Alexandria gazette, commercial and political. [volume] (Alexandria [Va.]) 1812-1817, 1815-05-20

ton ny a democratic act OF Congress: and
| all those sacred transactions Letv een aAu
dividuals, on which good it'll dera n ~
are thrown open to the insI ection Of lAus'
ecutive hirelings! Not only your sceons eS'
must be thus exposed but the ssaas
machinery Of your trades with than, '"
Notwithstanding the United States nrJ
the faith of a solemn law, has secur.d I.r
many of you their exclusive use BY rO 70
tents. f"'
Thus has the war supported von
Thus are you benefited and re, aid for
your anxious endeavors to proudtp 80 'o'
nufactures in the United States 70 ron mo-
it an independent nation, Illus ba,em us'
ny of YOU who supported tie rrcsrr+ 'aa'
tolots in power, been rewarded fer ri ra-
Kindness. And the priyations ard UaF
pressions which many of yua viii xet o u
perience under these laws, will tnr,S ~.
teach you how much dependence mav r'It.
placed on the deceptive disinterestpdnoODe'
ard delusise professions of cfcs Eu,,tsSs
and weak and ambitious Statesmen "''''''
Mechanics you have been t2noh.
believe from your infancy, ti.at tfe land 20
Columbus, was the land Of secrrit,, anI
liberty. You havebeen trained IN IN I tIa
solemn beliefthat America was the p, n'
disc of the world-and on every branch Of
its lofty Cedars, from Maine to Gporo;o
hung those equal laws--ecual r;phtsS S'
equal liberties, which your ancestors os
tablTshed for your benefit, and protection M
But how delusive has been YOUR dreams
on those points. And how vain YOUR ev
pectations, and the opinions of the bsrooS
of our revolution, your fatlers-who died
in the fields OF America, under the nierc
ing bayonets of an enemy, shoatint Ar.
thems of praise to the fair inheritance Of
liberty and security, they then suffered
to establish for you. They little thouslt
that in the course of go years the Stare
holders of Virginia, the despcts Of An erica
and the patriots ofiberty-modern liber.
tv of French e.rtraction, would deluIe
YOU into wars for (" Free Trade e. Sailors
Rights Debts of Sis, eco on YOU
for foreign conquest, ruin to your CON-
mercial and mechanical intertSts-dan.
gerous to your civil liberty and conStitu.
tioaal rights, for the latem purpose Of
purchasing a fayourite President for tom
years loDger.--Ihey Iitt!e supposed that
those constitutional rights ard securities,
which they left you, purchased by the
blood:of the virtuogs warriGucs OF our
revelation, would become the fd bail
of after demagosues--the insects OF party
esrcresceace, and the toys OF foreign lena-
2adoes.
Mechanics: the national tax put ony0u
is unequal to your fellow citizens, who
are more wealthy generally tan you.
Your trades are taxed most shametully,
or that which is the same t'lng-the r.
ticles you make by your hbOurs! Is the
labor of the attorney; the labor Of the
Physciln ; the labor Of the rich Broker;
the labor of the .4uct0aesr ; the rich
ground rent holders ; money seller, with
tie thousands of public officers, who Ike
on high salaries, to be extorteds from yoa
by means of tares on your industry, pay
the government OEe cent Oh tie amount
of their iacomes!I Then why all this op-
preston on yoa whom the war was to 'Hp'
port ? O! shame--shamc-shame on
Your imported secretary of the Treasury;
your Virginia quite.
DO those gentleman, above alluded TO-
throw open their account Books, 6 e"e
security fer tneirintegHty to tie Gcod,
suckers Oh the mechanic industry and
subjects item, ike yau, to TIE quarterly
inspection of the tnumoie-bees. appoint
ed to Office, by an ambitious adrrl'f'a'
ton ?-No.-They are free they are
not deemed serl1le n.ecHanlcS ; U.s.!
must, therefore, not pay iof tIlelr "''"1'
and ia6ors {!
But fellow citizens YOU are iell III % a,o
possession Of the lest constitution IN ~"
world. 1t is the combined "E0om f"
AGES. and the workmanship Of yoar laoI,
ers. 1t has escaped tie unhalloHed touTu
of a mad administration; ard your !.
berries are safe under it. Fly to Il 'o of
safety. NeverIet the imPou' ilaI'u "a, u
political schemes sully its fair leai' a"I
poisou it's fountains Of equal rights t e4a n
liberties, and equal blessings TO le sn r,r
If you are slaues and chained 10 '"'
ola despot!
What say, your fathers
8. That the general. great and e.scn. at