Alexandria Advertiser And Commercial Intelligencer

Alexandria Advertiser.
Saturday, November 27.

HAS Democracy ever been tried? And what has experience decided? Has it been found practicable to establish the plan of government that the government should not rule the people, but that the people should rule the rulers? --And how has that delightful scheme succeeded? The wish to try it is in the nature of man, which prompts him to love to rule better than to be ruled. The evidence of the operation of this unalterable passion is in history. Is there one instance of the infinite number of trials where it has answered well? Who has not been disappointed that has planted cucumbers below low water mark, or has tried to keep ice in a baker's oven?

To talk of Democracy and Liberty, is nonsense. As well might you describe the zephyrs of Pandemonium, or talk of the flowery borders of Styx or Phlegethon whose waves are boiling pitch.

Why then, as common sense and old experience have brought Democracy to the test, & found it to be folly in its original and despotism in the end, should we try it? There is not much in our plan of government to mark the shades of character that discriminate a Republic which is good, from a Democracy that is, and ever will be miserable and wicked. The Senate is one shade. That Mr. Erpes would more than alter: he would make it the auxiliary of the foe, not the champion of liberty. The Judiciary is another, that is abolished, and let America tremble. Why then should we be forced to try a Democracy so often tried to the ruin of liberty? We, of this generation, have seen others run headlong, and they have found Democracy a stone-wall. Do the Democrats insist that we also shall run our heads against it, because they think our heads, like their own, are harder than the stone wall.

(Palladium.)