Martinsburgh gazette. [volume] (Martinsburgh, Va. [W. Va.]) 1810-1825, 1811-12-27
Whole No. CSC.


which he ought to have been impeached---
Name but England, and all our antipathies
rise against her--against her whose blood
flows IN our velns-who in common with us.
claims a Shakespeare, Newton, Locke, q
Chatham--Shall we degrade our ancestorsP
And shall all our partialities be extended 10
France and its ruler, whom we are bound to
believe God suffers to be the great scourQe Of
mankind On all other nations France treads:
England alone she fears-England has the
freest governmental the world except our own:
From her we have drawn our best principles
OF government--trial by jury, Representative
system, hsbeas corpus, voting FOR supplies in
the popular branch la what school did
| Washington, Hancock, &c learn their princi.
| pies OF hberty--uade deriUdntur?
Chatham was with US during the revolution;
we had the heart of the British nation: but
England was under the powerof a corrupt and
selfish administration, rolling in wealth and
at the expense of the manufacturer and aer
culturists. From her authors he had drawn
his principles-from Shakespeare and Milton
he had instructed his imagination, from Locke.
his understanding, from Hampden his patriot.
ism, from Chatham his politics, and, if he
had religion, that was partly drnwn from Til
lotson, Sherlock, and PorteuA Hence his
English partialities
L
under British influence? From Porcupincs
from men escaping from gaols Of Europe and
here teaching our fathers and sons their po-
htlcal duties such as have all the revolutions
ry preJudices; yet ask them where they were
during the revolution and they are tongue.
tied BY whom were some of the best men
in this country dubbed Englishmen 1t was
too much to endure that those who fought !
seven years contest against g. Britain should
be called Englishmen. Such charges ought
to be met in this house with respectful repul-
sion out OF it with the lie direct
Il Wutatis Mutandis, had France the British
navy, do we not see that instead of stealing
into our harbours to be Hospitality treated.
their vessels reftted, whilethe British vessels
are forbidden our waters; if France had that
navy, would not our citizens be taken from
our sea ports, and deported to France to fight
, her battles Ask Hamburg Lubec--Ilad
: our property been plundered by Britain, as Il
| has been by France, and they had done at
Savannah what has been there done byFrench
men, we should at once have made war
/ Shall republicans be the friends of him whe
has effaced the title of Attia, the scourpe of
GodP Yet, Attilla too, in his power, had his
followers and parasites. If now perfectly re-
freshed, said Mr.. r. his memory, whole intel.
iect, not almost exhausted or supplied, as it
strong detestation he felt towards, above All
other of the works of the creation such cha
racters as a Jenghis, Tamerlane, Bajazet.
and Bonaparte; men who make their fel.
low men, the machines of their ambition
Yet, under all the accumulated wrongs We
I have received from the last, are we not. in
point OF fact becoming his party, in his wars
in his views
/ But, before this miserable force Of ten thou-
sand men is raised to take Canada, let us look
for defence at home--let the cost of this en-
ferprize be counted--calculate the blood--af !
ter 1t is over, you must go to empty Golfers to
| obtain money to pay the cost. Is the bountv,
land to be lands in Canadap He might not
then feel so much repugnance at giving Il
| not to wretches who sell themselves fora glas.
OF gin, but to the clerks in the Offices. thu de-
partments, whose salary may be 500 or 1000
dollars year, who spend five thousand. vet
| grow rich, and who even now may be making
out blank conyeyances of land He would q
gain beseech the House, before they ran their
heads against this post, Canada to connt the
cost. iisword for it, the planters of Virginia
would not be taxed to support such war.
Where are all the Wanting promises, held
out when republicans came into Office, of spec
| Oily paying the national debit By such pro-
misses we came to power; but are now AZ
strenuous for war, taxes, loans armies. and
| some for navies as even were ever the Essex
Jnnto. What republicanisrn is this?
Mr.. johnson denied that this government
was under French influence He asserted no.
sitively that the late attack of the Indians w,s
| occasioned by British influence; by British
gold and British whiskey.. We had ample
testimony, he said, that they were capable Of
such conduct, during the revolutionary war
mr.; Rondotph explained, that he had not