Virginia Argus. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1796-1816, 1813-06-07

: VIII be the most terrible warriors we ba,
/ mad To contend with. We have like foo
despised them, as power IN arms. VIII;
II we beat them by land again aud agail
we shall only thereby teach them to fgt
the better. They will not ,ue us for peac
!: from any discontinue they may meet wit
3 In that way. They will advance to the on
set-be repealed by us and reproached b
eheir own countrymen, till presently they wi
III that respect prove themselves Of Britsl
| extraction. They have but too successful
tried the lance with us on the water, ant
the effect OF the first essay will be a kind o
PreteInatural Indictment to new eXertion.-
he prospect is as dsheartening as it is un
dehnable. We are, in fact, " airing with
the people of America, as if we had an inte-
rest I'm forcing them to do without every kind
OF manufacturing supply from England
we are like nation OF RIFFS and reeves
we are eternally warning somewhere, if not
WIN foreign nation we are among our
selves. But why dwell upon effects, trifing
effects while the great cause of all is fore.
yer before our eyes. Our establishments
are unsound. Their chief members are cor
rupt, as this infection spreads, we shall eve
ny day loose that vigor, and till now unbro-
Ken force, which well hardened and we'll
tempered steel acquires, under the skilful
hand OF our expert m lnufac.ur r. We every
day become more and more arstocratic.-
we polish, and we weaken. We are, in
short, an assemblage of gvcaiM and corruh-
non. We become perpctually more tempt
ing to the hand of the invader and as the
unseen, but not unfelt national infection
spreads, we shall as q nation become less
and less qualified to resist the invader.-
Blow the Insignificant navy of America to
atoms, indeed--make every Yankee lay
down his arms at the sight of a British re
giment all this is fine talking. 1t may
suit the views of the Post and Courier, but
1t never shall be our Ianguage.-No, as long
as we are allowed to print, it shall be to pub
iish the ruth only.
When we Cannot do that we will be silent
altogether. We will be panders TO no men
III power. Till few such persons as we
allude TO are tried, either for their want of
honesty OF ability, we maintain that the af-
fairs OF the kingdom will go on from bad to
worse. ne American war is completely
the war of unqualified ministers. Could any
but the most inexperienced conceited states
men involve England in war with a repu-
blican nation ike America. If we were
.4EHeHIa7, compared to the other natious
IN hostility TO us, America is Spartan, com
pared to US, We should have hoped that
some men IN the cabinet might remember
mat several newspapers, similar to the
worthy ones we have mentioned, spoke with
equal contumeiy OF the Americans, when
they rose against us, fer not g1ievoua only,
but for unequal, for arbitrary taxation,
which we were LAYING them under. Those
vehicles OF ministerial batteries, and nation
al mIschiets, assured the public that the
YANKEE Do2dIeS, would not fight day, for
that they had neither brooches nor stock
ings TO wear. Not knowing or thinking that
men who tight from principle will fight bare
breeched and barefoot too. The treatment
the French aristocracy met with from the
! sans cuEoEfeS in the breaking out of the Re-
volution, ought tn hold up lesson to every
statesman i'll Europe. While the system
we have so long complained of continues to
| be pursued, Disasters of the kind of that
which has given rise to these reflections, or
some other equally fatal TO cur posterity,
will occur in one shape or other. The de
leterous injection (the poison, if you will, it
! may be said SOY is in the body, and will
| break out, from time to time, in one mem
Der or other. Reform is the great, the OIL :
| ly antlseptic, the antidote which is alone
! calculated to re-invigorate the constitution,
and purify every meander of it's complex
| operation. 4 due bration, and a due es
timation of its three essential qualities, mon
archical, aristocratical, and (though last not
| least in our esteem) democratical, alone can
| ever enable us again to assume that attitude
| abroad and at home, which can make the
! name BRIToE future boast among our ma.
lives, and an honorable passport among for
eigners.