Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1834-05-01

reasonable. Those III We're HF1a ~ suta-'
dav were thought inlpI1lls, and the 0iience
against the Deity OF Hexen Wss eeL taaRiy n is
the less aggravated beca4se II Y with
an offence against ar48ol scaf reve
reneed by those who wofshl pir Tor
one. TRUST and h6pe we shall l& ltiless such
rebellion: trust and hope that ne same tlea.
SON which led our patriot sires e bold a sue
cessful resistance against lawiess s 4atlons
will animate their sons to similar resIst nee
is nv deep conviction that such is to besfl1e lsr
sue The people may be deluded; but tney are
pure in purpose; they are awakening 20 2 tf0(!
conception Of their danger Thus afOused
they will inform themselves; and, understand
ing, they will, with resstless might, drive out
those faithless agents who have betrayed their
confidence.
In Government where the laws themselves
do not open to the people an avenue by which
they can arrive at a desired result oil correcuon,
there must. in such case, be revolution and
bIoodshed The people cannot, IN whatever
numbers. speak in terms, which, by the regular
action of the laws, will peaceably control OF
remove the offending rulers. The emperor or
the King is not periodically elevated to the
throne by the suffrages of the great body OF the
neople. and no resort is had to their will to de-
termine his continuance. Here we are yet hap
pily in possession oflegal means to dethrone our
rulers peaceably and effectually. The ballot
box is a weapon not less efficient in the United
States than the sword and the bayonet in Eu-
rome. This will restrain our people in the most
violent excitement 1t has restrained them when
nothing beside could have prevented violence.
The lust sense of outrage and injury inflicted
upon the purity of our institutions and the sane
| titv of our laws, the high claims to arbitrary
mower. and the widespread, whitening ruin
which has been effected in execution OF these
pretensions, would have driven any otherpeople
TO revolution to violence and forcibe resistance,
and thousands ofAmerican patriots would this
day be in arms to rescue the Constitution and
the laws. but for the conviction that a bloodless
battle and certain victory may be gained by the
Surer, safer means OF elections.
Isay, then, to all who desire to live and die IN
the freedom which the peril and blood OF our
ancestors have purchased; who mean TO resist
the approach of despotsm at that point at which
alone it can be ressted-its beginning who
will have your public agents to administer their
trusts according to the laws you have prescr-
bed for their conduct; who do not, in short de-
sign to have all power concentrated in one man
to all such would say admonish your CONN
ding neighbour of the existing danger; spread
before his preiudiced mind the evident tokens Of
the slow poison which his political doctrine is
infusing into the system; urge him TO throw a.
side the shackles of party, and to look beyond
the interests of one man, or even one party, ana
regard the great interests ofthe nation-lts fun
damental principles of government its past his
tory and practice, the pure and simple doctrines
| of former republican Presidents, OF our Wash
ington our Jefferson, our Madison; their &C
knowledged obligation to the laws made by the
legitimate organs ofthe people and the States;
their cautious abstinence from the exercise OF
any questionable power; their anxious regard
and respect for the authority of Congress; and
their devotion to the sacred restraining prnci-
pies which the constitution has declared shall
mark the limit ofther authority. Look to the
healthful action of the system under such a
course Of wise administration; look to the growth
and prosperity of the country; the wealth and
abundance which blessed US; the peace happi-
ness and contentment which abounded in our
borders; the march of intellect and science
and then, when filled with this contemplation
point him to the gloomy, dreary prospect which
now every where assails his astoniShed vision;
to a scene in contrast with all he has ever seen
or known before; and then tell him, and tell him
truly, the wretchedness, and poverty, and mise
ry you Witness is the fatal effect OF one mans
folly and passion. The remedy Will be applied,
not by faction or, "almost treason" 1t may
be that, yielding to those impulses which are
strongly implanted in the human breast, sense
of unprovoked injury may drive individuals
who have been deprived of the very means of
subsistence, who witness the cries OF naked
children for bread, and see the tear of distress
in the eye of wife silently suffering the agonies
OF SldTVdtIOD, VI tue SCdiCSiy ISSS lHtolCldUlC
agony ofliving upon cold charity, to occasional
bursts Of desperation and violence. These will
be depressed, and men will not prefer unlawful
means to accomplish what they may rightfully
effect
The Senator from Georgia has visited Phila-
delphia, and have smiled to hear the history
of his hopes and his speculations. He thinks
nine tenths Of the People of Pennsylvania will
sustain the President! He admits that in Phila-
delphia all is lost. ! am sure the Senator was
in a society there somewhat new to him. Ofhis
former associates, he could scarcely find one
remaining in the faith he holds. His means Of
information were probably mited-perhaps
confined to those who have the same easy faith
with himselfin this behalf Why, sir, the peo-
pie in the cities are the same sort of people as
those in the country On any great question of
political power or poca proprety, they have
the same feelings, and will have the same judg-
ment. 1t is true in cities where the population
is so dense, men confer more rapidly, and come
TO their conclusions in masses more promptly
When conviction Of error is felt, the good work
of reformation is commenced; but there is
strong obstacle still to its consummation. In the
cities the cotemporaneous acknowledgment of
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