Martinsburgh gazette. [volume] (Martinsburgh, Va. [W. Va.]) 1810-1825, 1813-03-05

the French minister were present, the fol-
lowing toasts were drank.
. lst The l4th of July, may Il be a sab
bath in the calendar of freedom, and iu-
bilee to the European world
''2d. The 10th of August; may the free
me n who offered up their lives on the al.
tar of liberty be ever remembered as mar
tyrs, and oanonized as sdjats."---lt will be
rem embered that both of these days had
wit messed the success of insurreetions-
FIR anee, and1that many lives were lostll-
seth. May The sister republics Of France
d 44Hersca be as incorporate as light e. heat
aud the man that eadeauours TO disanite
them be UieSDsd as ths1rnolG Of dmerican
A stronger evidence of devotion can scarce
ly be conceived, than is exhibited by this
toast as no bond of union between the
two nations could be more perfect Light
and heat are inseparable and these toast
ers wished France and America to be O.
qually so, and to become one nation.
"l3th. A dagger to the bosom of that man
who makes patriotism a cover to bis ambi.
ton, and feels his country's interest alb
sorbed in his own" Ii is not known whc.
Their this toast pointed at Washington or
Hamilton. Now let me ask, if the caucus
nominations of Madison and Jefferson does
not produce strong suspicion in every
mind, that they have felt their country's
interests absorbed in their own and that
their ambition has been covered by pre-
to nded patriotism, without reality, or con.
sequence to the nation.
''l4th. Union and mutual confidence to
the patriots of France; confusion and dis
tress to the counsels of their enemies. ''-----
France had little time before, wantonly
and without any provocation, declared war
against England; and made her an enemy
against her will.
Volunteer from the chair.
1.-The rule of proportion as France acted
with respect to America, SO may America
act with respect to France. "--D Did not these
incipient coasters know, that France turn
ed deaf ear to all our entreaties for assis-
tance, till she saw that we had taken the
army of Burgoyne and then it was natu-
l raj for her to think she would never have a
! better opportunity, effectually to humble
her atural enemy by decisive blow, than
to act in concert with US, and to furnish us
with the munitions of war to fight her bat
ties but we had no interest to serve by
joining France. This toast is an anathema
against the proclamation ofneutrality which
was afterwards approved by majority of
both houses of Congress. The officers of
the Cd Regiment of Philadelphia militia, at
Weeds ferry, on this occasion, discharged
eighty-fve rounds from the artillery, in ho-
nour of the eighty FIVE departments, into
which republican France was divided
The next extract shall mention is from
" The Life of Washington" vol 5, page 434,
respecting the Little Democrat" priva-
teer fitted out in the Delaware river by the
French minister Genet and which, in
defiance of the administration, he sent to
sea on cruize against the commerce of
Great Britain, with whom we were at peace.
" In this, as in every effort of the executive
to maintain with good faith, the neutrality
of the United States, that great party
which denominated itself $ The People
could perceive only settled hostility to
France aadto liberty, tame subserviency
to British policy, and desire by provok-
ing France, to engage America in the war,
for the purpose of extirpating republican
principles Washington was then the exc
cutive, by whose pre-eminent agency these
hypocriies enjoyed the liberty they boosted
of, and combining the cause of France
with that of liberty, denounced him as IN
tending to destroy it, because he wished to
preserve his country in peace
On the 4th of January 1894, Mr.. Madi-
son brought into congress, sundry resolu-
tions founded upon report of Mr. Jeffer
son, secretary OF state, on the trade Of the
United States with foreign nations This
report had been ordered by congress in Feb
ruary 1891, but was not submitted to that
body till December 1898. The nature of
these resolutions will be best known by the
arguments that supported them, which, in
vol, S, page sos, are thus stated. Cal
culations were offered by comparing the to-
tai amount of British exports with those to
the United States, to prove that three hun
dred thousand British manufacturers would
be suddenly thrown out of employment by
Withdrawing the trade carried on between
America and that country. In the eomplica-