Alexandria daily gazette, commercial & political. [volume] (Alexandria [Va.]) 1808-1812, 1812-05-28
WAR AND Rev ENUE.


t;sb commerce. the absolute eXcluslon OF which
5 from the European continent and from the u.
states. he believes, will ruin the finances OF
q britain, create discontents, and enable him
10 bring her under his yoke: is assembling an
immense army in the North IN order to IN
ra1Ie.the Russian dominions For this pur-
,,,se he is Withdrawing some of his troops
frnm Snain and certainly cannot send thithef
reinforcements. Besides the extreme scatci-
~ of grain and provisions In Spain VIII render
itdificut, if not impossible to iced numerous
.rn,;es Hinder these circumstances, nothing
can be SO important to Bonaparte as 70 cut on
the vast supplies furnished by the Otsotates 70
the British, Spanish and Portuguese armies I'D
Snain and Portugal, IN addition to the nun
Z dreds and thousands of the Spanish and FOR
tuquese inhabitants (men, women and chill
drep4 in the seaports of those kingdoms, VINO
for want ofour usual supplies, may suffer ex-
treme distress, or perish 1t IS In this fearful
sts,eofthings that Mr.. Madison recommends
70 Congress- TO lays general embargo! He
pives no reason for his recommendation ana
b. dare not oiye the true one. But no unbl-
assed mind can now doubt that the real motive
Is. to favor the views of the French emperor
That DISTINGUISHED member of Congress from
yiruiaia. Mr. Randolph, told the house, when
acti9o on the embargo bill, that 6 OF his GER
tain Knowledge, the French minister Serrru-
rier. ever since his arrival at the seat OF go
vernment, at Washington, had been pressing
orr government to prohibit the expectation OF
orr products to the Spanish peninsula that
IL TO Spain and Portugal. And now, at most
critical time, it is done by this new embargo
For Gods sake, my fellow citizens, pause
and reflect! For your own interest and safe
~ reflect! Can you doubt that the hand
OF Napoleon is in this thing g Can you any
LONGER doubt of the subserviency of your rue
& lers TO the French emperor? The most am
bilious conGueror, the most ruthless tyrant,
that, since the dark ages, has been let loose
to scourge the world
What is TO succeed the embargo! WAR;
But we are unprepared! We have mel
Tier army nor navy, of any account :. True,
But that will not prevent war. Mr.. Cheyes
On honorable member from South Carolina,
has Subtitle merchants must protect their
own property-the government cannot protect
them.-In Ike manner, (as SAID last Year,
theindirIdu States must protect themselves:
the national government cannot protect them.
But have remarked, g That to our rulers,
war is indispensable: because without war
they Cannot borrow money" 1t Is more than
a rear since Congress (twisting the French
S knot about our necks) passed a law prohibit"
inp all In po,aations from tile British domlnI-
ons-Those importations used to be the great
source OF oilrt revenue, This is lost The
embargo cuts OF all the rest The govern
ment propose TO borrow, for the services Of
the present year, eleven millions of dollars.
No niane OF common prudence will lend, un-
less funds are provided and pledged for the re-
puIar payment of the interest and the redemp-
ton of the principal. Excepting an inconsi-
derabIe sum Ga few hundred thousand dollars)
arising from the sale of Western lands, the
government have no funds to pledge: all o.
Their revenues have been levied on commerce,
which by their own measures are now to
cease A Land Tax. Stamp Act, Excuses and
other internal taxes laid, because Judged In
dispensably necessary, under the federal adj
ADMINISTRATION ofohrgeneral government to sus-
tain the heavy burthens thrown upon it, in
providing for the payment of the large debts
OF ourrevolutionary war--an Indian war which
followed it, besides multitude of other ex-
pences, and finally a naval war with France,
forced uponus by her injustice, enoTnsouS m
sacies, hlumderangs and insults, to defend q"
truth, the honor and the commerce. OF our coun-
try the internal taxes, l. say, which under the
federal administration we're laid for those in-
dispsnsahle pnrposes-were rendered odlous
TO the people by the opposition and the arts OF
the party then minority, but which now
rules the nation; and were a principal engine
used by them to overturn that administration.
FarIy after Mr. Jefferson obtained the Presi-
dents chair, all those internal taxes were re-
pealed; and their expected repeal and their
'actual repeal, procured for him vast fund of
nonuIarity. With the same view he recon-
pmended the repeal OF the duty on salt The
wear before, Mr.. Randolph moved for its re-
-. el failed Yet no reason e. =. - -