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


'tholc which bio1 together rhefe
&c ftates."
We have the misfortune 10 dilIeut
from this gentleman in almof every word
of the preceding citation. A disjunc-
ton from the wcftern aates would be
mott painful ard inauGpicious circum-
ttance; but there is wide difference
between an occaiional and fuA'erablc &C
cident, and nbfolkte rain When BIZ
tain was menaced with a feparation
from her continental colonies, it was
foretold that her fun ALTO, would yst fer
ever. Adam Smith: the Scotch COM
niflioner of falt excite, who wrote
rhoufand pages upon iympathy, and who
never felt Jingle twitch OF it, was, per-
hapS, the only man in the three king
doms, who had the foreighr to difcover
that the separation might be of very
great advantage to England. There
is Jutt as little reafon, in this cafe, to
fancy that distinction from Kentucky
would ruin the United States. Iemighe
produce good deal of temporary en-
barraiment; and 10 did the abolition
OF nnnnerlcs in England, when Henry
the Vlilrh found it convenient to plum
der them. But nobody will, upon chat
account, fay, that ne, withes to fee their
reitorarion., A fubftantial evil as David
tiun1e very Juttly obicryes, often car
RIGS along with it, a temporary convent
encej and iuch is the perverlene(s OF
memory, that the lois of that convent
cnce may be remembered, wher the
mItchiefs of the evil itftlf may be for
gotten For infance, a cafe may be
iuPpoted, where man feels very fen
loie inconvenience by the lois Of a
tcolding wife, or a WORTHLESS fon. But
We mutt return TO Mr.. Sidney.
'' The citizens ofthe Wcfern flares
have Hot invariably manifeited vcry1
g 6 ardent attachment to the union." Tb5y
had lnnumerabtc reafons for being ex-
ceedtngly diigufed with il; and the e
reaons have often been detailed in r1;s
paper. homas Davies was, for fev-ral
years, one of the representatives fom
Kentucky. In the cloic of the lai fel-
hon OF the latt Congreis, he exclaimed,
IN a tone OF eXulratjon, that the Gua If
JsdSr@IiI@1 90as 4boNt 10 (st fors0sr. Upon
The merit of this wife exprei1ion, perhaps
Il was, that Thomas Jeherfon made him
a Judge in the Weltern territory, 70
that, when our AIinilippi brethren with
Tor Iteration, they are fure where
they can find at leat ore leader. In
another parG Of CHS days paper, Sidney
may md an extract from the American
Annual Regiter for 1895. The facts
are indlipurable; for rhev are TO be
found upon che journals OF Congrefs.
was Pretent when the whole traniaGGion
pat. Sidney may therein Zee what fort
OF protection the federal majority were
dlipoted TO grant to the people of the
Wettern frontier, from the tomohawl,
and the 1calping knife Of the favages.
y regiment of eleven hundred men was
to be their defence along line of per-
haPs eleven hundred miles. IIIilory.
never heard of any luch Propolal be-.
tore, and, for the honor Of focicty, it ig
TO DC deiired, that Grnilar propofaa
may never be heard ofagain. The Recor.
Ger has often enlarged upon this fubje6}:.
We hall not, therefore, repeat, What
has been told twenty rimes already. IL
would be ablurd to recommend tn e
conceaIment Of thofe facts. Grofs un-
tru'l IS employed 10 Rimulate the At
iantic hates into (pirit ofwar, of which,,
as this "Ticer himielf fays, in another
Pahage, " If there be war, it will RAGE
" in all parts. Itwill DESTROY Our
=" navigation, commerce, and hGberie,;
and may prodnce ferrous calamities
TO our lea ports" The writer refers