Alexandria gazette, commercial and political. [volume] (Alexandria [Va.]) 1812-1817, 1813-09-11
ALEXANDRIA.
SATURDAY, September IL.
TO SHEW
a vkRY AGE x BODY OF rHE TINE
FORM AND PRESSURE"
THE VIRGINIA FARMER TO Mr.. MADl
soN,-GRRKTIHE.

SIR--Your old friend and school.
mate addresses you again; although he
once determined to let you 60 your own
way without another admonition from
him; but in that frame of mind / found
| made an awkward hand in saying
" Forgive US our tresspasses as sue for
glue them that trespass against u.s." No,
no, James although it would seem you
are given over to reprobate mind, !
must not, will not leave you; not SO
much from love to you though, as from
the consideration that all will suffer in
your overthrow. When the Royal
George sunk in the Thames, she carried
down every thing in her vortex. But if
excavations, now in the beginning of sor-
rows, be the daily prisons of millions a
gainst you, could you expect to survive
the loss of our liberties, should your
weakness or perverseness have brought
this signal catastrophe upon US! l think
not: and found my conviction on the
knowledge possess of the feelings OF
freeman, laleiy in fair way OF seeing
his posterity decen.ly provided for, by
his own industry and enterprise, but
now, by your ovn act, turned clear
round his hopes and prospects blasted,
and ne in the .traign: road to inevitable
insolvency, or already arrived at it.
say, from knowing well the feelings Ola
freeman, impoverished and grown fran
tic by the wilful abuse Of power from
one no better than himself; / must pro.
nounce them such as no man need wish
to encounter. Who can doubt now what
is the true cause OF the war? Who will
say now that it is not damning French
iafuence that has brought US into all this
distress f.? 1t seems the fates are against
you on every side; as if clouds Of w.t.
nesses are insufficient, our atmosphere is
at length flied with them. Here's ano-
Their most degrading slap on the cheek,
which you have concealed these four
years. But murder will out. mean
Tarreau's letter; and such an one, that
had poor Jackson written it, he probably
never would have seen his own country
again. He was indeed sent off for less
than one fiftieth part of the insult con-
tanned in this letter. Is this straining at
a gnat and swallowing camel, or what
can it be called Blu, beg PARDON
:, The letter svas retarned to TarreaH a
gain" Heavens bless Us was it in.
deed !! Well, after this, / shall know
how to behave; for if man knocks
me down, and takes his fist back again,
shall consider it no insult at all, and
think no more Of it, if | can conceal it
Alter all, it can hardly be called French
| influence but the asceutancy which
scoupdrelly upstart Corsican, with not
one solitary trai, in his character congo
nial to the feelings Of a republican, has
contriyed to gain over US! have no
question in my mind but that you were
infatuated by this agency, when you en-
tered the lists novice, as it were, with
only your fist, and pocket full Of pro
Carnations, against an antagonist armed
cap-a. pee, and whose trade is arms
Could reasonable man have expected
| the issue to have been more favorable
than it has been? Where was your de-
pendence Did you count on the for
| bearance OF your enemy? This was
broken reed. He however did forbear
fer several months at first, in hopes you
would think better Of it. During this
time, before he got in earnest. our mer-
chants did much for US, in getting of our
produce at high prices, and much for
themselves in getting home their funds.
BY and bye the storm grew nearer -
down went our produce and up went
groceries and such other articles as ia
miles must have. In this state of things,
when bushel of wheat will only bring
two and a half pounds Of brown sugar,
or peck and half of salt: our sons are
dragged away to defend our coast, to the
incalculable damage of our farms, and