Alexandria daily gazette, commercial & political. [volume] (Alexandria [Va.]) 1808-1812, 1811-06-25

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Act. as YOU did the Embargo The To
ries approved the Boston Port Bill, a.
your Excellency does the Non-lnter
course The "Tories" threatened the
rebels with vengeance. rs you tlneatel
the Descendants Of the same rebels WIFE
exile.-The .sTories" urged the croWI
to appoint all the officers, and even al
the Councillors by mandamus from the
crown. Your Excelleney threatens tc
leave no man in place, who does not mr.
monize with you. The Tories1led. Inc
rebels who like us had dared to a'se mbie
in Fanuiel- Hall, and to arraign and con-
denim the measures of a tyrannicaiminis-
try against Trade and Commerce, s'ccess-
fully held their ground. SO far yqlrEx-
celIeney's allusiOn is unfortunate.
1t is not however to be doubtes that
some persons well known both tdyour
Exceliency and to me, misht be ver well
satisfied with q little proseriptio. and
confscation Of the estates Of thof who
have had more industry than themflves.
But your Excellency may rest al lred,
that the 10 200 citizens who did not hoose
to vote for you, and their sons cap PIE OF
bearing arms, amounting to 10000 bore,
have no idea Of going into avoiuntT e;c-
lie; and if any Of your Excellency par
ty friends take aninortinate fancy THEIR
estates, they must get into possesSn of
them. not by speeches filed with magni-
ty and gauze- covering of modclt Ion,
but over the mansled cOrses Of the pfent,
occupants. ! |,
They are not to be intimidateI by
threats as empty and impotent, ash hey
arc disreputable to a man who is Prieh-
inc up moderation, and making Rtc
defamation against the horrors oil iVl
war. s.1e. |!
1t may appear extraordinary to hh
unexpectedly situated upon a pinnacle ;
is your Excellcncy, that any man wa4
have the temerity to brave the resentme
ola Chief Magistrate who appears to
so ripe for prescription and exile. B
your .Excellency may rest assured, that
mean, if Heaven spares my life, to pro!i
the sore places Of your Excellency1
speech to the quick. l will not permit
single perversion Of fact-one single cd
vert but malignant insinuaion-one trea
sonable attack upon the liberties Of speecI
and the principles Of the revolution t
pass unnoticed.
My ancestors on both sides, fled nearl,
two centuries ago from the persecution o
the house OF Stuart.-Iheir example AM
precepts have taught me to value the prin
,iples Of civil and religious freedom. l
this countryis really changed:-IfF French
iolyism has become fashionable if thu
advocates Of passive obedience-a and non
resistance" arc really too powerful for thu
Wings why, after q competent struggle
to support their liberties, they must yield
but yield them tameIy and basely, they
most certainly zciit not. And yet it vii
be proof Of timidity if every Federalis
in this state does not in some way or o.
Their, either in town meetings, or As.
semblages" as soon as may be, express his
adherence. OF his disapprobation of the
Tory doctrines of his EXcciIency's speech.
We ought to say, that we hold the right OF
the people to " assemble together to con-
suit upon the common goods a clause OF
the same section which his Excellency did
not quote and to express their opinions Of
the conddct& measures of theirrulcrs in an
orderly and pcaceabIy way, to be indis-
putable and inalicnable That Com
merce is the right of free people as well
as one of its most important supports -
That the Federal government was insti-
tuted chiefly if not solely for the protec-
ton of our Trade That the two last adj
ministralions have adopted a course of
measures hostile to Commercc-and ex-
ceedingly partial as regards the two bel
liserents That the late act Of Non-ln-
tercourse was not founded upon any change
in the conduct of France, but that the
pretended repeal of her DEGREES now as
certaincd to be untrue, ought rather to
have exaspcrated our government against
France for the pcriidious failure to carry
into effect her promise to repeal. These