Alexandria gazette, commercial and political. [volume] (Alexandria [Va.]) 1812-1817, 1816-02-06

|tency Of those who had plunged the ma (
|tion into war at a time, aud under cir +
cumstanees from which nothing but dis L
grace could be expected. Gentlemenli
were mistaken, he said-there was nolt
want of energy in the gen. governmental
nor was there any more danger OF the
state governments OVERLAPPING it, thanl
| there was Of child OVERLAPPING its parent:
and he would maintain that more Sc
tyere satire, or rather more bitter phi.
llippic could not be imagined against the
administration that preceded the peacet
at Client, than had been just prononncedl
lby those two gentlemen. They had mis-.
taken the disease howeyer--it was not
want of energy: it was want OF capaci-
1 ty that disabled our government. Was
1.-The appointment of gen. Hull. he demand
/ ed. want of energy !--was the attack ON
Canada want of energy ?--was it from
J. want of energy in the government. that
they invariably attempted the wrong read
It'll they were turned back, and then took
a different one lie said, that the plan
of Hull's expedition was SO manifestly
preposterous, that when the old general
4 was before Detroit, he (Mr. Randolph3
pronounced at public meeting what the
fate of that officer and his army must be,
Il and what it afterwards really vas" &
would YOU believe it 7" {said Mr.. r. -
I So besotted were the people. that when
liz was known to have turned out lust as
II predicted, they concluded that had
pot the intelligence from communication
! with the British. The fact (said Mr.. r. J
that the doctrine of the two gentlemen,
is what worthy member once called ui-
tra-federa!ism, and what call hyper-fe-
. deraIism-it does, indeed, out.herod lie.
. rod. No, sir, the government never
! wanted energy when in the hands of en-
ergefic men but it is Of course, feeble
; in the hands of feeble men. The gentle
. man says he wants government, ca
pable of protecting the citizens and of
making them respect it; then, does he
want tespotism. Yet even a despo-
q tism would want energy in feeble hands.
! If you really must have government of
DEspoTlsM, fall to at once, said he, and
: reform with vengeance make your
president king; convert your senate
into peers, and pass septenaisl act =
lit will exactly tally with the principles
yoa have now brnaehed-but observe:
:, You will never get me to agree to it."
I Mr.. Randolph observed that he could not
,ncip listening with admiration to the
;, speaker, when he said, that the power of
country was in the direct ratio of its
= physical strength" But (said he) re-
iy upon the moraipower of the salvation
: OF these states: Instead Of relying upon
standing army, would rely upon an
: attempt to give more powerful impulse
/ to the moral faculties of the people -
elThe pacific policy of MIR. Jefferson, has
'tbeen undcrYalued the wisest and best
L writers have represented those monarchs
u who have governed by peaceful arts as
superior to the founders OF empires. Ho-
u ace. the most correct and sasacious OF
oIthe Roman poets, doubts whether Nuna
or Romulus was the founder OF Rome.
Is Romulum post hos prius, an quietu'n
:. Pompilii regnum memoreni, an superbos
:. Tarqu,ni fasces, dubito. an Catonis.
s. Mobile lethum.
II Numa gave moral faculty to that
.lDanditti which Rsmulus had collected.
] would fain endeavor to do the same to-
). this people. / would Grstrspeai all the
II militia laws''-Here he enlarged upon
q the subject of the militia in strain thrO'
j, which We regret our incapacity at SO late
b an hour to follow him; and he then turn
81 ed to the war, which he said was alto.
Of gether our own seeking. We had de-
n cIared it in the very nick of time when
eI Bonaparte was marching to Moscow
! Tor as that monster was to take Moscow,
n SO we were to take Quebec. Wanton|
n wickedness was at the bottom OF it; the
: evidence of all this, though now hidden,
e he said. would yet come forth. He lad
! proofs to give, that there was French In.
! flaepce in this country but it was not
Il the influence of France itself; it was al
, )iacobin influence, and extended as far as
: iacobinism extends. 1t belonged to al
: sect, and existed in human nature ever
,lsince the fall. " When l hear gentle
linen talk of the liberty of France beng
/ destroyed, lsaid he, and recollect what
,lthat liberty was, lshould be overwheim-
; ed with astonishment, if did not know
!, THAT, put a jacobin on the throne OF france
i Il iii ;.cnh;ne will how tai Put lei