Alexandria gazette & daily advertiser. [volume] (Alexandria [Va.]) 1817-1822, 1819-03-15
ALEXANDRIA,:
MONDAY. .M.4RCH15, 1919.

tons and stages OF civilization, presents a
| multitude of anomalies so extravagant, and
indeed some Of them so repugnant to ma
ture, that they appear such downright out
RACES upon reason as scarcely TO be credi-
bic, if the facts were not supported by the
strongest proof OF which any fact or propo-
sition is susceptible. Philosophers have
not been nattentive to them; but often
contemplating them IN the gross, have only
considered them as errors arising from the
ignorance and stupidity of vulgar minds,
benighted by want Of culture, and obscu-
red by bad habits and hereditary preju-
dice. But he who has had The advantage
Of adding TO the requirements of the man
| OF letters, the experience OF the man of tie
world, and leaves his cICister 10 mix with
! mankind in the busy scenes of life, " i'll not
be without his suspicious that a very ration
al account may in most instances be given
for those apparent incongruiies, and that.
as in most cases, where thing passes for
! the will of the multitude, they're in reali-
! ty the will Of OIL some few, perha' of but
one inllviiuat, while the people are in re-
ANY ',o'""'' ''".e !" ." NV ~ 'o'''"'fy
! f'ri'''' "',' '',t,i ','e'''''i'sS ~ 90 '"o,
'e" " ""' : '''''i'h oy "'''p. seen''y anu
| eve" '''''s" ~ ~ ''V sn''' ''. .'eA'e'''y o'
u" "''S'ei S'''""'s'' 40 ''"l'' we VINES
"uei o"'' "'d"'se'he"' VI 'iahh'n''
. "''u'' "PPe''' "'"' '"1 '''''''" hhh'' '''ei'
iaH is grand fe'oiGi0GS, al Hillrrent Pc
, rioHs; "i "tich a stronger instance cannot
! re sl'en than the did r nee Which took
pace IN tie mode OF thinking OF The treneh
IN The sixteenth ana the seventeenth centu- /:
res wi''' respect to ciYI' govcrnMent-but
Vt was not m the minds OF the pe"p" but in
the aF'tnl management OF them the re'olu-
ton consisted In the t"rmer century their
slaV!sh attachment to a deHpotlsm was such
. that had Tree c"nStItG: cen offered TO
them, h"l'l not admit OF 1ou"t, that they
woul! not have accepted 1t; zee use they
had not IN reality an "p'fion That was not
pr'scri'e ed % TEEN, o. VIII OF Their own
10 ioi'"W. Other managers. however, gra-
d"aIy siippeo INTO The places OF tae ""h'
OF their Iioiatry OF that day. ana IN The next
century became the wire workers OF their
tire, and moved those human puppets ac-
cor!ing to their will AMI opinions. Such
has been the case with other nations, which
IN respect to their ideas OF national felicity,
have exhibited pcrversenrss of intellect
and cOn.iuct, not to be accounted Tor, but
in tie way now alluded TO. In the sixteenth
century the people as It was said) of Den
mark. made voluntary surrender of tacir
liberties to the King, in or;er to be reven
ged upon the norles but was it indeed
the people? Who that knows what peo-
pie, uninstructed, can do, will believe il
No, it vas few dexterous dcmagogues,
who were devoted to the throne. If the
Doors of Liyonia, like the Lapadocians of
old, refuse a blessing, so ok ious even to
the brute creation, as liberty, and chuse to
be drubbed by their nobility at pleasure,
can any one believe that either their free
will or their opinions have any agency in
il? Certainly not-they have will and
opinion infused into them hy those who
profit by The error. Stephen Batori, King
of Poland, in commiseraiion of the state of
the pcasant-y of his country, wanted to de-
liver them from the cruel tyrr2ny of their
nobility, and to commute the bastinadoes