Martinsburgh gazette. [volume] (Martinsburgh, Va. [W. Va.]) 1810-1825, 1812-12-18

They see no imaginable connexion between
the conquest of that province, and the at
tainment OF those commercial rights which
were the pretended objects Of the war. On
the contrary, they sees and very plainly
TOO, HAT IL our cabinet be gratified in the
object Gifts ambition, and canada become
a conquered province, that an apology is
Immediately given, for extending and main
tanning in that country a large military
force, under pretence OF preserving the con.
quered enthusiastically, with a view to
overawe adjoining states. With this view
OF that project, the yeomanry OF New Eng
land want that moral motive, which vii
alone, in that country, fill your armies with
men worthy enlisting. They have no de-
sire to be the tools Of the ambition of any
man or set of men. Schemes and conauest
have no eAarlns Tor then.
Abandon your projects of invasion
throw your shield over the seaboasd and
the frontier (; awe into silence the Indians
in your territory fortify your cities take
the shackles from your give
us ships and seamen and show the people
of that country a wise object Of warfare.
and there will be no want of men, money
or spirit.
proceed to my second objection, which
was to the inequality of the operation Of
the provisions on this bill. 1t is never 10
be forgotten. in the conduct Of the govern
ment Of these u. States, that it il q politi.
cal association of independent sovereignties.
greatly differing in respect OF wealth, re-
source, enterprise, extent of territory. and
preparation Of arms. 1t ought also never
to be forgotten, that the proportion Of ply
steal force, which nature has given, does
not lie within precisely the same line OF
division, with the proportion Of political
influence, which the constitution has pro-
vided. Now, sir, wise men conducting a
| political association thus constructed, ought
always to have mainly in view not to dis
| gust any Of the great sections of the coun-
try, either in regard Of their interests.
their habits or their prejudices. particu-
larly ought they to be cautions not to bur-
den any of the great sections in a way De.
culiariy odious to them, and in which the
residue of the states cannot be partakers,
or at least only in q very small degree. |
think this principle Of political action is in
Conference.-The. Now. sir, Of all the dis
tinctons which exists In these u. .. that
which results from the character of tile la
Dor in different parts Of the country, is the
most obvious and critical. In the southern
states, all the laborious industry of the
country is conducted by slaves; in the nor
thern states it is conducted by the
ry, their apprentices or children. The
truth is, that the only real property, in the
labor OF others, which exists in the north
ern states, is shat which is possessed in that
of minors ; the very class of which, at its
most valuable period, this law proposes to
nIyest them. The planter of the south can
lQp1 found upon his fifty, his hundred and
hl4 thousand of human beings, and saw.
MISE are my property" The farmer Of
tI6north has only one or two " eve lambs.o
lix shildren of which he can say, and say
with pride, like the Roman matron athesa
army ornaments" Yet these, this hill
purposes to take from him or, what is the
saInr thing, proposes to corrupt them to
bf1he them out OF his service and that toe.
at the very age when me desire Of freedom
II The most active, and the splendor offalse
gloxy The most snticing. Yet your slaves
are safe-.,,ere is no project for their manu-.
n1ssfon il the bill. The h~usbandman OF
me is<rth, the mechanic, the manufacturer
saiaIl have the property he holds in the mi
nors subject to him, put to hazard. Your
property in the labor Of Others ir safe
Where is the justiee-where the equality
of such a provision /?
It's very wen known-in our country
indeed il Is obvious, from the very nature
q the thing, that the exact period Of life at
Which the temptation Of this law begins to
opefate upon the minor, is the moment
'wItz0 his services begin to be the most USE
10 the parent or master. Until the age
the boy has hardly paid to the pa
pr master, the cost Of his clothing and
stion Between the age of Is and 90,
3 the period Of profit 10 the father and
ter. 1t is also the period, at which,
q The approximation towards manhood,
Ice begins to grow irksome and the de-
of liberty powerful. The passions arc