Alexandria daily gazette, commercial & political. [volume] (Alexandria [Va.]) 1808-1812, 1810-06-29
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munster OF hell, that destroying angel, DO.
napaske, now is the time. We have atleng 9Th
arrived at such stage Of outrageous robbery
and insult, that there can no longer be a
doubt ofthe intentions Of Bonaparte towards
us. If We pass the point now reached, we
need never look for resistance hereafter {; if
this most unparalleled robbery is put up
with, without declaration of war on cur
part, our iniamy is sealed, and our indepen-.
dence gone forever. No resistance will ever
be made SHOULD it not be made now; 'cneact
Of 2srfdy andiBsult will follow another, tn-
til we shall find ourselves in a similar situa-
ton to what Spain was at the time her King
and royal Family were captured. Then when
Bonaparte's legions, grown grey in blood,
and athirst for plumber, shall have got foot
ing in the land, and the spirit of the Ameri-
can people abased in the dust by a long train
of humiIiations, it will be too late to think
OF resistance (; we must quietly add another
to the long list Of conquered nations.
Let the Americanpeople picture to them
selves what would be their feelings, if by
some sudden AID incomprehensible act, they
were at once to see tine standards OF the ty-
rant floating upon the walls of their Capitol,
and an upstrat King Of his making, issuing
the proclamations and DEGREES of their su5;
jugStion from their Presidents palace
Would not every heart glow with eager
hatred and resentment? Would not every
arm be upIiltcd to expel the robbers of their
country's liberty! At this time they would,
because honor, courage and patriotism yet
exist among us. But let the proud spirit Of
our fathers once be humbled or destroyed by
continual humilia,ions, and the scene which
we have but as vet seen in imagination, may
before the present generation pasSeth away,
appear to Us in the light Of sad reality. =:
Lesnot this be sighted or made light Of as
a wild chimera, raised to excite alarms.
Much more unlikely things have come to
pass in our own day. History points out ma
ny Of them. Could Charles the With, when
carrying desolation through affrieh,ed Eu-
rope, at the head of his conquering Spanish
lesions, ever have thought that an obscure
but fortunate adysnturer, from the obscure
island of Corsica, should conquer the descen'
dants of those brave men of whom he was
the successful leader! Could the crave Ba-
tavians, who sustained war Of thirty years
for freedom, and at length obtained it, ever
SUPPOSE that their descendants and those OF
their oppre:sors, would both be enslaved by
the same hand? Those things could not have
entered the heart of man at that day, but
we have seen them come 10 pass, and we
know that a :emporizing policy was the cause
of the downfall Of both Spain and Holland
In Eact, French friendship is composition
of so vile and inconsistent nature, that altho'
its enmity is dangerous, It's friendship Is Ger
tain death. IF war should not be dec Jared
and we should become what we fear, we
SHOULD deserve our fate, and no mortal would
,commisera.e US. But if war should be de-
,elared, and through circumstances which we
could not Eoresee, Or blythe DEGREES OF hea-
ven, we should be doomed to fall'T'she brave
man and the patriot, aItho' they might 1--we
to dspIOre the destruction Of their country,
vet would they have the rieh consolation OF
knowing that they had done al that could DC
done BY mortal man 70 save her. ., ::
Its the 6rn opinion Of, the writer OF this
article, that by war We have much to gain
and Dething to lose. AL that could be taken
from, US has been taken already, and ne thinks
!, high, time thatretaliatiOr should commence
on our side. s-
This piece is not written to an'wer paE'y
nurooses. Far 'front.' The writer always
Ia. been and still is Democrat from prmci-