The Delaware gazette — Wilmington [Del.], 1810-01-27 00:00:00, page 3

lie recognition of an Insult, offered to tire bead*
of departments in our government, in whose
hantls are ertti listed négociations with foreign
who
law,
powers.
Feeling as we do, that an insult to officers so
high, in whom rest a responsibility so great,
while in the decent, honorable, rightful ami dig
*t,
nified performance of duties incumbent on them
try
thro' the insolence of a foreign minister, is. an
insult to the nation at large—and deeply im
pressed with the importance of supporting the
1'
executive, in all actions sanctioned by justice,
ot|r
■where the rights and dignity of our national gov
ernments is involved •
BE it it therefore Resolved by the Senate and
House of Representatives of the state of Geor
b
gia in general assembly met: That we conceive
the conduct of FRANCIS JAMES JACK
ed
SON, late resident minister from the court of St.
James, to have been highly insulting and censu
the
rable ; and that with one voice we approve the
spirited and decisive manner, of the executive
to
of the United States refusing further to nego
tiate with the British government thro' the me
the
dium of that minister.
And be it fuither Rcso.ved, That we as cdt
tizens of Georgia and members of the unit n.
C
Wilt ever be found in willing readiness ro assert
n
hml support the rights and dignity of
coun
•try whenever called upon by the proper authori
ty of our national republic.
And be it further Resolved, That his excel
lency the governor he requested to transmit
these our resolutions to our senators in congress
to be by ihem presented to the president of the
United States.
FROM THE ENQUIRER.
T* The solid state rf public credit." — M A D150N.
The federalists mock us
" you dare not
-
defend ottr riglits, say they-you dare not
meet the costs —you must kiss the dust in si
■
lence."
Is it come to this ? When tlie national ho
nor is wounded, " must we wait until the secre
tary of the treasury has counted ilie costs of
healing the wound ?" Shall we become colo
i
nists again, to save our purses ?
Our sires were of a different op n on. They
gave their treasure—they gave their blood—lor
independence. They diJ not wait to see how
m
much liberty vns worth in shillings and pence.
fll
They felt it was the best gift, which the Gods
had showered upon man. and they dedicated
o
their pelf to its acquisition ? Are their sons un
it
worthy of their sires?
Will the people murmur at this exertion?
Are they so blind to their own honor, as to
banish its defer,tiers from their confidence ?
Are they so blind to interest , as to see their
right, invaded, their trade cut up, the future
means of acquisition destroyed by British ava
rice incited by our submissions—-and yet hesi
tate to prevent it by the immediate use of a
few mil.ions of dollars ? What sort if econo
mist is he, who would save a dollar to day. to
lose twenty tomorrow ? who refuses to build a
(evee, when the ocean, threatens art universal
.desolation ?
This is a bastard species of parsimony, that
destroys its own views—it is an economy that
devours itsef
" Hut where arc your resourcee ?" They are
to he fitind in lire credit of the U. S. in the
vaults of banke and the purses of individuals.
The government stands high in the confidence
of the psop e—its stability, its faith so strong' y
evinced in the payment of tlie revolutionary
'debt —its unparalleled justice, are tlie sureties
There is no government under the sun in high
er credit.
"What? Fly lo loans I Where arc your
means of redemption ?" And where were they,
when we assumed the debts of the revolution—
where were they, when the last administration
paid off near 25 millions, besides interest <.u
the rest, and more lirait G initiions to the con
vention with G. Britain ana of the convention
of Louisiana ? We are rich—our prosperity.
our means, our riches increase every day—
importations are greater, and the duties moi'
lucrative.
Have the public lands vanished ? Here is n .
vas: sinking fund, greater by far than Pitt ever
dreamt of. During the last year, we sold
3,008,980 acres for (>,53*,003 dollars—and ve
still own 630,000,000 acres.
" But loans increase debt." 'Tis true—and
'tistrue a public debt is a public curse— œ, ono
■my is. in itself a virtue. But there arc other
virtues besides it—there is something valuable,
beside* money —national honor —there are othi r
CAtrses besides debt —disgrace and degradation
An treonomy of gold is sometimes a waste of
liberty and rights.
" But those debts may fall upon our chil
dren —wh.it right hive we to burden them ?
Aim 'd that it does—will our sons be base enough
to murmur at debts which were the price of
their rights and independence ? Is there an
American son so base ns to return tinder the
British yoke, if he could thus spunge the pub
lic debt? ll this objection had been urged
»gainst tlie revolution ,hero would our si-•.shave
lau »bed at it !
But 'tis cot true, th at our loans will fal' up
on nur posterity. For the secretary of th
treasury has estimated that after 1 SI I, no no 1
than 4,100.000 dollars will be wanting fur th.
present del) —-in lieu of 8,000,000—thus, n
fact, the only effect of a new loan will be ;o
d.Jer the payment of (hie debt, us it now IS, loi
a Very short time.
" But where is your money," srvy the ftder
a lists with an ignoble tail»'—wiry is die treaxu
vy exhausted ? 1'his comes ®f your tinburgr—
mid of idi the. '.tdxq, acts ti your ndministratio i !"
ImpUti-Hi I'rer.tr
j ir.il -
' • >t ttO Oil
boils of the old debt ?* The republicans. And
who did it. though they reduced the
c vernie
law, dismissed the direct tores ! Levied no
i a
single loan ? The republicans,
And yet iin-se
federalists taunt
us— iKii, who, when m porv
*t, contracted new loans, and run then
COUli
oy
try deeper in debt.
If our. resume, s arc now reduced, is it oir
fault ? Did we issue »he British orders a M d
1' rem it decrees ? fliese would h ue reduce..
ot|r dudes.
The fe ■«••:, iisH tvoni'l hive suit*
nutted in silence am! di
'•ut bec-.use wi
grace
flew to expedients to save om country from
ruin, we are reproached with ih- acts of the
b ll'geretii». And who are the complainants?
in
fhu-e very men, wiio-e opposition has defeat
I
ed th" efficacy '-f our men- tires—who encour
aged the embargo breaker -—who declaimed in
the senate—■chcuLitin,- cit c.lars against it—anti
roused the legislature -if Massachusetts aimo-t
to arms against the gent-i'a' government. Anri
behold their c uisis'ency! flret charge us with
the ill success—then It m they, who have pro
duced it. T ey mum us with the low condi
tion of the 're.isurv, tvliun it is th-y woo ha'c
C used all til"*' |C| ill; r to CU on iv. i tilg ! They
n .w ridrenh a loan, when it is they only
\\ ; i !
nave tendered it necessary 1 !
up YHniiy !"
down, federal shame Î
A REPUBLICAN.
* Besides, snme millions paid for Louisiana, anil
tint key of the west, the mouth of the Mississippi,
which the federalism would have seized through lire
and blood—we got it in peace.
From the Virginia Argus.
A D M O N i TO 1 i V M ES SAG F.
- The president, i; will be seen, lias recom
mended measures of d' fcnce against the worst
but can happen ; atid ill
ng so he has[
■
in met! ii s'const; .'ii.i"n;tl
ty, and displa
much «f the tme spirit of a tv su statesman.—
We should like to have seen, indeed, a btlie
more nerve in the communication; hut, all
li ngs conn,tiered,'I is certainly a very coin
i
im u'lable step; such an one, in t ulh, as all
sens hie men (le party zealots preach as they
wd ) m'.'o' aphrovc. Had it ba. n a little more
x'msj, it would certainly be loudly op
m
fll tided
We lav down two propositions as the grounds
o our i.p'tPrm on this subject, wit ch we th.nk
it will ne d fficuit to conte vert ; that is
iri SiU"
Is-. Flic- gemrn ment of the Unitid Stares
Tom its very na'ure. ca m u act tilth secrecy :
r. follows, of c urse, that ah the- world knows
and is minu e'v at
quainte-d v> it Ire very step
which it tikes cither to maintain its rights or to
relinquish them.
2d. No nation can vindicate its honor or
awtige its wrongs without oreparation for war :
consequ. ntly, (as the whole world knows at all
times what We are about) so long as we are not
prepared fin war, the tviio.e world knows -hat
we cannot fight, however much we are inju
red.
From these two propositions this conclusion
invs.stihly follows to wit : that let our congress
men bltis'er and mlk b g m long as they please,
both England and France are will assured that
they have nothing to dread, till soidters, can
non, and bayonets aie \ou-d.
I .et us look back a liiti", and we shall very
clearly perceive the propi-e'y of what the pre
-iilent lias done, and of what congress ought
y
to do.
Five thousand of our seamen were (and are)
mprexsed on board the British navy. What is
the erne y - Négociation.
1 lie harbor of New Yo k is blockaded and
a c.t'Zen killed What is the result? Setro
ciatian.
Oui merchant vessels are seized at sen under
a new ruh (ot '5(1) and thtircargoes condemn
ed in tie British vice-admircty courts. Wnat
8 the eine for this evil ? Negotiation
A national frig tc is rut ic'.eil by a British
ship of war, part • f her ( tew sla.n, and ■ tilers
eat ied arvat into captivity. What s the re
dress? ! ow '-mes"ii,.-s, ad resses, slang-whimp
ing, and— N.geC't. ion.
n .
The cap'am of a petty Bri .sh sloop of war !
(lire Dt'veij insulted one of our chief cities.—
What is done ? Négociation.
France violates our commerce in an outra
, émis manner. What steps are taken? Ntgo
ciatton.
During all these abuses, congress conve e
many 'im s; various infl immatory and wutv
pee dies w ere delivered, and logic, ridicule
r
anil invective, poured forth in streams, falls,
•md cataracts. What was the event ? Why. the
of
foreign abuses continued ; each party praised
its own speeches and clubbed six-pcnc. s to have
cart-loads of them printed. Things passed on
?
and we again resorted to— négociation.
of
As long as England and France found that
we bore it with patience, or rather with speeches
and négociation, without preparing for the
■worst, so long have they treated us as persons
11
worthy cf nothing but insults and outrage
is true, both Uie British and French have " re
vived and discussed propositions," but they
ve aiso continued at the same time their mai
"i.duct
But the prospect of war, says ore faction, Is
1
th.
tcnib'.e affair; there will be bloody nose
a
aid broken bones. It is all true, but it is tlx
n
t of humanity; and has orda-ned th-.t tiiose
;o
loi
■.vito wii not fir'ht and risk their noses and
ones for their rights, shall have none. And
et it he remembered, that our citizen* have
enslaved, our flag trampled under feet,
•cn
nr people's noses and bones bloodied and bro
., en in the very lap of peace.
!"
Yet war
s not an evf, in its pi
It is
on. y the
- a of war
at arc odious .:n;l ag
A just and honorable war, is a no
grest.'ve.
b'e cx rt.r.n of valor in deft
uce ot ■-'•tue and
just it e.
it teaches the aggressor
■ 'future to
beware ; ii fortifies the reputation ofthenvion
oy the energetic idta of to. rage ; . nd gives
the community confidence in itself. War is
->ot theohiect
1 the president's message; but
merely to prépaie the country incase it should
ome.
I lie i)t lligevents. ho-.vevcr, cry the ir.decisive
oiitxians. will not make war upon us.
In the firs, place, hotv can that be ascertain
cl? A wise man provides agu'iist chance—or,
in '-'her words, he leaves no
g to chance.—
I ao-e who oppose preparation for the worst,
arc like the l.bevl ne who addressed the friar :
/"..///*», s od ti 1 cent'ovis yotlth,
•hat a wretched
lift willy/oeri have A. t.n if there i
iri other world
but th
And, rtp! cd th old man, what a terri
will yours have been if Hint is. A need
les, precaution (quin ■ the sh iiy slo.llv reason
ers) ii tiieic should In no war : But (says We)
W'ii.n a prenant -on if there sliould\e war.
If. indeed, there shoo'd be rio a .tack upon us
in 1 , r spring, the reason w,,. be this:
1 it' belie -rents reap mote
dvantape from us in
'U/ f'y til t.i if v:c t:' re actually ut
llir prrsrt /
war wall them both—tor
I.OCili AT THIS.
At present ,
They Captuie our 'carncn,
idem.
-piliage our merchant shin-,
idem.
- .track our vers. Is of wmt,
idem.
--insult our marine jurisdiction,
-abuse us in their state papers,
idem,
-cut up and interdict .dl nur trade,
idem,
Tlie tact is, the belligerent ,
are at war with
u«, but we are not at war w'th them ; en asrer
tion which, although 't mty sound very much
like a contradiction, is [.effectif correct.
; them, as they attack us,
f we
rrr t>* ;j
ve sliouLt have sir.
; same revenue ;
c coniine;
some captures of their vessels to counterbalance
'Wir losses ; and some conque is to indemnify us
lor past injuries ; ami these things will he neces
sary to u - ; tor
marx you this.
I the British or with
Let a treaty b- made w
nay, be assured that
the French, tvii'nsoever ii
U'di's., we tiure something in our "i-session as a
set-i ff against the restoration of our proper",
which we shall neccssu-dv demand from tlum,
tiiey will ncvri surrer 'er to us the citizens nor
tne property which they ha' e purloined from us,
unless we surrender sonic principle or admit some
otmnr ci d doctrine winch will essentially im
pair our riglits.
The pres'dent's rero'iim»"iLtl
ff> oreoafe
ete"t srii-e of wis
therefore, is wise, in the disc
■mied had been
dom. I; tar tneasures r«.-imr
stroll;'>w ad even more fir ■■ r'f.llv pointed out,
the mes.'iagr would ha ■' be " wiser still.
From Bell'.. Weekly Messenger.
It has ever been om opinion that the Engl'ih
ministry have not conducted themselves wisely
towards America, and tb.it not' ing can lie
more unreasonable than the restrlctictions* oo
their commerce. What should we think of a
wholesale esuibl siiment,
trader, who, having
and tnence supplying all the shops o' a district,
should stop Up ail the ruais, and prohibit the
letailc s, whom he s ipplied, from all access
to
there t.us.om., i—"ulJ he reasonably expect
that his cus o.o could continue from the retail
ers, when lit had thus cut oft from these re
tailers their customers? Could he expect that
they shonid continue to buy from him what he
would not permit them to sell to others? bet
has not such been onr conduct towards Amen
c I ? 1 lie wholesale dealer has become jealous
■ f he rela ie''« profits and prosperous com
met cr, and under th'.s impression not seeing
that the i rosperity offne retailer was intimate
ly connected wi h his own, has acted ;u the
spirit of a narrow jealousy, and ende vored <o
demolish the retailer, or at least to check his
I" roim
trade. Such is the bash or om order*
ti, it is founded
A., to riie right of se;
cd.
on equally ubaird principle
it 's an extension
of the piiiicu le of blockade and contraband
! f r0 m a single point of sei'.re to a nation —
Where an army is besieging a city, the supply
of it must necessarily defeat the purpose ol the
sHge and the just end of the war ; the besieg
ing army, therefore, has an'"doubter 1 right to
prevent such a supply, and t si c
\ tv means
necessary for that purpose ; h ".'he supply of a
belligerent nation, in the present state ot so
ciety in Europe, with gtinpowiit r. See. must be
of such trivial value and consequence, that it is
matter ol doubt to ns, whether it can in any
degree justify or authorise the serious evil of
the right of general search.
One of the fust principles of oTtr dut;
to.
wards others should be, that we should no( do
a great injury to them, for the sake of a pitiful
advantage toourselves. It should he in mortals
as m trade—the articles should Ire worth the
We should not turn tire house upside
cost.
down for the sake of catching the mice ; we
11
should not unload a ship to search for a sqmb.
in ull
\ here should be comparative measures
tilings,
One Dollar Reward.
Is
the Brandt •Hire Paper-Mill,
AN a wav Ir
R
on tire morning of th- 14 ■ iusta
an ap*
ce lad named William J'udi, aged n.-ar 2!
• rent
; fair < ompli Xion, brown hair, about five
years
The ab ne reward will be
. et six me n * high,
ck.
laid on his o in » hfougl" ■
î» GREATRASE
fft
Job. $$, 181®»
Public Notice
I S hereby given, that a mr.eunn of
cruse-■
niiffioners of the Levy Cour, 'for the roiir.
ty of New-Caltie, will he he d at the Court
Foufe, in the town of hew- ( adle, on fuel
day, the leventh day of February next, ar
hdiicb time and pince, ali perlons having claims
or demands against the county may prefenr
them for feulement.
ALEXANDER R 1 YNOI.DS
Clerk of the Peace.
January 2 7
41
Military ^choui.
The Members of the company of Witmington
bight-Infantry Blues, are requested lo attend
at the house of lilt Jwwibtiurn, inSii'Cper, ever
Saturday evening, until the 25th of March er*'
'bins', foi the purpose of improving themselves
in military tactics. Persons wishing to become
members of said company are also united to
-but none else will be admitted.
atten
By order,
Joseph. Jones, Sec'ry.
V\ T i*mingrTon,J.ir.. C 7» 1810.-— ir,:.
To be Sold or Lea
ea,
A
VALUABLE Gitizin.: i*rm, a' Wi'
mtngion in the state of Delaware,
now i
oof JOHN FILE: It cm
le..
vsts ni s X'v :■
crcx or ext -lient Ln:!, with a Bn. k He
c tt"'r- •
on, in the town of Wilmington ; th
whole sin.
ute hi the most convenient manner for the t-r ;
of the Wilmington market.
The marsh contains ninety acres of ih
m- ■.
choice part rf Cherry-Island marsh
d-m.
ir
tlie Island itself The marsh will be soli
I sen:' -
ate from the u'pktr.d.
If not
soo n
red r'
the whole will he leased for a term of créais ;
iHi
premises « ill he shewn by Joi n Erie the presr
tenant, and terms made known by applicant
to
JOSHUA & THOMAS GILPIN.
January 20. 1310.
Phitadelp!"
4t
Public Vendue,
AT WHILE.HALL FARM,
St. Georges Hundred. New Castle Cour.!- ,
and Claie of Delaware.
iHE sub.Hciipcr offers ft
n
„ sale, on Thursd •
JÈL the 1 5th of March rnsmpg, all the sn -
ami movable property belonging to said far.
consisting of horses, mule:, horned cattle, she:
nogs Sec. ; herd grass, timothy and clover h
ofthebi-t quality; a number of w.lunbie i
grues, who tv Ü l)a disposed of for a term ol ye .
hoir-ehold and kitehrn hr r.iture, of tht- best c ■
hiy ; a pair ot Vain able copper soils, wuh all',
app-.ranis 1er distilling.
•He also offers, at Private Sale, the above far
with the valuable marsh thereto belougir g, - ■
ate upon St. Augustine and Sdver.Ruti net'.
• naking in the whole lour bundled and fill-.
ere-.
For fertility of «oil, beauty of s.'eatioi ■'
g mcc of improvement, and healthiness, th.- ;
stands unuvalled. m tfiia pta'e. It iirs 8 n:
fiom the waifis of the Chcs t pe.dci-, 3 fiom
river Delaware, 4 from Cantwell'— B-i.'si,
mi cs fiom ilmington, (and near t!,c state »,
leading m rt) an 1 iri the vicinity of the vll. v
known Oy the name of the Trap,
It has
cultivated for eighteen t ears past upon the city
and plmster plin, and f.rr t'rat ;ic.i,,d s-xtv ot -
venty acies o! clover have been mowed
a ti tin
Those who are inclined to purchase may, 1 -
applying on the firm, view the premises, •■>■ ■'
know tli. terms either by ap' lvtt <j t,i him-cIf i •
Id son W:
iam C. Fiaster, residing at New-.
Castle.
WILLIAM FRAZER.
VVliite-jfall Farm, Jan. 20, Ibi'J.
ts
5C7" He also offers, for Private S.le, his cel «
brated stud horses Florize! and Ham.'et, and ■.
nun.tier of fine brood mares and full- 're ' r o'
from o; c to four years old :—Perhaps such a v. •»
1 liable and so large a collection of stock was ns. -
er before offered for sue in this start, at o.,c
time.
If ihr farm is not sold al 'V -ate E;de, it W ;'
.. . it 'he premises on F.'i lat the fi st 3
!"
nr
o! June. !» will command at., u ri'y to ir
slj -
fv from Î 000 t'» 10 r, 0 ; *.
W. f
THE sSUBSLkiBI.R
T F.Rb to let,
lo a good rer.tnr, if .,
a j m ,\cw-v u-tiv, now occtq,.er'
Hi New -Cu-tie,
>y Mis
j Jj.yRS'y. Th tern, will be modeiate ,
- 'ru- nos*-.
sessioi given ihr 25th oi Mart h next J,' or ^
ticul.iis i nquire ot Evan Thomas, j.:q. v- eWw
Fasti., Jacob Broom, Esq. Würm,,^ . r .^ r tl>
the subscriber at Baltimore.
James 31. r
aroom.
January 20, 18 ! 0.
4i
M. R. LOCKER MÄNf
Has J'or sale, at his ß^ck Store
LARGE WRITING, p.yp : .,R '
, AND
PARC: : I , /£jrj\j
or a sure
non ausLirr
\V lilTimiitoW, .iän .iary IJ, 19I()
i o be Let, t
A ND pofsefsion given on tire 25th of March
a. V next eu mug, a raige a. d cnumiod
oils
two story brick house, fituared
tue ease
s.d. of png irc. t, at pte cm occupied by
Airs Oldham, together with a stable ancf ear
'■■a t hou>c. bvi ten
apply to
W LLlAM RANKIN.
V\ ilmiugton Decembw Jÿib, 1 goo,—tf.