Alexandria daily gazette, commercial & political. [volume] (Alexandria [Va.]) 1808-1812, 1812-07-16
ALEXANDRIA.
THURSDAY MORNING, July 10.
"To sHEW
The VERY AGE AND BODY OF THE TIME
HIS FORM AND PRESSURE.
g TO sHEW
CATO, No. 6.

VOiVlDS US III WdT--dllCI Votios, a h'iS', ia
sury notes & loans-they have left their posts,
without the majority daring to hazard their
ilched popularity, by fair and open avowal
of their intended views, in laying those taxes,
without which, they well know, war cannot be
carried on, treasury notes reduced, or the In
terest of loan pads Have they really sue
ceeded so long BY the arts of deception, that
they dare calculate upon your being so sense
less or so torpid, as not to see an inch before
you, in the road that leads direct to ruin .
The elections will come on this fall, through
the greater part of the union, for members Of
congress; and they hope, because the people
do not feel, they will not act. Democracy has
not yet, thank God brutalised US SO far, as
to rob US of the great privilege Of rational
Beings 10 foreSee and avert q threatened i'll
Should they prevail in the ensuing elections,
we shall see direct taxes of every kind levied,
paper money to vast extent emitted, armies
increased, war protracted, French alliance es.
tablished, and every evil that Infatuated parti-
sans can devise and execute inflicted upon us
The reign Of terror" as they chose to call
the administration of Adams, was never mark
ed with the atrocities of revolutionary France
or with the yindictive passions of American
Robespelrres. 1t was reserved for the demo
Gratis OF Baltimore, to ape the manners and act
the part of French iacobins. But believe me,
the evil will not be limited to the confines of
that polluted town; we shall see it at our
doors, unless those men, who threatened us
within the walls OF congress, and were no
doubt the instgators to these viosnces, are
made to seek some other means OF living, than
that OF public plumber, by passionate declama-
ton, and furious denunciation Of their fellow
citizens. Some weeks ago, the National In
telhgencer, edited by an English Jacobin, had
the audacity to say, that as soon as war was
declared " all who were not for US, Chat is
for their party should be considered as against
us, and treated accordingly" Do we not see
here plainly chalked out, in the government
print, the outrages in Baltimore and what we
must all expect, should these men succeed
Let me call upon you then, in the name Of all
that is dear to you, by your fathers fame, by
the regard for your own safety and welfare, by
the love you bear your posterity, to rouse from
your lethargy, assert your rights, destroy OPP
preston, and leave the oppressors the morti-
flying task of learning to do right, in retire
ment at home. | call upon those worthy
Americans, who have hitherto supported these
men, as friends to freedom and their country's
welfare, to canvass freely and impartially their
conduct; and ask themselves whether greater
danger does not threaten them from their con-
d4ct, than ever threatened them from the con-
duct OF the federalists. It's time then to
change. Power has corrupted It's possessors
they cannot bear to part with its grati6ca-
tions-shall deception or force secure it to
them ?-they have tried, and will try BOTH
But you haze been injured, and zvW be ruined
by their continuance in ofice-distrust, reject
and punish them.
CATO.
They haze cs,ried their fondness for de-
cehtion 50 far, as to refuse to have the bills
printed, for the INSPECTION Of The people, which
they had hrehared for the fur7toSe.
PEACE AND WAR PARTIES.
A FRAGMENTThes two parties now en-
brace Ill our citizens, (says the Boston Cent?