Alexandria gazette & daily advertiser. [volume] (Alexandria [Va.]) 1817-1822, 1819-03-09
Pork.
To the Public,

"A n unusual seDsibllity has been excited
"A IN The minds OF our countrymen by the
copper plate engraving of the Declarations
OF independence recently published, acI
companied by fac Smiles Of the signatures
OF those illustrious patriots who framed the
document by which our independence was
announced 10 the world. We feel, while
we dwell on those signatures, as If we we're
ushered into the immediate presence Of
characters 50 exalted, and we seem for a
time TO participate in all the emotion which
they felt OF the approach of sd awful a cri.
sis--Hostile armies, desolate fields, towns
and cities in Observation-Disclosures and
death in its most frightlul forms appeared in
prophetic vision on the one hand, and more
than all. the complicated horrors, ignominy
and slavery were presented Tor their &C.
ceptance on the other; they deIiberated,
| they paused, they trembled, and at last SO.
lemnly appealing TO the God of battles.
they resolved that the United States were
| and ought to be free, sovereign and indie.
pendent. These illus,rious patriots. with
tve solitary exceptions, have now mingled
with the common mould-they survive only
in their countrys glory and in the racollec.
ton OF grateful people. But IT would be-
consolIng to the present generation, sepa.
rated as they now are from those patriots,
by the Intervention Of the tomb, to become
more intimately acquainted with their re-
evolutionary benefactors. We love to dwell
on the features of such men, snatched BY
the pencil from the oblivion of the grave.
and emulate the prominent feats of their
biography. Impressed with these ideas, the
subscriber proposes, il suitable encourage.
ment is given, TO publish the lives of those
patriots in numbers, Uphill the whole is com-
ple:ed. The work Will be executed in a
style not inferior to any European produce
tions, and the portraits by masters of &C.
knowiedged merit. The biography will
be written by Pail Alien, esq. whose init
macy with the several signers, whose fani-
liariy with the privations and hardships
theyhad to undergo, and whose well known
talents will be sufficient TO ensure the pa.
tronage OF an enlightened people. In the
execution of this work, all that the pu6.
Usher dares TO promise is, that be will en-
deavor to deserve the confidence of his
countrymen, and that no exerlion on his
part will be wanting to prevent an abuse
of that confidence. File ventures to solicit
the assistance of those gentlemen in pos.
session OF authentic facts and anecdotes, BY
communicating the intelligence that will
serve to illustrate the characters and to en-
rich the biography Of those founders OF the
American Republic. who are in
possession of their portraits would enlarge
the obligation by loan of the same.
prospectus with the terms will be given
in few days:
JOSEPH NJ. SANDERSON,
48, .Mdrket-sfrset, Baltimore.
= x*ATy printer who will publish this noa
tice and become responsible for FIVE subscrS
bers, shall receive one copy Of the work.
December 90
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TX weeks in the Alexandra new,papersl
Tes,e, o0P K. MOORE, Reg. Of vilhs
THIS Is TO GIVE NOTICE.,
That the subscribers, of Alexandria countyl
n the district of Columbia, have obtaipeds,,
rom the Orphans Court of said county, let,
ers testamentary on the estate Of John(3a rdf
Yer Laid, late OF the county aforesaid, de-
,eased. All persons having claims sgainsA
he said decedent, are hereby warned Id
Exhibit the same 10 the subscriber, with tb1e
,ouchers thereof, passed by the Orphaptf-
tesi'rty Jonen, aaifextJrar tStI dag ni Sep,'rx
value is also enhanced BY occasional re-.
views of literary works; and all its sentj.
ments are decidedly American, indepen-
dent OF all party considerations. For thin
work. which is well established, regularly
published, and transmitted weekly 10 sub
scrib.rs by the mail, the public patronage
is respectfully solicited.
LAWRENCE, WILSON & Co.
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