Alexandria gazette & daily advertiser. [volume] (Alexandria [Va.]) 1817-1822, 1821-07-19

feeling of the South. Some words are
employed which classical usage has not
authoriz ed, many are used, especially in
the long sentences, regardlessly OF precis-
ion, and much of the imagery is in the
worst manner of the Irish School. The
"rocket and shelf figure would alarm
even counsellor Philips, but the "grap-
ping hook and scourger would entirely
please him. He would perhaps hnd
charm in the contradiction which places
the 'hook" under the " scourge" after the
"scourge" had been annihilated. But
can criticism restrain his contemptuous
smile atthe following illustration? "But
this treaty of peace is the dessert appro-
pirate to the sumptuous banquet or the
declaration. 1t is the epilogue to that
unparalleled drama Of which the Decla-
ration is the prologue. Observe, my coun-
trymen and friends how the rules OF unity,
prescribed by the great masters of the
fictive stage, were preserved in this TRACE
dy of pity and terror in real life. Here
was a beginning. middle, and an end,
of the one mighty action. The beginning
was the Declaration which we have read;
the middle was that sanguinary, calaml-
tous, but glorious war, which calls for
deeper colours, & brighter pencil, than
mine to pourtray, the end was the dispo-
sal by Divine Providence, that same Di-
vine Providence, upon whose protection
your fathers had SO solemnly and effectu-
ally declared their firm reliance, of the
heart of the most serene, and most po-
tent prince to acknowledge your indie
pendence to the precise extent in which
it had been declared"
The usual July thirst for quotation ra-
ges in this composition, but hardly soil
tary one is strikingly apostle; not more
than two are remarkable for beauty, and
and one of these last is misapplied. 1t
will be readily conjectured that l mean
by the last, Virgirs magnificent exhorta-
ton to the Romans beginning with,
:. Ercudent dSi spirantia mollius era"
which is pressed into the service, to IL
lustrate the following position viz. '' 1t is
not by the continuance of agents Of de-
struction that America wishes to COM
mend her inventive genius to the admira-
ton or gratitude Of after times; nor is it
even in the detection of the secrets, Or
the composition of new notifications of
physical nature" Is sculpture defined in
the Harvard Encyclopedia to be Ga de
lection OF the secrets" or the compost
ton of new notifications Of physical ma
turo?"
One of the most beautiful portions of
the Address" is that which traces the
progress Of sympathy through the differ
ent relations of life 1t will probably re-
mind the romano e-reader of similar
passage in Rob-R but it will not me-
eessarlly suggest to him parallel be-
tween the political morality of Rashleigh
Osbaldistone and that of the Secretary.
If the offences against good taste were
the only transgression of the ''Address,"
it's author might find consolation in the
flattery of the Ga2ettes, and the promises
of countries, who prophesy that it
will eclipse the fame of Tully and of
Burke. But there is in it deeper and a
darker sin, which it becomes every citizen
of a christian community, every lover of
his country's honor to denounce. The
humblest individual merits the reproaches
of philanthropy, who creates or cherishes
among his countrymen spirit OF vlndlc-
tive bitterness against their fellowpen.
What then shall be said of minister, who
lends to such an enterprise the sanctions
of Office and celebrity Here perhaps
the Secretary may recur to his college
recolections. and discriminating between
the natural and political man, contend
that what is done in the former capacity
is not imputable to the latter But this
scholastick riddle cannot alter the fact,
that an exalted minister of the Republick
has uttered sentiments, which would be
to its meanest citizen a subject of hui
initiation and remorse.
In land protesting creed which
breaches good will to allmen" the Union
has been invited by it's trusted servant to
foster nalevoience which is never to be
Idle and is never TO die. Il statesman
whose duties require frequent and of:
ten delicate intercourse with the repre-
sentatives of a friendly nation, has insult
ed its character with wanton rudeness
equally unseemiy in scholar and gen
tleman. And why was this done? Why
was this crusade urged against people
the freest, save ourselves, on the habita
BILE globe?-A people in whose literature
the human mind has reached heights
| which Rome or Athens never dreamed 0
in the brightest day of her genius! Are
the sins of Lord North to be visited or
this noble nation, and are we now tol(
that poison is in the spring whence oul