Alexandria daily advertiser. [volume] (Alexandria [Va.]) 1803-1808, 1806-03-21

,sj AK az REVOLUTION. But is Bunk
bS ' ss,II % be the theatre OF war! Ne,
Is n ,,ve selected the ocean; and the
il, Y0a 6 attack is that very navy which
,g's' : : he combined fleets of France
r;' sa.;a from leyying contribution upon
~ your own seas: that very navy
~ : the famous war of 1898, stood
'i ea,o YOU and danger. Whilst the fleets
ss Y. enemy were pent up IN Ioulon, or
- Bress, you performed wonders,
Yl ]. .,,re But, sir, if England had drawn
\ = r,soce would have told you quite a
ss..o, tale: You would have struck no
'n, i. This is not the sort of conflict
! s !. 81, are TO count upon if you so TO
y. s,,b Great Britain. !9uens Deas OE1t
IRE breus dementet. Aud are you mad
'.~sa @ take up the cudgels that have
- s struck from the ncryeless hands OF
.s.,sres great maritime powers OF Eu.
=. ! Shall the planter mortgage his little
~ and ieopardize the constitution in
.so M of commercial monopoly? In
h, 81 ,aiu hope Of satisfying the insatia.
/. orsediness Of trade Administer
Se Constitution upon It's own principles
Tor the general welfare, and not for the
|xosft Of any particular class of men- Do
,u mediate war for the possession OF
saon.Rouge, or Mobille, places which
vrr eva laws declare TO be within your
limits? Is il even for the fair trade that
.,anges your surplus products for such
ssp articles as you require No,
d lis for a circultous traffic an ig-
lbs htuus. And against whom !? A
niou from whom you have, any thing to
Far? / speak as to our liberties. No,
sr, with nation from whom you have
nothing, or next to nothing to fear TO the
syraudizement of one against which you
have every thing to dread. look to their
,blly aud interest not their disposition.
When you rely on that, the case is desper.
ate. Isl TO be inferred from this that
would yield to Great Britain? No,
would act towards her 'ao1u, as | was dis.
posed to do towards France in 1888:
fsa! with her; and for the same reason:
mihs same principles. Do / say I would
ssat with her! Al this moment you have
I.soclatiou pending with her government.
Nth her you have not tried negotiation
nd Jailed, totally failed, as you have done
'itf Spain; or rather France. Aud where.
'rs under such circumstances this hostile
prlt to the one, and tbis-(I WON'T say
mar ito the other.
Bat great deaiis faid about the laws Of natl.
nl. WHAT'S national law, but ausisnaI boeve,
wed By natasai iattryg ? You yourlelycs
knowledge and praehlc upon this principle
mae you can, or where you dare; with the
llan tribes for in&ance. ] might give another
ID mere iorcible illuf4ration.
/, WI the learned lumber of your Libraries
= lhip'to your feet, or a lhilling to your
Ssaae Will IT pay or maintain Gngle SOL
st And will you preach and pirate Of viola.
~ Of your neutral rights when you tamely
y meanly iubmir to the violation of your terri.
w Will you collar the itealcr Of your thecp
! is1 MIN elcape that has inv AIDED the repofe
your hre flde, has infulted your wife and chill.
y under your own root? This is the heroifm
.aacS and train: the public fpirit of forbid
','se' Great Britain violates your flag on tie
9 lsai. What is her lituation Z Contending
! ! lot the diimantling of Duukirk, or Quebec,
sondlcherfy, but for London and WeRnin
:, 'or ilie. Her enemy violating at will, the
,''.orle' OF other nations; acquiring thereby
y tsusi power that threatens the very exiRcnce
.sf iival, But fhe has one Vulnerable point
= @ arms of her adversary, which fhe covers
40 the enfgns of neutrality. She draws the
'uaai dag over the heel of Achilles. And can,
: ak that adversary co refpcet it at the ext
'ss Of her exifence and in favor of whom ;
aerny that refpeets no neutral territory of
s'ops, and not even your own. l repeat that
'anlts of Spain towards this nation have
. at the mitigation of France; that there is
''0nger any Spain. Well, Sir, becaufc the
'nco government do not put this into the Mo.
cur, You choole to hut your eyes to IT,
cue 10 blind as thofe who will not fee. You
: your own eyes, and to blind thoft of other
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