Virginia Argus. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1796-1816, 1808-06-10

Starve the continent, without at the
same time starving the trade of neu-
trails but it must be confessed that
the means we have chosen cannot be
as solution OF the diff
Guilty, but rather as an escape we have
not united the knot, but we have cut
it; we have proceeded with the usual
and gross indelicacy of force
we have substituted the "will and
pleasure" for the reason and the JUS
tice; and, with kind of retr ogade
honesty, we have left the moral to be
gathered from the foundation of the
moral. Like Sir Lncius O'Trigger
in the Rivals, tive have drawn our
swords, and left the lazy sons ofpeace
to find out the justice of the dispute. ~
We may now in truth be said to add
to the ferocitv and unfeeliug charac-
ter OF the war; we are reviving the
savage practices of remote antiquity,
and substituted them for that humane
and mitigated hostility which robbed
war of half its horrors, and disarmed
it of all its personal malignity.
Because Jesuit's bank, it seems, has
been heretofore esteemed the specific
remedy of intermittent fevers, and, a.
such of universal use in France, the
French materia medica is in future to
be deprived of l.. We are TO retail
ate upon the sick the wrongs of the
government; we are to depopula {
the hospitals for the injury of the mi
litary ; we are to visit upon the infrm
and helpless, the wrongs of those
whom we cannot otherwise make feel
than by these indirect attacks upon
their sensibilty.
There is neither magnanimity, ho-
nor nor humanity, in this miserable,
hucksterlike contes against the pestle
and mortar! Who ever dreamt of ex-
contraband to bark, rhubarb
and magnesia - Throw physic to the
Dogs Let us leave the chemists
shop, and his drugs, uninlected by this
Jury and hostility"
From The aurora.
We copy the following from the New
YORK. Public advertiser, paper conduc.
ted with hrmness and intelligence, winch
neiiher assumes more than II performs,
nor undertakes more than it is -IOmpetent
"a execute--with this es innate, however,
we do not entirely concur; "a 10 g ne
r"l result perhaps it may be near he case,
but in what concerns The vo eS of Penn
syl,ania, the Public .AdUertiser IS abso
Iutely misinfo' med, al no time was there
a suspicion tina, there we're more Than tzvo
OF the citizens nominated for ele 6tors par
tIal To MIR. Clinton and it is well known
nat these will ABIDE by The sen imenls oil
{ cir cons ituents what those sentiments
re the public already partly know from
lhe sentiments Published in various parts
ut the sia,e, and which will s,on general
lY appear. Liberties have been taken al
50 with the name OF the venerable Charles
Thomson hat good mao entertains an en-
tire respect for Mr. Ciaton but il NAV be
permitted to those who are intimately az.
quaIDted with him, and who know his
sentiments on he best policy of the UNI.
led STATES to ay that he IS in favor of
hat candidate who is most likely to pursue
he policy of the present Administrations
and thai he thinks M. Madison that man
On another point also we differ froml
the Public dvertiser-the federalsts will
set up Charles CotesworM Pfnckney, Who
moor man, appears, like lanes Rose, des.
tired TO be the perpetual stalking horse
OF federalism
sROM The PUBLIC ADVERTISER.
PROBABLE estimate. - Cheetham yester
day gave an estimate of the probable votes
or president in the different states. In
this he made governor Clinton The sue.
cessful candidate by fSuO votes more than
the constitutional maJori,y--no man who
has the least acquaintance with the Stale
Of politics in The United States. can read
his production of Cheetham wiz hout adj |
miration of his impudence, or contempt
Of his folly. The following statement is
founded on correel Information, derived
rom the most respectable political cha.
raelers Of the several states-aDd il will
be pleasing to those who, sincerely attach |
ed to the republican cause, wish to be-. |
hold IFS complete triumph over the arts OF
ambition, aposlacy and intrigue.
Ii is asccTtained that there will be three |
republican candidates for the Office
Messrs. Madison, Monroe and Clinton.
The FIRST IS the candidate Of the republi- |
ian party, and has been nominated in the |