The recorder. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1802-1803, 1803-05-21

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the waves of the Atlantic, as fancy
that nation viii ever be latisfrd under
any government. There are always
ninety-ninc chances &c one, chat their
beloved Chief nagiitrate does not care a
farrhing about them that he conliders
them merely as the ladder 10y which he
has attended TO the tummit of fortune.
There is an equal number Of chances,
that his patriotic fellow citizens, or per
haps his mott faithful fubje6ts will i'm
mediatcly perceive ehis fact and, of
contcquencc, do every thing in their
power to f-nd him TO perdi5ion. This
IS what NC. call government, and eipeci-
ally republican government. For in a
monarchy, the pc plc often feel Cupid
but ferrous attachment TO their King,
which a PRECEDENT cannot hope
for. With reipc6t TO Sidney, our CON
clu.ion IS, that, although Charles the
iccond was, undoubtedly, very great
curfe to England, YET thar revolution,
and the manufacture of republic,
would have been a ten times greater We
hail now proceed with Miis Smiths
W,at5NigtOA Sidney, and examine what
cain tic has to the yePutstion Of an abe
political writer.
The tl5Ie page of his performance
diicovers, THAT the man does NOT, ar
Ieaft, want courage. He has undertaiz-
cn talk which might have broken che
nerves Of an inrcllc 6tu4i Hercules His
rhing IS Chriitened, G A %iadicadon Of
the Mestpres Of the preien1 Admiaittra-
ton" nc gingle Of rhine in the two
ends Of This ie tcnce diicovers the au-
thor's intimate acquaintance with rhe
harmony and variety Of 1he Engljih
language The piece that we have
now IN hand, is No. III. and extends,
n Mi Smiths paper, to rhc enormous
lengtn 81 tive cloie printed columns.
~ hether any mortal Will have the for
tltu0e 10 wade through luck MATS of
wor,is, wc-do noJ prctu NC TO conjecture.
We Can onty Gay, tne5, for chr own
part, We have, at prcienr, neichet time
nor patience, nor hoal1h, for The cxecu-
non Of - tremendous talk in gEancing
over II, however, We lighted, among
ievcral Others, upon the following para
graph. We do not mean TO fay, that it is
more ablurd or nonlenGcal than three or
tour Others, which we have had the hardi-
neis TO peruc. lr is only given as a
fair ipecimcn OF rho faPsp|5a5 z5boIs !
q" Commanding the Iefr bank of the
e" Mi@hiiiPpi, for more than 20 de
g grees OF latitude, the Atlantic, for
more than ~iixteen hundred miles,
:" Hirn al hundred navjgablc rivers who
pay Jocir tIloute TO thar ocean, what
e" have We TO fear from an infant colony,
" prore Etcd by remote power, pnAci-
6 hng buC one avenue 60 thc civilized
* world and thar, 90 fay the leaf, equal
iy within our commsnd II foreign
" connections thail become neceilary,
are they nos 70 be procured? Is there
& nor nauon more capable than any
otner Of foreign enJerPrhe, whole
=" i0lcrcit would lead them with Us TO
d" uninacklc the MiGlhppi, 5he Wet
Indies and Spanii1 Nam
How the United States, with their
tx higa5cs, and a dozen Goops of war,
can be iaid 10 command fbs atlantic,
the wri5tr bclf knows. Has he forgot
the c&ilcnce Of the Birth navy Or,
Can he imagine tnat q merchant, or far
mcr or fhore, by his mere rcGdence On
the Tea COST becomes matter of the
ocean? ii America commands the At
jancic, why did nnc, fer Gx years, lu6er
il 10 be covered With The aetruction Of
her properly, and the captivity of her
ieaucn : This liogle ezprclIon be-
trays iuch quantum If vanity, and Of
thoughIleineis, for it cannot be cail,d