Virginia Argus. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1796-1816, 1809-11-03
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TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 3, 1909.

OCTOBER 29rn, 1909.
"TaE sportsmen and Jockeys have all
been fairly Batger'd the p st week on our
Race Course, and tn Pennsylvanians have
gene off with all the reputation and all the
profits of the two first days purses. So much
for politics Ia Cheuai.
"The Chevalier dc Onis is still here, al
though it was thought he would have de.
parted hence on Monday last. 1t is gene.
rally understood that lac will not be receiv.
ed determination in our government
which is the result of very correct lie
OF policy, and perfectly consonant to the uni
form tenor OF American neutrality. Upon
this subject must eifer you few remarks
In the FIRST place 1t is to be observed, til at
the Spanish Jnnta exercise the sovereign
power of that kingdom in right os the Bour-
bon dynasty the agents of thar dynasty
were already accredited in the U. States
and. therefore, there could be no occasion
to accredit new ones: but the English, WHO
never fail to seize every opportunity that
offers to draw the United States from their
neutra! position, or to promote obs acles to
the advancement Of Amerc an commerce,
excited the Junta to insist upon the cknow.
ledgment of new minister in their name
for it is farcical to talk about Ferdinand,
who is a prisoner in France. BY this ma.
noeuvrc the British hope to gain one of two
things: 1st. To em5roil the u. States in
war with France, if new minister were
! accepted; or, 2nd. Ifhe should not be ac..
| cepted, to induce the Spanish Junta, in case
OF their flight and acknowledgment. in Sauth
| America. TO cut OF our trade with the pos
sessions of the Spanish monarchy in that
quarter. King Joseph Napoleon has acted
towards the United States in this particu.
lar with much more forbearance for, al
though he has been now for considerable
time in possession of the actual sovereignty
pick us by sending hither a minister to be
received, although it was Of much mere i'm.
portance to him to have accredited agent.
IN this Country than il was TO the Bourbon
race, whose consnls and charge .des-af
fares were already recognized and in III;
positive exercise Of their respective func.i.
ons. The federal party which for some
time past has been coaxing Mr.. Madison
as An antiquated nurse does child, with
all the sickening lnlibiesit could think of
has been determined for some time past II
assaiI him with all their malice and in theii
usual vulgar style. This is what the Pre-
sident, | am told, has long expected bu
the ribaldry and the fattery of his oppo.
nents are to him alike indifferent. Il i
confidently believed by the friends of ad.
ministration that nothing will induce the
executive magistrate to commit this nation
by any act whatsoever, to the perils of a
war, whose duration is so extremely uncer
tai7, unless the provocation be such as I,
render it impossible to avoid it. If, how.
ever, we are to have war. this is the mo
ment, of all others, to wage it against En-
gland for she Cannon, in her present stu
alton, possibly spare troops enough TO max
respectable show of defence, even in Ca
NADIA, against the force which the u. state
could, with the greatest facility, send thi
Their. What Jackson may do seems yer,
uncertain. We have various rumors o.
the subject; but they appear all to end i
.his conclusion, that il will be 7yetk far IN
american feohlc nor TO place TOO mHc
refaaee on British justice.
From New Hampshire and Massachu
sets we have the most flattering tidine,
The federalists themselves give up the for
: mer state as lost to them and it is III
prevailing opinion Of intelligent men fror
the eastward, that if an election were ;
present to take place in Massachusetts, IN
republicans would experience a glorior
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