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ready 70 bring him home.
Such is the humbled attitude in which A.
merica, poor trembling America, stands be-
fore imperial France like a discarded lover
pleading for reconciliation with his offended
mistress But with what feelings does this
state ofthings inspire our rulers, and what
are the sentiments which they attempt to
breathe into the American people /!
Are we told in the plain language oftruth'
that peace and war are no longer left at our
option! That the time has at length arrived,
when manly resolution to 7resis: the uniyer-
sal tyrant must be taken, or our independ-
ence surrendered and the right Of selfgo-
sernment abandoned That we must aeain
incur the hazards inseparAbe from ssrug-
gle for liberty, or be content to resign forever
that first, best gift of God to man!
NO: this Is not the language Of our rulers.
so far from presenting to us our real situation
and appealing to that noble love Of liberty.
that proud sentiment of independence which
constitutes the true safety as well as real
grandeur of nations, they relapse into the old
practice of concealing or palliating French
aggressions, & endeavor to deaden our sense
OF enormous injury and of actual danger, by
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turning our attention to other objects, and to
divert our resentment from the tyrant who
scourges and wouldenslave US, that they may
tx 1t upon the only nation in Europe whom
the tyrant has not yet subdued To blot from
our rccollections our recent and accunulated
wrongs, to screen from our view the indig-
mites lately heaped upon US, we are insult
ingly presented with cool disquisitien upon
the origin OF the system of belligerent ag--
gression on neutral commerce, and in con-
tempt of truth and of our better information
are told, shamelessly and unblushingly told,
/ that to Englandalone, all these ills are to lie
imputed.
+ A tyrant whose favor we have courted with
unWearied assidulty and whose anger we have
sought to appease Ly the most degrading hui
initiation, at last adds insult to injury, re-
tproaches us with mean servility of character,
and tells US IN p ain tesns that we are to ex-
pect NO relaxation of our chassisemont until
we obey with literal exactness his comm ands
to join the general confederacy against liber>
ty, commerce and Great Britain.
Language must be too feeble to paint the
feelings of a real American, at perceiving the
course taken in such crisis, by those from
whom public opinion receives itsimpulse.-
Where We looked for the spirit of resistance,
the only spirit we meet with is that of sub
mission To prepare the mind Of the nation
for sill greater abasement, cid misrepresen-
tations are repeated and to ingratiate our
selves with Napoleon, or at least to depreca e
his present wrath, we are urged forward in
the ruinous and disgraceful quarrel with Eng
land
Our feelings on the present occasion would
lead us 70 indulge much farther in expressions
of regret and indignation but We forbear for
the present.--Ka. Pat.
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