Virginia Argus. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1796-1816, 1810-06-15
i1irglnia Irglle.
RIG H M o N d,
FRIDAY, JUNE IS, 1910.

1ney are vehement IN their exctanatlA
ons against France, whilst, at the same
time they are totally silent in relation
to Great Britain. We do not blame
them tor their Reproduction of the con-
duct of the emperor Of the Preach
but we reproach them for being silent
III relation to the outrages of England,
which they pretend not to see, whilst
they below like bulls against those of
France. Its terrible thing with a
federal gazette if the French govern
mept imprisons an Ameri an citizen,
but it is quite another affair if the En-
glish government imPrisens thou
sand |; and Bonaparte, with the same
prints, is a miscrea ant if he seizes our
property by open force, whilst king
George is an angel though he should
cause just as large an amount Of Anne
rican property 10 be condemned in
his courts of admiralty. The federal
newspapers could perceive nothing in
the murder of Pierce, in the attack on
the Chesapeake, nor in the imperti-
rence Of Mr.. Jackson to raise their
ire but, in the note of M. Champag.
ny how furious and boiling is their
rage! Surely, his uniform blindness
and silence with regard to the injuries
We have sustained FROM Great Britain,
and this extreme sensibility to the pro-
vacations of France, is sufficient to
convince any man of reflection and
candor, that the federal presses in the
United S ates, with some few except
ons, are devoted TO the cause of Great
Britain. So glaring is the fact, that
in some cases the conductors of iede-
raj prints do not think it worth while
to conceal it bu' proclaim aloud that
we ought to unite with the British a.
gainst the French.
The republican prints, it is notori-
OTIS, pursue line OF conduct entirely
different they put France and England
on the same ground, and expire $ their
|Sndignqtion alike at the wrongs which
we experience from the one or from
the othef,
To take the present occasion for an
example: Where is the republican
print that justifies the conduct Of
France? There may be a solitary in
dividual or two, who may believe that
submission to the outrages of Great
Britain affords plausible pretext for
the seizure of our vessels by the en-
peror ofthe French: bat take the mass
of the republicans, and you will ind
that they consider it most execrable
act.
1t is true, the republicans did not
think it their dury to clamor against
the French government, whilst the lat
ter conaued itself to The seizure of
British goods in prostituted American
bottoms, with forged pape s because
1t is no proof of a patriotic spirit To
raise an oatcrv In behalf of commerce..
al swindling Of any kind, and, least of
al, in behalf OF system # swindling
which went TO degrade the American
character and to put money, at the ex-
pence of the citizens of the United
States, into the pockets of the British
merchants. But the instant it was
known that Bonaparte had seized b.
nm jfde american properly, the repub
Gcans were as ready to condemn him
IS they were to condemn the English
they resent such conduct on the part
Of France with equal promptness and
resolution, and are as willing to avengc
the wrong done as ii it had been done
by our old enemy the British.
But no1o, (quoth the federal gazettcsI
the republicans are beginning to open
their eyes! Admit this to be true,
what does it prove. Why, that the re-
publicans are honest, at least, and that
there is a point beyond which they
cannot be deceived but the feGeraists
stop at nothing in the cause of Great
britain they justify her acts they are
blind to her injustice they supplicate
every human passion in her favor they
appeal to the feelings Of avarice, to
fear to humanity !: az one moment they
represent her as immensely wealthy.
AID capable OF enriehlng us at ano
Their, as all-powerful and possessing the
means OF crushing us and, at q third,
rs reduced othe last extremity, strug-
Cling for existence, and invoking the
iorbearance cf the II. States whilst
she is con.ending against the power of
az univ rsal conqueror!