Alexandria daily gazette, commercial & political. [volume] (Alexandria [Va.]) 1808-1812, 1812-05-11
ALEXANDRIA.
I MONDAY MORNING, Ray Il,
s TO SLEW
NTo sAEw
80 vsRY Age AND BopY OF THE TIME
:. roRM AND PRESSURE.

Ie;s amazingly mal-apropos, and moreover
.,,rrtioass, that while our centinels OF pub
liberty are legisatlng away IN the :" tull
j. # successful experiment" at Washington,
:, yeIl.laid plans are failing every where J!
=. Tow main sinews of their darling, war, ap.
70 Be most miserably relaxed Neither
=. 70 be had, nor money TO pay them
r, capi,alists are walking up to the Books
,,v tardily so are the soldiers to the drnrH-
e,d The fond hopes Of a harvest OF sailor
ediers being gathered in from the distresses
{ he Embargo (for we can think OF no other
.Dcogy for the measure) will not end this time
/. tai,ion they will sooner emigratc to a
commercial country than to lower their wages
,o thirds, change their elements, and lose
Their liberty,
Now if our government could contrlve to
n6u,e little more justice and of course, fofu.
mir, into their cause, they would never be
Inns banpered for want of either men or mo-
y. As it now stands, the contemplated war
! viii in fact he waged by fartg, who, by the
be, never did, in their greatest majority, hold
he turse-strinss of the nation. 1t is al this
line, very predetermined whether they have
nioriy Of polls but let one years sun
Eoitable contest be tried !; let Mr.. Gallatin
open his next budget of ways and means, that
i, bans nfon comtuIsion, and we think 1t
would not require a very nice calculation to
INFORM us where the majority will then be-
!. On the whole, we do not conceive the pros
ect before US to be near SO gloomy as many
others do. Looking but iatIe gpay through
4 tie curtain of futurity, and with the, pro-
Inability of several existing causes producing
natural effects, we must confess the prospect
appears to US rather cheering than otherwise
Wemay have to pass through the vale OF the
sicsow Of political death, but $50 that we pre-
sEVe our unidn in the passage) 1t will
De the precursor Of brighter day than we
hare long witnessed John Adams in 1912
Observed to his Quincy friends,-" The pros
9ect Of national greatness is as sure and GER
AIN as that Of national existence. The Union
iOCrroek of safety as well as our pledge ct
grandeur and for this reason | hesitate not
recommend to you rs sentiment" A
mon Of honest men.
Westated, incur papers of Saturday last,
eat the bill to appoint two Assistant Secreta-
les Of Warh had passed both Houses Of Con-
asss But it had passed the House with an
9,sndMenf, which required the concurrence
1.-THE Senate. When that amendment was
1enup IN Senate yesterday. the further con-
s'eratlon of the amendment, and of coarse of
- whole bill, was postponed to the first Mon
y IN June-a postponement nearly equiya-
Sust relection.---.Nat. Intel
Inc Sd US. regiment is under marching
sOeFs to form new environment on the Che
$ elete river, to be called St Tammany this
~ 8, Dc IN new country, little Inhabited, but
,ss 10 be healthy, about so or 70 miles east
@New-OrIeans.
a 4 party of United States troops, command
Wy Col. Pike, succeeded in destroying a
saps OF robbers that have for some time intest-
ss Me road leading from Natchitoches to the
.pue Several shots were fired on both
sn Hss and some of the party were severely
tolI Iuued booty to the amocnt OF or 5000
BE- a's was taken, and fourteen of the robbers
'S'O. An accounts given in letter from