Alexandria daily advertiser. [volume] (Alexandria [Va.]) 1803-1808, 1807-11-07

times nave tClaf6d that a IePn&tlC Eann0
Hong exist unless its citizens be yirtuous.
Aslong as public yirIue eontinsesso fou,
lf;sh.in America, we have nothing 10 fear,
/ Bot if The mindsof the people be- corrups-
Cd. We may soon bid adisu to liberty and
Ito allits blessings. II therefore becomes
the homes. niansof every party 70 discoun.
aenance slhs editor who uses all bis iDAa.
encs ia Pailiating the Crimes and blszoning
|aht great qualiiics at d fcreiga eespot!--
WIG, tho continually pratiug about e
rights and liberties Of the people, ope nv
egYr,zss The man who rules with RCD
ofiron he easlavsd rspublicansief EurupS
To such man may jasly be a2plled az
words Of raeisus, !" also lbertalis. Va.
cabulum obteudi alb as, qui Privatim d..
genrsss, 10 publ cum exisiosI, nihils spfk7
nisi per discordias h2heant.2 And ,i!tgf
Is ipstYeason 70 suspect that such mai
;sths hiscling Of the monarchupon WHO'D
he Iayishes SO much adnlation. That BIZ
IS one Of stse engines setin motion BY Bel
naparse 70 produce By slow degrees, tfec;I
delsferions 10 American liberty.
When the .yrant sees nslullsd, liketh9
Ashenians, into q fatal slumber, without
one Demosihenes 20 fosswarn us ef int
pending ruin,s he viii suddenly awake e4
with the clang Of arms, ADD the ehundsH
Sof his artillery He will pour al once Cpl
on our coast those veteran legioas which
have made so many counsriesrcsound with
the shouts Of victory and with the groans
fwrctchedaess. The soul almost shrink $
from ioquising what would be the resu,s of
conflict so unequal. The liberty ef
Greece was Frustrated By the pha!snx ef
Philip, aud ours might meet with q siyai-
lar fate trom the disciplined ainaies o. q
polson.
Bur lef Us turn our eyes for mcment,
from so black prospect. Let US see
wheshes the other parts of the horizon arc,
ike this. obscnred by clouds, porlcnding
famine. pesiilence and war. Our relations
with Spain and Britain have long remained
ID an unsettled state. The oace naughty
Spaniard. however, has msaDly crourhed
before the mighty Napoleon. and we may
decids withous hesitation, tia. his com
MAIDS viii be implicitly obryed, ia the
eoaducs Of Spain towards the u. STATES.
\ |, may thersIose he considered as COM
plsasly department Of France.
b u with the sgoyernasear of
- 6 that pale, that white faced shore,
IS Whose foot spufns back the oceans roaring.
s tides, K
e And coops from other lands he, ISLANDERS
we have disputes Of the most sesious ma
.ure. The grounds of these differences
are known to every one. And the qseten.
sions Of the two goyernmr nts CLASH In so
macy poinss. that z competent adjustment
of ,hem. at present, seems impossible -
But tho' there is little probability at pre-
sens of such commercial treaty 80 would
re .oncile the interfering claims Of Great
Bfi,ain and the United States, III is not.
probable that a war will be the result. 49, 49,
Oppressed IS Great Britain is by The
multitude Of her foes, by an enermoas
public debt, and by an almost entire ex-
clusion from the continental marker, II
would be madness in her 70 throw down the.
gauntlet TO new enemy, anenemy who
possesses so many means OF annoyance !:
Y y u -.
and i. would be the extreme OF folly 10 The
u. S. white their immense commerce re-
mains unprotected, 70 go 10 war With the
mistress Of the ocean, il war can be avoid
ed with honor. speak nos,of the outrage
committed upon one of our national ships,
because the admiral himself declares that
his conductwas anauthorised by the British
government, and because there IS every
probabiliiy Of ourreceiving compleassatis.
fac,ion But whether war with Great
s Bri.ain be the result or not, from her we
have nothing tofesf bu, temporary annoy
ence.
It's by France, and France only, that the
liberty and indie pendence Of our country can
be endangered: It IS from that federatiye
csrste which Has drawn intoits destructive