Alexandria gazette & advertiser. [volume] (Alexandria [D.C.]) 1822-1824, 1822-07-09

in their condition TO deprive
them of the benefit of this rule. 10 the
.,yord they appealed and its decision gave
them independence.
Then was seen for The first time siace
the foundation of the world, nations as
sembled by Z cir delegates, to establish
which might be most condu-
Give to the good of the whole Not go
vernment which might most advantageous
IL compromise the prerogatiyes OF king,
the privileges of nobility, and the rights
of people at large but one whose sole
object should be to secure Ia the whole
the great end of social instltu-
tons. Founded in equity, and constitu-
ted with consummate wisdom, although
often feebly and corruptly administered, II
has produced unparalleled presently
Am asked for the evidences of this won
derful prosperity ? | answer That what
were forty odd years ago, thirteen insig-
ni6cant colonies, chiefly valuable as they
increas ministerial patronage, are now
expanded into twenty-tour tederate re-
pubiic.-That our populous cities now
gleam along the ocean border, where, not
a great while ago, stood nothing better
than Indian villagers; project their wharVes
AMI warehouses into majestic rivers, whose
waves were lately never vexed save by
herds of elk and buffaloe, and the light
canoe OF the hunters and n1Ingie their
gli,tering spires with the green tops OF TO-
rests, still imprinted with the footsteps OF
the tawny natiyes--That our commerce
encircles the whole globe-That our al
mics have triumphed over every invader
OF the land they guarded, and our shouts
of naval victory have resounded even IN
the British seas-That the tabernacle, the
church, the synagogue, the cathedral, are
erected in peace by the side OF each 9th
er; and did the Mahomedan choose 1t, be
might unmelested rear his crescent IN the
very shadow of the cross-lhat we have
triumphed over space itself IN extending
the efficacy of lav-That the populs,,,
ton in every quarter of the country still
increases, though the forests of these inh-
nite wilds are continually taking before
the restless footsteps of gigantic emigra-
tion-and that by new method IN poiiti'
cal science, sort of political agriculture,
nations are Systematically planted, raised
and gathered into the garner OF the union,
so necessarily springing up and lncessant,
ly contederated with the mass OF uni
ted republics, that we are rapidly span
ming this broad continent with magnih-
cent arch of empire; and exhibiting to the
world the noblest effort OF human wisdom
and virtue.
From these cursory observations. fellow
citizens. in which have CLAN ed at the
human race from its nursery On the bor-
ders Of the Euphrates, to its last habita-
tions on the banks of the Missouri, you may
collect some OF the characteristics which
marked it in ASIA, were impressed on II
! in Europe, and which it has received IN
the new world. In the first, there seems
10 be more sensusl in the second, more in
tellectual, and in the third, more moral,
qualification.
hope our tastes lead US to prefer the
last for we should recollect that govern
ment depepds upon opinion. and that o.
pinion must regulate government. lhe
constitution under which we flourish, would
be curse 10 almost half the people in
the world, Men are governed by final
causes, as bodies are operated upon by n
| nal ones; and as it requires different for
ces to affect in the same degree different
sorts OF matter, so it requires different
laws to regulate different minds. Ii, then,
we are attached 10 our government and
wish to preserve it, we must cherish those
virtues which render it efficient, and those
tastes which make it agreeable. Ii we
do not, it cannot last but if We do, II
will.
know there are many who cry out to
| US, do what you will, the union cannot
endure great many years-it is break
ing with its own weight, sua mole laborat,
| and with the dissolution of the union
| comes the ruin of your republics. Look
say they, at the records of all nations and
read their fate. IT'S conciseIy summed
up for you oy living author, whose re-
Elections are as profound as his poesy il
soaring. Hear it in bis own inimitaole
| words, ecboing amidst the ruins of Rome
"There is the moral of all human tales,
IT'S but bare rehearsal of the past, fails
First freedom, and then glory, when thai
Wealth, vice, corruption, barbarism, at last
And history, with all its columns vast,
Hath but one page"
Alas how true-Alas how melancho.
ly Well, what then How shall we be
affected by this reflection What do they
| wish to impress upon us By the recital o
these gloomy lines Do they mean that we
shall fold our arms with indifference, and
! witness unmoved the decay of our pros
perity, the ruin of our hopes F.? Dc they
mean that We shall reconcile ourselves to
the prospect OF beholding the disjoined
members of this empire, quiyering with
the convuls,ons, which will have torn them
asunder? Do they mean thai we shall be
calm and unruffled under The conviction that
our ancestors toiied, and fought, and bled
in vain-that all the heroism of the revo-