Martinsburgh gazette. [volume] (Martinsburgh, Va. [W. Va.]) 1810-1825, 1811-07-12

Andn0thing, dsthiis ss5ment, Bat their weak
kings and emper7rs Keep the people Of Ger.
many, Prussia and Russia from asserting
rheir independence, aadbidHag defIuce 70
the Imperial Corsican. To conquer ss7se
nations is impossible, and B7aabIr,e kts1os
it. IL is only through their usas and r0ck
ed rulers thar he has been able 10 c7.tr2ui
them. The poDer and authority Of ih9se
tcho are set over the people, bW ,vis haze
medniy and cowd,dly betrayed their rust,
IS nearly at an end; and ,vifh'them dies fhe
porOer Of Banapore IN Europe. Let the
people once assert their rights and fyrants
vanish. Their mighty armies, their mill
tary skill, and their diplomatic infrigues a.
mount TO nothing they are swep' asvay by
the breath Of freedom, Ike chaF before the
uofnd. Bonabarfe can conquer kings and
destroy emperoys, but people determined
10 be free, he cannot subdue. The kingdoms
Of Spain and Portugal are prosfs in point.
More than three years has he rvaged the
most cruel and barbarous uOayfa,e against
the uno1ending inhabitants Of these coun-
tries, and in every atfemp. he has met uifh
defeat and Disgrace. He has sacrificed
more than one hundred thousand lives in this
inhuman project, and get he is no nearer
his object than he zuas rohen he commenced
the disgracsful6usiness. Hadthe Kings ana.
trinces of the country been at the head Of the
Spaniayds and Portuguese, the countries
uvould haze been conquered lang ago. SPAN
and Portugal Mould have long since been TN
the situation Of Holland, Sutherland and
many other kingdoms and states Of Europe.
The government zuouh haze been corrupted,
and the people zu0uid haze been sold TO The
1uiiy Corsican, With as little ceremony as
the slaves in our southern states are trans
jerred from one master to on7ther. But
the inhabitants Of The peninsula soere far
funate enough to get rid of their weak and
busiAdnimous rulers; and left to exer, these
native energies they have performed pyodi-
gies of vafar; and have made a defence a.
ygainst their invaders, uuh;ch has astonished
the ,Oorld. That they aviA finally succeed
in asserting their independence there is now
little da36t; and it is dev0utty to be uoished
that their example may deimi,a'ed, and their
success be experienced by the other nations
Of Europe, zvho are nous grooming under
the tyranny OF thc L2rScdn'
We coud not compare our GUN govern
ment to the cid, rotten, corrupt governments
of Europe but zve cdnnot ciose this article
without 1varning our fellow.citizsns to watch
with vigilance over those 10t7 rule the des-
TIMES ef our nation. Perhaps in no coun-
try, since mankind found it necessary to
farm combacfs far the purpose IF maintain.
ing social order, 5vere such strides ever
made towards that goal zohere government
becomes tyranny, as has been in ours. The
people seem to think the government is in
fallibie--it can d. no rUrong. Let this idea
be once established and cur nation is ruined.
No freedom can exisf under the old exploded
doctrine of bassiye Obedience and non-Yesist.
ance. The beople must depend upon them
selves or they must submit to be SLAVES.
Two quarries of fine MARBLE have late
ly been discovered: the one near the town
of York in Pennsylvania, apparently mex
haustible the property of Mr.. Cunning
ham; the other near New. Haven Connect
cut discovered, and leased, by Mr.. Bald.
win, student of Yale College.
The cotton Manufacturing Establishment
in Rhode. Island. of which Moses Brown,
of the society of Friends, is principal, af-
fords to its proprietor an average profit OF
4 thousand dollars per week.
The French begin to tasquinads the
Spoiled Child of Fortune" since his re-
treat out of Portugal. Abiding to his hav-
ing formerly been drummer they say, she
knouus better h0uV to beat a sleeps skin, than
Bulls hide.
WAsHINCToN-C CRY, July 2.
The frigate Essex, Capt. Smith, has at
length arrived in this country, having on