Alexandria gazette & daily advertiser. [volume] (Alexandria [Va.]) 1817-1822, 1820-04-11

not on tbis subject feel an honest pride 10
our Republican Institutions! Whoever on
the f1oor Of Congress dreamed OF forming q
party under the auspices Of the wives OF a.
ny Of our presidents or how could such q
marty have been successfully formed, al
hitting there had been matrimonial d'scof-
dance! Itwould have been laughed at from
one end Of the United States to the other.
Thus does aristocracy, and thus does mo-
narchy embroil Kingdoms and empires. l ne
hopes Of succession are put in JEOPARDY ny
the death Of an infant, Rival candidates
with rival claims arise, and claim inc nrs'
honors Of the state. and foreign marriages
increase these endorsements Where IS
the sceptre of George the fourth, or OF LOUIS
TO travel for an occupant?
The arrests of the criminals connected
with Thistlewood, still appear to 60 on
and the question now is, whether an 'ndict-
ment shall be presented for murder or ior
high treason.
A Spanish minister has at length reached
MS whose arrival may have an important in.
fuence on The question agitated on the floor
Of Congress, with regard to our forcible oc-
cupation of the Floridas. We presume that
whatever his propositions. whatever bis in
structions may be, and however they may
be eventually decided, our government will
not forget that digni6ed courtesy, that ought
always to exist among nations. and is pecu-
lisrly necessary from republics. Our re-
public is now the only one upon earth, and
il behoves us to take firm and dignihed,
but courteous stand. We hope that we
shall disdainsth the idea of insulting imbecility,
or of NAL ing demands from The most degra.
ded government on earth, that we would not
make to the proudest. There is in such
cases stern torbearance more imposing by
far, than the most naughty demeanor. III
homage. paid not TO Ferdinand, but to
justice !; to justice, that calm divinity, who
in the midst of storms and tempesls, or sun.
beams, maintains the firm, even and inaexi-
Bile tranquility of her balance.
From Spain. it would appear, that the
party called the constitutional party, have
not been making rapid advances. We
should look FOR little beneficial result, il the
constitutionaists were making rapid advan-
ces, Such distempered and tempestous e.
nergv, We have seen in the French revolu-
ton but the accounts which appear in our
paper ofto-day. indicate that measured eau
tious. guarded opposition, that feeling Of the
popular pulse, that adherence equally OF
mobs 4. of tyranny, that denote something
more than the temporary effusions Of popular
excitement nen who are honestly contend
ing for their rights, in questions OF such mo-
ment act with an awful responsibility. We
do not therefore despair OF Spain, because
we hear OF no sudden violations, no mobs,
and no riots These are things that belong
only 10 the voIutions excited by the Robes
pieres of France, or by the Thistlewoods
of England.
Spain has been, in some measure. disci-
plined to revolutions. At the time when
Ferdinand was imprisoned by Bonaparte,
in the midst of the strong excitement occa-
casioned by that event, nothing like turbu-
ence was excited. We may talk, we may
think as we please Of the character Of the
Spaniards. but amidst all apparent apathy,
there is dormant but powerful! energy it
has been dragged into an unnatural slum'
Der by opiates lit has been lulled into re-
pose by the foul witchcraft of oppression
but this slumber cannot be of long duration.
Spain. we believe, is destined to assert her
own dignity and this apparen, lethargy is
of itself a joyous omen-it is the working of
a mighty but invisible toree-calm, but in.
trepid-cautioas, slow, but decided. and
full OF resolution.
From the National InteUigencer.
CONGRESSIONAL PROCEEDINGS.
HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES,.
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