that
has made submission atural to the southern
people. Al they can esily do without wealth,
they can al easily dosithout liberty. But
northern people requis TO be free, as that a.
lone procuIYs them thmeans Of making use
OF the gifts pf nature. They are therefore in
forced site, if not fee or barbarians, as
southern people are p some measure so it
not submissive to arhrary government. -
When opprssions sub as the embargo law
and its supplements, 'sre submitted to with
out Inurmir in onesection of the unlot..
which went t, rain thepther, are we not war
ranted by rcson and Experience to say, thai
reflections LIE Montesuieu's are founded il
nature; and qhen the agry passions are once
reused, as wal must rdse them, will have
baneful effect upon d union, composed Of
these differing
The natureIof taXabn likewise, Will be
cause Of threatening anger, We all know
that one of tie most pwerful arguments a
gainst the presnt conf1eration, with the very
men now in power, washat which transferred
from the state. to thegcneral government,
the power of taxatio 1t was contended,
| that the states best kne their own resources,
what their people YOU best spare, and how
that could be most Asilcolected. The pro-
liability that commecl duties might answer
all the purposes of arid, prudent, economi-
cal and moderate repican government was
one great inducements hich led to its adop
ton !; and think weAy see something Of an
4nti-federal spirit, of wish for that disunoi,
h5cfr wsa an ohisdo dear to the greater
part Of our present ers; m this spirit of
! taxation, (for the puoses Of foreign con-
quesD which cannot by the inequality of
its pressures, to prodl the object they la
bored SO hard to accorAish.
But what shall we to the intrigues Of
foreign nations, and d pressure of foreign |
power? What will L be consequence of
French alliance, whfhit seems the design !
of our rulers to forcsupn u.s. LoDk at the
fate of the republic; ofEurope, and if you
can turn your eyes away Without disinay, look
at your children, if iop paye any, and see
whether spark of ne fig that animated the
breasts Of your sire, vi not make you re-
solve to shun the darga tat ruined the free,
unhappy people Of SHtzf land and Holland.
War brings in its TIN, f successful as the
wishes of its promqsrs ppe Outstanding
armies, heavy publ debt, fbitrary and vexa-
tious taxes, dangerhs restrictions upon indi-
vidual liberty, imgnse inefase of executive
power, the probality Of run from foreigu in
trigue and corrvtion, and that inequality of
public burthen, which NUT inevitably lead
in country so Extensive a ours, TO discon-
tent and disunid. viii nit these evils en-
danger our ePolican institutions Will they
not threaten esolution.to pur federative sys-
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