Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1834-03-14
ALEXANDRIA,.
FRIDAY MORNING, MARCH a. $50,
THE POOR AGAINST THE Riot,

"The hatred of the poor to the rich -
tired natural'' enough in the enslaved and 80
graded monarchies Of Europe, but most nv
tural and debasng in free Republic.-wasr1
lied upon, as Mr. Webster said lately @,
the shadow of the walls of the Capitol 70
tain the President in his course" That apa
qnent Senator then denounced such a sort;. w
as an abominable fraud on the com,nm. ',"
Honorable members ofthe Senate. favorob1.'
the Administration, thought it their dutv -
pei the charge of having countenanced CIV,
nefarous appeal to base passion, and renn5;.'
ed it for themselves and their party.
Reproduced, then, as it was immedi..o,.
Washington, it has again been advarco3 d
New York. A great political contest io ~ q"
to ensue in the City Of New York. One ~ T.Iu
Jackson organs there, alarmed at the Sian. "'s
the times, makes an incendiary apneaI &c =,
same nature, and it would appear aImos, :,
same language. No sooner is the attemrt ro.1'
however, than the Press steps forwards.g
buke the detested assault upon society,"
The New York American SAYS;
"The man who, in this country, for srr
pose deliberately sets to work to array tbo puI
against the rich, and thus to establish Jstt ooi
ton of classes, which it is the aim and tba
cessary effect moreover ofpolitical institnol,,s
like ours, to amalgamate and bind tooetber b.
sense or common interest and common H.
pendence-must be either fool or a knayeS
The New York Mercantile Advertiser s,c.
In this country, the man who is poor to,a,.
may in few years become rich. There s tber.!
fore, in truth, no set Of men who can he said :,
be the poor or the rich-the greatest besSrao,
our free institutions is, that there are no nri,2a
ged orders-the road to wealth is omen n III
and nothing is SO base and so wicked, as 70 .,
tempt through the unjust prejudces of any :,
get up hatred between those portions Of the
community, who happen at this moment 10 be-
in possession Of more, against those who have
less, of this worlds goods. Surely. eyeyy man
who feels that he is a member of a repubIic ms.
sessing equal rights with any other citizen. Will
feel indignant at a journal that shall endeayor
to incite him to exercise the rights secured 70
him by the Constitution, in manner that is 70
destroy the very essence of civil liberty in array
ing him against another because that other has
profited of the benifcent laws which ensure p
quail freedom and justice to all, and has ACQUIRED
more or less property which is secured tohim by
the very institutions it is the purpose Of such in.
cendlary articles to destroy. The common detes
tatlon Of this community should fall upon any
man or set of men who would thus endeavor 70
array, for party purposes, those who profit by
accumulated capital, in the stimuouS il gives 10
their labor, against those in whose hands sue.
capital has been acquired by honest industry
Who are most of the rich among us, but thGss
who were once poor? and who by their owl
honest and praiseworthy exertions have savsi
by their earnings, what has entitled them b
considered among the rich"
We remember that the notorious Miss Fam
Wright, and others Of her stamp, first br0Ug.'
this abominabe spawn Of AgraranSm across
the Atlantic, to aid them in spreading infdeiT
and overthrowing Christianity. Ofcourse they
failed. But the seeds then sown fell upon ev
ground, and sometimes spring up Let there
membered, however, that there is nothing
American in the growth. 1t is rife, and rank
and luXuriant in the crowded workhOuSes
Europe; but it sickens and dies on the broad
fields of this land of freedom-where poor
man is as proud Of his liberty as his rich neigh
bor-shares its blessings with him, and is equa'
lyinterested in preserving and perpetuaungN
for his children-who in their town, may u
rich, and able to assist the poor children oil loe'
fathers rich neighbor.
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