Alexandria gazette, commercial and political. [volume] (Alexandria [Va.]) 1812-1817, 1813-02-19
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IONS are alive, lest it should have .
covering effect upon their popu!a-
.;iv. than certain under-operators
are set to work, whose business tits
20 amuse the minds. and beguile ihe
attention of the patients while the
dose is swallowing. The Language
always is,--.. Trust tile cabinet
Doctors. The medicine Will not
operate as you Imagine, but -q:site
another way" After this manner
the fears ofmen are aiiayed. and the
purposes Of the administration are
attained. under suggestions very dill
ftrent from the true motives. Thus
the embargo. which has siuce been
uaeauivocally Acknowledged to have
been intended 10 eoerce Great Br!-
tain, was adopted. as the executive
asserted. "to save our essential re-
Sources Soalso. when ine present
war was declared against G Britain.
members Of the house were knowa
to state that they voted t'ar j; under
the suggestion that i; would not be "a
war Of ten days; that 1t was known
that Mr.. Foster had Instructions 20
make deini,ire arrangements, in us
pocket and that the United States
had only to advance TO thr point OF
war, and the business would be set
tied. Aud now. an army. which In
point OF numbers. Cromwell might
envy. greater than that with which
. Caesar passed the Ruhieon. is to he
heioed through a reluctant congress,
un;ier the Suggestion OF its being on
~ parade :;ntce. 10 make nesoiia-
ton successful g; that ii is the iacipi-
eat state Of "a project, for a grand
qualification!
could illustrate this position
twenty WAYS. | shall content my
self with renlarking, onIy upon two
instances. and those cnt;-the
present war ; and the late Invasion
Of Canada. When WAY against G.
Britain was proposed. ut the last scs-
sion, there were thousands. in these
United States. and con!tssto you,
| was. myself, among the Eu,nl:er.
who believed not one word Of The
matter. put my trust in the old
fashioned notions Of common sense,
aud common prudence. That a PEG
PIE which has been more than tuei,
~ years at peace. should enter upon
hos,ilities, against people which
had been twenty years, at war; that
a nation. whose army ANA navy were
ittie more than nominal. should en-
gage, il war, with nation. posses
siGg one Of the hes, appointed armies
and the most powerful marine. on
the globe; tina, country. TO which
neutrality had besn q perpetual har-
vest, should throw that great BEES
stag away, for a controversy, in
which, nothing was to be gained, *
every thing valuable. put il jeopar-
dy from these. and iaaumeraDle
like considerations, the idea seemed
so absurd, that never once enter
tanned it, AS possible. And nav. az
ter war has been declared, tie who!e
aftlir seems So extraordinary and so
utterly irreconci'eable. TO anr p"e'i-
Gus suggestions OF wisdom ant duty.
that 1 knew Ect what TO make "i IL,
or how TO believe it. Even, IA this
moment, nay mind is very much. ia
the state OF certain Pennsylvania
Germans. eff whom l have heard it
asserted, that tt.e. are Taught 1" De-
lieye, BY then political leaders. and
DO, at this moment, consider Tie al
legation, that war is at present ex-
i,lins, between tie United States and
Great Brit"i;:, to be " federal
fu'SehG3d.'
L, vas just SO with respect to the
Invasion OF Canada. i heard oft last
June. laughed at the idea, as did
,nuititudCs OF others. us an attempt !
too absurd, fer serious examination. !
WAS in this case, again beset by |
common sense andcomnon prudence.
That tie United States should pre-
;ipiiate itself upon tie uHoiitndins |
people of that neishborins colony,
OF all previously subsist-
az antilles, because the parent state,
nrce thosa0d miles distant, had Vi
plated soule ofour commercial ri snts;
hat we should march inland, to de-
END our ships md seameD; that,
With raw troops, hastily collected.