Alexandria gazette, commercial and political. [volume] (Alexandria [Va.]) 1812-1817, 1815-11-11

Imany believed, that an ordinary mar
Imay bring hilnsclf 10 raise from the
IerOund the largest US, By beglnnIpe
with il when day old, and continuing
Ifo lift il every day regularly till it ar
lyives at full growth. TheyreaseR thus
THE additional weight Of day is moi
IfeIt By the lifter: What aman did with
lease Yesterday, he may do TO day--and
what he does to-day he may do to-iiior-
lrUw. Habit inules him to 1T; and bJ
Edaily familiarity he may ascend from
lifting the calf Of twenty pounds. to hit
The same animal when grown to an Gl
EOf twelve hundred weight.
Our government faction have reasoned
lin the same way respecting the accom-
Iplishnent of their designs upon the Fe.
lderai Constitution. Every year since
| they came into power, they have, b.
their practises and deceptive theories,
rendered the act Of violating the consti.
tuition SO familiar TO the people, and the,
/ find the last outrage SO exactly as well
borne by them as the former one, that
they besin to think there is no breach of
that instrument, perhaps extinction it.
Iself. that will not be tolerated .-HencG
they grow holder every day, and nov
hold a language to the union which fif-
teen years ago would certainly have
blown them and their party to atoms.--
| The Egis, paper printed at Worces-
tier, insists upon the propriety of the de-
mocralic and jacobin, (by an unwarrant.
able libel on republicanism called repub-I
|lican) representatives in Congress, Sc
|leeting candidate for the Chief Magis-
tracy Of the Union.
That this would be a fragrant violatiOn|
of the spirit of the constitution and of
the intention of the original trainers of
that instrument, may be proved not only |
from all the writings of those great men,
but from the arguments in the several
conventions--and what is perhaps equal
ly to the purpose, from plain principles
of reason and common sense.
:. In order says one, and he the great
est of the trainers of the constitutiOn) toI
|Iay a due foundation for that separate
and distinct exercise of the ditferehtI
powers of government, which rs admitted
on all hands to be essential to the pre-
servation Of liberty, it IS evident that
each department should havea will OF its
own; and consequently, " should be sol
constituted, that the members OF each
should have as little agency as possible
| in the appointment of the members OF the
lethers.''@
In order that no doubt should remain
Iof the intention of the writer, be imme-
Idiately adds--s' We're this principal n
Igorously adhered to, it would require
THAT all the appointments for the su-
lpreme executive, legislative and judicla-
Try magistrates, should. be drawn from
1.-The same fountain of authority, the peo-
Iple, through channels having no commu-
lnication whatever, with one another"
| These just principles may be consider
| ed again as coronories resulting from Onei
laid down in the forty seventh numberl
| of the same work, for which we are in
Idebted 10 the wisdom and the then patri-
lotto views Of Mr.. Madison, and which,
jruns thus I he accumulation Of all
Ipowers, legislative, executive and judi
Iciary, In the same hands, whether of one,
la few, or many, and whether hereditary,
IseIf-appointed, or elective, may be pro.
lnaunced the very definition of tyranny"
Ii the public instead of listening to the
insane ciamor and howlings of faction,
Tor to the insidious suggestions of treach-
erous demagogues, you'd, with good
temper, and a dispO$ tion rather to &C,
quire pure information, than to find So
phistical arguments, and subtle pretexts
for their predetermined misconduct,
make it their earnest exercise to read the
work from which we take our authorities,
they would find it impossible to resist
! the conclusion that the proposition urg-
ed by the HEgis, and recommended by
thigh court authority Flor it has been re-
printed in the Court Journal, the Ma
tional Intelligencer of the first of No
vember) is as deadly, at once, and cum
ming stab at the constitution and the
public safety, as at this stage Oftheir sys-
tenn OF successful experiment, can De
Imagined.
Asit is our wish to bring this point
fairly and fully before the public, so that
they who are not unalterably resolved to
sell their country to despotism for a
mess of pottage (would to Heaven that
every mess Of pottage so administered