Alexandria daily gazette, commercial & political. [volume] (Alexandria [Va.]) 1808-1812, 1810-08-01

est and most prosperous nation on earth. ol-
tuated at distance from the seat of war and
carnage, and possessing all the enterprise and
advantages of communication and commeree e,
what might she not accomplish. When
say we ought 70 study the interests Of our
own country exclusively, do not mean to
insinuate that we ought to adopt the Chinese
or Jeffersonian policy. am no friend to
everlasting embargoes. 1t is evidently the
interests of our country to have commerce,
and We should maintain it. Our citizens
draw wealth from the ocean--they have a
right SO to do, and defy all the tyrants in
the world to hinder them from taking adyan-
tage of commerce, if our government does
not paralizc their exertions. It is on COM
merce that our government depends for an
existence, and when that government under.
took to destroy navigation, it committed an
act of suicide. Had we studied our own
| interests we had never Quilted the ocean.-
We had never submitted to the" municipal
| regulations of foreign nations. But the mo-
ment that in compliance with the system OF
Bonaparte, we laid an unlimited embargo, we
acknowledged our dependence on foreign
powers and we have been sinking in dis
grace ever since. We have now no national
character, and scarcely the name of nation
left. But this is not the fault of the people at
large. The citizens of the United States ge-
nerally love their own country, and have spi-
rit sufficient to maintain their rights. They
have no idea of AFFECT submission 70 the re-
gulation of foreigners. But 1t is the rulers
who are in the fault Our rulers have sub
mitted and the people have blindly and inno-
Gently followed them to the altar of degrada-
ton, They have indeed, in bowling the knee
to the Baal of party, soiled themselves in the
filth of foreign influence But this they have
done unintentionaiy. They had no idea of
the slough into which they had been led
They have been deceived, but theirey must
soon be opened. On them it depenus to yet
save our country. This subject is an inn
portant one, and shall have further conside-
ration in future paper.-A. Y. En-. Post
French Influence Co." Where" says the
Aurora, "where shall we find an EXAMPLE OF
French Influence % This question, which
has been put with the most unbushing effron-
terry, is thus happily answered by col Whe-
len, Editor of the Chester and Delaware Fe.
deralist.-Freeman's Journal.
We are unblushingly told that no democra-
tic printer can be found who has justified
French aggresslons and rapacity. This has
been told us by democratic printers of note.
and echoed by every poor spaniel-like syco-
plant, that has been able to make an extract
or take copy. We shall merely publish an
extract from the Aurora, IA paper held in
more estimation by many democrats than the
bible itself,) to shew that these democratic
Editors do not tell the truth, when lie will
answer their purposes better. 1t is as fol-
lows:
We totally deny that there has been at
any time, from the commencement of the
4" French revolution in tnat country, under
" any form q its government, revolution
airy, consular, or imperial, any DISPOSE
ton hostile, unfriendly, or insidious to-.
wards the u States"
This is the language of Duane, the uoted
French panegyrist, in a tone so,positive that
it cannot be mistaken. If mingled emotions
of RESENTMENT and contempt do not seize eve
ry American bosom that feels fortthe honor