Alexandria gazette, commercial and political. [volume] (Alexandria [Va.]) 1812-1817, 1814-05-31

,etencv for povernment.-And II, when
this ipcompetency has become manifest,
thew shall still be trusted, good and wise
men will have enough to do, to weep o.
YER the misfsrtuncs with which their
folly is hereafter 10 overwhelm our de-
voted country.
The events which have reeeatly oc-
CURED in France, have bad an effect up
on nv mind, in some respects different,
as far as I can ascertain, from some OF
those with whom have united my hum
BILE iabors for the good OF our common
country. What am about to say there
fore is advanced with real diihdeace
md hesitancy. Still thinking my re-
hec.ions correct and just, must venture
10 proceed.
Il NAV safely be allowed, that one oil
the most delicate situations IN when no.
nest men can be placed, is the very one
in which the opposers Of war AID the ao'
vocates for peace in the Uol1ed o'a'es
have been placed. The government
had declared war, which some De-
lieved unjust but whicn oil uh''ea I'D
considering inexpediens. There Was
manifeted in the administrator during
the progress Of that war, an iH.oeeh''s'
a childish, an ideot weakness, which was
TO double and treble and quadrapie l's
bur,hens and its calamities They were
asked for their blood,and they refused 10
lie, il flow in sucn a cause they were
,ske,f fo r thoir money, and they refused
to bestow it upon insomPetency' lhey'
in their Turn, asked FOR peace, speedy
peace. They 'aid the order, IL cohh-
ell allowed by yourselves to be the great
cause of quarrel. are Withdrawn AZ
Jus, the Question Of impressmenfs m
SOME waJ or other for the present.
Make peace while your offer is yet OF
some value to England; make peace
while it is yet desirable TO her; make
i before she is either destroyed or MI
um,haht, for in either OF these events
it will he equally indifferent to her' "he-
.her she make peace with US, or not
or of difference exists IN the event oI
her bsing triumphant, she may even
prefer war to peace nhou any terms. IL
was evan, and think wisely too, deem
ei correct, TO distress the sdnnn'stra'
ton, so as u compel them 10 make
peace, while peace could be yet made
advsnts seouslv. All that men could 10
the frieilds of peace aud their country
have done! In vain they have laoorea,
bat still to the utmost tney have iaooreo
20 avert the terrors of the awful condi-
ton in which imbecility and folly aad
phr.nnv have placed US.
To 10y mind, we are now at the com,
mence gent of a nesv era. he lai oi
Bonapar,e produces a new pol'tcal
world new feelings, new relations ne"
counseis. The storm which has shaken
and ct,nyulscd Europe ~ its foundations
is subsiding; and the demon who d.
rectea It's fury aud It's rasages, Is i'llen
D,verIes. to the earth. lie, humanity
raise her afflicted head, &c, the christ
tan wnrid reloice war not again't
feelings sacred like these DO" in "a
dsrinp thanAiulness to the great God,
who han made bare his arm, and driven
this horrible pessilence IRON among the
nations.
And who shall, dare to repine Or II
any one dare, what can he al.cdge IN his
iusti6calion What, bu, ,hat our dest'
MICS have been connected with the cause
of injustice, despotlsm and oppression !
Adds ia indeed SO? Dad our safety IN
desd de pend upo, the triumpii, upon
the unl,rlIted extension OF the power OF
the greatest tyrsnt that ambition ever
raised ; the execration of human kind
Asss. i the emancipation of Europ from
I've fans;s of such despot, cas's gloom
over the prospects of a free and vlrsuous
people, then must the system which has
produced such effects be as axecrable
IS the eyecrab.e cause Of the tvrant It
sell. Then have we indeed beer delud-
ed into the support ola usurper's wick
edness, by the pretence that we were
contendins for our own rights. The
cause " hich becomes hopeless. because
tyranny has been crushed and destroyed,
cannot bu, he itself the cause OF tyranny.
Let the cab,uet at Washington AID rs
base Instruments throughout The onion,
hang their heads with shame, now that
their utter deformlty is palpable, their
union With tyranny and oppression and
wrong demonstrated end confessed. Let
them in all the anguish OF detected and
convicted guilt, sroan forth their re-
grets. have no symp.thies with such
inhupsni,y and baroar,ty. Nor have the
people of the u. States feelings so de-
tes,asle They are part ct the crest
family of nations, and cannot but feel a
deep and honest interest In the happl-
ness of their brethering. They will di,-
dain those miserable political calcula.
tons, which would restrain and destroy
The noblest virtues OF our nature.
For Sirtps can make noCOmprOIIlSe with