Alexandria gazette & daily advertiser. [volume] (Alexandria [Va.]) 1817-1822, 1817-10-29
ALEXANDRIA,:
WEDNESDaT. OCTOBER 90 1917.
COMMUNICATIONS.
SOUTH AMERICA.

ings on him who first invented this SELF
same thing called sleep! it covers man
up like cloak" So may all our fra
ternity say Of the subject that heads this
article-blessinss on South America and
its patriots. We should have nothing
but old joes to offer to our readers in
this weak-thi' piping time OF peace"
fit were not for the surmises and coun-
ter-surmses, the assertions and contra
| dictions, the arguments and the drowsy
replies to them, the pathetic exhortations
of their friends to animate the world in
their favor, and the dolorous apprehen-
sions and deprecations, OF such temerl.
ty in others-we will not say their enc
mics, for we believe they have not an
enemy, save among the devoted slaves
aud creatures of Ferdinand, in this world.
| And now the ball has been struck out by
a letter just published at Washington,
We expect TO see it banded about without
ces. alton, till the close Of the ensuing
session of congress; when, along with
our national legislature, it will be indul-
ged with recess, and with the worthy
membels who compose that great body,
60 to sleep till the next meeting; BY
which time, t is to be hoped, our mission
aries will have returned from South A.
mcrica, and the gallant struggiers in the
cause of freedom have accomplished their
triumph over Ferdinand and his inquisi-
tors.
In the mean time we hnpe that the ell
forts of their advocates in this country
will not be suspended, nor in the slight
est degree relaxed and that, to that end {,
The counter scribes will keep up an in.
creased G.e on them, since, by the tess
ing of the ball to the Patriotic players,
they will be enabled to keep it up with
greater spirit, and do vast grace and ser.
vice TO their cause for it is truth, es-
tablished by experience, that a virtuous
cause, like a virtuous man, is exalted,
honored and illustrated by every stroke
Of hostile assault.
The public, who have witnessed the
earnest solicitude with which we have
uniformly supported the endeavors Of the
revoutionists, will not be surprised that
we hasten to express our satisfaction at
some occurrences OF which, first from the
Federal Republican, and since that from
the National Intelligencer, we have had
information which information, though
By no means so circumstantial as we
could wish, is sufficient, when accompa-
hisd by some comments on it, received
from a private friend nearer than we are
to the seat Of government, to afford US
much pleasure, together with lively
hope that in some shape or other the
thing has for some time occupied the at
tention Of our leading men, and will not
only be fairly considered in the cabinet,
but candidly discussed in congress.
However humiliatipg it may be to the
pride of inconsiderate men, it is yet an
undeniable truth that mankind naturally
share in considerable degree the con-
stitutional frail.ies and passions of the o.
Their classes of animal existence; with
this difference only, that those frailties
and passions are more or less controlled
in the human species BY reason, aud its
offspring law and religion. On this truth
physiosnomists build much not only Of the
elementary but the practical part Of their
science. Indeed, if it were aot for some
secret law Of this kind, how should we
account for many Of the extraordinary
phenomena that present themselves at
times in human conductl How, for ex.
ample, could we account for the pertina-
cious adherence to an old enmity which
inveterately clings TO men-yea, to whole
bodies of men, in the very teeth Of rea-
son and common sense Is it not pre-