Alexandria daily gazette, commercial & political. [volume] (Alexandria [Va.]) 1808-1812, 1811-07-04
E,r TIE alexandria Gazette.
VIRGINIA, JUNE, 1911.
J.OUDOUN-No. III.

uo-s wherever her resistless armies march,
!, every nation imposes submission anu
.~,.ts trihute-Britain reigns uncontro leu
mistress of the deep. In this reiau'e 81
,u,,;oo Of these powerful combatants' let
,s take comparative view of the injuries
which the United States must suffer from
war with each. If France should De our
enemy, we necessarily become the ally Oh
britain: and the shield Of the BRUSH
navy will be interposed to prevent I r"h'o
from transporting armies to this country,
either for the purpose Of conquest OF oil
thunder. I'm war with France our 'er-
r;tory must therefore remain safe. var
country will escape the destructive ra'"-
ges ofthose merciless legions which nave
snrsa5 barbarism and desolation over Eu-
cone. our cities will still defy the re-
uorseless hand of relentless invader;
their sacred temples yet proudly hit theif
lofty spires to the skies their Meai,h Az
stead of being transported to alien 'ano'
10 feed the insatiate vices OF a foreign
and d.snotie court, will vet be employed
in multiplying the comforts, relieving the
wants, and exciting the industry OF Tree
and happy people.
Let US now contrast the plcture.-h
49,. w..e war with Britain, what power
have we to prevent the pillase and destrue
ton of our cities, the great commercial
dspo,s of our wealth ? What power have
we to prevent the ravagins OF our coasts I
What mower have we to protect the vast
.o,;,s, vested In our ships and their car
GOES floating on every sea Gan + rance
with her myriads of lesiOns wade the O.
.sa, 70 come TO our relief! And il she
eou,d. would il be wise to seek 1t Has
MT her assistance been death to every al
" whom she approached? But is not her
rover literally confined to the margin OF
the sea
I'm this view war with Britain Is re-
piete with immediate and perhaps irremI-
6ab,e mischief war with France VIII
inlet little or no Inconvenience.
Let us now look at the subject in iinan-
eial aspect: A war with Britain viii re-
uuire every peeuniary and PLY steal ia
Guilty Of our country for our detenee-a
defence which will be vain, provided their
arms be tlireeted-to seize eur property
on the oesaa; in our defeneeless sea-ports
and on our unprotected and defeneeless
coasts in fine. TO adopt the brilliant idea
of Mr. Jefierson) provided they try to do
us " al the harm" they can.
In two ways We shall be completely i'm
puverishcd: first, by the plumber which
must fall into the hands of our enemy BY
the destruction which awaits our ships and
our cities secondly. by the eXpences
which must be incurred in feebiy and in
eiTsetually resisting them. In this way
Britain may put US back half a century
perhaps disunite us-and by disanion OBJ
iiserate us from the map of the world as
free people. For who can say, after a
loas reiga Of chaos, what order Of society
viii arise? what rival Kingdoms and dcs-
pe.isns may spring. Certainly the hap
p.sess and prosperity os the present race
VII; be aestroye1; aad the liberty Of fu-
ture generation, jeopardized, If not ami
si;aied. 1his Britain can do by the pow
or With which she can strike oar present