Alexandria daily gazette, commercial & political. [volume] (Alexandria [Va.]) 1808-1812, 1810-01-30

counsel, ynan tI0W Ootsa ~ :. q
Cause, I bsseeeh you, s.r, this riditsit1a.
and pernicious regulation to pc exPnngrJ
from our statute book. Let,he whole Hi-s
hernian system Of eosrcing the beliigerents
through Inc pefsons and purses OF our own
people, be forever abandoned. II IS 10
pus the best construction on III buH in 20.
hsieks. awe are not children, and we cane
no. give credit TO the political pedagogus,
when he fiourishes his birch and exclaims,
I" Csshgo fe non qusd sdio habe,sns, sed quad,
snsem." I chastise thee, not out Of hatred,
bu, through love. If government caarot or
will not protect comnsrce, let them not fet.
ter i, lesi be (for them 1t least like the
breeze that waits il, chartered libertine.-,
The losses which the agricultural interests
have sustained by your last proclamation,
lreviving an act which was tanctas e6aao,
and for which, vague and confused as the
law itself is, as well as those to which it re-
fers. power is in vain sought in its text
not even Gallatin hiniaef could calculate.
Iswas the pretext for Knocking down the
price Of ous produce, which the merchant
had no sooner bought onshis own terms,
than he shipped it directly to England, 70
an enormous profit; which at length, hut
slowly and gradually, and after vast losses
to the gro1ver, caused our markets to rise,
even Under the pressure Of the non.inter-
course oct, till they were again depressed,
to the grea, joy Of all in the secret, BY the
rupture between Mr.. Smith and Mr.. Jack
son. Whether brother Sam. made any ship
ments to Degen, Purviance and Co. or sold
out his purchases in the. country, previous
to the fall, and bought in, atterwards, have
not yet learnt but this power in men of
great commercial connexions, to raise and
depress at pleasure, the price Of the whole
produc. of the land and labor of a country,
is tremendous engine which the veriest
bungler may manage to the impoverishmsnt
of the community, and the enriching to any
extent, himself and his associates. 3d..
But all this, sir, you may say, and per.
hap. not unjustly, is mere suRh1sE. Let us
come then to facts, to damning facts, which
unmask the janta by whom you are sur
rounded whose victim you will assuredly
be, if you consent to become their ins,ru-
ment, or their dupe. Deceive yourselfno not
sir, with the belief that you owe the support
which you have received from these men to
any regard for your public services, any re-
spect For your abilities, or attachment TO-;
your person. Considerations of a nature
quite foreign to all these led to their selec-
ton of yourself as president of the y. S.
and when these purposes shall be answered.
tkey will lay you aside with as little cere-
mony, or scruple, as they put aside your
venerable lieutenant on recent OCCASION.
They have every quality of 1ago, but his
abilities. Their objects are purely selfish.
They wanted acapital Of character, and they
cast about for some one who could furnish
it they pitched upon you Ea' they had, be.
fore done upon Mr.. Clinton as one VINO
would answer their purposes, and not be
in the way after they should be answered.
But to our facts. Paula' moiors canamus.
The brother of the emperor OF fIance
(and might say of continental Europe)
marries a beautiful A nercan woman the
feelings OF manhood have NOT, as yet, been
extinguished in him by the infection OF roy
atty. He carries his pregnant wife to his
brothers domiuions. She Is sterni y denied
the rights OF hospitality. The blood Of an
honest American woman is deemed IN.
worthy to minsle with the pure stream Of
a military aiventurer. Injury is followed
by insult. BY the mandates of desposism,
the feelings Of the lover, the HUSBAND, and
the man, are ordered TO be suppressed, and
the: are suppressed accordingly. The un-
happy mother is driven like another Hasar,
TO strange, and to her (parsaklng OF the
character of her husbsnd) hast'ie lana
there to drop her burthen. by the strong
hand Of power the marriage is d'ssolvsd.-
Those whom COP has joined, nsn--,npi.
Gus upssars man, dares 20 put asundsr. Inc
marriage 10 declared ueia--she Issue Ia aaa-
I "a - r.. ..' NOTE. ''.' tM'. ..
s"lf acts Of parliament were after the old
fashion penned by such only asperfectly knew
what the common law was before the making
Of any act of parliament concerning that