Virginia Argus. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1796-1816, 1809-09-26
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TUESDAY, sEprEmskR %, 1909.
The President of the United States was
expected to leave Montpelier for Washing.
ton on Monday yesterday the 25th instant.
Swift saws, when a man AYERS that he is
of no farty, ne certainly belongs 70 a par
nv, but it is one. of which he is ashamed.
If this is applied TO cerJain federSlists, it
will be found to hold good.
The editor of the New York American
Citizen, in his palitical character, is like the
index of mariner's compass. He veers
all around the circle Just as the wind blows.
There is newspaper Published ia
Georgetown. in the District of Columbia.
called the " Tadehend-nt American. 1t
is most herfdious saOdge for under the
mask of Importantly it assails with viru..
lence the administration upon the most RI
diculous pretexts.
Great Britain is in the habit of demand.
ing pledges from other nations for their
neutrality. Ought she not to give security
fer her own fidelity At all events the u.
States ought to require surety for her JUS
tice.
Phe British admiralty courts are a very
singular K md of tribunal They are Judge.
and harty too. What sort of equity can be,
expected where an Englishman is the rob
Der, the advocate, and the aroiter?
The British are not only the oppressors
of Americans themselves, but they have
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ticing them into unlawful engagements, by
false pretences, with forged papers and
false oaths. Surely England is the evil ge-
Mus OF America.
The republicans of America have fought
a good fight. They begin to reap the re-
ward OF their tolls Vermont returns to le.
.gitima;e prncipies. Maryland will he firm
once more. May New York follow tn ex-
ample. What will become of the apostates
and political whirliggs, who first suppor
ted, then, abused, and then approved the
administration -
Timothy Pickering is of the adorers of the
Heather God Pan, FIVE may judge by his
cowardly fears last war And, from his
recent conduct, he must be also devoted to
Mercury. l. is needless to say that this
'"Ne~' DSiy ID NiA~ P-eio-i vi poAi'iSSA h"a :
very.
| The federalists have 40 great objection
to war with the British, provided the lat
! tar Will shoot them with bullets OF silver
and gold in the pocket.
a war with France would be no war,
say the leading federalists, and, therefore
it oughr.to take place. A war with Eng.
land might produce some hard knocks, and
| therefore we ought 10 submit TO her. Such
is the valiant logic of our modern Sancho
P+nzas.
The Petersburg Republican of Thursday
last says, I" One day last week a. party OF
=" bona fds Black Legs (GAMBLERs) deco
Z" Queens were drum nedthrough our town
g confined to the tail of a cart"
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From rehort uton the various imhroUe.
/ meHts IN machines which haze been iaia
before the board Of agriculture in En-
gtand
i" No. 6. A Swing Plough, made on the
primo pies recommended by Mr.. Jefferson
of America, by the late MIR. MacdougAll
whose merits in the department of az
ricultural mechanism, are so univcrsai.
ly acknowledged, and which bids fair t
BRING that valuable instrument OF hus
bandry to all the perfection of which
80 is capable"
l5D~ The following structures ar
from Paris paper in the possessio
of the Editor of the Virginia Al
gus. they will be read 18th az
ditV because thew reigte to rh