Alexandria daily advertiser. [volume] (Alexandria [Va.]) 1803-1808, 1807-01-22

tion has brought the most distant nations
into conligui,y, the effect fef which i 50
extensive, that, although three thousand
niies Of bois.srous waters divide Us from
Europe, ye,, the events OF the one cont.
nens affect the concerns Of the others so
intimately, that space is swallowed up in
the mu,uality and eommixturs OF wants,
dependencies and interests. Nothing is
now done in any quarter Of the globe,
which does not bear upon its farthest Ii.
mits and it behoves the people OF the
United States, composing as they do. a
great division of the political world, and
ranking second among commercial nations,
TO keep steady, watchful eye upon the
restless poten,ates of Esrope, and TO mark
Out their foreign policy by the rules OF
consummate wisdom, in lines drawn bold
and correct by the pencil Of resolution.
We cannot exist an isolated member Of
The grand community Of nations. Our
commerce touches the jealous rivals Of the
old world at every point, and they are al
ways ready to 6nc OF to make reasons,
which, to rapacity, are sufficiently just for
plurdering and abusing Us. Our wealth
presents temptation too strong for the for.
bearanee OF unprincipled marauders, our
present and increasing greatness in mum.
beYs and resources awakens The envy orihe
fears of half the world, and for this deli
cate situation system Of conduct must be
adopted wary, prudent and wise.
Nor is it sufficient that We reflect upon
our immediate relations; the aspect of the
times forebodes fu,uriiy tha, should call
for a most anxious aud divining penetra.
tion into lite probable events.
Certainly if there ever was period
which demanded wisdom almost celestial
In the administration Of human agairs, it
is the period present with us. This is a
crisis, with seems to display what has
just passed within cur memory, and what
would n other days have as,onished the
world, as the mersprelade 70 changes which
no Negligence could foresee aud which 10
intelligence can completely follow; as the
mere sports of children to be ou!done by
the labor. Of giau's. We see empires,
states, kingdoms, republics, rising, falling,
suspended, or destroyed wi h the cslcrisy
Of the air built fabrics cf the brain. The
old poten,a,es of Europe seated upon
trembling thrones, under which has been
worked the mine of public opinion, ready
to be sprung at any moment, or else, tum.
b!ed from their proud exal,ation aud made
10 give place to the bastard spawn of law
less Neutrality-suspicious. changed into re
publics, ard by Napoleon process agaio
converted into kingdoms, the sceptre of
the Bcurbons gone to man who is but Of
Yesterday. and new Char!emagne tramp
ling upon the nations of The west. Wesce
arts, intrigues, u.achery, force, psrsua-
sion, and whatever else can be devised In
the councils of usurping ambition used TO
annihila,e every difficulty that may possibly
be found 10 its bloody road to univ ersal en-.
pire, and TO secure supremacy among ma
tons. By blasting the power Of every peo-
pie who dare to hold up an Independents
front. A new arrangement Of things, in
which France is 10 staod controller Of the
world, exalted in triumph Upon the ruins
Of liberty and right, seems rapidly advanc.
ing to full accomplishment. The pros.
pect may soon be converted into ia al re.
atty: short interval was seen between
the establishment Of dictator In Rome &
her conquest of the world and the first
generation Ct the legious Of Marius, who
saw Italy aud the capital well nigh over
whelmed by the Eruption of barbarians
from the Baltic, repos=d under the olive
trees Of Antioch, and Witnessed the pro-
found Stiffness of universal peace, when |
Augustus received embassies from Seythia
and from India, imploripg his protection
and purchasing his Friendship.
Opposed to an inunda.on so threatening,
our attention is arrested by the open and
covert Vaccinations OF force. and all that
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