Alexandria daily gazette, commercial & political. [volume] (Alexandria [Va.]) 1808-1812, 1811-10-12
ALEXANDRIA D.iIIY GILLETTE.
" TO sHEw
The VERY AGE AND BODY OF The TINE
HIS FORM AND PRESSURE.
SATURDAY MORNING, octooer fe.

! priety OF another Embargo, or ratherot abaIl'
! doning foreign commerce altogether, tn t the
! public will not probably be much surprized
{! to find some such measure adopted by the
next Congress. These hints emanate from
that class of politicians who possess sufficient
penetration to discover, that the American
! people are unwilling TO so to war aid under
! this conviction they are compelled to recon-
mend any other course which they believe
/, best calculated to injure the nation they SO
cordially hate.
| Asa part Of the system which has long
been in the contemplation CT cert.in theorists,
and which may possibly be ultimately pursu.
ed, we find in tie National Iptelligencer of
Thursday q complaint GA great dcsideratum
in the L. States, which IS, I" the establishment
of en- INSTITUTION, luUN1FIcENgLr ENDoyED,
AID extensive rainiiet, for the trometiou Of
ag,fcnAure" The writer proceeds IS Al
though We are, next perhaps to the Chinese
the most agricultural people in the world, *
although our feelings and interests unite In
the strongest recommendations to cherish
agricultural pursuits as the most suspicious
to liberty and happiness. yet it is not little
surprising that notling has been done b. &C.
vernment to encourage an art SO intimately
interviewer with our prosperity. After SIT
ing that 10 object is more susceptible (thar
Agriculture of promotion by the aid Of 60
vernment," TIE writer adds 6 TO prove this,
it is only necessary to resort to the experience
Of those countries in which agriculture has
made the greatest progress. England, in this
respect, claims pre-eminence over all the NJ
tons of Europe, and China over ali the ma
tions III the East. And, in England, we all
know, how numerous the public institutions
are Tor its promotion while, in China, the liz
terests of Agriculture are SO identified with
those Of the nation, that the Emperor himself
Notwithstanding the exalted majesty which,
in the eyes of his subjects encircles him, Pc
riodically In the most public manner apples
himself 20 its labors."
Here, in the first place, we have the exam
pie Of the Chinese explicitly recommended
to US: the policy Of a people extoled as the
most suspicious to LIBERTY and Hahfmess,"
who are weighed down by syretchedncSs, Sa
herStition aud SLAHER1; a slavery the most
ahject, and riveted upon them by a long sue
cessicn u ages beyond the hope Of ameiiora-
ton. Yes; the Freemen of America are
GIayely invited to initiate the example OF a
people who arc SO totally Immersed lii bi.rba-
rous ignorance as 20 be unable even to COM
prehend the meaning Of the word Liberty, cy
cept the liberty OF being rogues upon every
occasion, which they VIGOROUSLY are. The
example Of England is proposed with a very
i'll grace by democratic writer's for they are
constantly ringing in our ears, that the great
body Of the English people arc sunk into the
lowest state of political degradation, and that
one-Glth Of them are paupers. Why are
public institutions established there, for
the promotion of Agriculture 1t is TO sut-
hly THEMSELVES zvith f1roDisions vet in spite
OF all their exertions, and their very large i'm
portations, we often hear OF alarming scarcity
prevailing in that country. SO it IS in China,
where, although so many millions, with the
magnificent EMPEROR at their head apply
themselves to Agriculture, single unfavora-
bic season involves the whole nation in tenn
porary misery, and entire provinces have been
not untrequently desolated by famine. The
fact is, both the English and Chinese are COM
PEELED to cultivate the earth with assiduity in
order to support their daily existence. Butts
this our situation! Certainly not Although
we are not yet all agriculturists, like the FREE,
honest, hairy, enlightened Chinese, the pro-
duce of this country is sufficient to maintain
twice our population.
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