Virginia Argus. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1796-1816, 1806-10-08

/ FOfPFh III me UNITED S7hTES Of ii
! MBREcA ant on certain means of en-
| couragi1g and Protecting their Commerce
I and Manufactures.
No w.
| Resides the complete justification Of our
measures for the peaCeabic defence and
protection OF our suffering trade and sea.
men, and OF our endangered agriculture
and manufactures, which rises FROM this
cursory review of the British conduct, n
mother important impression will be made
on our minds. The friends OF public
economy and peace, and the enemies of
=, expense, disorder and war, will clearly per
ceive that the mere possession or vrea,
navy has enabled Great Britain 10 be ex
ireDely unjust, and 10 depart from ,ha,
political morality which She owes TO her.
self, to the neutrals, aod TO the world. -
we have no reason 10 suppose that men
on the western will be better than their
brethren on The eastern coasts of the Allan
tic, and we have therefore reason to alp
preherd, that with an equal navy, we
might have returned war upon England,
or placed ourselves perhaps upon the list
or the cpprcssors OF our innocent rivals
or less 20 ent neighbors. The possession
ofson fight ng ships is to be under 500 in
tluences 10 70, eign war aud neural op
preston.
Permanent navies, qaite as much as
standing armies, lead a government 10
ocguile their citizens inio immense and
fatal credits 10 the pubic. By The new
year, the creditors Of Gyea, Britain will
have, In Europe and he colonies, CLAIMS
opon that government, 10 un amount little
short OF three Thousand mllions Of Anne
rican dal'ars, at their proper valuation
IL IS SAID familiarity there, that tbs d, D,
can never BIZ paid, and poiil,cal wri,er,
who was much approved and employed
by members of their late expensive min.
lstry, has openly advocated The use Of the
s3iO'igr, and excited against their public
creditors, without discrimination, the ex.
l-t'cues Of resentment and odiutn. Re.
ysrdieSs OF the many persons al all con
tons, sexes and ages, FOREIGN ard
British, whom the immoral sDuneino
ut three thousand millions wouI reduce 10
dependence. wretchednsss and becqary
and totally inscn:i5le 10 tie rigLls If h,o
Feriy' that dreadful catastrophe TO their
7gar sy8fen is openly proposed, in lea
dug newspaper Of the city of London.
America, II is hoped, willnol hasi,y conscn,
To exchange the political. morality Of her
civil course for such compound O. human
blood, fatal expense, and s,upendous
fraud,
1t would not be fair TO avoid The o,iec
ton To our recent course with EnQiand-
that n atPlrd TOO fiQrficuIqrlyl 10 hey.--
1t may De observed in cursory reply ,hs,
since we ac rOuch greater customers 10
that country than To any, and indeed to
every other, we had a right TO receive
kindness and justice : or Ike Nrfvatc cusfo-
trers, Toe 7oere free 10 go 10 otter siot.s e.
to make goods for ourscivos. The manu-.
I ct .tt ( the con .H.nt had done Us
little injury. II wa, Great Britain alone.
who of The maritime powers, violated the
rights OF the neutrals in 1872 and 1893,
during time OF peace. Size alone, OF
the neutral powers, violated the neutfsl
rights before the war Of February, i79S,
with France. She alone induced, IN on.
don, in March, 1898, neutral state Rno.
sia) to form convention for destroying
the whole neutral commerce, direcl ard
indirect, with the domains OF France.
She alone issued secret executive orders,
in November, 1893, TO stop even the trade
ot neutrals, accustomed in pence, with
the colonies Of France. She alone made
known her int ntIons to dismembtt our
country at the Ohic.s Eng.aad alone es-
IablIshed press at the seat of our 90.
veInfOent, TO subVert our constitutions,
aud TO destroy, by llhels, the friends Of
their principles, approving. ~ her minis.
Try and legislature, of the service Of this CT.
wi enemy, before ,ie Whole nation, before
al Europe, even after his conviction. En-
gland alone SEXES our vessels in the new
or war trade TO the colonies other enemies,
whilst she makes treaties with us establish
ing similar war trade IN both her Tdes,
and regularly recipsocates like trade be
tween her own colonies S, those of enmies.
She alone impresses our seamen, and
forces them 10 raise their ucr,ral hands,
IN illegitlmaie war against her enc mics,
WITH whom we are at peace She alnne vi
ols'es the obligs Of nur written and
ordained contracts with foreign seamen
and ioreign passengers, leaving our ships,
unmanned, 10 the mercy of the elements.