Virginia Argus. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1796-1816, 1808-10-11

are. But why? Because you cannot deny,
but that great majority of the republicans
IN Virginia 1--WE will not say the u. States,
because one of the Mon,oe Committee has
SAID, that it is impossible to know ,t,) are
insexibly in favor of Mr.. Madison. And
you, constituting small proportion of soci-
ETY.. are equally infiexble in favor of Mr..
Monroe, which has an evident tendency to
thwart the object of the republican MAORI
ty. You also declare, that you have form
ed no alliance with the federalists, and that
they are gaining ground. This, instead of
increasing your perseverance,, ought to be
an additional inducement to change your
course, and support, with all your might,
the election of MIR Madison. You find that
the federaiists confess that they cannot sue
coed In electing candidate OF their own
description, and that they are willing TO u
bandon their schemes for that purpose, in
order To promote the election of Mr.. Mon
roe. shat as they cannot get federal.
ist, they will unite with the minority TO G..
lect that man who is m Ist congenial in his
principles, and sympathetic in his wishes.
Is not this fact apparent TO the most care.
| less observer, when it is universally seen,
that the Monroe committee address, is re-
published and applauded in every federal
paper? When we find that the very man,
| of all others, who has been most bitterly pro-
scribcd by the federalists, is now the very
nun whose election they espouse with so
much warmth and intrigue; we are surely
to conclude that he has gone over 10 them,
Or they have come oUer 70 him. Which of
these deductions is mos. plausible You de-
! ny any sort of alliance with them, and,
| therefore, We must snppo that he remains
true to the tex, and that there is no coali..
ton in presidential electioDeerng schemes.
oil 49,. 81, Sod.
with you in principle or design, and yet it
is manifest to the world, that you are both
pursuing the same course.
| These denials, in contradiction TO an un.
deniable fact, can have no other possible eff
! feet than TO induce some suspicion as to the
! purity OF your principles, and the patriotism
| of your views. You speak in the most ex
allied terms of the present iliustrious man
| who is the president, aad in the very N xt
breath, you denounce Mr.. Madson-and
why! Because he is considered part of
the administration, and that he will pursue
the same track which has been marked aud
measured by his predecessor. Wonderful
inconsistency And what is still more won.
derful, is, that the very reason which you
assign in favor of Mr. Monroe, is, of ali o.
theirs, the most powerful in favor of Mr..
| Madison, to wit: the critical and enibar
| raised sta;e of the times. What produ-
ced this situation! You lave already said
foreign injustice. Mr.. Monroe was the
man sent to foreign courts TO SOP tn TO
reign injustice. Did he succeed? No
Why Because Great, Britain hackneved in
treachery and injustice, and abandoned in
honor and principle, would not accede to the
demands of this country, founded upon a
right derived from God, and hitherto sane
toned by the laws (which have been held
Z rt.aFs ~ -.
faithfully respected by many of the most I'M
civilized. You say that Mr.. Monroe stands
IN high estimxtion at the foreign courts,
thereby inducing us toinfer thar If he WAS
elected, they would resciad t;ieir orders
HOW lrratIonally VIVID and qai.Soric is this
conjecture MIR. Monroe has been placed
IN that situation, where, if it was possible
to avail himself of that advantage, ne might
have done it, with more proprIety and eff
tect than IN any other Whatsoever. Our
respect for that gentleman inducesThs to be-
ieve that all the advantages resulting from
his h1gh estimation. in foreign courts, were
used, and without the slightest effect. Is it
to be supposed that Great Britain would re-
tire from her Chad eminence" and bullying
position, mercy from courtesy and polite
ness, when al the powerful remonstrances
OF faith and justice have proved abortive,
when the eloquence of her first orators in
! parliament has been wasted without eff CT,
and when the serions and alarming insur-
rectons other manufacturers have only pro,
duced system of legalized murder upon
aer half-famished subjects. Let IL be re-
membered, fellow citizens, that Mr. Mon
roe evinced every disposition, and used eve-
ry argument to induce them to form an ho-
norable treaty. Let it be remembered that
his anxiety upon this subject urged him to
accept treaty, contrary to hisinstructions,
and which he knew would no. be ratified
And yet we are told that in consequence OF
his hlSh estimation at the foreign courts
that he would be the most likely person 70
relieve Us from our present critical and en-
6arraSSed situation Under these circum-
stances, We cannot hesitate to pronounce,
} and we beg the attention of our readers,
when we say, that Mr. Monroe ought not to
} be elected. No person can doubt but tina,
great calculations are made in Great Brit
ain upon she contest of parties in this coun-
try, and upon the unpopularty of the pre-.
sent admin stration.
They are waiting, we are told, until the
-
Norfolk Ledger.
, The following enumeration of treatie:
VIII shew that the European powers have
hitherto admitted the great principle, that
Stree ships make free goods which now
theV are DENYING and frarurt;r,. ,,,,,i... e..