Virginia Argus. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1796-1816, 1809-09-19

/ between the husbandman and the foreign
manufacturer, who takes his raw material,
, and taxes him most severely for mis- fol :
ly, by heavy duties on the manufactured ar
ticle.
The following advice of distinguished
foreigner ought to be imprinted deeply on
the mind OF every Independent American:
l-lHhig.
"Let them, (the Americans) make the
best OF the benefits of nature, and the fruit.
full country they inha5it. Let the iron of
your mines, the wool of your flocks, the COT
ton OF your fields, and the skins Of the wild
beasts wandering in your woods, improve
in your manufactures, aud take under your
hands new value: let agriculture, indus
try, arts, and the first of all sciences, that
| of procuring the greatest happiness to states
and men, be perfected amongst you; let
the recital of your happiness cali around
your habitations all the unfortunate of the
earth; let tyrants of every country, let e.
very opPressor, political or sacred, know,
that there exists place in the world where
one may escape from their chains, where
disgraced humanity has raised her head,
where crops grow for the poor; where the
laws are no more tn an security for happi
ness; where religion is free, aud science
has ceased to be a slave; where nature
seems at last DESTROYS of justifyng herself
in the creation of man; and government,
so long guilty over the whole earth, at lea asst
makes amends for her crimes
In the Salem Gazette we find the follow.
ing sentence
Gas we do not psrcev: that the condi-
ton, which by the law was to be the ground
OF such proc amotion, was ever ascertain
ed, 1t appears to us that ths proclamation
OF the 18Th OF April vas q mere UuaHlhoI
sed erecuave act, having no legal basis for
its support
We have seen the same sentiments hint
ed at in some other federal paper Is IL
because the federallsts thought that Madi-
son acted illegally in issuing the proclama-
ton OF April 10, that they approved of his
conduct! Aad was it from such CONVICT.
on they predicted that he would disappo nt
the democrats and become federals.?-
Salem Register y
The republican creed once was that no
course remained for Us but Embargo, Var,
or disgraceiul SUBMISSION. Engiisl per.
tidy has destroyed the hope that opened a
new alternative il has brought things ID ,ck
to the old stand, with THIS difference only.
that they have multiplied injury, and ruin
ed, tor the present at least, the efficacy
OF that course winch was justly deemed the
only alternative bat war. Submission is out
OF the question: Shat sve have an embar.
go, or snail zve, in any Shahe h1Ue zsar !?
We have tried an enbar so.s-we have wiz
| messed Its power bu. toe misfortune is,
We nave, at the same time, witnessed that
unPrincipled and infamous opposition from
faction, the tendency of which was to de.
| stroy its efficacy, and the cid of which has
been still to keep us under the de p st hu
imitation With this view OF the subject.
aud knowing the depravity which we hayo
to encounter, reasonable doubts m ght he
enter tanned, as to the policy of renewing
that measure, even could we bring back, ,
III moment, every vessel and every Car.
| go that has been lured.fron our porls
| But them we Cannot recall. Britain has
again repieHIshed her granaries and is now
! prepared TO laugh ar cur return to a system
lately SO a.arln.ng to her injurious preten.
! Sions.
] 1t is one question whether it would have
been wise to have continued the embargo-z
! 1t is very different question whether
return to It Will under present circumstan
ces be advisable. We shall hold sacred, S.
relgiously support those measures which
"'- 'uoie' NAYS Gil duopted Oy the up
right and deliberate councils of this nati~
on=oue cur poor opinion is avowedly i'll IA.
vor OF a resistance which shall ut leas- be
co-extensive with the warfare carried on
against US by that natioI which is, com
Parativeiy speaking, the author OF. all our
wrongs La short, We would unite the wnoie
energy OF the nation against the plunderer Of
the seas, seeking in the spoilations of her
commerce, some remuneration for the los
ses to which she has too long doomed Us
with mpunIty.--i6.