Alexandria daily gazette, commercial & political. [volume] (Alexandria [Va.]) 1808-1812, 1812-04-15
ALEXANDRIA
WEDNESDAY MORNING
10 sHEw
TIN VERY AGE AND BODY OF Inv
HIS FORM AND PRESSURE:
NON-IMPORTATION

A transitory hope has b en- excited :;
| suffering merchants, that amidst their i,
prospects Of ruin from restrictions 4
and rapacity abroad, Congress was abo,.
indulge them with an opportunity Of p;,
drawing from England the great anon, !,
! American property at present excluded f-oo,
It's home by Our own repulsive edicts. TIL,
hope it seems is not to INDUCED. The n,
tional IEtclligenccr takes occasion to cau,;o,
its mercantile friends against aDy rel.ro,
Upon such expectation. The hope INDEED
was indulged only by the most sansuine ,bs
expression most frequently used by merc,n
tile men was that it was " too rational mil.
cy to be expected" Such is the lament,A,,
state Of mercantile feeling in relation to cn,I
government. That the interests Of tbe NOR
chants should have been sacrificed wbenhera
appeared to our rulers to be national good
to be obtained thereby, was not so cxtraOydi.
nary, but that they should be wantonlv, cru.
ely trampled upon in passion and in party
rahcor where there is no possibility of any
public advantage therefrom,is truly appallmg
We have been carried through all the devices
Of restrictive -embargo-non.inter.
course-non-importation, and again embargo,
to be superseded by war-a war with England,
a country in which a great partof the mercan. /
tile capital of the United States, is at present
deposited either in goods purchased and paid
for, or in remittances for the shipments of
our produce to Spain and Portugal, paid for
in British bills and for which often nothing
else could be obtained. A vast treasure base
been thus amassed in the hands of orr eNeI
mics, and strange as it may appear, question:
is made whether We shall be permitted 81
bring it home to contribute toindi'ldual COM
fort and national strength, Or leave It in th'
hands of the enemy to add TO his means OF an
noyancc-And more strange still, that suC1'
decision of the question should be expe''s9|
from an American Congress, under the IN
pulse of passion,as will be hostile to their o"f
citizens, and friendly in the result TO 'H'f'
country against which they are about to Tasl
the most implacable war. Alas suca IS N
furiated man, seeking thu ough blood & sl'rs1
ter his long lost" reason. BonaPar'e f''''''I
unfeeling tyrant as nc is has some con''os,N
ton for the convenience of his Subjects ~"
last European accounts inform US that nc "@
granted so new licences to tradewlfh n0s'"D'
from motives of convcn;ency and policy SUI
hitting thus far to favor English co'"'D''l
from the destruction Of which he llao '.'''I f.
ened to destroy England herse.i-N0. '',
we ever forget that whilst we were WIN
fortitudc exerting all cur restrictive Wv
in aid of the continental stem' OY w. r.
barge, which was to starye England ''.'
dependencies, the mighty Napoleon '""
was supplying England with gram !" ~,
for her money, which he wanted ~ sorsi
truly are too high-minded to DESCENT 49, .,s,.
derations of expediency. And IN 'n0'I
tous times, when the great nations -
in the fury of contest have beaten WV" ~
tional law, 7ve refuse to wlthara" y -,
own property from England u'''e'1 "
again swear allegiance to Puffenoo' - :.,s
tel. We march forward as the 0N''"f
the laws of nations, and like Qu'N on
yenturer who preceded us Ia NC 49, ohobI 81
Windmill, our windy warfare VIII rr j
terminate in ridiculous discontinue % ID
must have war, would it be noadva'''S .,.aJ
government to have its treasury rep''" ,sy
the importation. of goods which 0u' ,,.nt IS
,,l,ce2 If the gD'I'"