Virginia Argus. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1796-1816, 1811-07-04

shall commeaceshe pabi;cation Of Al;- Smiths
address III the next Argus.
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."tinore Feasyut RcRu5AcaEJ ar. ,fri,7ics in
the coa0iiss xiii De .ffi.s:;tslsed za.sA.is Es--
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~g,i1:ec- H5cst c5oBi,sntl-. fF-e tenGs r$fs,7ssf
"tsceaty thousand coflics haUe 5ccn ordared.
As t:if, tcgstts,. ziath f,ae eiFeaiation gsticlh
tie fnt1c j3nrHcls s.l-l s5or 20 IL, .ali j,iare
8 u IN thre hands q esiciy man seso reads
IPi.Gt ,aoys SpiW or 77iel3ss zvont 70 ensure
"tte eLccfioa oi'a Federal Senate"
NATIONAL INDEPENDENCE
The anniversary Of our iiolisicat indepcn-
deace is at hand, and we trust the era of
complete, actual, positive Independence isnct
far of.
We are led to this reflection by the publ
cation III The aurora Of a preface written III
I.ondcn by the famous Ccbbett, to an h,ng ish
edition ofchanceilor Livingstnn's ESSAY ON
6EEEP."-Yiews more liberal and correct we
have seldom seen taken CT any subject than
those which Goblet has taken of this. We
are vexea that cur limits forbid an entire re-
publication OF this essay in the Wing.
Of the Improperly OF England depending
on America for food, and of America depend
ing on England Tor ciothes, he says, :, Men
may load the subject as much IS they please
with t!r.e sounding terms and epithets; but,
at last, to this it comes, that we employ clio
Theirs 20. make coats for .faleYicdn jsn, rs,
and America employs farmers to raise jooa
for orr ciothieyS !; and that this is going On
while we have lard whence to raise more
food than sufficient for all Our people, and
while Amerca has ample means for raising
wool and OF niaklng coats fer ali her people"
Mr.. Cotbctt is therefore consistent when he
AYERS, that before he ever read Mr.. Living
stoEss Essay, ne 'swas Judy convinced, if the
Americans Gid not become Speedily iaaepen-
oeEt OF all other countries for zvooi and svJol-
lens, it must be entirely their own tauit."
Otthcp practicable cl!cafness ct home made
goods, Scc.he reasons with clearness and pre-
cision :--'' There is another light in which the
change now taxing place, is ci great impor-
lance. 1t viii, for while az least, diminish
he-rower of taxation. The AmeIieas s+ei'-.
mer now pays, upon his Coat, not only ali The
duty Laid on by his own government, but all
the duty laid on by foreign governments &c.
&c. &c. 80 that, as Mr. Livingston has show,
the american farmer wiz oblain his coat az
q third HaTv u Tie e1nenee that it has hither-
to cost kiIn.''
Foreign commerce, IS carried on by En-
gland, he reckons among the greatest Of the
calamities that now affiicr her and he thinks
that Napoleon is unintentionally doing her a
great i.indEess in the restriction or revolution
which cuts SO much CT it cii, and throws The
nation back upon her OWE proper means of te-
lciey, wealth, and independence.
America, he thinks, (and thinks right, J
owes the happy necessity which compeis ner 70
manufacture FOR herself f" to the folly and ty-
RAINY u other governments.
"but this change, favorable as hope it
Il,
neral, could not have been SO rapidly produc-
ed, had it not been fer the actual i9yaSioa Of
Siain by the emperor Napoleon, Who, with
out intending It perhaps, has b. this invasion,
scattered tire i1estinlab.e iiocks of Spain o.
yer the face Of the earth Not the Spanish
monarchy oniy, bur the Spanish nation has
he broken ri, dispensing is goods AMI chat
tess TO al aho were III condition to take
them away. Its pictucs and It's plate and It's
jewels, al IS valuable m0veables are, long
age, divided amongst its invaders; its fl0c Ks
have been driven out, shipped Oft, or deyour-
CT its houses after having been pillaged,
hayein no small proportion been ievc!icd Win
TIC ground and the ground itself is all that
seems 10 have any seCaI1tyo. remaining. Net
arn..st all this iliin, amidst this general wreck
Ct scc:e,y, i IS much to be questioned, Nhe-
ther the great mass Of the people IN spain
arc nct as geh and even btttcT OF than they
formerly were for what interest had Lhey
In tne ilocks winch Composed the riches oi
their couugryS What knew thsy oi these
fucKs b.u Ia rs mach IS they were q st0uY,gt
TO themseivess The exclusive property o
the privileged orders, net only was * impOs
sole fer the cuitivator Of the land to obtain
any benefit arising FROM these fiecks, but h'
was coDtHoHed 60 assist, without payment, il
tfAir support, by throwing open his acids an'
his garden to be dcvcured 6y them ~ thel
periodical jomnics from ore part OF ,he coun
tn to the otheri Win this fact before binl
what man who is Dct either tyrdBt or
Wiling slave, can regret that these flock
have been dispcrsed9 And think it mus
be peculiarly gratifying to the .l,aryfraR Iilr
n,cr, to see raised in ihs own fc,ds and se
fashioned under his own happy ycof, tia
coat, b. his foTDser mode If obtaining whicl
he used to enrich and abet The owner OF thcs
fgcas, whose fayages ensured hunger as wel
as rpkedoes5 20 the miserable peasant c
Spain"
OF TIE possibility Of raising the Merin
Sheep without grass fields, and dozeHs, ai'
turnip fields" the wfi.cr says ne used
doubt; bat I.asteyric's work, On the intrcduc
ton on mcrinces into the different countric
Of Europe, soon convinced him oi the iaciht
ofpropagaiing hem in America. In SAXON
(srom which Bngland reeei1ed her tn.
wGol1 ~ Denmark, IN S1lesis, IA o'Veder., the