Alexandria advertiser and commercial intelligencer. [volume] (Alexandria [Va.]) 1800-1803, 1803-08-06
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The indsfry with which the cemocfatic
prints are endeavouring to vreatllc iaurels
FOR the head of the Executive, QUE OF the
affair Of Louihana, & at the fame time to
throw popular odium upon those who urg'
s ed the ncceflity Of demanding immediate
reparation for the infuls and injury Offer
ed this country at New Orleans, is iearce-
Iy lefs than that with which they have HI
gtopufhed every point, ]uit or unjalf,
true OF untrue, polite or ruinoas to the
country, which has anfwered the pufpoie
of the party They would deceive the
people into belief that reparation tor the
iinfult at New Orleans has been made by
Spain, becauis France has saldus Loo'i'-
ana: AS if a man hoHld boalfingly, lay,
tbs true, got kick on the feat OF no
noar from JoHn NoKEs, bat then ]
have received ample reparation for It IN
bargain have made Tor a pig with JOHN
A STILES.
If what thofe miireprefenters fay means
any thing, il means this, that thofc who
urged the expedicncy Of holding ffong
language to Spain, mua have an inhuman
defife for war as war-and that on The.
other hand, they alone are right Wko con-
iidcr war as too dreadful a remedy to be
reforted too in any imaginable cmergen-
cy. Two fuggefions as contradictory &c
reafon and experience as any thar ever fell
from thofe gentlemen.
Are we aiked whether we conilder war
an evil, we anfwer unequivocally. Yes
dreadful evil, ar evil too in more ways
than one. But certainly not the gieateit
evil. The natural death Of a part is no,
70 great an evil as the political death of
the whole community. Shall an lndivt-
Qua! have the prefumption to fay :" death
before difhonor," while nation is tor
hidden 10 hold that languages Political
dilhonor is political dea,h-.hey who think
otherwile are filter for the Duriery than
the cabinet.
The fafety Of country conGes IN many
things, the want of any one Of which may
be fatal to it. A good governments
brave, proud people--prosuetive revenues
"a facility in rating ornaments by Tea
and land-ane, above all, nati0nal cha
ya9eY. Ii this lslt be wanting, the Others
m, fsrve TO repel the incroachmenls which
the want Of that may tenpt-but viii
never Of themfelges deter enemies from
hoRility. And here we will repcat The
words Of |unius, on the (objetf Of Faik
land iilands, which have been aptIy de,
lcribed 10 WORTHLESS are they) as ga bar
rem rock, an Object for compe titicn for
nothing but feals and fea- gulls"-we isy.
that we repeat it, becaule we quoted 1t in
former paper, and we will quote 1t again
il necefary. 8. To depart lays he} in
the miiaatfa article from the meety md
arifuess efpual7iAia, is as dangerous TO
national houor as it is to female virtue.
The woman who admits of one faniliari-
sy, feIdom know. where to Rop, OF what
70 iefule; and when the Councils of a
great country gree 9oap IN s'"sse n
stance, when they are once inclined TO fuS-
milton, cverys&ep accelera,es the rapidly
Of their dsicsos,"
OF all the countries in ,hc world one
would think that America was the iaR
where language contrary to ours could be
held with faccefs. A country n which
every perfon, however low, we FAY with
confidence, in which cubs of hsys, fill
fl only for the fcourge OF Caleb Guosum,
will talk of9jfole, duelixg, and :" calling
ait their man. as bluff as any German
or French Brigad;er, is frange!y ar va.
rance with its own habits if it fuffers
tina, infuis TO be offered to the whole CON-
munisy, in its aggregate national capacity,
which every a:snty coxcomb wonld indi-
vidually think himfeif bound to refens.
This is the very eiIsnc. Of error; tits pre-
clfely reverfiag things. 1t is keeping
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