Alexandria daily advertiser. [volume] (Alexandria [Va.]) 1803-1808, 1806-03-24

nursery. RememDer that your pIouucls
are bulky. as has been stated, that they
require vast tonnage to transPort them a.
broad, and that but TWO nations possess
that tonnage. lake these carriages out OF
the markst: Wnat is the result! Ihe ma
nufactures of England which, 70 use nm.
lshisg touch of the gentleaaanys retnoric,
have received the finishing stroke OF art,
lie in small comparative compass. Inc
neutral trade can carry them. 4 our pro-
duee ro,s in the warehouse. You. go 20
'Sta.ia or St. rhomas's and get striped
blanket for Joe If you can raise ons
Double freight, charges and commission
Who receives the prohl Ehe CARTEL
Who pays it ? The consumer. All YOU,
produce that finds lis way 10 England mus
bear the same accumulated charges Wl,n
this difference that there the bnrthen ialls
on the home price. | appeal to tue Ga
perlence of the last war, which has Oeeu
so often cited. What then was she price
of produce, and of bread cloth.
But you are told England will not MAKE
war---she has her hands full 1oilaad
calculated In the same way IN 1881: Az"
did it turn out? You stand nozv IN TIC
place Of Holland, then--wlthout her has
wy, unaided by the preponderatlng heets q
France and Spain--tu say nothing OF 'he
Baltic powers. Do you want to tske up
the cudgels where these great mari.llne
states have been forced to drop them: to
meet Great Britain on the ocean and drive
her off ITS face. If you are so tar gone as
this, every capital measure OF yonr pohcy
has hitherto been wrong. You should have
nurtured the old, and devised new systems
OF axation-have cherished your navy 49,
Begin this business when you may, land
taxes, stamp acts, window taxes, hearth
money, excise, in all Its notifications OF
vexation and oppression, must precede, or
follow after. But, sir, as French is the
fashion of the day, may be asked FOR my
troiect. I can readily tell gentlemen what
/ will not do. 7 zoiH not brep'fiate sny
foreign nation svith money. Will nor
launch into naval war with Great britain,
aitho' | am ready to meet her at the Low
pens or on Bunker's Hill. Aud tor this
plain reason: We are great land animal,
and our business is on shore. | will seud
her no money, sir, on any pretext whatso-
ever, much less on pretence OF buying La
brador or Botany Bay, when my real OBJ
iect was to secure limits, which she tor
mally acknowledged at The peace OF i7s3.
1 go fursher-I would (if any thing)
have laid an embargo This would base
got our own property home, and our adj
versary's into our own power. 1t there is
any wisdom left among US the first step to-
wards hostility will always be an embargo.
In six months all your mercantile megrims
would vanish. >As TO US, altho' it would
cut deep, we can stand it. Without such
preeaution, so to war when you will, you
60 TO the wall. AS to debss-strlke the
balaace tomorrow, and" England is | be-
lieve in our debt.
hope, sir, to be excused for proceed,
ing in this desultory course, hatter my.
self shall not have occasion again TO trou.
BILE you: know not'that shall be able
certainly not willing, unless provoked in
self defence. l ask your attentionto the
character ofthe inhabitants Of that southern
country, on whom gentlemen rely for sup,
port of their measure Who and what are
'theys a simple. agricultural people, &C.
cus,omed TO travel, in peace, TO market,
with the produce OF their labor. Who
takes it from US? Another people devotea
to manufactures our sole source OF sup
ply. have seen somsl naf in the ne@s
papers about manufactn. IN Saxony. and
about man who is no lsnger .hs chief ia
: dominant faction. The greatest man who'"
ever knew, the immortal author OF the
letters OF Curtius, has remarked the prone
ness of cunning people to wrap up and
disguise 10 well selected phrases doctrines
too deforined and detestable TO bear expo.
sure 10 naked words by a iudicious chorce