Alexandria daily gazette, commercial & political. [volume] (Alexandria [Va.]) 1808-1812, 1811-05-02
.aLEIa.TDRI.l D.aILY GAZETTE.
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THE VERY AGE AND BODY OF THE TINE.
HIS FORM AND PRESSURE.
THURSDAY MORNING, M4r2.

THURSDAY MORNING, MA12.
The Connecticut Courant states circum-
stancs which is we'll worthy Of particular no.
tee, viz. that great number of useful citi-
gems had lately emigrated into the Canatlas,'
from the neighboring states, to seek for that
employment which they could not obtain in
their own eountry. We are credibly in'
formed, (says the CouranD that q master
builder in one of these states, very lately took
with him about thirty ship carpenters to Cana-
da, where they can have two dollars day,
and the cash paid them weekly" This is
serious evil and it is certain, that when
men are prevented from gaining an honest
subsistence at home by the folly or wicked.
ness of their own rulers, they must and Will
seek it elsewhere, how much socyer they
may be attached to their native soil. There
is great propriety in the Courants interroga-
tory -" What can We think OF govern
ment that purchases, at the expense OF fifteen
m: ions, an immense wilderness, to be an
nexed to its own country, already too large,
and is still flirting for more territory whilst
BY foolish and tyrannical laws, it compcls
thousands of its most useful citizens to eXpa-
triate themselves or starve 20
The ADMINISTRATION folks raise as great an
uproar about the arrival OF one schooner from
France, as if she had really brought along
with her the half dozen score Of millions that
Bonaparte has so wantonly piunlered. 1t
they possessed real American feelings, they
would not be so eager to produce proofs OF the
Emperor's " love" for the Americans. We
believe, in spite Of all the Imperial apologists
can say, that the passion is not mutucl, and
God forbid that it ever should be!
We have already mentioned two methods Of
raising a revenue which have been proposed
by ingenious democratic 6namiers. The fol.
lowing is the trojet OF the Baltimore Wing:
" If (says he) France will continue taithless,
Justice and necessity authorize US to conhs'
Cate certain debt (Which might be named"
&c. We know not which Of these PROPOSE
ticns will be approved by govemment---the
tax ON federal lies, direct taxes, or the one
above stated. We must be content to wait
until the opening Of the next budget: Long
4 r. IL. So Hos,ht
plans equally plausible and profound wall be
suggested. The total failure of commerce,
therefore;f we repeat, need excite no alarm
the wheels of government will roll along ra'
pidly without the assistance of " her ten thou-
sand" /. is plain we have resoaress In aanns
dance.
The Non Importation does not appear to
have given entire satisfaction, as might have
been expected from measure so much ex'
tolled. The Wing complains that 1t is not
put in force, and modest1y proposes
the following remedy: "Burning British goods
and branding the smugglers, has cured the J,
evil on the continent Of Europe aid wlsh'
heart;lu .yish, that we had similar law in the
United States The admirers Of the Napo-
leon Code would be much gratihed to see this
favorhe principle introduced into this country. |
It might at first be as difficult OF execution'
Derhaps, as the Non Intercourse law now Is
for we believe that even in Europe the decree
was enforced at the point of the bayouet