Martinsburgh gazette. [volume] (Martinsburgh, Va. [W. Va.]) 1810-1825, 1813-03-12

ssn exact neutrality to all her schemes
Although they are irrascible, vengeful,
and prone to every thing that may give OF
fence to England; with respect to France,
their charity thinks no wrongs-endures
much, and is easy of intreaty. Now let
the reader reflect on the promised devotion
to France in 1895 the ircessant Glamour
in favour of France, assisted BY civic feasts,
toasting, sc. consequent thereupon--the
patronage Of Mr.. Jefferson to newspaper
in Philadelphia, edited by a Frenchman,
who supported the canse of France IN every
circumstance likely to promote 1.-THE un-
RENTED endeavours to involve the United
States in war with England in l79f-tke
clamours against raising an army 10 resist
a threatened invasion from France in 1898;
the embargo and other restrictions on our
trade in lS07-S aad since--the subsequent
concealment or palliation of the crimes of
France-the injuries and insults our admi-
nistrations have connived at from her-and
finally, the war with Great Britain, at
time too when she is engaged in a danger
GUS foreign war, when and only when we
can hope TO succeed; and he viii be con-
vinced that this French memorialist was
not only well acquainted with the attach
ment Of his American friends, which he
spake of with so much confidence at the
time, but could, with almost prophetic GER
tainty. calculate upon it in future he will
not think it an extravagant supposition,
that the present war hath rather grown out
OF this attachment to France, than the hos
Titles of Great Britain; especially, since
those Of France are both prior in time, and
paramount in degree.
In the determination of Donaparte to de-
stroy England through her commerce, our
two last administrations have exhibited a
remarkable coincidence. While he was
shedding oceans of blood to prohibit the
continent from all commercial intercourse
with her, our embargo, without limit in
the law that established it, co-operated with
his design, till its pressure upon ourselves
produced its abandonment, and then sub
stitutc was found in the act of non impor-
tation This also, producing no other eff
feet but to accumulate our distress, and inn
poverish our national treasury, was yield
ing to the remonstranccs of the people,
when it was supported by declaration of
war; which, if our administration cont
nue. inflexible in the demands | understand
them to have made, must be interminable,
as they will never be yielded by Great Bri-
tain SO long as she can keep ship at sea,
or has an inch of ground to dispute.
have now exhibited some Of the evil
dence ON which is founded the charge o.
the partiality Of the republican party to
France, which has produced incalculable
evils in our country, and may result in the
ruin of our union and independence, if not
arrested before it shall have proceeded to
the point pf separation, which it is to be
feared the Northern and Eastern states will
be strongly tempted to resort to, before
their ruin is completed. 1t is not the least
of the evils of this state of things, that the
party in power not only turn deaf ear to
the reasonings of those who oppose their
rninous measures, but stigmatize the mo
tives of that opposition as influenced by
British gold, or prediction for her form
of government. Immortal truth itself can
have no effect upon those who thus shut
their eyes and ears against its divine influ-
ence. The lessons of experience are dis
regarded and lost amidst the group of blind
theoretical attachments, and we are hurr-
ed on by their impulses, to the brink of
destruction; with little hope, but in the
interposition of that BEING who alone can
controul the raging of the sea, and the
madness of the people
ALFRED