Alexandria daily gazette, commercial & political. [volume] (Alexandria [Va.]) 1808-1812, 1810-03-05

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Perhaps, sir, at some future period.
when objects more Immediately entitled to
our attention, shall cease to exist; and
WHEN congress shall have made that impor-
ran, decision, on which the fate OF our
country depends, such thoughts as these
may occupy my mind, and constitute the
subject of other communications. 1t Will
then be necessary to follow the last and
s,esent administrations, through their
long and ruinous course, and to shew from
their most important acts, that though they
have undertaken with confidence, the
management Of the national vessel, they
have been either too ignorant to conduct it
with skill, or TOO skiltul to conduct it with
virtue: but from the remoteness Of that
period, when the people shall be again
called upon to make solemn declaration
of thcir sentiments, such an exposition
, would, for the present, te unnecessary:
the prescription would most probably be
forgotten before the time for its applca.
tion should arrive, and would therefore
only weary the attention of your readers,
and unnecessarily occupy that portion OF
ycur paper allotted to more important pur-
posts. Bat TO the point. The senate Of
our country, as if but just awaSed from
their long slumber Of ignorance and folly,
and seized by an instantaneous fit of patri.
otism, have at length, taken the first step,
towards restoration OF their country's
rights. The war of Proclamations is sus-
pended; at least for while deadly
blow is aimed at all commercial restrictions
on ourselves an the real patriots OF the
country, are allowed a few moments for
free respiration. Let these moments be
employed to advantage. In firm, collect
ed body, let them meet the QUESTION which
is soon 10 be brought brtorS them, and
adopt such measures, is the iateresss OF
theE country requires, ana as iaslr con-
stisuens will expect.
1t is with viSw to point out that course,
which, it appears to me, must terminate in
the prosperity Of our country, and which
(f am confluen,) would be most acceptable
toa large majority Of the people, that l
have taken up my pen: and it has some
HINES happened, that while the wisest Po'
hticians Of the age have hesitaIed, the pen
of some private individual, more lucky
than the ST." has given the first impulse
to theic MINES, and determined the direction
Of their CO.. rsc,
Were on the floor of tho house OF
representatives, my first object should be,
to procurs ths rassags Of tie bill, relating
to our commercial! interests, precisely as it
has come from the senate. We should
thus be placed e., nearly as circumstances
would permiD ia the same situation, in
which We werc at the commencement OF
foreign aSgressioas on our neutral rights
and before We had re sorted to our present
system OF warfare against ourselves. This
Git is ,rus) would be an Acknowledgements
of the errors, into which, we have latterly
fallen: bat would it not be better, candidly
to acknowledge errors, of which we are all
convinced, than to rush obstinately forward
70 our own destruction? Or, are the ruling
party determined, when they do fall TO
fall like Sampson and to bury in the same
grave with themselves, the temple OF their
Sountry's liberty?
1t is asserted by some, that shs passage
of this bill, as it now stands, would not
only BE- an Acknowledgements OF our errors,
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