Alexandria gazette & daily advertiser. [volume] (Alexandria [Va.]) 1817-1822, 1821-07-13

forever In submission 10 the oniiiposo"eo
OF St. Stephens Chapel? Are the essen
tiaI purposes of civil government to aa-
minister to the wants, and to fortlty the
infrmities of solitary man? To unite the
sinews of numberless arms, and combine
the councils of multitudes of minds, tor
the promotion of the well-being OF aii'
The first moral element, then, OF this
composition is sympathy between the
members of which it consists; the second
is sympathy between the giver and the re-
ceiver of the law.
The sympathies of men begin with the
affections of domestic life. they arc
rooted in the natural relations OF husband
and wife, of parent and child, OF brother
and sister: thence they spread through
the social and moral propinquities OF the
neighbor and friend, to the broader and
more complicated relations of country
man and fellow citizen terminating only
with the circumference of the globe which
we inhabit, in the co-extensive charities
incident to the common nature OF man.
To each of these relations, different de-
grees of sympathy are allotted by t:- or.
dinances of nature. The sympathles OF
domestic life are not more sacred and OBJ
ligatory, but closer and more powerful
than those of neighborhood and friend
ship. The tie which binds us to our
country, Is not more holy in the sight of
God, but it is more deeply seated IN our
nature, more tender and endearing, than
that looser link which merely connects us
with our fellow mortal man.
II is common government that consti'
tutes our country. But 10 that association,
all the sympathies OF domestic life and KIN
dred blood, all the moral ligatures OF friend.
ship and OF neighborhoed. are combined
with that instructive and mysterious connec-
ton between man and physical nature, which
binds the first perceptions Of childhood in
chain of Sympathy with the last gasp oil ex,
pring age, to the spot OF our nativity, ana
the natural objects by which it is surrounded.
These sy mpaihies belong and are indspen.
sable to the relations ordained by nature be
tween the individual and his country. hey
dwell in The memory and are indelible in
the hearts of the FIRST settlers Of distant co.
lony. These are the feelings under WHICH
the children OF Israel ''sat down by the RI
VerS OF DaDyIOH. duo WePs "ne '"~y
membered Zion" These are the symPa'
thies under which they hung their harps
Upon the Willows" and instead OF songs OF
mirth, exclaimed. 81 If forget the, y Jeru'
salem. let my right hand forget her cum
ming" But these sympalhies can never ex
list for country, which we have never seen
They are transferred in the breasts OF Inc
succeeding generates, from he country OF
human institution, 10 the country OF their
birth from the land of which they have on
~ heard, to the land where their eyes FIRST
opened 10 the day. The ties OF neighbor-
hood are broken up, those OF friendship can
never be formed, with an intervening ocean;
and the natural ties Of domestic lie, the all
subduing sympathies ofioVe. the indissoluble
bonds of marriage, the heart.rivitted kindll.
ness of consanguinity, gradually wlther ana
perish in the lapse Of few generations
All the elements which form the basis OF that
sympathy between the individual and his
country are dissolved. Long before The de-
cIaration OF independence the great mass OF
the people Of America and of the people OF
Britain had become total strangers to each
other. The people of America were known
10 the people OF Britain only ty the transac..
tions OF trade by shipments OF lumber and
faxseed. indigo and tobacco. They were
known to the government only by halt
dozen colonial agents, humble, and often
spurned suitors at the feet Of power, and
by royal governors, minions OF patronage.
sent. from the fooistool OF throne beyond
the seas, to rule people OF whom they
knew nothing as if an inhabitant OF the
moon should descend to give laws to the
jewellers upon earth. Here and there, a
man of letters and statesman, conversant
with all history, knew something Of the CO.
lonies, as he knew something OF Cochin.
China and Japan Yet even the prime mi
MISTER OF England, urging upon his omnlPo.
ten; Parliament laws tor grinding the colo.
MES to submission, could talk, without a
mazing or diverting his hearers, OF the island
of Virginia even Edmund Burke, man OF
more ethereal mind, apologizing to the peo'
pie of Bristol for the offence of sympathlsing
with the distresses of our country, ravaged
by the fire and sword of BritOns, asked in
diligence fer his feelings on the score OF
general humanity, and expressly declared
that the Americans were a nation utter stran-
gers to him. and among whom he was not
sure of having single acquaintance. The
sympathies, therefore, most essential 10 the
communion OF country were, between the
British and American people, extinct
Those most indispensable to the just relation
between sovereign and subject, had never
existed and could not exist between the
British government and the American PEG.
pie The connection was unnatural; and it
was in the moral order, no less than in the
positive DEGREES OF Providence, that ii should
be dissolved.
Yet felow-citizens, these are not the eau.
SEES oil the separation assigned in The paper
which am about 10 read. The connexiOn
belween different portions Of the sau'e PEG.
pie, and between people and their govern
want - cn,nav;o, n J.,f;., xucll NJ