The Virginia gazette — Williamsburg [Va.], 1780-12-30 00:00:00, page 2

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which God du give to men, to exchaftgc the friend
ship of : ssxhsie natiom of the world, for their enmity,
meeriy s snke of returning to : eonnectjun mth
si GreatBrit-in, which could not protecttbem, and which
the have the belt reasotu to dread as the yard evil
which could befdl them, sr the siunhccttdoi tynnj
nice aid 'sscntent'mss they have meady expefinced fro
' he. His Lmdshop is desired to confides thin, lad tc
" alk bimfelt, 11 he was an Ame-icapct, whether he would \
fish to um itnder' the bosisioken ftagments of an unpnres
that is ddhed in pieces hkga chinn true, and commence '
afresh war against a combination of all the nation: of
psiw-Jd, who now dohover- a degree of esteem lnd
regard for .ctsimuica.
si " is the Amaic-zmt are :: miserable at his Lordship
uesgnu them, wul thry not be likely to increase dint
.:silfs'sy tenfold, and make it perpetual, by esPonfz
562 came of a ruiued empue and going to wat- Will}
ctldonn that are not ruined. __
- " :qubdlflethe tedimoniesof witnesl'cwbo si ,,
mm'w page Ametiu, weshall be convinced this
I!- mfiip :! leves himself. Every man from that
sigcuntr), who knows the yt'ineiplea ting gp'tniont ofthe
People, declares, that they are with ln-nmimi thn
," w-mechm lary other revolution; 'siunly ter
.misi—e 4 to maintnin thetr sovertignty and their lllinncn;
'fpd that thei- it novody these who utter! a wish of
fiuning to the government of Great Britain or even
ctsi... making: separate peace.
_4 3. 5! But if hta Lordship wan : candic! enquirer after
ss ;.ssuth, and had a mmd sufficiently enlightnejl lo dis
zeover the meznl that are in the er of all men, of
fipcaining it, he might have teen 't error. There m
_ cettain markt by which the opinion, principles. incli
I- nations and wishes of I ;eople mly be discovered with
th'lnfsitlhhk certzmty, without recusrit-g to witndf'et or
to far fetched arguments. The press, thewwns, the
junsiet, and the assemblies are four sourcet from whence
.n unening dem-mstration of the true sentimenn ctct'
she people of America may be drawn. .
" There it not in any nation of the word so i
mited : freedom of the psess an is now establi in
every [tate of America, both by law and .
Every man in Europe who reade their newspopen must
see it. There is nothing that the peo le dtflikc tht
they do not attack. They attack ten of every
tank in the milifia and in the army; they attack Judgee,
Cavernours, and MctgiRrates of every denomimtion;
they attack Affembliel and chuncile, member: of
ct'Conzresl and Ccnaress itself, whenever they diflih
_ eir conduct. But lappeal to evfry newfpa r upon
_e cominent whethe one parazra h, one wi or hint
returning to the _ ernmem o Great Britain, or
making : separate peace, had ever appeued.
" The town: in many parts of America are small
diflrffls of territory, on an avenge perhapt six miles
square. By the ancient laws of the country, which
are lffll in force. any seven inhdditann osone of these
to am have a right to demand of the Magistratet :
publick assemblyof al]. There are necessarily several
. of these town meetings every yrar, and generally a
great number of them. in these assembliet every man,
igh 'ss-s'd law, every yeoman. tradesman, and every
day labourer, as well as every Gentleman an'd bliek
Magisime, -hussa right to vote and to speak hu senti
ments upon pnhfifi affaire, to propose measure;, to
instruct their reprefesintativel in the legiflature, &c.
Thin fight was ranla'mly and frequently used under
d- fmer government, and it flow much more fre—
'used under Ihffiqew. The world hat seen
' '- iom to representatives
' _wherein they enjoined
. !
{m nyposution
* Governnurt, acts of
Far]: , King. -
Britain. Whatin - I '
? Mingc-ct. '
the ' sin-ssbeentnd, heard, prop'ufinz
'ct.
: : wash to si .
But Bnitaint'flqt one; , .
'ssa
,
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at the l'emimenu oftbe'ss _'
'..'
"(si ytiee i'n Ameriedsi "
the . rly nother orgm
wr
people were conveyed
men andsipetit juriet have
' '_' age sufficiently held and
" The great debt is also mentioned. Do the,- ye!
no interest for thit debt? [: every necessarylnd cour
nience ofliti taxed to petpetunty to ay this _'____
]! the whole equal in proportion to t is abililiu "ib.
debt of England? Would the debt be rendered lost.
joiningGl-ezt Brinin again}! Francelnd Spa'utk w
the wlr against France end Spain be lhotter, lest
bloody, or lest expenswe, than the war mirth En -
land! By returninito England would not their de t
be ten tunet note urthensomd Thin debt it :- no
thing to Ametiet, once give her pelce. Let the Ame
riclnl trade freely with one another and with all other
nations andthio debt wculd be but : fellher. Let
them come under Great Britain ipin, and have the
communication between one colony Idd another ob
flruaed, " heretofon, and their trade confined to
Grnt Britain, at heretosore, and this debt would be
an heavier millflone about their neck: than that of
England it lbout theirl. . "
" A general repugnanee to the alliance with France
50 mentioned. A gtea'el' tnilh-ke was never made;
on the contrary, evety step ns Congress, every pro
ceeding of every Assembly upon the continent, every
prayer that it made in the pulpit, and very fpccula
tion in the newspapers, demonsh'ne the high senle
th have of the importance of thi- alliance. !: it
saissthat thit alliance has been of little utility. Has.
it not employed the British arm ? flat it not cut
out work enough for the Briti nlvy? Ha- it not
waited for England het- znnual t ty minde?
Hnt it not prevented those from 'ng employed
against America? Hu it not given scope to Ameri
can privateent Ha- it not protected Amenean trade?
flat it not hurt that of Great Britaint Hal it not
engaged Russia, Holland, Swulen, Denmzs and
Portngal, at lust to : neutnallity ? At lead _ _ it
not mtributed much to these vast advantage: to
Amcricnt But it not taken away from Great Bri
taio the dominiou of the sea, so sat :: to zllqpfiberty
osmsiuiption to other:? It it e, the emnnge
lisslit blve been of more tisity s the alliet, fish
the sum: expence. if France and Spain had [done]
ndopted the lie of sencsing more of their force: to
Americz- 52! t ty are now so well convinced of it,
that unlest miracles ere w-nught to prevent it, Ame
rica and England too mll soon see more of the effects
si'ee against ad: of Parliament and the conduct of
Grelt B. ;tain. But h my ever uttered a word against
Congrelsil or cheAssenbliee, or !he judges unde- their
new gmlnment, oxa wnsh to return to the obedience
of England? Not onltss
" But it in szid thxper money emblrrasscliCon
gress. WhatthenP : thin tend !o make them dis.
lolve (heir n'nion, tov'olne their alliancest would ehe
paper money embarrasl Congless less ihhey had a war
to maintain ngninst Frmee and Spain lhln it doe. now?
would not the embasrafl'ment be much greater? does
the permoney preve" the increase and the popuhlion
of th: states? no—don the m praient in no—both
the po ulzkion and the propeny pfssthc Ram have in—j
crease even: year sinsicc this varsibegan, end :" the ;
efforts os Great Britaip'annot prevent it. On the con- '
ssxnry, [m the wellth and popuhnon of GrenBrit-in
iincmsedr he: her emmcc'ncmsedpsi ache _'
mien] weight of the nnfiah in the sc let ! si ; "
lctaased? Let ; melctnngssioljsilgim , _ss sij', ._ si sli
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-- His Lofdshipcam'i'aham si _ ' .' ,the _
in America. Let him look :! , and dun ,;
where is mish'y! when the hideoul pwspect ofln il
ternalcivil way in added to : wn with all lbeworld.
The umh ii, that zgricnlture mo' nifactures, not
of luxuries, but of necessaries, va', !! so much in
creased by this war, thm it is much tctoct'be doutbed whe
ther they ove- fed or clothed cbemsehes more nsil
or more comforubly. But befidn thin, the immssen
depredations they have 'm'adesi upon the British We.
have introdmed vast quamctniu of British merchandize
of every son. and in spite of all the ezenions of the
British Bet dleir made in opening :nd emdin with
various countries every year, and B-inin her if in
forced to aidit, Ind will be more and mon, : mess
proof of which in the rmiffion to import Amesinnu
tobacco into ne king from my partof thy world
in neunalhomup. .
of shi] alHangq, Let siqujt-in trouble at the tense.
qucil'ces of her own fuffy 'and het- own crimcs.
" His L'ordship says that the people would return
to their allegiance if they were not t'ema ned bysssij'thc
tyrasiny ostbose who have got th: puwtl: ofgogkrn
men;; theh ar'e the Assemblitl, Scnatec, Govcllshuls,
and Crngnsc. Now what p'owef have any of thtt'e
but what the people please to alluw them? By what
cnginu is this !) runn exernled? ]: it by she mili
tiat ln order to con tder ttzi: let us consider the con
flitution of the militia. The miiitia is in fact the
whole people, for by the ]IIS oi every hte, every
man from sixteen to fifty or sixty years of age belong
to the militia, is obl' ed to be Armed, to cnin and
to march upon weelzon or find a subflitute. The
olcen m, chosen by the men, except the geneml
officers. vho an 'nled by the Ascmbties lt it
tdi: vny'nili'fi- Hfusipfl the body of votcn, 'b
unn choose ctthemeidbm of'Al'embly and the 80
' Min but w 'lhlssabve'momo. [; je
poflble that these " Mtynlnnis; over dun
.qu am no WMZW' A. um cage
it— be repnnched to hit shi sslnd his ed" .
Adminjflnuiol that th tynnpmsed over mffiyat
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master who can displlce them a bit pinsun. The
Asembliu thu- nnmnlly chosen ctb the . tple or mi
litfu, unully chooicsitheir Delepsi ili &:signsl, nd
hm pow- lo he:]! them It pleasant. , Witl the mi—
litin obey either Assemblin or Cong—reid in the extend
;tion of tynnnicll ("zing-sins In order: that mlnql
;mnu laund]: to them! - , be-tliio spent: for
ttseif." {til the F'E ' um] nru'y then, t tach- ii..
trument of their own vimde and that of Mrcoun.
tr ; every oficcr ,bqlds hk connifion " pbc' lusuq
o? Cutting;l ::t bin Lordlrip nd hired M
o ten rqm' ! _90pt_ium_n my u so tun:! :
feeble " to be siM to make head against th'
Bctritish troops, lad it in me um they m constant],
en lay in that service, god _it it in thus they are
in- comparison to the mititifl ssyhzt would
of them then. iftho m'fltctu, or ." made:
number 'of them were to join the W (hop,
Then has never been ny .of the animate! am
thy in more thm tlu-or tn' nfdu name.! ((and j
. time, watching tho "dine os'li'q him sin,
and confining them to the pmeann, oftheit' midct of
war. Wht} bu_thcn_bgn thi- ilj th nmsiniii
nine or ten states for un inMct Wost Thfi
it too rediculoul to' need medy wade. " .
" His Lotdlhip concluded with I dilillfficn. is
possible ]lsl sounded than his lfl'enidm. Be sty
ahat Congre : will never treat. but' the thd' Pox].
andtheAssemblienv-ill. Where don hin Lord i '
find the ground of his difennoe between the Cow. te:
end the Assemblielt Are not the melnhcfi of on
gresc made of the slfle chy ! An they not themselve.
members of the Assembliu ) Are they not the cree
tures of the Assemblies? Are they notnnnually creltp
ed? si Are they not dependant every maw: upon the
Assemhlies for their exifience? Have not the Assem—
bliei a right to recall them _ they please and ap
point other:, by law and the nltitutiou? Have not
the Assembliu a right to inlhuct them how to act?
if the do not obey these instructionn, cannot the As
semhhes displace them and nppoint other:, who will
be more obedient? If the Ascmblkl'desired tus
eonciliation with England could not they up in!
Congrest who desired it too ?_ if the people red it,
could not they appoint Assemblies who would soun'
make . Congress suitable for their purpose? But I
have been too long.
" Ria Lordship betray: such misinsormnion of
satte; such an inattention to these obviom markt of
the feeling of ; people as an infallible indication of
their designs; and such a want of knowledge of the
]lwl lnd conltitution of the United States, as excite
aflmishment in an impartial examiuer, and : real
Mmisseration for the unhappy nation who are devoc.
ed to destruction from his error: and deipsiom."
BALTlnonz, th.12. An embarcatnon ostroopc
wn, : few days ngo, taken place at New Yosk.
R say; that these trooPs (nmonglt which sue
Bugadier General Arnold and his cmps) are deigned
for : southern expedition, under the command of
.:
Major General l'hillips.