Portland gazette and Maine advertiser., 1806-10-13

the face, and they will see the famil
likeness.
Ifthe cabinet had sovereign power tc
make new state of things from the
raw materials in their own minds, the y
would find it very difficult so far to alter
the nature W things, and override the
necessities 81 civilized men, as to exclude
commerce from Their arrangements.
But to tear in pieces the texture Of
fixed national statistical economy
separate commerce from agriculture
and to brand the former as Injurious to
the country though perfectly consistent
with the disorganizing plans of the late
Galiican school, cannot be viewed BY
any well-ludging citizens as an atom
better than the most daring outrage
upon the vital principle Of the state
Agriculture may Be considered as the
warp, Commerce as the woot, ofnation-
al prosperity (: separate them, and the
fabric is destroyd.
The fact is, that the aversion to COM
merce has its origin in mere party
stratagem. 1t has served its purpose
and it must, fer form, be persisted in.
The commercial body, OF course, be-
came hostile to faction which aimed
at its determination. The faction, all
though they be offenders, resent this,
and tn be rcvenged upon the merchants
would cut up commerce by the roots,
though the country wers 10 perish of
inanition BY 1t. And now ii should seem
asifit were come to this, that eitherth
administration must put down the mer-
chants, or the country put down the
administration.
r Onectime Of commerce, in the eye
Of our administration is, that 1t demands
armed protection--and the idea Of even
protecting war, is excluded from our
councils. In hen of armed protection
the faction treat the people 70 the old
French dish which has turned the stom-
ach of all Europe, and is now re-heated
and served up III hashes, secondhand
pastries, and beggar's pieces, in Amer
lea an appeal to the multitude, about
the danger which liberty incurs from
war, and their purse from ornaments.
a navy, say they, would ruin the coun-
try. This is the terror Of the National
Intell;gencer's essay, No. I. A prop
osition, this, somewhat curious. But
the example by which the writer illus
trates 1t, is a little more SO :--Nothing
less than that of England, whose navy
this ingenious gentleman declares, in
all the energies of Rates, to be a I" saken-
did Instrument IF rtir." Would to
God, that, for the honour and existence
of America, she had an instrument ofthe
same kind OF ruin now lying in her
ports.
The democratic writers Of his New
World are so much in love with the
policy OF their chief that they will make
no allowance at all for t,ose Of the Old,
who have built up their establishments
upon policy ola very different nature
when England built her navy, she
wanted a little Of that maIleable temper
which distinguishes our government.
She could not bear beating patiently
she was surly and FESTIVE under insult
and she was always ready to fight rather
than be kicked.
She hoped too that there would be none
Of her progeny degenerate enough to
grovel to saucy, insulting foe But
she has seen the reverse and Don Yru-
10 will soon sum up the evidence of
shame upon that head in the eyes of the
world. Liberties indeed No--the lib
critics which her navy has maintained
are truly not of that kind which our
pacific President is so seduiously cul-
tivating. The liberty to be insulted
by one power--kicked by a second
dragooned into tribulation by a third
and disposed by them all. These and
these only are the liberties, which the
practice and principles Of rulers go
to establish and preserve. Rather than
put up with liberties Of that kind, our
British progenitors, with scahtlet of
shipping cornparatiV ely nothing, bear
ded the most formidable naval power
then In the world /; and they would
have gone down to the bottom in them
rather than let themselves be bulEed
by his long-eared Majesty, or chartered
at by the balloons of France.
Americans, look to the glorious epoch
of 1898 ;when the Chief Magistrate Of
this country made the thunder Of
American guns be heardupon the ocean
--when the stout Truxton ranged up
oar gallant little force alongside fold
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