Virginia Argus. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1796-1816, 1811-06-13
From 4'HR AURoRA.
TO YOUR LOOMS AND ANvILs

TO YOUR LOOMS AND ANVILS!
What the wisdom Of our statesmen has not
accomplished their folly will force upon us
we must look to our internal resources, to
our cotton, zoooi, iron, leather and timber, to
our own fac and hemp and into the bowels
of our own mines for the selfshness of the
commercial people, their blindness and insen-
sibility to the future, and the sympathetic
spirit of avarice and shallow mind, which has
governed our finance, and through our f.
nance governed the nation in manner ad-
verse to its best interests all these causes,
and others, have operated to place us in such
a situation with relation to the rest of the
world, that we shall have no commerce, we
shallnot have aport in Europe to which we can
trade with profit or security, indeed to which
we can trade without danger on the way, and
certain loss at the end of the voyage.
This state of things, though attributable
wholly to the .fatihfy of that policy which
vii, render the tcnfh congress ard mfrigucrs,
who wrought the panic, to eternal infamy in
the American annals, this state ofthings will
after all, tend more to establish the interests
and prosperity of this nation, than any event
which could arise ;--for zce mast no1v from,
ReceSsity, turn urattention to concerns which
ought to have Engaged us FIRST Of all; we
must turn our attention to cur own LOOMS
and ANyILs; instead of paying tribute to
foreign nations, for those things which we
can produce abundantly, and better than we
can receive from abroad.
The readers of this paper cannot be taken
by surprize upon perusing the late speech Of
the French emperor to the dcputation of mer-
chants. In this paper it was predicted that
the fhJW tricks of the secretary of the trea-
sury, would expose all the American proper
V III France to contscation, and ultimately
lead to our exclusion from every port Of Eu-
rope. in all human probability such will be
the effects of the rcconlm endation of the Sc
cretary OF the treasury to violate the engage
ment of the law Of May, 1910, and Of the
co1restondblg motion made by his fUfhes,
Mr.. John Randolph, in the house of repre-
seatatives.
We have seen letters of the 9TH and 9th of
April, from Bordeaux, from resident French
men, and from Americans, who feel disinter-
este6ly on the subject; and we find in their
letters, advice, that the speech, as given in
this days paper, copied from eastern prints,
IS substantially true; that the French gov
eminent considers our non-inportation law as
violation OF the engagement, and that all the
property On board American ships, was or
dered to be landed and stored.
Such is the fruit Of our financial privy
counsel i; the wisdom of the American Neck
err the Michiayelian policy, which
.f6aadons the right TO fursue the expedent.
There are men who wish to console them
selves with the notion that RUSSIA is about
to engage in an alliance with power whose
agents announce the intention of assassinating
the emperor Alexander. That prince is
much better adapted to live in a republic,
than to sit on throne surrounded by men az
rays ken ut for the Highest 6iddeY-ti1at
prince viii not voluntarily enter into any war !;
he would not above all enter into war adj
verse TO the freedom of the seas; he would
not enter into war, which he well knows,
would produce only these consequences.
The rc-estabishment of Sweden in its ut
most ancient extent, which would place Lii
yofiia and Couriand as we'll as Finland, and
even the very province in which the Russian
capital has been erected, again under the
Sweden rule.
Which would either send tic dynasty to
Moscow, or establish new one.
Which would annihilate Prussia and erase
It's regal title from the calender Of courts
Which would give all Of Prussia south of
the Oder to Saxony, and all of Prussia north
Of the Oder, to king of Poland.
Which would indemnify Austria on the
lower Danube and place a French king up
On the throne of Bysantium, and circum-
scribe the whole Of ancient Greece.
We must now look to our household af-
fairs, and the sooner we set about it the bet
ter.