Alexandria gazette & daily advertiser. [volume] (Alexandria [Va.]) 1817-1822, 1819-11-01
MONDAY, NOVEMBER I, 1919,

yiety Of hues, no, not even the tints OF the
rainbow itself, than the questions that must
be presented at the next session ct congress,
for the consideration OF that body. They
will Do in the first place called upon to ad-
Just the conflicting interests OF the mercantile
. and manufacturing classes OF our fellow citi-
zens this question. Of itself, is ponderous
subject for debate, and well calculated 10 a
waksn sectional and local jealousies. Whe-
thsr congress will impose such heavy duties
on articles of foreign manufacture. as come
in competition with our own manufacture,
Sufficient 10 amount to an absolute prohibition,
is a question about which they will be called
10 deliberate. finishes were not the most
idle of ali idle things, we would hope that
the members OF our congressional aTiary
might rsplume their legislative pinions, and
soar in the wide expanse ofsuch policy But
il unfortunately so happens, that amidst all
the teeming varieties with which our country
abounds, amidst all the vegetable, mineral
and animal productions to be found in our eli
mate, real politician would be perfectly
Mammoth 10 the moral world. Bones Of such
animals may indeed be found in the Ameri-
can soil, aud the misery Is, that we can hnd
this animal only in the bones. What we mean
+, by politician. will, we hope, without fur
tber comment, be unders ,ood 10 import some
thing different; we do not mean that the
meanest of all avarIce, an avarice tor popuis-
rity-that gripping hook, nailed rapacity to-
office and enolument, which so lar as res
poets moral dignity aud worth, sinks TO no.
thing in comparison with the meanest mendi-
can't. that mplores charity al our doors
When we speak Of politicians, we do not
mean those political highwaymen who rob US,
not of our gold, but what is still dearer, OF
our confidence, men who smile to deceive,
and who hatter to betrey-sueh are nc! the
men that we would designate when speak
of politicians. No, we mean BY politicians,
men of large and Of comprehensive views
mer who look with disdain on any aud On
every question subordinate TO that OF their
countTy's weliare-mep who when employed
in legislation, mean 10 act not as popularity
pimps, bot as iegisators-men who feel IN
all il, bearings, and in all its details, the
grandeur, the importance sDd the digrfty OF
the subject proposed for debate. Such are
the men TIA, the present crisis dc mands, and
of such men are we deplCrably in want!!!
Whatever may lie our present, or our future
difficulties, such men and such only can bring
US cut. II has we know been often and osen-
tatiously said, that liberty is the idol OF Ame-
ricans, tutiberty never meant the disposition
TO do wrong: representative government,
means representative not Of this town. city, !
district, or state, hut representative OF the
whole republic representative capable Of
combining in his mind the present and future !
permanent il ,erests OF MS countrr; a repre-
sentative capable Of distinguishing between
the clamor Of his constituents, and the still
small and o;tcn Glscordant voice ofyustice and
honor. We suppose that observations OF this !
character, WI be put DOWN " our brother
editors abroad. who have hi!heTto aonored us ,
WIN tJSit uD'ISS. " tiS aNGS0Ht ~ 7h H'i-'
yernable fancy; hey will accuse US OF being
le>, away by an ignu5 fatuus Of Imagination,
by the bew,ldeyiog lights of diStemp=red
intellect, until We have been led step BY step
into TIE quagmires Of justice and fhoror. If
we mention the glCyy AMI the grandeur of our
country, we are turned short in our enquiries
with this question what VIII all this avail
towardss our advancement in Office VIII
war with Spain render me popular
with my constituents, or how viii any es-
pousal of "a question of our manufacturing |
or our commercial interests operate or my
next election! Here is the great point on
which our Legislators are prone to differ -
peace or war, national happiness, or national
misery are made to depend on the eligibility
of the representative fer Office he will take |
possession of Florida by his vote without he
STATION, provided you can assure him at The
same time, that he will take possession of his
Office. Our, republic, when we view J, at
distance, may be called an animated Colus-
|sus-it is giant that seems to start not BY
Its own regular growth, but by sort Of ma
Hive and instructive energy into grander di- |
DIMENSIONS, aud more appalling proportions at.
every moment (; it is not distempered |
growth, every vein and sinew is replete with !