Alexandria daily advertiser. [volume] (Alexandria [Va.]) 1803-1808, 1804-04-27

cial corruption. They judged that % ~ q,
gain them time to CRAFTY at once - would
rice and malignity Of their partis .as ava
putting the fed ralists out Of Office -" BY
way for them to come IN, and Of te ~ max; make
their adversaries into compliance 'P =
hoped that it would afford them tine ne
to palsy the arm of the constito,;on .1 also
by pulling down the Judiciary. Nor '"F
they very far from thinking RIGHT W. rsis
have cleared almost every Office Il y
states of ali those who have dared : .'
peach their policy-and the bench r. IN
.tice from end to end Of the union. tren, U.S.
TO see It's sword and scales purloinrd b a,''e'
-wile5 and deSterity OF impeachmrnts :, ~
put into the hands OF men who VIII far - is
scrppulous than their pvedecssso.
wielding the one, or blowing their brew,
as { make-weight into the other a. 'a''
will OF their high and mighty bencf,c,o VIC
Thus fur thea, have they sail,r,
one wind But just as they were
of soundings, and had tnelcaC
heave, that wind has left them
itbIows from the opposite peO S.
compass--So like good 2ri
are God knows) contemplate 90,
ness Of their rig8ir 8, and
Their plank might not star zpau Of
worm-eaten bottom by hard $ re
put about ship, and trust 10 Ios, Cot
swift run they have bad, and kf,be rol3
OF another change Of wind to -(aedit
back into soundings. Let u. ioa, d
them.
Our naval force bsing thus reduced to !,
contemplate. fragment, the piratical power,
Of the coast q 8arbary judiciou..y concev.
ed that the commerce of America was Al
booty which they might take and rlupdeI
without fear Of punishment or even resist.
ance they did SO, and the consequence was
that our government was obliged to fit ouc
a squadron to cruize in the Mediterranean
But the same splrit which dictated the de.
struction of the navy prescribed the size Of
that squadron. The ghost OF economy still
haunted the councils OF our naval admin.
strators. The vessels were not suGcientinI
number, nor selected Of a size ard sort Cd
for the enterprise. On such an expedition
two vessels at least ought always to cruze
in company, and those ought 70 have had
at least one small tender to provide against
accidents. But ec0n0mies forbid il. 50
much the better (says GOMEZ to the SmI
nish fnar who orders him to fast for pen.
ance) so much the better, fasting saves
money To save trifing expence tho
armament sailed incomplete and crippled
not somuch as a tender more could be at-
forded by executive ec0n0mtes our frIgateI
gets on bans, her officers and crew are
taken out and cast into chains and in an
hour or so after, our vessel is t0wed OF I'M
triumph by the Barbarians, without either
resistance or effort Oh our part. 4 small
tender might have saved the men-asmal
tender might have towed OF the vss'
sci.
Thus was a noble vessel lost to the statel
and more than three hundred Of our brave
countrymen consigned to---GoD Knows
what fate, we trembIe to think Of II, and
sacrificed to the political views and decsPII
tive articles of faction, WHO have lc'I
luded the people into their snares by a s{s1l
tenn OF prepostcrouS economy, "hlcn tH3I
nation viii soon fad to be as wasts.u a'I
the worst Prodigality. Butletus sec now
the great author Of all those blessings taxes
is---let US see what regret he Shs"S Tor MS
lmpolicy--and what feeling for the unh'P1
pypersona who are now wasting away u"-I
der the corrosion Of melancholy retectl0J
and iron chains in he dungeons OF InPoDII
On the 2Q;h March the President SENDS '''
following message to Congress:
(" To THE Senate and House q Pcbrs'sEa1|
toes q the United 5iatss'