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~ FOR TIIE VIRGINIA ARGUS.
PATRIOTIC ODER FOR THE TEAR 1808.
BY VJRGINlENSfe.
oiS //.
'TO MT NATIVE COCNTRT.
IHiuII happv country'! dearest fur to me
Of all ih:it Heaven o’orspri ads with light!
In thee I greater beauties see
, Than e’er would strike a Granger's sight.
I love thv fertile fields, smiling wiib Corn
T«uxurinnt, or with Whcatcn harvests hless’d ;
Or which Tobacco's fragrant leaves adorn ;
Or in the snowy robes of Cotton dress’d.
% love thy gardens, and thy orchards gay*
\Vherp erst my carelesti childhood useil to play.
Thv loftv mountains, and thy rivers wide,
Where fish nunumber’d glide :
Thy murmuring brooks, and headlong filling
floods ;
Thy verdant va!eh. and lonely woods ;
The guardian seas which roll around thyshoret
And seu-Ul.c lakes which on thy borders roar ;
All elevate my niindto thoughts sublime,
A nd till wi'h ! >ve of thee, thou highly favor’d
chi no \
I love thee, for thv sage r.ncl valir.nt s ins,
Thy Franklins and thy Washingtons ;
1 lov»* thee, for thy daughters kind and fair.
Adorn’d with modest grace and beauty rare ;
(Whoso gentb* bosoms are supremely blest
In succoring the distress’d ;)
Thu, above ad, because to iliec is given
V »( I. r. lit* .M) \ UC v. 111 IVb wi 1/ nmiv..»n A IU«I"
v<*n.
■Were Fr crdom absent, nil toy charms
Would wither at the touch of Tyranny t
The clasp of his accursed arms,
My country, would death to thcc i
Since lilcru's the life-blood of thv heart,
Which vigor, health ami beauty doth to all im
part.
Thv semes, so cheerful and so grand,
Svln »,s and sorrow would pVrcloud ;
Darkness would cov -r alt thy land,
Andoui’e from view thy pleasing prospects
•shroud.
Thy aon* would then he burthenM slaves.
With teres squeez'd, o’erwhehn’d with hope
lets car.-s ;
Dr forc’d to tutelc dishonorable graves,
In -.van in which no int’rest would he their’s ;
C’oinpcll’d to serve some haughty foreign lord,
fir some domestic faitor more abhor’d.
Thy daughters would with tears their children
view.
And think of fornt’r times, and sifth fir you.
f)!i ! then, my country, ere it be too late,
Strive to avert thit lnmuiitablc fate.
1 need not tell thv citizens to stand,
A brave, determined band,
To arms prepar'd.
Their natives it oil from often fort to guard.
Columbia’s sons will never flinch i
But prove in battle heroes every inch*
Tbo* lour accustom 1 to the arts of peace,
And wishing cruel war to cease
Throughout the worhlt
With all bis direful train
Of murder, rapine, misery and pain.
To dark oblivion hurl’d ;
T< t, should he darn these shores invade,
Her hosts will meet him Midi sin av’d ;
Their dnnfitlrss courage w’ll jirotert them still ;
Ai ’ seal snout ach •Tiem military skill.
•But let them crush corrupt)■’n't setret worm
Wnii-It gnaws the body politic within ;
Against their paeeion* and tl. tires he firm ;
And not by faction he seduced to sin.
I.ct them, as Cinctnnnttt* did of old,
In honest plainness be. content l<> live ;
In high esteem nothing hut merit hold,
And nraise to virtue ori/i» irivn.
I.el imtr^rnU'-nrr more than •uealth he. priced,
And vice. ♦tin’ reveling in pomp, drspi ed.
Then will thy foe* dishearten'd shrink Aghast,
And to tlie hound* of time thy LlUa .-.ml glory
last !
no M KSTIC (I A PI’IN F.fiS.
Mrttact.from a Sermon on Domestic ITnfi
ftincm.fiy (he Hev. Win. Jay.*
ft' * wb it so refreshing, so soothing, so
aatiffyiny, a1, the placid joys of 11OMK !
Sen the traveller —Doeaduly call him for
a season to leave hi* beloved circle ? The
image of Ills earthly happiness continues vi
vidly in his remembrance ; it quickens his
diligence ; it makes him hail the hour in
which he area his purposa accomplished, amt
bis face turned towards home; i» communes
with him «s ho journeys ; find he hears the
jirorniw whic.lt causes him to hope—“ I'ltcu
ah ilt know nKo that thy tab made is in
pc,».ce ; and thou shall visit thy Habitation
and not sin.” Oh! the joyful re-union of a
divided family—the pleasures of a renewed
intercourse and conversation alter days ol
absence !
3choid the man of science—Me drops the
tabor and painfnlness of res arch—closet
It is volume—smooths his wrinkled brow—
k-.vrs his atudy, and unbending himself,
amops to the capacities, yields to the wish,
es, and mingles with the diversions of hi*
child rvn.
•* lie wiil not blush tin4 ha* a father's heart.
To take in childish pl.t;. a childish part t
But hr <ds his sturdy back to any toy
1 hat youth t*k« * pleasure in to please his hoy'
* There Sermon* are Jor talc (it (hi* oj
Take the tradesman. What reconciles
urn to the toil of business? What enables
ilm to endure the fastidiousness and imper
tinence of customers ? What rewards him
For so many hours of tedious confinement ?
liy and by the season of intercourse will
arrive ; he will be embosomed in the cares- \
ses of his family ; he will behold the desire
i>f his eyes, and the children of his love,)
for whom he resigns his ease, and in their i
welfare and smiles he will find his recoin,
pence. I
Yonder comes the laborer. He has borne
the burden nod the heat of the day ; the
descending sun has released him from his'
toil ; and lie is hastening home to enjoy re
pose. Half way down the lane,by the side!
of which stands his cottage, his chiIJrcn.'
run to meet him. One he carries, and one •.
he leads. The companion of his humble
life, is ready to furnish him with his plain
repast.
See! his toil-worn countenance assumes
an air of cheerfulness; his hardships are
forgotten; fatigue vanishes; he cats and is
satisfied. The evening is fair, hr walks with
uncovered head around his garden—enters
again, and retires to rest; and “the rest of
a laboring man is sweet whether he cat*
little or much.” Inhabitant of this lonely,
lowly dwelling! who can be indifferent to
thy coiniorl ? 1‘eucc he to this house !
“ Let. no' ambition mock their useful toil,
Their homely joys and destiny •>!>ncuro,
Nor grandeur hear with a disdainful smile.
The short and simple annals of liie poor ”
ADUKESS SE“”
OR TIIK COMMITTER API’OINTK D BY
thk FRiVNns or
THE MANUFACTURING A SCO Cl A..
TION.
TO THE PEOPLE O* VIRGINIA.
You have seen the French Im
perial Decree, nnd the Briti-h Oiders of
Council, hy which our coromarce :s in ef.
ie4-l, destroyed. The injustice of these
two nations towards America, has brought
us to answer to ourselves 'his question,
AMK WK CAHARLK O T B K t N O It STtH E L TlN .
DKI'KIJDHK T, OR ARK WE HOT l If WC aft
hot, it we must still g«:t ihe necessaries ol
df- fiom f sign countries ; we have t>c
fore us n choice of evils.. —VVe may con
"ntte our commerce a* we have laiely
c uried it on ; send t ut our flag to be in
sulted in every sea, send out our ship ,
and cargoes to be plundered by the cor
sairs of France and England, send out
nu seamen to be seized, impiesc.cd, uti
prisoned, hung up on the yards of British
•hips or chained to the oar and forced to
fight fur their enemies against !>*• ir friends,
fmeed to become instruments of violence,
rapine and robbery even against the per
sons and propeity of their counttymen :
Or we inay choose another evil.— We
muy still get the produfts of Europe, by
leagueing ourselves with the one or t|lc
other of the great belligerent powers,
and claiming for our commerce the pr >„
ie£lion of our ally : hut what are in be be
consequences of this alliance i Th. in
is to be immediately involved iu all the
quarrels of'hut ally; and th- last, to be
enslaved hy her: such is the concurrent
warning of all history, ancient and mod* rn.
Tiler* is n third evil, hy the ad .prion ol
which, we may still supply ourselves wi h
European manufailures-— that i», to per
mit the ships of that power, which com.
mands tlie ocean, to become the carrier
of our trade ; to become of course it*
moiiopoliit; to sell us her articles arid
take ours nt her o.vn pi ice—which is pre
mu acrfi imc m uingn wrcal Lirl
tain held our cotnnvrce, while wc weje
colonies to her, and fiom which we wigecl
a seven years' war to emancipate ourselves.
Such •» t lie present ti'ate of the woild ,
so perfectly have nations broken through
a:l the restraints of national cmjncsy ; sc
cn’iicly have they hea’cn down all thos*
barriers of national law which formerly
guarded their intercourse \ so furious and
desperate is the conflifcl that agitates al
Europe, anil so wild and licentious the a.
narchy which rages upon the ocean, tha
if we must s:ill have tho produfcls of Eu.
roj*?, wc must he content to get them bj
choosing among those evils. We tnuai
get them either by our own ships nmidsi
insult, violence* plunder, impressment an<
mercantile mm—or we must get them bj
the ships of that nation which triumph;
upon the ocean, anil on such terms as tdii
shall prescribe to us—or we must ge
them under lire protection of an ally, at tht
price of present peace anil future indepen.
dcnce.
Thus situated, what remain* for us ti
do, but to withdraw from all intercoursi
with those injust nations, and !ook lot host
internal sources of supply, with which tin
boun'.y of llejven has so nhundrmtly blcs
, sed us. If, as we hope, wc have the vir
lot to match the crisis which presents it
self; if we possess the patriotic self-deni
al, die constancy, the entorprize and per
severance, of which our fathers in I77i
’ gate ua so illustrious an example; thei
indeed wc shall be independent, for on
• independence will be placed beyond th
n fluentu of foreign cunutt or collision
Food and rAiment are the necessaries of s
file. Of the first our country lias given v
os such oveiflowing abundance, that we I
hove, for many years supplied bread to t
those who now hnrrass us. We have not t
indeed the luxuries of diet—-but the pa. c
triotsof 1776 have taught us how far li. v
berty is to be preferred to luxury, the
plain and simple repast of the freeman to e
the voluptuous banquet of the colonial i
slave—Thus abounding in plain and t
wholesome fond, is there any reason why i
we should go abroad for raiment, the ether i
necessary of life i We believe not. We \
believe that we may at once become our 1
own manufacturers to every necessary t
purpose. We can supply to out selves ^
the substantial articles of cloalhing, Wc t
can do more—we can fabricate for our
selves the instruments of agriculture, and
those domestic utensils and materiel* for i
building, which we have hither.o been* in •
the habit of importing from Europe. <
1. Our country abounds in the finest i
scites for the ere£1 ton of thos* water. -
works, those labor-saving machines. t<
which Europe is so particularly oule' i <1 <
for the flourishing state of her maoufac '
tures. It is believed that i|jrre is not a »
spot in Europe, perhaps not ft» the wo'ld
which combines more advantages for the
erection of such works titan the city of <
Richmond itself. i
Q. 1'hrrc can be no douht that the me
chanicul genius of this country is at least ,
equal to the eredlton of such wm Its — ,
Ca.ding machines liave been -iieudy con. i
slrucled in several parts of Virginia, and ;
spinning machines in the northern states
and in Kentucky. In a neighboring s ae
, Maryland,) aflists, we learn, hare already
tendered themselves to an institution cor i
rlispopfling in objects wi'h that now sub
milted to your consideration, and derlau,
themselves capable of erefiling any spe
cies of machinery necessary for their pur
poses.
3. As to the labor necessary to the o„
perotlon of such works, wr believe that i'
will be readily commanded. The Id.-..
• hat no country can be a inenufacturinK
country, but one of crowded population
is an idea which Great Britain and othei
:»umfaciuring countries are intrrcslei in
propagating—-like th«. winch she former
ly inculca'ed upon her tiuo-s, that en<
ftnglish soldier was equal toih.ce 1*V« ,vh
wluch Prance h.t«. nl uie ytars a. least so
completely falsified ; or that other opi
nion, which she in common with the other
monarchies of r.urope, too lontr und to.
iuccessfully propagated, tliat a republicai'
foim of government was unfit for a larg.
and extensive country, an opinion wlvcl
A meriea under the blessings of Providence
has now so happily disproved. It belongs
to the energy ol (his age, to dissipate thesb
antiquated delusions, the offspring ufse!
i fishness, and design, to bring the power
of man to the unerring test of fafd arid
experiment. A crowded people.it is true,
wiil become milnufactnrers fiom necessi
ty This lias been the case wiili Great
l.t t? n. But necessity from whatever
cause it springs, will produce the same el
iucl. We, far example, are far from be
ing a crowded p-ople i vrt we experience
a necessity to become manufacturers r
qually importunate with that which re
sults from scantiness of territory, and, to
a people who love freedom, equally dire
ful : for we ran no longer get manufac
tures from abroad, without experiencing
/ -n * / -/ ..r» ..
arrogance, injustice and rapacity can in
fiifct; without ruin to those who engage
in such commerce; without the total pros
tration of the honor, the peace and inde
pendence of our nation. Agriculture then
ran no longer supply all our wants—we
must of necessity become manufacturers.
The objection that labour in this conn
try is too scarce and the wagt.i too high,
lias been pushed too far. Some manufac
'ores do not require ns much lubour as
has been generally supposed. Most of
them employ labour-saving machines.—
These machines are equivalent to ns ma*
ny labourers as they supersede ; and they
consequently supersede the nvagrt of labour
in thesrtme proportion. There is no rea
son to fear that them machines may not
be constructed at nearly as little expense
as those which pervade Europe ; and there*
i fore it seems iaieststibly clear, that in
those mamifuchii ts, which admit of laboui
[ saving machines »o any extent, the high
: wages of the lal>ourers of this country
. are nearly saved. Indeed if it be onee.
admitted, as we presume it will b - by all,
) that we must rely only on otir resources,
! for articles of the first necessity, every oh
: servuticn ns to the scarcity ol labour in
: this country, carries with it the strongest
. argument in favor of the introduction ol
■ machinery, by which that little may Ire In
. finitely muli plied nnd may display itseif
to he greatest p'issible ad van1 age.
. Hut let u* withdraw from our fields and
i our forests that surplus labour, which has
t hitherto gone to feed the colonir s of l-’rance
r and England, to supply their looms with
e raw materials arid their architects with
• lumber—let us apply this labour to the
*e how happily a society, forced on sel 1
epcndcnce, will balance itself—how 300
ibotir will apportion itself among the va
tons operations necessary to the subsi.-.
fiice of the society, 8c liuw, while agri.
ul’.urc gives breed to all, mauufa 6loiies
rill g've cloihipg.
4. As to the objection, that Hie people
f »he United Slates hnve loo little cup
»l for such enterprises, let it be retorted.
that shall become of that capital, which
* now shut out from the high seas hy the
apacity of the powers of Europe ? In the
Fords of an English Orotor,* wh , was late
y railed before ihe Rriush parliament spc.
•ally to speak to such points, “ Will c«>n.
;ress for the sake ol giv rig e courngf meiu
o trade fc mar.ofa6tuvc-. in ke some en
ctmen.s in tlie nature of the ltrr*»h Or ;
rs in Council? will they after the mb'<.-;
ier of those precious measures, prohibit
nantifa&uies, bcc. ?—-N>,no{ they
rill nut copy you 90 close ; they will give
hoir Crude • id inamihclures every far ilityj
hey :» e rather heitev politicians than the
fi.AtnerS ol your decrees; they will
osier tin capital amt n>-ke it conduce io
rulv beneficial ends, not by such Orders
11 C *unc»l as yours, but t»y measures ic
ily adopted to the encouragement of trade;
v,andlc’. inc ell you, "ii, o the purpose
»f “«e rung upon England the evil oi
>er own injustice."
5. As 10 the raw materiaU for Ihe pur.
>o .c of inanufafiluring, we have iron nod
:otion in abundance-we can raise any quan*
uy of hemp and (lax that we please—and
is to wool, it reqoiresbut u constant muri
ind those cautious und ekcilcments which
*IH not full to be applied, to carry it to the
• igliest perfection S* produce it also in the
rreiltcst :tlllinr1 mv in -i ti»t u tl. t'irrt.
r\ lamb is an aanwil crop ; for in one yea
t lamb will yield as good wool as at any
subsequent period. The quantity too is
lot inconsiderable. With due care, there,
ore, a c- ns deruble quan.ity of wool can
ie accumulated in the short space of one
wclvemonth ! 1
For the purpose of giving a start to do.
neslic manufutfoi ios, by raising the nccev
*ary capital, which no individual can Ik
-xpedled to supply, patriotic association*
uve been already formed in several <>:
die stw es, und their subscription b nik
ira rap (by filled- Patriotism alone, ;•
•«i.ch • criaia as this would be sudicii ut i
produce this rlf’eft: But another motive
aot so exalted indeed, but at least, as uni
t'rrsal nnd efficient, has contributed to an
lie poc.ess: that is,'interest. The fen
•xperimems in tnunufa&ories which have
J- en ulready made in other states, uu u
srtvull scale, have demonstrated that thert
is no legitimate mode ol investing money
niore profitable, perhaps none ‘--o mucli
ro. We have been inf-irmed in such «
• ay, as to rely ur-on it, that the annual
pro'hiGt of money ‘-o invested, cvt*n ut »•
period when our commerce was imn.o.
lasted, was from ten to fifleccn per cent.
What accumulation of that profit, the to
’ il obstruction of our commerce is I l.r lj
to produce, will be striking to every mind
How long the pic-sent obstruction of ou
commerce will continue, 'be irjustice o
Europe must determine. But perhaps i
is no wild supposition t * conceive, tha
even if the present attacks on our tract
should blow over, Congress may adopt tin
policy of encouraging our own munufac
lures by rather higher duties on the im.
„r ir....n. *i* i___
stives from being altogether dependant on
Europe for our clothing, Congress ma;
adopt this course, if they should discovn
from the experience of the intertnediali
time that we have really the inclination $
the spirit to clothe ourselves.
Under all these views of the sohjefl,
the citizens of Richmond beg leuve to sdb
mit to their fellow-citizens throughout the
state, the annexed projedl for the encour
agement of domestic nuinufu&ures. They
have been emboldened to make their pro
position a general one, by the consideration
that a great experiment can be no where
made with more propriety than in the
metropolis of the state, where the insti
tution will he inspefcled annually by the
delegates from the several counties, and
its state and progress faithfully reported to
• he various stockholders, and by this far
ther consideration, that the local advanta
ges of Richmond, for such an experiment.1
are perhaps not equalled l>v those of any
n her town in the commonwealth. Such
institutions in this city, would be seated in
the vicinity of inexhaustible coal-mines —
They would receive a never.failing supply
of water for operating the murhinerv
from the James river canal; which HfTotds
a fall so extensive in some placrs, that
the same water may he operate., thre*
several times in j-.s descent from the can*'
to the nvrr. Such is row the situa i- n of
the public Armoury. They would profess
mi, the benefits of a navigation stretching
upwj'ds of 300 mdes above the wmks
and to the ocean below j by which means
they would cheat ly aud easily receive
most «,f their raw and circulate
* 14fc.Trar Hbouiam.
lo a considerable distance their manulac
tured nroduftlion*.
VVlliam H. Carki.l, -s
William Wirt, / Oiru
William I oi/shkk, Scr.r. | m/r*.
I'kyton Randolph, ami tier,
Thomas Hitch ip., .1
~ -■ . .. 'i-i. ...HJ
REfORr
9r rue SentE-rAftr ok rut Tjtsjsu*)'
ON rmt SUBJECT or
PUBLIC ROADS 8c CANALS,
MAmt IN »*UnSUANCK O*
a resolution o* shn4Tr 01 .' /Rdf 0.
*r^
C Coo . urd. J
An annual *pprop atioii of t wo million?
of d.ii'if , would icphmpnah nji those
I'iph1 O 'jactA in t;n y ».h, » «d may vviih
ol; ilc I'vcni r.cp. l>e supplied in time of
pt-ce, liy the exiMti.ig revenues a d ie
sources cf he United Stales, h hi., may
1*0 ('Xt.tnp.ifit d in several ways.
1 he annual upprojM ati n on account of
t!u* princ nnl a»Hl interest ol the publio
di b , has, (luting thu 1.. aix years, a*
mou . cd o t ight millions oi'dollars. Al
iev the |visent year, or at Urtii st, after
• oe ensuing year, the sum yrhn.li, on
account ol the irrodeem hie nature of tha
remaining debt, my be applied to that *
obj-'M, ci t in any one yeai exceed 4,..
800 000 dollars, leaving therefore from
that source alone, an annual surplus of
:1 400.000 dollars, applicable to uny oilier
object*
Kiom the 1st January, r«09, to the 1st
Januu; y, 1809, a pci tod ol eight years* ihd
United States shall have dim haiged about
34 millions of the principal bf the uid
neot* or ciouuciing the lviin jfuiiu dtbl*
mcmied duiing .In: x'rnc period, und not
yet discharged, .•hnut ‘*J tn.llicits ol dolt
lir*i— t hey may \r*ih equal facility, ap
n*y in a period ol en years, a sum of
-0 millions ol dollars, to interna', improve*
mc.'i.a
The Vnmial permanent revenue oT the
United S ates calcnlu < d on a state ol ye*
ntral peace, and on tiic m » motk.a
cst.mate, \va> m a rc|>o»' made to con*
gross o r iliu <».h day of 1> ct-mbe , Itf06,
computed tor theyeur* I80'v.igl5, at i4
millions < f doll.n . 1'ho annual e xpense*
on the peace e»tabii>*hmeutj und including
•lie 4,600,000 tl l,*. >, on uccvc.i ol ilivc
debt, and 400,000 doil.tis I. c.«,< linyt'iu
cit s, do not exceed eip,h? m ni us atiu a
half of dolljii. l*o provide lor the pro*
teclion und defence ot the country, is un*
doubtcdly the object to which the resour*
ccs ol lire United Stu.es, must, in the liist
ins.uticc be t-p, lied, uml to the exclusion
of ull others, it tire tunes, shall require it.
Kut it is believed, that in times ot peace,
(and to such ported only are these re
marks applicable) the sniplun will be uni*
ply sufficient to defray tin expenses ot ull
tlte preparatory fncaSUtcs ol a pn marten*
nature which ptudei.ee nr. y *n.a -d
to pay the sum diutiiiiu tor ii<<cinal un*
provemen’s. Three million annually ap*
,.l ed duin g the same pe» otl of ten years,
•vould urnrtvrry man in the U. S.ates,
(ill the public msontds and magazines, e.
rect every battery a,.d fortification which
could be manned, und even, it thought c*
hgible, build a navy. That t|,t* whotj
...Kin. ...’.I I... :_I__ _ .
-I- W'' iu«uwi|URt» IXI life 3VJJM
port of ar.y considerable incicase of ibe
land or naval oiCe kept in actual set vice
• n time of pc cr, wul ?;e rcadd) admitted*
Bui such a system is i ot con emptied >
it tvt*r adopted, the objects of tlrs teport
inust probably be abandoned. K ,r it has
not heretofore been found un ea y task
or any government to indulge in that
species of expcn.es, which leav.ng no
trace behind jt, adds nothing to the real
si'tngth of the cntirury, and at the Hama
time to provide for titlicr its permanent
dtfence or improvement*
It must not he omitted that the facility
of communications, constitutes, parttcu
lnly in the United Stales,an Important
'branch of national defence, Their extent
sivc territory opposes a powetlul obstacle
to the progress of an enemy, lim on ihe
other hand, the number of regular ft)iccs,
which may be railed, neceSsnnly limited
by the population, will lor many yea s ba
inconsiderable whm compand v. .th that
extent of territoiy—I hat d h e, cannot
otherwise lie supplied than by those great
national improvements, which will affoid
the means ol a rapid concentration of
that regular force, and of a formidable boa
dy of malms, on any giv^n point*
Amongst the resouices til the union,
there is one wi hh Ir rn in is ure scejns
mote particnlai ly upj hr able to internal
impiov< msi-is 1'xclu tvcly of Louisiana,
the general g vemmi nt possesses, in
trust lor the psoph- ol the United States,
about one hundred millions of acres fit
lor cultivation, n^rth of the river Ohio,
and near fihy m Ihons south of ihe s>«'e
of Tennessee. For the disposition of
those lands a plan has been adopted, cab
cul.iled to entitle every indu•■Irons (Hit u
to become a irceh Ider, to seemi dopt.
table title* to the purchasers, to obtain s
national asvtnue* and nbov aU n*