Alexandria daily gazette, commercial & political. [volume] (Alexandria [Va.]) 1808-1812, 1810-06-05

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will be read with more than eommoR at
tention. 1t IS from the pen of gentle
man whose exalted talents and profound
conceptions, cannot fail to bring convic-'
ton Gf the truth Of what he asserts, home
20 the mind of every one. .....
- Freeman's Journal
Amid the desola,ioe Of property and the
ruin Of innocent individuals, which must
AluayeiIahiy be Effected by'1hr-iasc desnuc'
tive con6scanons of France, 10 a patriot to
look forward to no public beae6t,' no cheer
iuU hope! May he not expect that there
cannot from this time. exist an honest and
rejecting man in the United States who
does no, see and fr~ in its proper force the
full front and bearing Of her enormous az.
errssions The editor of the National In
tellicencer, in one Of his latest numbers,
has with a laudable imPartiality admitted
tthat the prime pies contained in these state
paprrs, in which the conduct Ut the French
emperor is aVowed, are such as Anne, ica
never can adopt WITHOUT pIscRAcEi the
terms, IN which they are expressed, al
outrage 90 dignity and decorum and the
language usrd only fitted to ExlTE INDlG-
NATION. He declares too an opinion that
France seems determined TO maintain these
Im1royrantaklc principles, aud there IS BUT
LITTLE CHANCE of an early accommodation
of our differences with her.
Much as every friend TO his country must
lament the wide spreading ruin that must
be inflicted on a vast number of comfortable
and happy families, BY these extensive con-
fscatiohs, it must be some consolation to
him to perceive that there are still honest
and uncontamiuated feelings in the mass Of
At this crying injustice, and stamp its au.
thor with the infaRy and execration he de-
serves.
Ga tie is, of March, 1909, the Con.
.cress oil the United States passed the Nom
Intercourse act, as it is Usually dsnomnat.
ed: By the third section Of that act, it was
declared that from aud after the Goth Of
May then next, no vessel sailing under the
-h,g either of Great, b iIain or France should
enter the ports or harhors Of the u. States,
and if ,fer thGt day any such vessel should
arrive in any port or'hafbor Of the United
S.alesr (un!ess she was empioyedby her 60
vsrnmen. TO carry l=rIeis or dispatches, or
driven ia by s;ress Of weather. she, tose.
ther with her cargo, it she had any on
board, should be con6sea,ed.
AT this time France permitted American
vessels 20 enter her ports. She had given
no notice declaring her intrnt TO prohibit
thtir eatry, unless they had been searched
or visited by British ship, From the time
of missing the embargo, de 18th Of March,
,,1So9, unail The 18th Of February, 1910, she
gave no uticial netiee Of any alteration, or
intsnded alteration, of her system. On the
10Th Of February, 1910, Mr. Armstrong,
our minister, received the insoient and in
dre-st note Zone Of these before referred
TOY from hampagny, who has now assum-
ed the tilesof the Due de Galore and on
the ls,h Of March, 1910, the Marquis
Gallo, minister Of foreign affairs TO his ma
jesty the king of the rwo Sicilies, (as he
ryirs him.el0 wro,e TO our consul at Ma.
ples the, lr,tsr published in the Freeman .
IS Journal of May.2s. =,
From an early period in 1909 sill the
middle of February, 1910. period OF l
mouths the valuable vessels and earSoes OF
che eitizeuT Of the United States are navi-
gated undersa confidence of security into
che pors of France, and thus subject 70
her power m Holland, Spain, Italy and Ma
Piles, and at last, when shose 'harbors are
&lsed, a sudden and Immediate seizure Is
made of those who were not "within the
purview of those PlundeIing ediets che had
5made before, under . new Pretsx1: under
che pTetexs, THAI the Uuisxd States, with
out making any eomplains OF France, eo"'
Srissd her ia .hsir acts OF exclusion" TO
win. the Dcn-intereourse act.
What marked difference befween the
.. esndnes Of Franee and that Of the Uuised
Ths Urited Sestss pass the OCT prohibit
inr thessaasanee Of Frsnch vessels into ths
Aner;esss porss, on the Isl Of Harsh. 1903.
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