Alexandria gazette, commercial and political. [volume] (Alexandria [Va.]) 1812-1817, 1815-04-19
From the Connecticat couroHt.

4 dream Of happier days.The Y. s.
though they have got nothing else by the
late War, have got by it a plentiful stock
Of .xnerience It IS experience dearly
bought indeed but future generations,
as we'll as the present, will probably be-
neft of it, They will have clearly before
their eyes the painful and disgraceiul re,
suits ola long-tried system OF folly and
madness and it will be useful to theni,as
|'beacon-lights to the mariner.
1t seems hardly possible that any future
administration or any future Legislature
of this confederate republic. should act
over again the follias and absurdities
which have so long disgraced the nation
and its rulers. JeEersonian democracy,
| it is to be hoped, has nearly spent itself !;
and that even these who shall continue
To bear the name Of democrats, will cease
to follow the whiins and impracticable
theories Of the visionary founder OF their
school. u
In the history Of nations it is found,
that, thro' the overruling hand ofproyl,
dence. great political good is sometimes
l,educed from great political evil. To
| mention only a single instance The
| egregious folly and imbecile tyranny OF
tie family Of Stuart, proved salutay, in
the long run, to the liberties OF English
men. It opened the eyes of the nation
to the defects in their constitution, and
animated the wiser and better part to
remedy those delects-to mend the social
compact, and to guard it on every side a.
! gainst the encroachments of executive
tyranny. 'Fhe Re1olui<on in England, OF
| I6SS--a revolution, which chiefly con-
sisted in important and estimable altera-
tons in the English constitution OF 60
vernment-iiad not happened but for the
foolish as well as despotic !ule OF the
Charles's and the Jane. 's-meil, as con-
temptible for their weakness, asdetestab!e
| for their tyranny. If they had kept any
measures in their folly and misrulc, the
people would, perhaps, have slept over
their wrongs and the constitution OF their
government might have retained till this
! day, those essential defects, which were so
happiiy repaired by the parliament, with
| the joyful concurrence OF the people, IN
| 1858.
James Stewart lived long enough, after
his APPLICATION, to see his avil reign turned
to much good.
| coatrast-An eminently wise& good
| ruler, who has acted as the father Of his
people, and, next to his sclf-devote-
ment to God, has devoted his best powers
| of body and mind to their seryice-Eas
consulted their general interests, protect
ed their rights, aid by measures OF con-
summate prudence, opened to them new
means Of enjoyment and new sources OF
weal-and. who has beheld them rising
to unexampled prosperity, under his ios-
tering hand such all elnlaeEty wise and
good ruler. conscious as veil ot the iui,ity
Of his motives, as OF tie iclicitouo effects
OF lis measWes. en- ys q, Saissilne OF
Esoul. far seyoud tie common icc of man
| kind.
Bat an eminentiy foolish or wicked
ruler, who has acted as the mead Oh lac
ton, and been. o scourge to the people
committed to lis care-Who took them by
the hand, in the day OF their prosperity g
glory, and has led them into desperate
mares and pit-lals---ilas ileeced and i'm
,overished them. and ieedlessly brought
upon them intolerablc burdens of taxes
has p evoked tiIeir contemptEy his Jolly,
ans, their hatred by Ills tyranny-and who
sees them fallen, immeasul ably iaiieD,
| through neaas of his absurd and corrupt
auulia.stlatio.l, and Knows r.ey ale an
xiouS aait.ns f,r the day OF his political
EFT, as IL. lie day OF bational jubilee:
such an eni.4entl foolish oswicked rue.
conscious that his mott, es haze 1een l.o
Lbetter than his measures slts i.i.- a.. Owl
Fin turret, contemplating tie 1~ale 8.
ruin all around him. lie may si.I-.l.clA
| upa CLEAN Of gladncss IN his countenaaee:
! but in his mind there rises no cheering
ray. All on this side Of the grave, is
vexation of spirit, aid all beyond 1t, deep
and ghastly gloem.
From the Philadelphia Register.