Alexandria daily gazette, commercial & political. [volume] (Alexandria [Va.]) 1808-1812, 1810-07-07
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SATURDAY, JULY <.

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,..st such of them as have yet been i1id
s.fors the people of the United States serve
4. - deepen the gloom which hung already
III foo heavily over our foreign relations
I,sorading as has been our unwearied sub
1 ...;on TO the tyranny exercised over US by
!. ann KING NAPeLEoN,' his brow IS not yet
.noothed, nor does the scourge lie idle in his
hand. To supeliant America the lash is still
.nnl;ed without mercy,and the last hope that
submission in any other shape than is dictat-
j By himself viii restore US to his favor, is
distinguished:
Until now, though we have often doubted,
y, have never suffered ourselves to despair.
faint and dubious semblance of feeling,
,xb;bited on the arrival of shsn Camilla, re-
sxc;ted il the patriot bosom those anxious
substitutes which are inseparable from a ST.
tuation imminently dangerous. but not abso-
lu,ely desperate. Notwithstanding the tame
seryilty which has marked with deep and
gully shame the last six years of our history,
the conviction that our independence could be
knowingly surrendered was earnestly resist
ed and in spita of the unpromising terms
10 which the intelligence from France was
conveyed to the public, the hope was fondly
cherished that our administration would at
length perform an American part. That the
direct and contemptuous war avowedly made
upon us by the common enemy of man, add
ed to the undis.uised claim to dictate tous as
to nation already conquered, should be in
capable of producing one manly sentiment or
of determining as to change our ahjectsys-
tenn; that we still Rugged our chains and
looked for intelligence by the next arrival in.
dicating mitigation of our Punishment, were
indeed prognosticks Of gloomy nature
Still as the aggressions of Franeewere ae--
knowledged, though with ever so much re-
luctance, it was supposed to be scarcely pos.
sble that the ame>sYstem ofsubmssion could
be- continued, and that misrepresentation so
often exposed should be repeated The. just
dread therefore, inspired by acknowledge of
thepast, with which we looked for the senti-
ments our rulers would communicate to us
through the National <Intclligencer, was not
entirely unmixed with sensations of less
Responding character; and because men Gre
CIT easily what they earnestly wish, favorable
impressions respecting the future conduct of
administration were already making pro-
gress.
Bat the governments paper Of the 2cd of
June dissipates all those fond illusions, and
suffers such a state of snspence to exist no
longer. The Impression which the conduct
of France has made On Our rulers, and which
they 2ishto make on the people, is how fully
ayowed !. and with that ayowal the still small
voice Of patristie indignation has been hushed
VIC fear forever.
It is admitted that thc3return made for a
long UNMARRIED course of submission on the
part Of the United States, 70 wrongs greater
than one nation had ever before offered to
another with whom it protested TO Be in ami
ty, is only additional insult and increased in.
jury. American property, taken at sea or
found in the ports ofFrance or Of her tributary
states, which had been seized because it was
American, is now carried into the private
purse OF the Emperor. The political course
AssSour government is prescribed, without the
slightest regard to our interests, our honor,
or our situation; and because the burthen is
TOO heavy TO be borne, because an embargo is