Virginia Argus. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1796-1816, 1809-08-29
Dtrginta Nrans.
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,TUESD NY, AUGUST 90, 1909.
R I C H NJ o N d.
FoR THE ARGUS.

TO Engld7I as Subsection TO
France.
II experience is at all to be consulted in
the present situation of our affairs, IT'S swarm
ing voice will sdmonish usof singular fact
in relation to a connection with either OF the
belligerents. The idea has very frequent
.ly been impressed upon the pubic mind
that connection with the English is ruin.
Gus to any nation bur the thought, that
sUbmissfon 10 England is su6jecnon to
france has not, that we know of, yet baGn
enforced before the American community.
By submission to England, we mean a SER
vile ooesance to her influence, by an aban.
'donment of incontestible rights, which leads
tacitly to connection with her Every
Kingdom of Europe which has failed honest
ly and vigorously to resist the pIlicy, and
pretensiols of Great Britain, has become a
theatre for a civil war, or fallen prey to
the conqueror Bunaparte. fit were only
one or two nations that had thus become
the victims Of their British attachments,
one might be led to doubt of the certainty
OF the destruction which awaits every pow. 4.
er which is unhappil won by English ca :.
ressss; but when, at glance, we have Hol-
land, Austria, Prussia, Spain, rland,
and the kingdoms of Italy among the num- :.
Der, there is no room left for incredibly.
II Is singular enough, that the fate of these
countries IS appealed TO by the federal
party as evidence of the danger to be aD-
pretended from the universal domination of
bonaparte they never reflect, that the frst
false stefa OF those unfortunate nations, was
connivance and connection with Ener
land The pretext for a Connection with
Great Britain, is one of the most silly that
can be imagined. Her friends tell us (and
they tell us,-too, with serious faces y that
her navy protects other countries from in.
vasion and destruction by French power.
With respect to other nations this means
nothiag, tor France can invade them by
land ; add with respect to ourselves, the
weakness OF the pretext is palpable. How
can Great Britain, who is held in continu.
al trepdation for her own safety, az the We
~ rumor of French fat bottomed boats
crossing the channel; how can that sa ne
Great Britain pretend to guard coast like
ours /! No, indeed, it must be something
more certain than the naval power of Bri
tain, which is itself the continual sport of
an unstable element, that must give safety
to these states. 1t must be our own Yalor
aided by our own resources. We must
not suffer our strength to be Slapped by a
copartnership with the English. In truth,
England stands much more in need of our
protection than we do of hers, aud it is for
tnat very reason Sue wishes to draw us
nearer 70 her. Protect America ! Alas
when has England been the disinterested
protectress of any nation! Even when. Sir
John Moore and his army were in the hear,
OF Spain, Frere was bargaining at Madrid
for free trade for British subjects to the
| Spanish colonies, and the English troop.
| were ordered not to act until Frere gave
orders, which orders never arrived, be.
cause the Junta refused the enormous de.
mands OF British cupidity. The gailan,
| Moore fell sacrifice to as base and vile
commercial intrigue as the annals of his
tory contain. Surely the Americans al the
present day, will not submit 10 demands
from England which, in principle and prac
tice, the Spanish Junta, in the midst o.
mistortunes, have nobly spurned. Ever
honest federalsts themselves, seeing there
mo other way to avoid subsection to France
but by resisting Great Britain, will eyentu
| ally unite in opposing her eternal aggres.
| sIouso