Delaware patriot & American watchman. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1828-1828, 1828-09-05
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DELAWARE PATRIOT
To tie Ctisens Of St. Georges and aPpoqaini
mink TlDdrpds


cral connected principles Of the aristocratc FAC
ton which so impudenty stalks abroad among you
in open day light, under All assumed garb, and
hypocrticaI men. | shall now attempt slight
calculation Of what | conceive to be the nature Of
an aristocracy-and then select two differently
located associations belonging to said party, who
are exerting all their powers to establish its de.
tested creed, and by comparing some ot their &C.
tons, plainly prove them to be at variance with.
and IN open hostility to republlcanism aud the
rights Of the people.
An aristocracy is a union. or to use an appro-
pirate definition of Banking institution, a body
without a soul, thing powerful IN ELECTS. yet in
visible in itself. This union consists in the asso-
citation, not of the vrtuous and talented part OF
the community-but in general, OF the wealthy
and supercIlious part thereof, who, being reared
in the lap OF oppulence and insolencc have the
better part Of their nature perverted, aud are par
tlculary taught to entertain contempt Tor that
class Of citizens whom they view beneath them in
point Of wealth-and at the same tim" are lead TO
believe both by precept and inclination that, the
splcndor Of their retinues, and pompous ailtcta-
ton of superiority, is sufficient to attract, not to
their bos0ms as friends. or companions, but at
respectful distance in their train, the great body
Of the people, who should suryiley receive from
them such rulers and masters as they may be
pleased to bestow. Providence appears TO have
been particularly cautious in the propagation Of
the different species OF monsters, most destrac
tive to his favo'ite. man. Aud fortunately, this
king of Ilydra's requires some time for the full
development. of its banciul influence upon society
In proportion to the sze and strength of the bas.
tard, SO is its destructive powers. thereby rem
defing it much easier task to smother the mon
ster in tsiniancy. than TO quietly await its arrival
to maturity An arstocracv should be Stunned
by yrtu0us republican people as the most dan.
geroas OF all evils that can possibly befall them
its course is invariably attended with the most de-
tcroratns consequences Select farm in you,
own nei9hborhood for instance, which has half
dozen masters or owners and see It II Is not in a
short time reduced to terliity, through Tie exorb
tant acquisitions made upon its ptoduct,eness to
support in extravaganza and Incidence its oppres-
sive and short sighted masters. An ari.tocracy
consists Of many masters--and in that respect
stands openly Denounced to you, BY the sacred
scriptures
The arm OF Rrutus can in an instant rid YOU
OF an u,urper, a king or an emperor,-but the
arms Of a myriad Of Brutus's can not easily Grad
cate deep rooted and wide spread arstocracy
The union Of heterogeneous materials, is at all
times to be considered ominous; examine the pare
OF history, and YOU will find all. either national
or individual to be founded upon moiires, either
good or bad. That between Nclas and Aci-
brades, the two contcnling leaders in Athens,
upwards OF 5000 years ago, appears i'll itself limo
cent. though not without motye.--for by their
union they retained their own power DESTROYED
their mutual elemv, Ilyperbous, aud at the same
time annihilated the a,trac,m. which, til then.
had been the great dread of boundlcss AMBITION
! In the time of Marcus and CHINA, we perceive
desire IN the iormrr to q atty his ambition
views; in the latter. to extend his power and all
his ambition. That union brought upon their
! thp rs n.
was not the disagreement between Pompey and
CHsar which brought on the civil war, but their
union destroyed the commonwealth.
The eUtct OF the strange uHon in our dav, be =
tween the formerly diseardant Adams and CLAY,
must be left for future historians to record-,he
motice on Mr.. Claws side. has partly been pro
mulgatcd by himself, to be desire to promote his
deep seated ambition, By placing himself in the
! " line of safe precedcrts,' BY which he nattered
himself to be able to sway the des,inies of this
great nation. This ambition induced him to brow
himself into the arms OF one, whom he had but
lately refused to associate with; one whom he had
charged with bearing false witness against his
i neighbour, with Sc the massacre of one Of his own
conncctlons.s with 6 weighing dollars against
Blood" with "wilfnlly violating the very letter
OF his Instructions" with "pursnng a course
wholly SECTIONAL with manufacturing facts -
with "gross absurtlltes, Inconsistencies and con
trad'ctlons y with promoting Indian wars and
massacres," with deadly hostties to the inter
ests OF the Western country" with "addng in
suit and mockery to abandonment and injustice"
with ''beins ~ a'tlul sophist, clumsy nesot-
ator and ,indictiye man." with views too or
roneous, feelings too sectional, and temper too
vndictive for the chief Magistrate of free peo
pie" ny that union we behold the great. the
wlse the vlrtaous, the immaculate Henry CLAW.
enrapt by that 'caey sophists deeply lniusing in.
to his unsaspecting and spotless soul, some
OF his arlstocratca principles, by which he is in
duced to nobty offer up the interests of the West
winch he represents, as a sacrifice to his masters
deadly hostility thereunto.