Alexandria gazette & advertiser. [volume] (Alexandria [D.C.]) 1822-1824, 1822-10-05


danger OF the health and comfort, and an
noyanee OF the residents in their neghbor-
! hood. QUH.
Totke Editor Of the Atsrsadriq Gazette.
SlR--It was said by a SpaDlsrd, God
deliver DC irorn my friends, and ! VIII
lake care Of Esy enemies myself ~ The
maxim implied in the ejaculation, 'falr-
lax tarneT has furnished new example,
and his address 20 the inhabitants oil all ad-
iacent Congressional District, naturally
tends 10 depreciate The individuals whom
IL soaiberaAY applauds. Though the rep,
utatiom of two .ot tflsm is secure from the
malice of eisSmies OF The indlscretien OF
friends, The others are placed by their Gu,
3 aogisls On an eI14nence as dangerous as 1t
IS lofty; for inviting notice. 1t also per
Units examinations.
S !f IA. Bailey be, in the classical Ian.
guare OK tie Farmer, just as Aristides, "
~ he win probably reject an encomium,
which, respectable as he is, is certainty
undessrvsti :---if he be = honest as Cato"
5h.swjll prefer The public good to The graf
,Iica,ioa OF personal ambition and II to
tue s.nildness of Addison, - be adds the hu-
NOR Of that writer, he will suspect satire
20 be concealed in praises which are APP
propriate 10 but lev characters, however
accomplished, OF any age or country. Ibe
Congressional district whose sutrsges be
solicltS, when urged 10 discard their pre-
sent representative. giN, imagine, re-
guile 10 a substitute something more than
merely ordinary abilities nor will they
infer then from an encomium as vague as
If is excessive. 1t is the authority, rather
than the equity OF the Farmer which is
Questionable. wbeG be " Svotld c0nStgn thts
most wortky geatlemGn TO The initidtory sta
lion of Z: State Delegate preparatory TO hls
future egattanon 10 q seat az che great ma
.,onai bodg.p How far this decree IS com
petibge .yith that which bad just excluded
Mr.. Mercer from Congress because he was
already there, and had before been in the
Virginia legislature, pretend not to ex-
s pIain: but it is quite consistent with the
logic which objects to the inexperience OF
MT. Bailey and 10 the experience OF Mr.
Lewis,
The insinuatisn that the genius Of our
government requires man TO rellnquIsh
public station, just as practice has lnstruc-
ted him 10 IFS duties, is not only against
reason, but against the usage OF Virginia
This ilusiTlous state IS not more remark
able for the ability OF its statesmen, than
for the constant and grateful support with
which their useful exertIoES are rewarded
But while Virginia 4DusCoDtinues IN oihce.
those HON experience shows 10 oe aue-
ouate 10 its functions, her encouragement
is not equally uniform to those zrhose an
competence becomes daily more mGnyest,
When the important counties OF LoudouD,
Fairfax and Prince William are solicited
10 neglect Mr. MERGERS claims, they ought
10 be informed wherein be deserves 10 tor
felt their favour. With the talents and IN
dustry which are essential to statesman,
he uniteS fund OF extensive and we'll .dl.
Tested knowledge. as remarkable as the
Virtues which characterize hls private !itei
an undertaking integrity has procured ior
him the respect OF his constituents [; while
q beEeyolence, at once active and exptn-
ded. emphatically entities him to the ap-
peilatlon of the poor mans friend. J"
However highly bis political services are
estimated, the fame of many OF them IS
slrcumscribed and a few friends only
are aware that several State papers which
have illustrated names previously obscure,
was the efforts at his powerful but modest
pen. Eminent for eloauence, be has also
while in Congress been highly useful to
bis country, ia the laborious and impor-
liant retirement OF the closet. His merits
are, however, SO generally admitted, that
until some substantial argument against his
reelection be urged, the eEcomiastlc v0
cabulary .ofa Farmer, needs not 10 be in
yoked 10 bis assistance.
1T blameIess character, high honor,
avigorous and enlightened mind consti-
s tute aOy Claim 10 public esteem, Mr.. FltZ.
hugh may confidently urge it. His coun-
Try has already recognized his signal me-
fit but as he intends not at this time the
appeal 10 it which is made for him, the
Farmer needed not TO drag his name into
a controversy already sufficiently emhar
raised.
Mr.. Lewis 10 his s. Iu,perioP' letter as.
serts that il was 8 ramored' that Mr.. Mer-
Ger intended TO decline Reelection 10
Congress. ltthree persons are sufficient 10
law TO constitute riot, THO are probably
enous b Tor runog. Yet Dir. Mercer ,nigl,t