Martinsburgh gazette. [volume] (Martinsburgh, Va. [W. Va.]) 1810-1825, 1814-11-24
GHETTO OF ELBA.

UAZ u 4 IL OF ELBA.
A letter from Italy received in England,
states that Bonaparte was forming print
ing establishment at ELBA, and that or
ders had been sent to the adjacent cont
nent for the types, presses, &c. la add
ton TO the memoirs of his own life, it is
sald he intends to issue a regular Court
Gazette II is expected the circulation of
this paper will be exceedingly extensive,
IF we were not familiarized by long expert
enee, TO the most daring and aagi,ious violations
ct the constitution If we bad not grown torpid
even toapathy, by the successive shocks that we
have received, the recent proposal made by the
tary of to place all the inhabitants ofthe
United States under the ban of CONSUMPTION, woud
have been attended with Gre general burst ct in
dignation 1t was proposal in effect, though not
IN form, to exterpate agriculture to extng,lish
the. few remaining symptoms of restlsctatIDg COM
nerce to destroy the mechanic arts, abolish
courts of justice and ae trial BY jury, and to leave
the temples of the Living God desolate aid de-
serted. None but the governor of a state was TO
be exempt from such prescription, and he was
to be rendered a mere cypher, for he was TO be
deprived Of all his authority, TO be political
mite, while such fragrant enornity perpe-
tYated betbre his eyes. The citizens of the state
where lie presided, were to be dragged by main
military law, driven off like culprits to the SHOWS
Of Canada, and their starving wives, and dauSh-
tiers were to be- informed, while suppcating for
mercy, that the first magistrate In the atatc could
atiorG item no proteetion. We are grateful to the
God orr existance. that our administration have
so explicitly acowed their intentions. II is now
no matter of Inference, conjecture, or dubious
aurnlise, what they intend 70 have done. They
have no retreat now; the blasting document will
be preserved as long as the history of America
shall endure. II win be read by indignant posteri,
~, who will blush for the degener&cy Of their
slfes Our administration have deliberately turn
ed their backs on the istriOus ashes Of our reVo-
iaonary patriots, and they have virtually said that
those rights which they poured their blood 10 pre-
serve in their integrity, were not worth the pre-
sereatlon. Some apology might have been made,
il this was case Of what lawyers denominate tri-
iDspressionis,, the enormity OF which had not
been seen and felt before. Our administratioa
have no such excuse. The CONSUMPTION system
in Europe had drawn tears of agony from the
hdpless survivors of Bonapare's sangunary and
eXtevminating wars--the flower and the heath OF
population were exhausted--youth was driven
headiong and hapdcpifed to the grave, while tot
tefing age, deprived of flial protection ard sup.
port, was permitted to hngar out an existence
more dreadful than death France, while the
horizon OF her glory seemed nothing but one ex-
banded sun, in the midst Of this broad eHuigence,
could not bear the spectacle. The tears OF agony
rolled in silence and in solitude, aud she muttcr-
edexecraElons in the midst of such improbable
splendor. Can * then be believed, that man
iatrasted with the whole military force of this
country, should by long and tedious process of
soplistry, labour to prove, in the face OF an en-
Ightcned nation. shat this system, too hard for a
people oppressed by the most cruel and remorse-
less tyranny to bear, received the appreciation OF
the sainted WARRINGTON Gould 1t be believed
free people should be iold that this transcend.
IN fsa
field and in the cabinet, for our welfare and at
last decended to the grave IN the full maturity of
honor was employed III forging chains and tetters
for his countrymen Could it be believed that it
should be seriously maintained, that such system
was, in its spirit and essence. conformabe to a
constitution given to the void under the authori-
~ Of so lustrous a name, for the welfare OF a
people BY whom his memory is blest 1t does APP
pear, indeed, like the frenzy of romance; but, We
have no such soothing subterfuge now; it is a
shocking reality, our national archives can wit
ness. What is still more astonishing, If, after
such fact, any thing can astonish us, is, that
this sanguina-y system should be recommended
FOR our adoption, after 1t had been rejected ny
France, familiar as she was with tyranny IN his
most horrible shapes. She burst the bloody bonds
BY one mighty CONCLUSIVE effort, and she now lies
pantins, for life, faint and exhausted by the ty-
raRny and the struggle. While miitler dyhas'
~ succeeds, and liberty and law returning from
exile, tremble while they tread Oh the plans SO
recently polluted by human carnage, we are called
upon to tread in the prints of her footsteps. The
father, the brother, the children have been told,
that the constitution guarantees TO them the right
Of being driven from their pleasant hresides and
domestic sarctaaries, at the point OF the eayonet
10 fight orr administration battles and to STAN
the shows Of Canada with their blood We have
been implicitly told, that we are too happy ths'
We have only constitutional CLAIM TO DC wretch
hat -ebo natr