Martinsburgh gazette. [volume] (Martinsburgh, Va. [W. Va.]) 1810-1825, 1812-01-03

has burst upon the house, Mr.. Randolph had
been anxiously waiting for some great politi-
cal or military projection to point out a way
which we could get at Quebec or Halifax. He
had seen nothing He supposed they were
To be starved out He was reminded of an
anecdote he had read of the siege of Gibraltar,
which was supposed to lie in the moon. The
Spanish Don. mounted on his Rosinante, with
Sancbo. who was the best and most honest
statesman of whom he had ever heard, and
Dapple at his back, left the French duke
PLAYING at small swords with the enemy, say
ing to his man swell starve them out pc
This tic BIT of Canada, which has inftaned
the cupidity of our northern brethren. has
made us forget the Indian hostihtles committed
and meditated, not in Orleans and louisiana,
but in Georgia, and in the old U. States lie
did not consider Louisiana as part OF the u.
States, he felt himself as much at liberty to
dispose of it. as to dispose of his. own slaves
But if we wereto have war, he hoped 1t would
be for something better than Canada, for
something more profitable than to MI
the northern country, from Niagara to From
tignac, with commissaries and contractors.
He repealed the charge ofavarice made against
those who were opposed to these measures
To husband the public revenues was the first
avarice of Elizabeth, and her Burleigh and
Walsingham, with the avarice of Frederic the
Great, who had built up first rate kingdom,
by his own genius, out of the ruins of one of
the Bourbons.
Although in courtesy to thegentleman from
MARYLAND (Mr Wright he would forbear to
say any thing of that man, who was some
times stiied our commander in chief, yet he
was as satisfied as to his true character, as he
was of the existepce of a God and before he
could renounce his belief of either, he must
renounce his reason. And as the gentleman
from Kentucky (Mr. Johnson) had not made
out the unfortunate affair of the Wabash to
have originated in the British, he begged
leave to postpone, at least for q while, his
march to Canada. ...
He asserted that nothing was too mean, too
vile, too infamous, for governments to do
He put no trust in kings. A veteran politician
was insusceptible of friendship or enmity, ex-
cept so far as it operated on his individual in
terests,. to which he made every other conside-
ration bend
Here Mr. Randolph adverted to documents,
and dilated on historical facts, to prove that
America ought to be proud of her Anglo Sax
on origin: that it was to the inyincible spirit of
Saxon liberty, that we owe our privileges, our
institutions, our jury trial, our national indie
pendence that had we been of any other orr.
gin, especially of French origin, at the very
thought of which he shuddered with horror,
we should have submitted to the tea tax and
stamp act, to the whole train of Granville
and Forth ministerial plans of oppression I
that New Spain or Mexico as it is improperly
called with physical force superior to ours,
had not dared to break the chains of Spanish
despotism, divided and weakened as was the
Spanish monarchy that as much regard was
due to our breed of men, as to that of Meri-
noes, horses or oxen: that the patriots of the
revolution never anticipated the time when
our whole coast should be blocked up by our
own laws, and when these laws should be con-
sidered as the legitimate exercise of our re.
strctiye energies: that they did not dream of
the expressions of embargo laws that Burke
had been convinced that Franklin and the A |
merican patriots esteemed it the first of bes-
sings to enjoy the fruits of Saxon institutions,
that their highest wish was to be restored to
the use OF their ancient privileges, in connec-
ton with the mother country that Mr. Ran
doiph had learnt his political lessons at the
feet OF Gamaliel, from the history Of the re-
volution; that Bonaparte at whom the world |
was constantly gazing, was the greatest of
tyrants, and as memorable as Rhadananthus
himself; that our Saxon original would en-
sure the preservation of our liberties to the re-
hottest periods OF time--for the Leopard could |
not change his skin, nor the Ethiopian his CO. |
lor that the resources of Great Britain were
great, and ought to be considered before we I
plunge into war with her; that we possessed
neither the capital nor the population to cope
with her; that from Bristead's Essay, it APP (
peared that q. Britain had at command of re- |
gulars, select and irregular militia, volunteers
and seamen, $50 thousand men; that this was |
double as great force as the Roman empire /
welded under Augustus, at the zenith of its
grandeur and prosperity that we were not I