The Alexandria herald. [volume] (Alexandria [Va.]) 1811-1826, 1813-08-18
FROM Cc66ett's London Weekiy Political
Register, Of Nay 22d, 1918.
AMERICAN WAR.

II
VIII not call it disgrace, or defeat but an
American sloop ofwar has now defeated an
tnglish sloop Of war for the second time.
So that owing to some cause or other, the
Amercan navy Upon equal terms, really
seems TO haze gained tie superiority. In
the meanwhile, however, it is stated, that,
through the means of the mediation of Ras-
sra, an opening FOR negotiation for peace
Is hkeiy TO take place. But from the Ian
gua5e OF our vile newspaper editors which
appear TO hate Americans for 10 other
cause than they are not slaves, little hope
seems TO exist OF happy result. The ar
t'cie 10 which aiiude was in the following
words
"Captain Bedford, as we stated yes,cr
day has brought the official notification OF
an offer on the part OF Russia to mediate
between This country and America ne
hohe II xiii be refused indeed we are
sure II VIII. We have the highest respcc,
Tor the RUSSIAN governments, the warIuesl
admiration OF lis prowess. but we Rave a
love Tor our naval pre-cminence that cannot
pear 10 have 1t even touched b? a foreign
iand. Russia, too, can hardly be supposed
TO be very adverse to the principles of the
armed neutrality, and that idea aioac would
DC sufficient TO make US decline the offer
Bul without discussing that point we must
make oar stand upon ti,is-neusr to com
mH our naval rights 20 TIC mediation at asy
hos'er. This is the nag we must nail to
The national mast, and go down rather than
strike 1t. Before the war commenced,
concession might have been proper; we
always thought II unwisc. Blu, me hour Of
conee ssion and comhrOmise is hassed; Amc-
RIGA has rushed unnecessarily anu urnatu-
rally into war, and she must be MADE 10
feel me elects 81 her foIy and Injustice.
feacc must be the consequence Of IHnish-
menf, and retraction OF her insolent de-
nanis must frecede negotiation. The
thunder ot our cannon must first strike ter
TOT mo the American shores, and Great
britain must be seen and felt in all the ma.
Jesty OF her might, from Boston to Sayan
nah, from the lakes ofCanada TO the mouth
OF the Mississippi. And before this arti-
Gle goes forth to the world, her cannon
nave been heard and her power felt. The
c'aihofous demagogucs of America, the
turbulent democrats, the noisy advocates
'or war with US, the pretended patriots
OF America and the real hariizans of
fF3Hce, assume now another tone Their
papers no longer speak the language Of
BOAST and menace. Fer pervates their
towns OH the sea coast-.HAarm nrcva;is IN
all quarters. They are more intent unon
moving their property than in making hea
against the danger: and though they boast
ed that they would support Government
with all their means and resources. with
'hcis treasures and their blood, the govern
ment Cannot, in the first year of the war.
n ri
These are the immediate consequences of
OF w:F entered into to CRAFTY the passions
OF halrfd and envy of England and to pro-
pitiate France
And, this is the language Of heoce, is
1t 1t would seem, that writer's Ike this
feared nothing SO much as an end to that
war, which has already brought more dis
grace upon the British navy, than all the
wars III which we were ever before engap-
cd. 1t would really seem that those men
were paid TO cndeayor 10 cause an Amcri-
can navy to be created. What other OBJ
]eCt they can have in view, in thus groadipo
the Americans on to hostility and hatred,
cannot conceive, | am sure, that the
Times, newspaper, by its senseIcss abuse
OF Mr.. Madison and the congress and its
insolent and contempluous language to-
wards tie American people, did much in
producing this fatal war. Paine has said
that is the last feather that breaks the
horses back and would it be any wonder,
II this base print, by that incidence, those
taunung mcnaces, in which it dealt few
months before the war was declared, was
the Lost Jeather upon the occasion lit
spoke OF the Americans and their navy in
strain OF contempt not to be endured. 1t
told them that their boosted nQVy should
be towed into Halifax I'm month from