Alexandria daily advertiser. [volume] (Alexandria [Va.]) 1803-1808, 1806-04-29
BE WAYS eounteraet policy 50 uafrie nd'y

/ De ways counteract policy 50 uafrie nd'y
to our prosperity
After mensioniug other expedisnss, he
comes to a federal navy. His observations
have pcsuliar force ADD pertinency as they
furnish eoaplese answer TO the objections
lately urged by some of our wise-asres in
congress that we ought NO, 20 have any ma.
w, because we cannot afford to have ono
able 10 cope with that of Great Britain.
90 A further resource influencing the conduit
Of European nations towards US, in this reiped,
would arife from the Establishment of federal
nnpy There can be 10 doubt that the continu-
ance of the union, under an efficient government
would put il in our power at period not very
difans, TO create navy HIGH if il could not vie
With those Of great maritime powers would at
leaf b. of a Respectable weight, if thrown into
the (calc OF either OF two contending parties.
This wsuld more, particularly be the cafe in re,
lation to operations In the Wef-Indies. few
hips of the line sent opportunity the .eirf force.
mcnt of either iide, would often be fnt6cent to
decide the fate Of a campaign, on the event Of
which, intere&s of the g'eateR magnitude were
Glpended. Our petition is in this respect very
commanding one And if to this confederation
we add ,ha, of the usefulness of supplies from
this country, in the proferutiou of military ope-
ra,ions in the Wea Indies, il will readily be per.
cciycd, that iruation 50 favorable would enable
us TO bargain with great advantage tor CONNER
cial privileges, a price would be set not only
upon our friendship but upon our neutrality. BY
fcady adheranec to the union, we may hope
ere long, to become the arbiter Of Europe in A.
merica.; and TO be able to incline the balance OF
European competitions in th,s part OF the world,
as eur intereh may dictate"
Ala this great RatesmsE little imagined
thar the Union which he SO ardentiy recommend
Ell 70 his eonntymen, would eonla of materials
too dacordant ever cordially TO cooperate. Lit.
tie did heeforesce that the alpirng, ambitious,
prcrd fate OF Virginia would fili continue to
view with malignant and envions afpe6a the
growing PROPERTY of the Atlantic fatss, and in
&ead of aiding them in their fau,ary projects,
would seize every location TO thwart and acfeat
them. Have we forgotten that her Representa-.
lives have never ceafed 10 oppose navy in every
hapeI Have we forgot tia. when vote was at
length carried againft them in an early congrefe
for building fome frigates, one of her leading
politicians, Mr. Giles, role in his place ard indie
Gently thanked God that the timber waspyet
growing and unielled Bat more than all, have
we forgot the formal rciolutlons thar we're paatd
in tbeVirgioia Legislature in the lhape of infruc
tions &c one of their representatives in Congrefs
Take the following extract:
8" Y1ginia. In tb. Hogie Of Dtkgates.
Friday, January l9, 1900.
Ex.raa from 1narnsiions from the General
AGenably Of Virginia, to Stephen Thompfon
Mafon, and Wilton Carey Nicholas. Senators
from the State of Virginia, in the Congrcis OF
the nited States
" With refpe& to the Navy, j, may be pro
per to remind you that whatever may be the pro-.
pofsd Object of its Establishment, or qobaft,t, be
rse prabets Of te~psrar, advantages reJulf;ng
fberlffom, it is demonera,cd by tbs experieace
of nations who have adyen,ursd far into naval
policy, that (uoh prolpca is ultimately delgfve
and that nsvy has ever, in practice, been
known more as an inRrunlent of power, foune
ofexpence, and an occafon Of sol|iGons and wa,,
with ether nations, than as an infrument Of de.
fence; OF economy, or ofpFoseefion to commerce.
Mr. rs tbe,t any aatioa, IN the jRdgmsn' Of .bf
Gexssal A6fmbly, to 7vbgjs cirexnAaxees ibis re-
ma,s IS more applicable than to The u. Sta,ls."
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