Alexandria gazette & advertiser. [volume] (Alexandria [D.C.]) 1822-1824, 1823-11-29

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the name of country; no protection
at the fireside; but all one blank of
Ieaden, dreary despotism. which turns
the very virtues and excellencies of
character into a crime. 1t is the
great curse of despoiism like that of
the Turks, that it inyerts the laws OF
conduc; for its subjects. and connects
suffering and death with those princi-
pies and actions, to which PrOvi-
dence attaches the rewards OF life in
healthy state OF society. We are
able to pity individuals among US, SO
unfortunately born and bred. as to
be surrounded with corrupting ex-
amples, and taught to find occupation
and pleasure invice. What a spec
tacle do not the Greeks present in
this connection, to the practical phi
lanthropist! Arr they Jealous IN the
profession of their religion and in the
observance of its rites, they jeopar-
disc the continuance of the jealous
and cuntenptuuus liberation beneath
which they live. Do they love and
serve the land of their birth. they are
guilty of treason against its barba-
rous masters. Do they with indus.
try and enterprise acquire wealth, it
is necessary studiuusly to conceal it
from un rincipled extortion. aud to
invest it in foreign countries. Do
they found schools and make prOvi-
sions for education, they expose them
selves to exaction and their children
tn outrage, and are obliged to pro.
coed with the greatest possible secrr-
| y aud cirCumspccJion. What anon.
strous complication Of calamity. to
have the best. the worthiest, the pu-
res, designs aud actions loaded With
all the conseq enCes OF vice q crime !:
to be deprived not only of all that
axes l,ie joyous. but to be punished
for doing well, and to be forced TO go
pri, ately about those good deeds, to
which, men in other countries, are
exhorted as to a source of praise and
honor. These things ought to be
considered; and reprehensible apa
thy prevails "a to their reality. IT
liberty. virtue, and religion, we're
not words on our lips. without a sub
stance in our hearts, it would be
hardly possible to pursue our little To-
cal interest with such jealousy; to be
| all on fire in one state, for fear Con.
sress should claim the pnwer of inter.
nal impro' and up in arms in
another against change of the ia
r,ff. and carried away in all, with a
controversy b tween rival candidates
for an office, which all would admin.
lister in much the same way liza mar
lrow seiishness did not lie at The bot
| tom Of our conduct, we would not do
| all this, while men, Christians as
good as We, who have hervrsto smart.
minds to think, hearts to feel, like
ourselves, are waging unaided. sim
gle-handed. at perilous odds. war
of determination against tyrants who
deny them not only the blessings of
liberty, but the mercies of slavery.
| But We hope better things "f our
country. In the great Lancastrian
school of he nations, liberty is the
lesson which we are appointed to
trach. Masters We claim not, we
wish not TO be-, but the Monitors we
are of this noble duCtrine. 1t is
taught in our settlement. taught in
our revolution, taught in orr govern
ment anu the nations of the world
are resolved to learn. 1t may be
written in sand aud effaced, but it
will be written again and again, till
hands now fettered in slavery shall
boldly aud fairly trace it. aud lips
that now stammer at the noble word,
shall sound it ont in the ears of their
drspots. with an emphasis to waken
the dead. Some will comprehend it
and practice ii at the first--O others
must wrestle long with the old slavi h
doctrines and others may abuse it
to excess, and Cause it to be bias.
phemed awhile in the world.-But it
viii still be taught and still he repeat
ed. and must be learned by all still
by old and degenerate communities 10
revive their youth: by springing CO.
lonies to hasten their progress.
With the example before them of
free representative government -of
people governed by tnemselves--it is
no more possible that the nations will