Alexandria daily gazette, commercial & political. [volume] (Alexandria [Va.]) 1808-1812, 1812-07-06
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.Ettatat5n 10 III ate GoveTnnlent Herd
" has the pc tic on this town to Congress
beel .ur.e ed, o. NJ onday la>g, to save Us Irolr
he horr IS Of - with G cat British, y hen
II hope. IF IT'S success were blastc> b, the It'd
nes IL q a oecIaration f SUCH var bad &C
-ual,v.5e n made I'D eur cou8rry and al that
we lold leaI puJ 10 THIS dreadlu oazard. On
Tue day arrived the official act self II,
Ana i!ans & ~ parties were luCk with con-
.lernstiou zrG DISNEY, as if cA,rcd a q aacri
fec t. The grim Mullch Of Eu.op,, WHO can
De appeased win nothing but lhe blood ana
groans of his fellow creatures Thus in thci,
apprehension exposed to ruin by what Mr. s.
..ucl Adams once termed = foreign govern
ment' they turned their eyes with anxious
solicitude to thei" nataral guardians and pro
tectorS, the government Of this state. A town
meeting was called for at an emly hour OF
"Wednesday morning. The Inhabitants &C
cordingIy met, and having chosen Jacob Ash
ton, Eq. Moderator,S Benjamin Merrill, Esq.
Clerk, pto tenn. John Prince, ESQ. The town
clerk, being absent from town.. Ichaboa
Tucker, ESQ. opened the business OF the
meeting with some observations on the peril
Gus situation in which we were placed
plunged into a war, unnecessary, inexpedicnt
unjust, and the caIan1ities Of which were not
TO be described. nor the final issue calculated
and moved that committee Of zine persons
be chosen TO a,ay up memorial 10 the house
Of tepresenta.ivr OF th.s STATE, to express to
tbeni the gre .@rm hich was felt by the
Inhabitants, AZ he misery which they appre
hendyd would fs,lupe Us and praying them
to exercise any Constitutional powers tho
niphl posses % rescue Their country iion
min. The noti91 was adopted and The tol.ow
ing is a copy q lie memorial:
.lt a legal meey,rr 2ffhr Fre"hotdeTa ard OTTER
iuha5itauts If he fo7vp # 1airm, qNa{ fcd
70 noe in toa2a ofHs, Aoiden at the court
6ou8e in sail tccya, on FedAesduy, AN
June, Il. u. 1912.
Voted, that the following memorial be a.
dopted, and immediately forwarded to the
House Of Representatives, signed by the mo-
derator and town clerk.
Tothc honorable the House of Representa-
tiyes Of the commonwealth of Massachusetts,
respectfully represents, the memorial Of the
inhabitants of the own of Salem in the county
Of EsseX-That your memoralists, viewing
with the most painful apprehensions the APP
proach of war with Great Britain, had Just
addressed memorial to The Congress Of the
y. States 60 which they beg leave to refer,)
praying thu m To avert the caIamities of such
measure their memorial however was scarce
~ adapted when taey received the intelligence
that Mar gas actually deciared They, there
fore, now address themselves to the Represen-
;atives of the people ofthis commonwealth for
relief frem the manifold evils with which they
are threatened To your memoriaIists such
war will be peculiarly distressing; their loss
of property will be immense; but this consi-
deration, weigbty as it is, is not to be compar-
ed with the aiflcting circumstances that eight
hundred OF their sea.faring townsmen are aow