Virginia Argus. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1796-1816, 1812-08-13
From The Dem2cratic Press.

From the Democratic Press.
Whenever a nation becomes involved in
war, it is important that her friends and her
foes be distinguished. That there are dis
perSed throughout these United States, per-
sons untriendy to our government is a fact
OF which no one can be ignorant. That some
of these persons hold our republican form of
government in great contempt is also notori-
Gus. 1t is well therefore in times like the
present, for all well affected persons to dis
countenance every thing which savours of
disaifection to the government, and in this
way prevent the danger of a revolution, and
preclude the sanguinary conflicts of civil war.
These reflections have been suggested by the
proceedings of the New-England tederalists.
which speak language ton plain to be mis.,
understood, and perhaps too dangerous to be
further tolerated
It may possibly be useful to point out to
the citizens OF America of all parties, that
the general term Democrat and Fedcra.ist,
hitherto sufficiently discriminative, is so no
longer The true democrat remains what
he always was. The federalists are divided
into E7vo classes as distinct, as any two poll
teal parties can possibly be. Of these, the
one loves, Cherishes, admires, and will de-
fend the republic of which he is a citizen.
He is proud of It's cOnstitution--he venerates
is emphatcauy a Republican Federalist.-
The other is the reverse of all this; he be-
lieves that the republic must speedily perish,
and he cares not how soon he defends eve
~ aggression upon her national rights, and
believes or affects to believe that She has no
rights. He eSpouses the cause of her enc.
mics, and heaps insults, and indignties on
her friends, and officers He wishes the al
iiance OF Great Britain, as Il prelude tn a
monarchcal government but lest / should
be supposed TO ascribe to him sentiments
which he is not willing to avow, shall bring
him forward to speak for himself.
EcTactaJ from tie zvorks Of FIsHER .lMec.
q" Our country is TOO big far union =; TOO
Sordid foT iiatriotiam; 100 democratic jar Ii
berry :"
. It is one Of the most consuming curses
DfHeaUen, and W DESERvEIT, to commit
the affairs of a natsn to rulers, who find in
their popularity, their rapacity, or their am
biJion, an interest separate from the interest
"a the people"
"As great geniuses snatch the sceptre
from the hand Of great little rascals, the 60
vernment rises though h6erty rises no 0lorc,
Ours is gone neUer TO return. To mitigate
tyranny is all that is left for our hopes"
" | have hope that the sacred Siield of
oo7yGrdice would protect our peace, still
hope"
" We are PROSTATE already, and OF ALL
MEN ON EARTH, THE FITTEsT TO BE
sLAvEs"
"a republic wears out its morals almost
as soon as the sap of a white birch rots the
wood" viz in two years.
''Of our six millions of people, there are
scarcely six hundred who yet look for liber-
~ any where except on paper"
1.-The immortal spirit Of the Wood-nymph
LIBERTY, DwELS ONLY IN THE BRITISH
oAK!!n
The republic is a creature of fiction ; it
is every body in the fancy but nobody in the
heart--love to be any thing, must be select
and exclusive Ne may as EUeH tax QfLoU-;
ing Geometry as the Commonwealth -
The posthumous works of the late EYsh-
tr .fnic8, which speak the sentiments of The
present disorganizing demagogucs of New
England, contain these and similar senti-
meHts; and whether " change OF men, is
all they aim at, can easily be gUcSSed by
their sovereign contempt of the Constitution
itself, which Mr.. Ames declares was found
ed in a mistake."*
Fit subjects for a monarch, for despot.
are all who are shameless enough to avow
such principles but whether America or Bo
tany Bay is the proper place for them, let
common sense decide.
One would imagine that the thirty years
of unexampled prosperity which America
bias enjoyed, under her present constitution
would have excited the warmest emotions of
gratitude to the God OF nations, for such a gO-
ecrument. Her desarts have literally bios
somed as the rose. Where are now the
uilds of Kentucky aud Ohio! converted into
rGcns. Where the Italian villages upon
her rivers9 grown into proud and populous
ci,ies Her log cabins are converted into
splendid mansions Her citizens happy be-
yond all the hopes Of the phiiauthropist--
" fortunate ninum sua 81 bona merritt 90
Shcw me the monarch Who governs such a
country
BuC does the federal parry throughout the
union adopt the sentiment Of Mr.. Amesl
We nave already declared tbat Il part only
we trust very small part OF them, are
governed by them. With an ind snlnt frown
the honest federa,ist rcpels the insinuaticn
OF iJischood Co the republic, which h!y ia
theirs valor and his own have assisted in
forming. lie is ready to defend it with
the same energies which were cxcrted in
its establishment, and he would die in its
defence sooner than sec its honors tar
ni,hed.
Federolis's who love your country, be-
fore you lend the name of yodr party to the
purposes Of base and foreign faction, pause
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y F1ra cowfkefc crEositi5u If the 1,ic7ys