Alexandria daily gazette, commercial & political. [volume] (Alexandria [Va.]) 1808-1812, 1812-05-01
ALEXANDRIA,.
FRIDAY MORNING, Nay L..
s. TO sHEW
'tTO sHEW
THE VERY AGE AND BODY OF The TIME
HIS FORM AND REssURE.
Arise! .Hzvake /! or be forever Ja2e,a I!

prophetic voice my sleeping count'ymen--
! ST anding upon the brink of precipice, one
! step farther, and they are lost forever. French
domination, civil and religious liberty prostrat
ed, or torrents of blood split to regain our pre-
!. sent happy sta e, must be the effect Of the pre-
| sent threatened measures. Knowing as we do
feeling as we do, the passion, the cupidity, th'
boundIess ambition s undertaking plans of thu
| French Emperor to PROSTATE the whole worle
athis feet; we suffer ourselves tobe ledon, bya
set of designing and interested men, to wage
war with the only nation On earth, that ca,
controul his views. Yes! we arc to sacrifice
| our peace, our plenty, our Liberties, and our
lives, to the accomplishment of his Objects
Ask yourselees-can you tell for what we are
to go to war, if not for this Do cur mer.
chants demand it /? Their interests suffer
! most, and they oppose it. Do our agricultu.
| ralists demand it ? They arc thriving beyond
measure, and deprecate it as their curse. 7
not Napoleon, who will it benefit. but hot-bed
manufacturers: foreign scribblers, Office hunt
ing, idle and dissipated citizens, who in al
countries delight in those things that pro.
duce public confusion and distress these, the
TT tools for such a master, are forcing On the
malignant and preiudiced passions of oul
Chief Magistrate, to throw us at once upor
the most dreadful calamity that can aflict hui
mainly. And let me ask, why are we to be
rushed into this contest, without An army
without navy, without money s~a-uvard
detencelets, and our militia unarmed; but for
the purpose of bringing us more readily to
seek the aid and court the death-giying hug
ct their French friends ~ We have not for
gotten, that not more than two or three years
ego, the government paper contained pro-
ductlon, In which we were generously offered
the aid OF French engineers, artillery and Off
GERS, in case of war with England, and the
great Dagon of Democracy was heard to say,
" that France had ships and we had men,
Is there no Patriot in Congress, stout of
heart enough and jealous for his country's
good, to bring to public censure the man, who
has SO shameessly violated truth, to SUPPORT
faction and drive his country to destruction.
When his partlzans tell us, that the people
demand their wrongs to be repenged bv war.
rather tell them, that they demand their eriey-
ances to be rearessed by an investigation of
offences, committed against their peace and
precious right. They demand to know bv
what authority their money has been thrown
away upon foreign swindlers for the basest
purposes They demand to know, why so
much deceit and so much art were made use
OF, In the disclosure of Henry's useless, foolish
story They demand to know, why the fair
tame OF their honest and magnani1nous fellow
citizens was by cruel insinuation struck at by
such means? They demand to know, if
their rulers are permitted at any time to put
their hands into the public purse to bribe in.
formers to libel or accuse them, what security
there can be for the preservation of life, liber-
Gen. Washington, in his letter to Patrick
Henry, strongly and almost prophetcally
speaks OF these men That they are followed
numbers who are unacquainted with their de-
by signs, and suspect as little the tendency of
their principles, am fully persuaded but if
their conduct is viewed with Indifference; if
there is activity and misrepresentation on one
side, and supineness on the other, their num-
6ers increased by intriguing and discoptented
foreigners under prescription, who were at
war with their own government and the great.
CT part OF them with ali government. their