Virginia Argus. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1796-1816, 1808-07-19

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British merchants are ever generous, the,
made application To- the Governor for ali
vessels, coming here TO collect deb S, NAV
be allowed to take the meney off for the
same, or any other article, according ia
law, which was instantly granted by our
governor"
1T is truly distressing to the feelings of e..
very republican to find that there are some
refractory spirits in our country, unmind-
iul OF its honor. regardless of It's laws, and
shu67ing with its neutrality. L. virtue A.
lone is the pendulum which guides the hand
OF repu6hcanism, we fear that it begins to
rose Hme, and that the spirit of '76 has run
DOM. We cannot conceive how these eva
sions take place unless through the remiss-
ness OF officers; we are, however, perfect
~ assured that they did not sail from this
port There is an ambiguity in the express
sion OF roUR PORT, which we are at loss
TO dec.pher. From the circumstance men
TONED, we must consider it generical ex-
preston, meaning the American port. We
sincerely hope that the place from whence
they did set out, will be ascertained, and
proper measures adopted to remove the G.
vii.
we have been lately accused of intempe-
rate and unnecessary harshness in regard to
ine lederalists; but when it is recollected
OF what particular description we speak we
are conscious that the scisibiity of the no.
nest federalist Cannot be offended There
are very many guided by the purest motives,
out there are more VINO under this plau..
siole pretext, exert themselves to excite dis
order and disunlon, by statements unf und
ed IN truth, by stratagems and connections
has
whose Character differs but in few shades
from that OF the republican; and there are
o'hers content with enjoying their o in on
without wishing TO disturb the harmony Of
government, but there ave others who would
Sacrince public happ'Tess tot Vengeance
oi uisappoin ed ambition, who to;enjoy the
maiighant triumph of IN 1ment, would ex.
UT IN the downfall of the present order of
thinSS 10 such our errand is, and but for
suCh we nave no occasion to speak IN harsh
discordant strains. The crisis is AWFUL
anG important and renders ii necessary to
draw the willy serpent from its fold 7,
mas hitherto worn tbs scales of federalism
the neutrality-suspicious. OF political virtue |:
1t rs time they shou d be taken eff, and the
reptile presented in its naked deformity.-
he that would defend treason tn sIand his
government, would surrender rational ho,
nor to crafty foreign Injustice, and would
spread cainmnies of the deepest dye so diff.
fuse distrus; and hatred against the highest
olhcers OF government, surely Came, be
considered the mid qilaker-Gke federalis,
who ioVos he cope, ihe cor sitution & h.
union When hen we speak OF federalists
We mean the opponents OF government
he enemies OF thew country. There are
some so very tenacious OF the fEsun.. clad
chastity" of he name OF federalist, so d.pz
zled with IT'S brightness, that rather rnan
he baptised anew at the political font, they
will continue to DE associated with tories and
monarchIsts.
90 ong as they will do this, suspicious will
be entertained, according TO he maxim, tina,
a men rs known by the company he keeps.
o Illustrate these remarks-what Old pior
should we form of the polilicas character o
a man who would be intimate with !, trai
tor, who would g.oss over his treason, who
because from some wonde rful circumstante
he has no, been found guilty, contends tba
he has been honorab!y acquitted. Let u
consider treason as the stock or hrohositu
an'lts relations and degrees. The person
we have just described NAV be considered
next to the parent stock, and therefore pla
ced IN the second degree, who, for the SAX,
OF example, we will name Luther. He tina
rs politically intimate with him, and profes
ses like him to be federalist, may be pla
ced in the third degree, who for example
we will name S>Dodloe, and he that is poiiti
caily intimate with him, and like him pro
fesses detestation for the present order o
! things, falls in the fourth degree, and fo
example y be called Timothy. Thu
nearly are these fedcralsts connected will
treason. 1t would be tedious and unneces
sary to the least attentive mind, to pursu,
this chain of consangunity, which connect
the family of. federaiists, it is merely sug
gested as a table of calculations, To- shey
what federalism is not, (for it is impossible
| to say what 1t is) that it has nothing Of IN,
character which the name imports, but tina
in substance, it is perfectly hostile to--IoU
for the fle0flie, the constitution and the uni
on. the plan of calculations being thus as
certained, it will be easy to trace cut tn
! VincHl1tD1 ferSondruDl d6 e0deB1 SlihiIe de
scendentium. TINS table of political con
sanguinity Will answer the same purpose
as to every species of federalism, whethe
| it be Reasonable federalism, anti. republican
federalism, or British federalism.-Burrm ma,
be hrohoaifuS in the one case, John Adam
in the % E, and Timothy Pickering in th
| last.
From WAsHINCToN CITY, July Is
The Secretary of the Navy has left thi
| city for Baltimore, and the Secretary o
| War for Portland.
! Mr.. Erskine, the British minister, arriv