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This charge has been hurled against ev- cry party that ever agitated the bosom of America. Every man, however honest ,pure and elevated, however superior to all sell fish aggrandisement, has been slatidered as an Aristocrat. Washington was not secure from that wordy warfare. That great man, the Father of his Country, was an Aristocrat, if we believe his slanderers.- Perhaps he displayed his aristocracy in the battle field, surrounded with thousands of soldiers, whose eyes watched his and learn ed from lis powerful example, and strug- gled manfully against the assaults of fam inc and ferocious enemies, whose vengeance a voyage of three thousand miles could not extinguish.. The term of aristocrat has been applied to other men with as much candor, justice and propriety.

 But the strongest test of aristocracy is discovered in its hidsous features in our own times. A party gets possession of the National Government, and scatters bounti- fully every office, every emolument and honor, on the friends of that government alone. Not living being, no mortal per- son is honored with national courtesy till the brand of Government is exhibited in his countenance. No man is honest; but by favor of Government no man irreA proachable, no man trustworthy, who is charged with hostility to this empire. If a man oppose the orders, the principles of this all sweeping vortex, price is set, not on his head, but his heart. And until con- verted by this universal political spirit, and made one flesh with the mighty. ruler, against him every heart is closed with bolts and hardened with prejudice. And why :? because man will not dig out his own eyes and see with his neighbor's.

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