Alexandria daily gazette, commercial & political. [volume] (Alexandria [Va.]) 1808-1812, 1810-07-16

8 ] his state OF things caffotionG exist ANa-
tnre knows no such vacuum. An alteration
must soon take place IA fer a dead calm
comes hurricane. We may therefore look
out for scenes which will shake our feeble
government to the centre, if notaay 1t pros.
crate ia the dust. We have worshipped
NAPOLEON With honest alteration for many
yeats; we have rejoiced at his successes
and incurred over his defeats, with more
sincer;,v than ever did his degraded slaves
il France.-ws-ha obeysd his commands.
with the most scrnpulous attention. We laid
neutrality-suspicious., enbargoes and non .i'ter-11
courses 70 assist him in his laudoble scheme
| of destroying cornme,ce;s and the great
q super -ensinent" emperor is not satisfied.
He tells us, we are without honor y without,
energy, mere slaves and dependents on G..
britain. What will he say next? What
has ne said to all nations irthe same situa.
ton? You are incapable of governing
! yourselves you are in a league with Eng.
land against me, and must take you under
Eny protection; must>send you a king,
who will govern you agreeably TO my will,
and as you ought to be governed. The next
news we may hear from his imperial mNrs-
ty may be that he has appointed king TO
reign over us that we may enjoy the same
}.lberty and freedom as the rest OF his favor
ed allies. This is no wild suggestion, what
ever may be-thought OF it. know the rea-
der will say, this cannot be- onaparte can
never enslave thi. country. What Dutch
man, when he hailed the French.as the deli
verers of his country, ever thought that Hol-
land would be a proyinc1of France: Where
is the German who >lWo years ago would
have believed that the Austrian power could
have descended to court an alliance with
the Corsican robber What Spaniard OF no.
bic ancestry could have believed that his
country would have been sold for high
sounding titles, granted by an upstart OF
Yesterday? What man could have 1hougtt
that the whole continent OF Europe would
submit, voluntarily to be controlled By SIM
gle individual: Who could have believed
that one man could have altered the habits
and manners Of the world Sget all this
Napoleon Bonaparte has actually done. -
Not by force--tor he is like the .dsvi--re-
sist him aad he zyiA fy tfon1 yois, but by'n,
trigue. By having emissaries in every part
of the world, who ex,os his virtues, Hrs
generosity, his liherality, and above all, his
almost omnipotent power, which nothing on
earth can resist. Before this halfyAa,tery
and half threat have allraeions fallen. the
| i. S. are-marked en- the black book OF the
destroyer for the next sacrifice. Every
thingis prepared to make the experiment.
Our administrators is nothing; it is a cv
pher shadow which is to hold the rcins
of government Until Bonaparte's depusies
shall brush i.,away, and asgovernment OF
energy appointed by the emperor be placed ]
in IFS stead. Itwill then be too late for re-
al Americans TO complain; their signs will
then be easily s,iaed. <Ronapartss friends
will start up in every town and village. and
% resist them viii. be Impossible. More
than one half Of the people. Of this country
are already enlisted unaer his'hanners-i and
though many ofthem are now deceived and
Know not for whom they arc fighting, WHEN
their eyes are opened there~wi.l be no rel
treating. They will be like their masters
conscrip,s ii. France, they will be forcedto
fight for the emperor whether they will or
not. NThe policy Of Bonaparte is to make
country conquer itself: and Lstfanges as it
may appear, we havessirealy ccmpletedthe
work to his hands; we. are at this moment
conquaed--we are province of France
This may appear strange to many men IN
bur deludea country, but it is not more
strange than true. IF we had any govern
mem would it not now exert itself? Has not
It's patience been sufficiently tried, and mas
# not submitted 70 every insult, TO every in
dignity "A tyrans is making war upon us,
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