Alexandria daily gazette, commercial & political. [volume] (Alexandria [Va.]) 1808-1812, 1810-07-11
Fsoss the Virginia Faf,ist.
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" distinct from lGCSe AWIlSti uS}if' Sc
,contending nations. On one side, It IS
contest for universal dominion; on the other
for existence. Despotism is struggling with
liberty, and the strife is mortal.
AS the object of the war is without pre-
cedent in modern times, prior to the revo-
luton in France, Sc. the means. employed IN
lis prosecution are without example has
tyrant who looks upon the world as his pro-
perry and its liberties as his prey, thinks
himself authorised TO command the resour-
cessof everynation and treats dlsobedrence
10 his mandates as rebellion against legnl-
mate authority. Not ouly Italy, Holland,
Germany, Prussia, Sweden and Denmark,
but Russia herself, immense as is ser pow
= e, and spreading as she does over avast por-
ZION of Europe and Asia, bends 20 the VIII
of the mighty conqueror, adopts his Po-
lev. and has submitted 10 his control, an
ri she has become bankrupt
Under such circumstances it is not won
1ey(ul that the vast Atlantic, rolling be-
tween us, is'Gnable to screen America from
his view, and that he will not consent to our
exemption from his oppressive claims
we. also, must engage in. his general sys,
TEN for annihilatiag commerce and we
mus, engage in IT under circumstances
which demonstrate that it's not.wllh Us
Sa.sasure of choice, but of compusion.
Prompt as was cur first essay towards,
obedience, the yoke, eere long, became too
= heavy TO be borne without murmer. we
!. did murmur, and the embargo was remov-
ed. Nothing more was wanted 70 provoke
: the enpeance of the naughty Corsioan, and
! the scourge which Ne hasfso long held over.
us was applied without mercy. Every IN
Jury within the power of France 10 lntlct
has been inflicted war to It's tullesttxtent
has been made upcR us, ard to war has
been added every insult which contempt or
( malice could dSt.ie-.
Whilst such is the conduct Of France, we
are treated by Britain as a sovereign nation,
are left by her to govern ourselves, and no
attempt is made 10 dictate the line of do
n,sstic policy which we are 10 pursue. But
there are between US Subjects for serious
discussion. There are reciprocal claims of
questionable fiaht, which are not easy of
adjustment. In addition TO this, the mta-
surcs Of France andopr tame submission 20
them have compelled England 10 adopt re-
taliatory measures, which though not IN
,fsnssives defensible, are the inevitable
eonss qusnce cf Napoleon's injusnce and
our own timidily.
What then must be the. indignation Of
every American who feels for the honor Of
his country, and value its independ. nee,
hen. IN such a war and under such cir
rums,ances, he behelds the rulers of that
Z country nanifsstiag such ato,al insersibi-
i;,y 10 The wfongs ef France, as ta'tngage
Sin The disgracetul tasl of attempting thro'
tbe columns Of a public print, TO convert
the stnsibility which these wrongs might
excite in others, into resensment against
Britain
Not even in the act OF disclosing to The
Americanpeople SO much OF the injuries
inflicted oa.them as could no Longer be con-
cealrd. MOI even in the moment OF telling
them the unparalleled wrongs they suffer,
AID the contemptuous in.uhs by which
those wrongs are accompanied, is one man
". one national, one indignant sentiment
expressed. The. tempt is made, aud pitt
fully, elisgracsfullse made, 10 blunt the edge
of American feeling, by shifting their re-
sentiments from France toaEngIand. The
National Intelhgencer commences his CD
seryations by representing these two nations
as equally offending and as equally mani
Testing a total destitution ofprinciPle and
disregard to the rights or interests OF
others" In the criminal attempt to cover
and TO palli&tc the senofmi,ies of France,
and TO suppress that Indignant spirit which
those enormities mustexcAe in every pa
triot bosom, this government paper is eapa-
bic, even now, of attempting 70 lead us
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