Alexandria gazette, commercial and political. [volume] (Alexandria [Va.]) 1812-1817, 1812-09-25

war 4 principle. we're opposed to il
On tbE round Of erpediency. They
thou it was better not to wage e.
ven Hast and necessary war. than
to ws it without prospect Of pre-
va;,; Il is presumed that both
comb I'd constituted a majority, and
a Lard lone too, Of the whole people.
Eut Al orders in council have been
reneal since the declaration Of
war. xrhese having ceased, the war
wb;c,kheir existence may have jus
t;6eJ. Heir rerocation renders anne
csssa,k Suppose the orders had
been oked before the declaration
of wal would congress or The nation
have I'm willingto goto war ? If
not, I'll sought the war now to cease,
becau& lis object is attained. What
more re want, that is zeorth the
calamI rs Of war If NC had gain
ed gre advantages, which would
warra an increase of our demands.
there i hid a difficulty arise between
the suk.st.ons of policy & morality.
But h2 stands the account We
have s., i the Guerriere and the en-
emu h; ,apturcd our army. The
balance against US. But we may
retrieyE our losses. So we may:
but we &ay add TO them too. This
is a ed fster's argument. and uu-
wortbyk statesman. The continu-
ance of HE war is evidently no long
er neceScu or morai. HencJorth.
at least he war will be unjust and
unneces&ry and the God Of armies
cannot prove it.
EverK bdy knows, that the affair
CT the d ksapeake has been satisfae-
torily al listed.
Our d. government admits, that
a satisfa kory arrangement can be
made, cdhernins impressments.
The Mtish revocation of the Or
ders in )uacil leaves it with Us,
whethe.Aey shall hereafter CONT
nue. in I'd be, or not.
Nhy en do we continue the war?
WHY ha¬ some steps been taken
TO negot e for peace? Let us test
these qul Fisns by reason not by par
tG. and nest men cannot differ in
their dcd BON.
The nj liner in which the intor-
NATION Of ae revocation Of the Bri-
tisi, ordcI was received by the Pre-
sident. pI Ives. that this CocD NEWS,
had no ga !egect upon him. 1t was
not annod ped by him or his cabinet,
or his pri |. as a .joHiMi erent! The
only rem hing cause Of war had
ceased, al the President received
the inforI biolrin sulky silence the
farm Of revocation was not sa-
tisfactoryS COP of truth aud mer-
cy! our Il hsure is to be wasted,
our immed frontiers are to be one
scene OF ID lstation, where the mer-
CHESS sava is to riot in the blood
OF defenca fs men, women and chill
dren, beea e the form of the re-
vocation ID et satisfactory to our
precise and |rilicGl president
Is there BIT some hidden thunder,
some
Red with J common WRATH
General Dearborn has been some
tines blan and even ridiculed for
the late art sfice. How urjusdy, VIC
shall see ksen,iv.
When Non-Intercourse law
was declare st an end, in1SO9. ii was
because titf mini&tT Of the British
governmenEhad promised. that his
sovernmens skoHId make repatriation
for the atfk on the Chesapeake
and should Revoke the Orders in
Council. Ven Gen. Dearborn a
greed to th& proposed armistice. re-
paration io9 he attack on the Ches-
apeake had ZEN made; and the or.
ders in coul Rl had been rerofed and
that By the fitish government its(y,
The Gen. asoned like an honest
man: " # agents promise that a
certain thint should be done, was a
good reason or putting On end to a
measure, wi be object it was to csm-
peI that thin to be done. then the
actual doing of the uery thing, may
well warran me in suspcndins for q
7chile. the operations of war, which
has the doiI of that thing for its
sole object. Ut least I will give my
country an 4'ortunity ofascertain-
ing. "beibefface may not honora-
bly, be rcstoTe without further and
perhaps " Pee ssary bloodshed.
Such would p the reflections even
of a democrat If 40 had no feelipps