Martinsburgh gazette. [volume] (Martinsburgh, Va. [W. Va.]) 1810-1825, 1811-03-22

US to objeet against the sclfevident convic-
ton, that, although in . degree not SO ap-
parent to the superficial observer, we are APP
preaching to a crisis, in its effects equally
awful. French philosophy and French prin-
ciples are daily growing upon US. The vo-
tarles of the French school are already dis
~seminating the rudiments of its polluted doc
trines. These noxious germs, IT suffered to
vegetate, will bring forth the most poisonous
fruits. The embargo system was but a scion,
transplanted from the rank soil of France,
pregnant with national calamity and private
misery. New species of fraud, new articles
OF evasion, before totally unknown, and a ge-
neral d~eelension of patriotism, are the wretch
ed consequences ofthis ruinous measure. Mer-
camille confidence and agricultural honesty
have degenerated into suspicion and duplicity /;
and, in short, the repentance of a whole ge-
n~eration will scarcely expiate the crimes, to
which it has given birth. The people are
daily losing their veneration for Government ;
but it is the Government alone who are to
blame. A succession of rash experiments
have been palmed upon the community, their
fatal operations and tendency can no longer
be concealed by intrigue and deception. Since
their elevation to office, the Democrats have
been distinguished for their rancorous enmity
to commerce., and so long as the British shall
possess the control of the Ocean, this incor-
rigible hatred will continue. Should France,
however, obtain the balance of commercial
power, mercantile enterprise, forsooth, would
soon experience the encouragement of our
Rulers. While we could trade to that coun-
try, the tune was " our workshops in Eu-
rope > but since we are interdicted this trade,
and by FRANCE HERSELF, the cry is Z. do
nestle manufactures" The regard of the
Democrats for our own productions extends
just so far as their successful use will injure
the manufactures of Great Britain, and no
farther.
But the c of Jacobinical Vandalism
appears now to be completed, in the annihi-
lation of the NATIONAL BANK. The charac-
ter of the American Merchants, which, in
consequence of the Embargo and its con
injured, seems by this finishing stroke, to
be now verging to the very last stage of
commercial degradation. The numerous re-
cent failures afford ample practical testimony
of this fact. -.
Such is the deplorable situation to which
we are reduced Nothing but the few remain
ing virtues of the People can counterfeit the
tremendous torrent which threatens to over
whelm us. Let those therefore, be put into
active requisition-instead of those specula-
tive bubbles which have proceeded from
the false philosophy of DALEMBERT,
TOM PAINE and JEFFERSON, let pure
Religion aided by Reason, and Invested OF
the shaclles of sophistry and dogmatism,
once more abound, Instead of clothing Dema.
gogues with official dignity, exalt those Men,
who for their attachment to Federalism and
to Virtue, are condemned to obscurity.-
Their talents, ifnow permitted to act, would
rescue our beloved country from the whirl-
pool of irretrieyable destruction, round whose
giddy vortex it is already circumvolying.
ICharseston Courier.