Alexandria daily gazette, commercial & political. [volume] (Alexandria [Va.]) 1808-1812, 1810-08-11
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STURDY, AUGUST II.
From the Virginia Patriot.

- and the relative condition OF ma
en@" ne that Of families, is subject to un-
fOp; 80 mutation. History presents US WITH
ne me, Of revolutions. We see mighty en-
-, reduced to dependence, and states long
y rnipoportant become formidable &c
a.;gSbors. These, in their turn, yield
wv : causes in continual operation, sink into
ipsigni6cance.
p.rore France had subjugated large por-
&c this earth, and overawcd nearly the
s.,. Of it; before even Rome, the model
m.Jcb she forms herself, had an existence ;
o,or,hies CT immence power had grown
!. !, III. east which have long since passed
away, leaving little more than their names
behind them.
Il The ball of empire has been continually
,o,Gpp westward; and il is not impossible,
NJ, very improbable, that power and science
may cross the Atlantic,
When we cast our eyes upon the mass ct
II, world, and observe the immease regions
of Ills continent; regions pcopling with a
ran;dity of which history furnishes no prece-
n dent; it is difficult 70 resist the conviction
4 that the time is approaching, when America
will 6ud her primary interest at home, and
will view those of Europe as being more re-
mote and of secondary character. Vast
empires will be formed in this new world,
between wfom the various relations of war
81 and peace must exist; whose friendship and
whose eninity must be of the utmost inapor-
lance to each other, like Europe, will have
her balance of power, the preservation or de-
q sra:tion ofwhich will employ her politicians
81 aud her armies.
This state of things has been accelerated
by the subjugation of Spain and Portugal
Their colonies are too strong to wear the yoke
4 imposed on the parent states Moral causes,
aided by this adventurous circumstance, will
I prove too powerful to be resisted. The close
political dependence of this continent on that
! OF Europe, once broken by violence, will not
be restored by Intrigue or by force. Already
is Brazil created into a great empire, and
many others must be formed in that territory
which heretofore belonged to Spain.
When these immense revolutions take
pace In the world, they are preceded by Vi
SOIe causes, whose effect is almost certain:
Nls the province of the statesman to mark
~em, and to adapt his course to the APP
preaching state of things. Those to whom
tue destlnies of a nation are tonhded, ought
aVaSsto be prepared for events which may
Oe ioFeseen, and should neverbe surprised by
'''Oluuons which the regular progress of hui
man affairs must protuce.
Tue independence of Spanish America rs
O"s these events. Those only who believe
~ this world was made for" Napoleon,
NDu mat all resistance to his will, if not impi-
N' must be vain; can doubt that this con-
s4'' II not the victim OF its,own fclly, mus
an future govern itself.
r nc complete separation Of America from
a., ~ VII form new ara in the history of
g. human race, and will be an event of in
). Importance to the civilized world. To
II. - on earth is it more important than
'pendent Of other considerationsrof vast
-. D'uae' It viii give us formidable neigh.
,S,i. "no Will be able to manage their own
ovn ana TO exert their own force, as their
Aa,a!' auSment or passions may direct. The