The Patowmac Guardian, And Berkeley Advertiser

To arrive at the present silence would be a crime. In a moment of professional truth high treason against liberty. Never was the situation of our country more awful and more alarming; never was there an occasion which demanded more patriotism and more energy. As a treaty has been promulgated to us, and this treaty is likely to become a law, which like a volcano, contains within its bosom the materials of destruction. Lessons of danger revived from our slumber, we stepped forward in an ecstasy, to a peaceable, nay in a constitutional manner. None murmurs and our objections and that manifestation, by the people themselves, have penetrated with a superstitious awe and atrocious arrogance which ought to kindle indignation in every honest breast. The character changed, as its political condition of our country to mere tools, for the people are no longer able to comprehend place hotter? Are we of Burke's with mulcted, that we are deemed incapable to judge our own interests, and too fluid to distinction from him: Or does the President in fact grand Lama of this country, that we are to approach him with superstitious reverence or religious regard: His answer to the citizens Philadelphia speaks a contempt of the people more evident than his own letter would render humble. He has disdained to look down with an eye of cool complacency from that eminence on which they have placed him, but he has signed a tone of vanity and superiority, which ought induce us to hope ourselves in Foldam. Intend of Philadelphia. He has not even condescended to answer the memorial of the citizens of Philadelphia... he has caused a copy of his answer to the address of the citizens of Boston as their toast got! This idea of answers from stoic is seen never on this occasion; for as Jeremy got the letter wrote by a drummer to a cornet would win us in Mdme De Lam-, r. e ncmt cobteivel rheaniwer to the people of F.iu ar's it the citizens of Philadelphia!-- I did not deign to pursue the Shandean me- to, hinging cream off it: perhaps this was i.l. get dn attention to republicans.-- D. President pursue this line of conduct when nature s w. ient t, him on his proclamation of ne c : Flangh the subject of the addresses w sr tae, did re tend a copy of his nft answer to a .t alaiers: the theme of adulation was tongra ac di : to produce fuh overfowing of i ;i soly when the people dire speak ur o '. " sruths, th at they are treated-with super- L.s I rr .hj co w of a letter to the people of Boston be examined, nd scarcely a line but contains some cot lo acrimony against the people, who have ui leir sentiments against the treaty, under ri - inf enca nt p.rjinal, leal, an? partial conduct c ien dd trey consider the United states as ..hasin a. mnif rm initreit ; when were tudden im : jsrs when erroneous iefted to yield to c.ns rei. irns; when . they neglect the tob dapd :di p rmannt jnicrefts of our country, ther the President invidiously contrasts himself with 1r, 'a .t t a predilection for my own judgment, f's tk ariwer, I r.ve weighed wuh attention ere! raur e v bich has, at an" time, leen bro't in:o vien.. Bn. the e nltnurion is the guide I ne- ve" on aiandon." What tolecifin! the President h. i yad ne ncary in opposition to rhe uniterial t nsnive the peanle, and yet be has no pr hileen. o. pris can jdgme.:? The constitution is the g.'ue herever ean ab ndon and yet there are tow io nevotee tnimn, th.t will den his having de- parte: trom it.wae the constitution_ his puide wier le r-mitned tne chiefiuftire of the Uuintd Staies s. an env y ex'rdordiary to the court of C't. Birin? Was the constitution his guide whcn hemnsre a treary witlout the advice of the fe: se ? Was mhe cei ftin iou his mide whan he cunf nud nuirrn.ns shicb afectsthe territuii- al r.i.i sg-traie.? Was the conftiggion his g ie wln te iirtok to segulate ctmmeret? V, iri.snid. vlen he eltalhuhed a ruleof na tui.ni(i.irildi ton of the weftern pir-: w.s h ae when he defned biraxy, o un le nuri,rv enggrnenis,wlafe c.i.! .hie tthebouicot npietent.- r. ?. Ickd ntine me interiopatorics, but I heh n i . :. d'nd sill take mv leave of it as n t t. tr o. .itrore for if it was his gni e, ls tone ir ng magie it bas been converted into i j. . o'ianth ., wi.ch h.s ii him from the tu;iiojw.mnghires The coniiuuon mppols. cad the principle of. c.er free goterrmren: funnoies thal the voice of the p"oy nc d r to lovern, aid ifthat voice was coin- prle t to drcids opon a roum of gotersanent, it mult I cunalis, it not imore capable to judge of thofe re- gdariorsmnle under it. In afsigning to the Pre- fidert and senate the power of niaking treaties, can ir be refed that it contemplated a treaty whih would be ratifed ty then in oppofition to the Imoft un.nimous voice of America! It is a libel rpor the orftitutian, and upon the people who reiceived it rofoppole it. Without deiracting treM that afsumption " that thofe two branches of govsrnment wouid conbine wi-hout o (sion, and with th: tett means of intor- matiou thofe facts aud principles uoon whih the iu. eis ot enr foreign rtlations will always de. pand." Iv ill be bild to lav the pecpie of the Umicd statcs, wbo have capicistd hoitiliry to h:e treaiy, have combined with no more pafsion, and with as good information thofe facts and prin- ciples unon which the fuccefs of our foreign relati- ons depend, as rhe prefident,his twenty fenators, or even " Camiilus," who has kept himfelf in the back ground of the picrore. The committee appointed by the citizens cf Philadelphia contain as much in- formation on the iu'jct of our cenntry and its re- lations, and proiets as much patriotilnn too, as any equal number of thofe who gecided on the trealy, and yet thev are told with a tone of fuperciliouf. neis, that their opinions, and the cpinions of almoft the whole people are not to be fubftituted for the conviction of others, and that truth is to be fought in no other c.senel than that of a teu perate and well iutormed inveftigation! I he chef joftice of he ftate of Fenulylvania, the chief juitice of the United States is eoualiy incl ded, the fpeaker of the hoaie of reprelentatives of the United States, the fec.ctary of the ftate of Punntylvania, a mem. ber or the boifr ." reprefentatives, and many other citizeus rua by re pectable, nay the people them- relves fromn New Hampthire toGeorgia, are by this infine.ted to be an in'cmperate and uninfirned raoh'e, whoare too sy'inrsh to be able to judge of the theaty ! Dors this infinuation manifeft the tem- per, or the underitan inng, or the juformation of the frxi -nt ? A proper de:erence to that voice which hastx.lted him to his prelent greatnefs, ard a juft re'pect tor the fentiment: of an enlightened people, ougnt to have dictated df different language. i'wenty fenutors vored for the treary, and two th.rds ot the fenate are necefsary to convict on an impeachment, and yet we are told of fubmifsion to brgh relponibiity no wonder thai the committee was defired to prcclaim this refponfibility, as a ground of the Prifident's proceduie ; for it was the langiage of triumiph, that was too great a cordial pals over in filence. to That an oppofitiin to the general 'will of an en- liglitened natien fhcuid be coulidered as an obcdi- cie to the dictates of conftience is a. myherious as the prefiden 's " manner" of executing the duty before bim. Thouph be has no predilection for his own judgmene bis conicience is fo tender a thing. that tie haipinefs, the lverties, the inde- pendence of the reipie of the United State. muft not enter into con petition witb it !l ! Sir, I have f kch a i nguage not in common ofe in this couctry. By fcane it tiay be thought facri legous, by othiers treatonable, by fome impertinent ind by others jutt ; but mny contcirnce has been the grodid of protedure on this occahoa, for I can no longer periuade mvlelfthat any man in a free coun- try, wao is in the fervice of the people, is alove the itrictures of a freeman. We have been guilty of idolatry too long; vunithhent is parfuing ts for it ; it is Ligh thne that we thoold have no other Gods than one. No doubt can now be entertained wbo is the author of the treaty, and if the reputed au- thor deijerved the character given of hiin, the real author is certainly pot to be exemnpted. T he trea. ty is : ot changed fince it received ih - P.efdent's fignature, and if it merited the execration beftowed upon it beiorr. it has the fame features cf ab.aor- rence now. To bc Tent under it, would be dur- grateful, would be flavifh-to cenfure Jay for it now, wou!d be injuftice. HANCOCK.