Virginia Argus. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1796-1816, 1808-09-06

mystery it is that they laugh in the faces Of
each other and lie upon record, that they
are and have been uniform in their respect
for the government of their country, white
the notoriety of their contumelious and DIS
graceful conduct is known to every man who
reads !.
1t would be worth the while Of any man 90
examine the following topics.
What can be The end proposed by those
lpersons in America, vino are averse to- ihe
peace of the United States, or DESTROYS o.
Involving us ar iast in alliance with England
and in war against France
| IL is the forlorn hope OF accomplishing
that which has Disconnected so many Eu-
ropean coalitions. If this were the object,
and 1t is its being absurd that induces us to
suspect it to be their object every man
must see that if we were willing we are not
able.
Is it with the hope of overturning the a..
merlcan government during the vicissitudcs
OF war; and becoming the o,igarchs of n
new system more fitted for iniscreants, which
d democracy will tolerate?
IL IS infatuatIon, or stupidity, or corrup.
tioa, or mixture of all these ingredients
1t may he said. .. that ali t'ese Boston vo..
ters arc pious church going men,. and feel,
| like Edmund Burke. for suffering humanity
THAT the great sulTerings f the SpaniardS,
in the recent overthrow of ,he Bourbon dy-
nasty, lofty commissera;ion for the fallen
! house of BTaganzs.. tender sympathies fnr
the noble and bost blood of the nations To t
have had the escutcheons blurred hy AN ch-
scure mushroom emperor; thar their bow
lels yearn for those who are driven f'orl
their holes, and their indignation brist!ss
at the idea of the pebeian upstaris \ no
Ihave iumpt into thrones, and covered their
cropped wigs with regal, and ductile dia-
dems.
| Perhaps tits christian pity for the people
of those nations in which the foul deeds have
been acted.
l But when these things are considered,
your democratic reasoners, who 90 NOT see
thro' n single eye, nor hear thro' a single
lear-are apt TO say: is then the case oil
an ideo king or h~osfifu c court--a case
80 extreme as to engross ali commiseratiou,
nd leave none for those who in fhe Sigbf
! II me God If me christian zUorid. are al
.casf aikc MS crcdtWre8 Are the gouf
o. the 80 Of TIberi $ or Messalina--a
Henry Wiz. and u Catharue Of Mriicis OF
! 81 much moment, rs to sink all Of the ca
lamlties !niicted on nations for ages of per-
pe'uated deshofisa.
| Moutryt voters Of Boston, over the IL ~.
fall of Inc 1ourbors and Brag
bastiles aud inquisitions.
| ExtiagGsh every idea Of commisera,jon
for the Moreseoes and the Jsws--e xtiryta
i'"1 ~ mpious fauaiiciem, undceihe hanser
oi The ctass, rs You would extirpate var.
gue and provoke war under the mask OF
lfederGEsm, and ~ the abused name OF pat.
rioism.
WAY should YOU remember the burn
nss of ynur own revolution....th memory
l'oi such atrocities, would not bring you al
lasf into q league with England against
France
WAY. should YOU feel Cor the suffering:
Of the people OF remote Asia....why should
che millions starved and mastered in
Hindostan.. why should a moguI, or a Ma
bob o. a n IAN, or Tippoo Sab, poisoned
or assassinated, disturb your pursuits
What have you to do IN the considera'
} ton of your BosfoH vo,es or promoting
British interests...with the evanyeica
chastenings which Britain has bestowed
? upon Ireland during only six hundred years
What have the hangings, and burnings
and massacres of few hundred thousanC
WILD IRISH" to do in the bosom of Bos
= ton humanity, compared with the expulsion
: of the Bourbons, or the failure Of g reat Bri
tain to monopolize the commerce of thu
world?
These things deserve to be contrasted..
that the imbecility and shabby cunning
which marks the whole character OF fed
Y craj politics, as a disparagement of Amer
Z can intellect and honesty, may be seen.