Berkeley And Jefferson Intelligencer

MARTINSBURG, August 17.

The Salem Gazette of Friday last, contains the following article.

Capt. Ford informs us, that the 5th or 6th of June was celebrated at Bordeaux as the day of Bonaparte's coronation at Paris; on which occasion a grand procession and the usual splendid exhibitions on great public rejoicings, were made. The joy of the people, however was not equal, on this occasion; that of public officers, and those whose immediate interests would be promoted by this imperial exaltation, was sincere; but a great proportion of the common people were evidently not hearty in the celebration.

By all our accounts from Europe, it appears that the French nation are now running as mad after royalty with all its decorations and blandishments as they were a dozen years ago, after the fascinating words liberty and equality. The boasted French revolution, as Mr. Adams so early foresaw, has been nothing more than a "change of impostors and impositions." One set of knaves has succeeded another, (all dignifying themselves with the name of patriots) in more rapid succession than the seasons and the nation tired at last, as all other nations, who are the dupes of demagogues will be, by "the tempestuous sea of liberty," to find repose in the "calm of despotism."

No Republic of the many which have existed has stood. All, have fallen in the very same way, and by the treacherous hand of the same hypocritical assassin. A Democracy breeds demagogues, demagogues make and spread lies; these excite passions and kindle bonfires which light the Republican First Consuls to the throne, and the true patriots to martyrdom. In a word, licentiousness destroys republics, and he is the true republican, the friend of liberty who sets himself about to restrain licentiousness. But as this work would restrain demagogues, they loose no time to destroy or which is the same thing to render unpopular the man who would curb licentiousness.

Accordingly the business of confusion begins by confounding names and he who aggravates the known and fatal dangers of liberty is called a republican, and he who tries his utmost to lessen those dangers is called the enemy of liberty. "He is preferred who gilds and sweetens poisons, the physician is slain for prescribing antidotes. This work of mischief seemingly so strange, nevertheless, is ever successful. Already our liberty has lost its best props. The constitution has no longer an independent Judiciary for a bulwark; the President, who alone dictates; and whose will is as little obstructed as that of Tiberius was by the cypher Senate of Rome, has an empire of his own bought indeed with public money, but as much a Province for an ambitious chief to gain strength in, as ancient Gaul was for Cæsar.

With those facts before every one's eyes, facts that strike every patriot's heart with dismay, are not those federal men fatally vindicated by time and experience, who cried out to the people, your favorites aim to betray—they court you to give them power, and they will grind you to powder when you have rashly conferred it, and is it not so?