Alexandria Daily Advertiser

New Constitutions. The rage for altering under pretence of amending appears to be spreading. A writer in a late Kentucky paper has recommended to his fellow citizens a number of amendments to their state constitution, and Mr. Sloan, a butcher and member of congress from New-Jersey, whom our readers will recollect our having several times noticed, has published an address to the people of his state advising the adoption of similar measures.

Formerly these charters of our rights and liberties were considered sacred, and any alteration of them was to be made with extreme caution. But in these latter and more enlightened times, every fellow who can insinuate himself with the multitude so as to become a legislator, thinks himself as well qualified to frame a constitution as to kill a bullock or to dress his hide, and goes about it with as little ceremony. Let any person look back 6 or 8 years and observe with what inviolability, the constitution of the United States was regarded by some of our greatest patriots. Every act of the government was then represented by them as an attempt to destroy it, whether the object was for raising a few hundred soldiers, the building half a dozen frigates or depriving the people's friends of the invaluable privilege of lying -- all, all was tortured into an attempt to establish an aristocracy, and to overthrow the constitution. By a person unacquainted with all the movements of the faction who now rule, it would very naturally be asked where are now, in these times of real danger, these most watchful jealous guardians of our rights, where are those patriots who defeated all these navies, armies, &c. &c. To such an one we would answer, that these very men by their lies and by their cunning have got themselves fixed in power, and are now striving to overturn that constitution which they formerly affected so much to venerate. Foremost among those, and formerly most loud in sounding the alarm, stand Duane and Randolph with that miserable brawler Joe Nicholson. The first of these gentry, in his project for new modelling the constitution of Pennsylvania, has created confusion and uproar in that state, and the other two by their resolutions, proposed at the close of the late session of congress, have done all in their power to extend it to the union.

We are truly surprised at the little interest excited by these resolutions, which if carried into effect, and in the present temper of the times we think it probable that they may, will render our liberty and our independence but an empty boast.

[Frederick-Town Herald.]