Alexandria daily gazette, commercial & political. [volume] (Alexandria [Va.]) 1808-1812, 1809-11-17
NEW POLITICAL VIEWS.
. II rnE BRAsrrLEBRo' REPORTER.

49,
o,ro. Mon-intercourse, and Policy Of
the BcAgerents.
NO. III.
When We take into view the disasters
n have overwhelmed the faircr part of
old world, & observe the dangers which
ace this country, from the same sources
,;,h have inundated and annihiiated the
!, pendence of nations vastly superior in
N r. and population to the United States,
Ere not little assonished and appalled,
he apathy which peryades the American
rubIic. Our politicians and lsading cha
,s,rrs appear to us to be men like those de
lied by Burke as the lowest order Of
Enman species" There isno trade SO vile
/ md mechanical as government in their
lands. Virtue is not their habit. They are
=. Of themselves IN any course of conduct
4 commended by conscience and glory. A
lrge. liberal, and prospective view of the
Eoerests of states, passes with them for 70.
nance and the principles which recon-
,O.nded it, for the visions of disordered
IN ,gination. The caleula,ors compute
|,bsn out Of theirsenses. Littlensss in OBJ
ct and means, to them appears soundness
md sobriety. They think there is nothing
forth pursuit but what they can handle
/ hich they measure with two feet rule /;
which they can tell on their fingers.
Such as these are our terrapin-systero
nongers; who would destroy ourcommerce
st it should afford a pretext for involving
/ us in European quarels, who oppose a low,
base, abiect, mean, creeping, oringing, pu-
,laaimous policy, to world in arms.--
Whose means of otfance and defence con-.
ssts merely in dishonest and shutting ex-
txped.ents intended to prop declining po-
rIarity. But,
sToy a,ay get awake. at one avcng,ng 6lovs
Crush tic oire authors Of their coualry's
w2e"
When the experience OF every new cam
pagn, the results of every battle, the mil
ny and political arrangements untolded by
every days events, and displayed by every
rtcle of intelligence from the eastern con.
taent, show that the object of France is
mFire-that without extraordinary and
unparalleled exertions on the part of that por-
Jon of the civilized world which has not
ct passed under the yoke 9th conquaror,
he despotism of France will be as unlyer-
alas is severe and intolerable we pot
Fslant Americans are looking as quietly on
nth no more efficient animation than so
nauy Egyptian mummies, or animal pc
thiattions of the Monticellian nicknackato-
+ ~: Or, if we condescend to Eft finger
tyway of show of an inclination to pre-
hrve some rank in the scale of indepen-
itnt nations, our puny efforts are directed
tIber against our own commerce and re-
Eouces, or to cripple the arm or to pierce
be heart of the power who is forced to
PHI our battles-the only power sthas can
:vent cur speedily realizing in this coun-
vall the horrors of seise OF Saragossa
battle Of Wagram.
But it is said by our advocates for terra
Fn systems that Bonapar,e will be satisfied
Ith the destruction of our commerce
bat Great Britain will not annoy US, but
n' every one will rest in security under
own vine and fg-tree. That America
e China will be world by itself, and re-
nam perfectly secure, without the vortex of
luopean politics. But here, as usual,
hey reckon without the host" Their
nlies have no parallels, and their paral els
. without similituds. China is a con-
asred country governed by a Tartar dy-
ssy--a country ruled by most rigid des-
odsm, without shadow of liberty, reli-
pCas, political, or civil. Besides, the po-
aauon of China compared with the U.
Yates is at least so to 1 !; and the govern
vent, habits, manners, and situation of that
@ empire, are all hostile to foreign coma
aSrce. As well might the frog of the fa-
Z, swell to the size of an OK, as the u.
Nes succeed happily in any attempts to
uIate the Chinese policy with regard to