Alexandria Daily Gazette, Commercial & Political

THE VERY AGE AND BODY OF THE TIME
HIS FORM AND PRESTURE.

The following animated description of a
Mob Government, extracted from the writings
of that eminent statesman FISHER AMES, is
recommended to the serious perusal of every
reflecting man to whatever political party he
may be attached. On the diabolical tenden-
cy of such rule we think there can be but one
opinion, more especially after the recent trans-
actions in the City of Baltimore, which thro'
the imbecility or some worse cause, of its
chief magistrate, and police, that devoted city
has been consigned to the suhreinacy of King
Mob.

A MOBOCRACY

is usurped by the worst men in the most cor-
rut times; in a period of violence, by the
most violent. It is a Briareus with a thousand
hands, each bearing a dagger-a Cerberus
gaping with ten thousand throats, each parch-
ed and thirsting for fresh blood. A mob go-
vernment, like a West-India Hurricane, in-
stantly strews the fruitful earth with promis-
cuous ruins, and turns the sky yellow with
pestilence. Men inhale a vapor like the si-
rocco, and die in the open air for the want of
respiration. It is an earthquake, that loosens
the foundations of society, burying in an hour
the accumulated wealth and wisdom of ages.
They, who, after the calamity, would re-con-
struct the edifice of the public liberty, would
searcely be able to find the model, perhaps not
even the ruins.