The Delaware gazette. [volume] (Wilmington [Del.]) 1809-1810, 1809-09-30

on the ground lHat, 10 SECURE us from the t0r-
ni,iable power Of France, the friendship of En-,
gland is necessary. But is not this ALI idesi
danger! DO you not alright your imagna.ions
with wha, has no exisent c !? Have you not con-
.nually represented France as being SCARCELY
able to stand up against her continental enc
mics, when it suited YOUR purposes Uneues-
lionably you have. Austria, you say was for
midable 10 her; Spain would stop her career:
Holland was wearied Git with her expressions
Italy was only waiting the favorable moment 10
shake Oft her yoke; Germany felt her hunilia-
ton yea even France itself was ready to rise
in arms against the Corsican usurper. These
things you have said, AMI an hundred times as
much, when It suited your views to represeh,
France as weak, feeble and dvi'el
" But admitting that the power of France
was really great, and that she was hostile iou.,
would il be a safeguard for us to seek the pre-
lection of Engl'n No: this would be seek
ing refuge in the paws of the Lion, from tie
jaws OF the Iyger Look at home my friends,
unite with our coun,rymcn, and aided by tlea-
ven, you can protect yourselves:
. Let us discuss few points more, ard
close the friendly conference.
Either England has, or has not wronged
US. This (U.lfORTE.ydIELY fOR U.s. ,
isa question yet to lie determined in The minds
OF many honest men
. If England has wronged us, then are
those who justify her knowing that she has
wronge vs. ineScusably guilty before God, and
before their country.
:" II England has no, wronged Us, how could
her minister promise redress OF wrongs, and
that they should not be repeated
-" II England has wrongcd us, then are those
wrongs unretressed, and She still continues TO
infic them.
" If England sill continues 10 wrong MS,
then does every act of opposition to govern
Hlent, in relation TO foreign meters, sill, en-
courage her to proceed, and Heaven onlv
knows at whA distant point these wrongs will
end.
6 Men ofDeduaret Arc you fathers Then
cali your children before you, and let them
plead tins case, FOR am certain that their plead
ings viii not be heard in yan.-Are your fa-
'nsrs' and can you see all the future prospects
OF your children blasted in the bud? What
hope oil future happiness for them can CON
dwell upon, when you contemplate that wide
spread ruin, and destruction 10 the D, osperity
OF your country, which the European nations
have planned and are exec utng Think of these
things, and see il an union with your fellow
citizens, in supporting our yirtuous Chief Ma
gistrate, while he is costendng for your rights,
Is not the bsst policy YOU can possibly pursue.
. Men q Delavrarr! inquire not what are
your occupations, pursuits or stations in tho al
lotmens OF Providence. Whether farmer, me-
chanc, or merchant; lawyer, physician or d.
vine whether (like myself You labour for
your daily bread, or whether Providence, in It's
dlspensAtons has assigned YOU what is thought
| a happier station. These things are immateri-
al. Your good, your interest, youl Ultimate Z
object IS, or should be, one, and ,ha. ONE, 10
! procure Tor your country an exemption from
those evils wnich the European nations arc
bringing upon it,
You ask, g will not the election of federal
men, procure an exemption from these evils
answer, NO For federal men have uni
tormly said that " England had done us 40 es.
senliai inlury"-that these evils are not BROUGHT
| upon us oy foreign nations that The measures.
adopted nom time to Time to proccre redress
Oh grievances were not necessary, or were i'm
| proper and by every other means in their DOW.
CT nave they opposed our national government.
while It has been contending for our rights
always seeking to cas-, the blame on their fellow
citlAens, and exempt foreign nations from all
censure.
/ : such conduct on the part Of your leaders
eN'hces avery great want ofintelligcncc, where
~ tney were prevented seeing the true source
OF me evils that aiflict our country, or total
N = ltiheiple' which renders them still
more nnh'tns for any office in your gift.
| nus docs an American, native Of your
state address you he holds no Office, and seeks
none: ne has no fiends in office, or DESIRING
10 DC. thus does, and thus would he plead
your cause were he certain, that in the nexs
ho"r ne must be summoned TO plead his own.
before the Almighty Father of the Universe.
! accept, therefore, this assurance of nv sin.
cere desire for your political good, ,houch YOU
should call in question the correctness Of The
council have given"
= PURSUANT to public notice, number of
Democraslc Republicans of the borough and
vicinity of Wilmington assembled at 9ndr,-
son 8 1avern on the evening Of the goth in.
slant, 10 make arrangements relative 70 ,b..
approaching General Election. Gohn I'M.
/ L. 50 call.i :. -. . ~