Alexandria daily gazette, commercial & political. [volume] (Alexandria [Va.]) 1808-1812, 1810-02-05
PATRIOTIC ADDRESS
SPANISH NAEL4N.'

The following address TO the Spaniards, is
copied from late Cadiz paper. Il ap:
pears that thes Jun,a, which has now as :.
sumed the fern of legislature, in con.
junction with nsw executive Of seven
members, so far from Responding, are
making the most vigorous preparations to
expellhe French, and that. if found ne
i. cessary they will even raise the levy
zen masse, amounting to nine millions of
: people, to ehectuate their object. The
war which the Spaniards. are waging is
4Nejensiue one in the s,rictest sense OF the
word, and il is therefore Unsuitable in the
=sighs OF God and man. They ars fight
ipg for their lives, for their wives and
children, and for their property. Is
there an American so debassd as not 10
wish them SUGGEST? " +,
Translated for the Freemaa's Jsxrnakl
Ha5e we to Hope or Fear This was
the theme with which the perfdious French
and trearherous Spaniards, excited Us to
subscribe 10 our slavery, dictated by Na?o'
leon. Several skilful persons of tie king.
dom answered the question, and every o''s
OF them to the purpose. The Spanish arms
afterwards proved that they were not d..
csived, and that his Imperial and Royal
Majesty would have to reform his p!aas
relative to the requirement or CONQUEST OF
Spain, whiSh he already thought realized.
Indeed, we have observed, that, far from
making the Peninsula his own, as he pro-
missed himself, he has lost more than
100000 men, without obtaining any other
advantage than that ofpossessing Madrid,
and some other fortified places which were
delivered in perfdious manner: posses
sions which were easily lost. Notwiih-
standing this, and all the posterior progress
sons of our armies, until now, Il appears
that there is motive of another nature to
cause the question to oe reproduced with
mere spirit and attention.. Against all our
hopes Austria signed peace with France,
and We again return to ask, WAetAer 7"e
haze to H2ie or Fer? The answer to M
ny may appear difficult, but, to US, ii Is easy.
Perhaps there will be no one whe wilt not
say but that we have to fear. We dang
tricalIv oppose this assertion. When We
had no armies, nor no plans formally or
ganized to wage war with Napoleon and
his uoops, who in great numbers already
occupied our land, each Of our provinces
declared war for themselves, aud in reality
We vanquishcd them, or the triumphs of
Valencia, Zaragosa, De. Bruch, and E:y!en
a;e not true.
For more than a year, until the declara-
ton of war between France and Austria,
We did MT fear! We did not then merely
rely UPON Austria or the northern forces to
rescue our liberties.
Al this period our slavery was not verb
fed: then, OH this side of the Question
(Which Is the greatest evil ne haze nothing
t. fear. But let Us suppose, that, by this
new peace, they will march into Spain,
(Which is political error) all the forces
which Napoleon has in Austria, WHAT
pRoGREss WILL THEY MAKE! Without
enumerating our regular armies, We have
at the present time multitude OF patriotic
parties, which in every direction diminish
the forces of the Tyrant, and who DO not
permit him to call himself master of the
land, which he TRANSPORT : occupies. Will
he triumph over our liberty? Assuredly
not. Then the dying flame of patriotism
will burn afrssh, and Napoleon will find,
that he cannot count with one single town.
It will be then, that the disposition of the
government which has been considered hi
thcr.o as slew, shall progress in the same
extraordinary MANNER, as was seen in the
first outset of the revolution. The whole
country risen EN- MASSE, shall make an
opposition truly irresistible in default OF
n'uskess, oh that IL had it had already been
done) there shall be seen multitudes OF
companies armed with pixies, who will
rush on the enemy, amidst their muskets;
if they had only sings and stones (Which
is SO easy TO essabiish} the effects would be
seen. '--r .. r. ~ .. .. ..
Blu. lie, us place ourselves in the last ex-
IRENE, thar is, that nothing OF shisis patSl
execution, Have ,vr then to }esr or he1eS