Virginia Argus. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1796-1816, 1813-10-25
THE VICTORY oNLAND.

THE VICTORY ON LAND.
We confess ourselves quite at loss for
words in which to convey our feelings at
General Harrison's victory. The persever-
ing patriotism and valor of this interchangeable
commander, and the same qualities in his
undaunted troops, after encountering diff.
culties, OF which the country at large seems
never to have been fully aware, have at
length completely triumphed; triumphed
at the most opportune moment, as regards
the campaign, and at the very moment also,
when forlorn faction among us was conf,
IDENTITY predicting, with a JOY as malicious as
We do not doubt the wish was sincere, his
total discontinue. The effect Of this victo
ny upon the further operations of our arms
in Canada cannot fail, we think, to be inn
mediately and signally suspicious towards
the great object of this most just and righ-
teous war. But there is another aspect, a
like solemn and interesting, under which we
cannot help presenting the subject.
AS far as the scale of warfare has been
concerned, we are bold to say, that the Bril-
fish have waged hostilities agaist us along
our north western frontier with a barbarity
that nothing in history surpasses. Taking
the horrid savageS as their friends and as
sociates in battle, placing them as the front
warriors OF their host, they have alternately
encouraged and permitted enormities at
"hich they ought forever to blush and which
ages hence, it will still freeze the blood of
our posterity to read of. Faction, disaffec,
ton, spirit worse than treason, and as
shocking under every moral view as the sa-
wage flames and torments themselves are to
the shrinking nerves and fibres of the flesh,
may affect to sheer at these things, affect to
deny them but their solemn truth has been
drawnout by official scrutiny, and will, must,
most assuredly, make part of the history
of the times beyond the possibility of contra
diction, when the foul tongues and pens of
party and of falsehood are heard no more.
Have we not, among other deeds Of horror,
seen the corpses of our csuntrymen, their
mangled arms, legs, hearts, a prey to the
very hogs of the highway, while the unfeel-
ing English in that quarter, with deliberate
depravity which the daintiest blood~pam-
pered appetites of the most refined cannibals
of revolutionary France never went hey ond,
have coolly turned aside. And now what is
likely to be the changer These very toma-
hawks that, side by side with the equally
cruel Briton, have been made to open the
SOULS Of our poor fellows, while in unoffend-
ing captivity ) these very savage arms that
always--yes always,-with British pcrmis-
sion, have been thrust elbow deep into the
gore and bowels of our gallant countrymen--
resigned, submitting, with no shrieks of fear,
no prayers for mercy, where indeed mercy
never dwelt, no imprecatious a: the callous
authors OF all their dreadful sufferngs, but
with composed and sublime fortitude,
meeting and sinking under their terrible
doom-These self same savage implements
are now likely to be lifted in awful retribu-
ton against the heads of their heretofore
base and more savage employers. The in
famous Proctor has perhaps been flying, an
appalled, fugitive, before those poor deluded
human beings so lately his friends, his chief
dependence, his compatriots in arms and
himself and others of these disgraced Bri
tons who first drew out this Internal enemy
to the field, may, even now, if Anne rican hui
manity be not still at hand, and sill ready
to save. be eXpiating their fell abominable
crimes under the agonies of that very scalp.
ing knife still warm with American blood,
stepped and reeking at theirinstance-atBri
fish instance The Ottoways, the Chippe
ways, the Potfewatemies, the Kickapoos,
these allies of Britain, allies as regularly 40
knowledged, and even as regularly tharkedin
every official de- patch, as my Lord Wellingr
ton &C knowledges < thanks the Portuguese as
the allies OF the British in Spain, may now be
raising their exasperated arms, their eyeballs
glaring with perfidious fury, against the We
ny hosts that drew them from their cabins
formed them into ranks, instructed them
how best to deal out destruction, and whet-
ted their palatcs for feasts of captive blood,
but who, also, could not themselves also
perfidiGus) make good their rich promises
to them Of constant carnage and blood feasts
and plumber. The remorseless English in
Canada have themselves alone TO blame in
any disasters, from tins source, that may o.
vertake them. This must be the judgment
Of nations; and, we humbly hope, of hea-
ven. Well may our commanders, whether
upon the waters Of the Lakes, or upon the
Land, write that it has pleased the Almigh
ty to give victory to our arms. Dec date.
With reverence would we breathe it, but as
far as short sighted mOTtals can see, we think
the retributions of "A just Providence may be
traced in this turn of things which seems
likely to roll back, upon the guilty heads of
its authors, some of the horrors of Indian
warfare.
The United States brig Enterprise sailed from
Portland on Thursday, the 7th inst.@-and the brig
from Portsmouth on Monday last on
q oruze.
MILLEDCFyIILE October r.