Winchester gazette. [volume] (Winchester, Va.) 18??-1826, 1814-02-26

WNo'S course oi tEo campaigns On
another OCCASION, more than half :.
century ago, Mas husctts alone. al
though its population did not exceed
one third Of its present. amount, had an
arn,y Of twelve thousand Iaen. Ofthese
seyen thousand were at one time en-
played against Canada. A strong mo-
tive was then felt To exist. With equal
exertion. that commonwealth could
now furnish an army OF forty thousand
rleH.
You have prosecuted this invasion
For two campaigns They have cost
you more, upon the average, than the
campaigns Of the revolutionary war.
The project has o,-cady cost the Ame-
rican people nearly hall as mach as
the whole price rai;l !or independence.
the result is before us. who does
mt see AMI feel, hat this result dis
Sracos rs ? Who does not see in what
es,i nation our martial prowess r,ust
he by this time be held in,by the enemy,
aud hy the world , Administration has
ma;.e lis master effort to snhduc a pro-
vince, three thousan! miles renewed
irom the mother country; lying at our
own donrs scarcely eqaal in natural
strength, to the least Of the states, of
this confedcracy, and defended by ex-
ternli aid 10 a limi,ad extent. 1t has
persisted. two campaigns and il has
failed. Let the responsibility rest
where il onSht. The world will not
ascr:bc the issue to want Of spirit ar
patriotism in the American people,
The possession OF ,tese qualities, in
high and honorable degrees, they have
heretofore iiius;rioasit e,iaeed, anil
spread aut the pronfo The record of
their Revolution. They Will lie still
true 10 their character, IN any cause
which the, feel 20 their own. In all
causes, they viii defend Themselves.
The enemy, rs we have seen, can make
m permanent sta1d, in any poauIous
part of The country. Its citizens will
drive back his forces 30 the line. at
at that line. ct the poiat here defence
ceases, and invasion begins, they stop.
They do not pass it,, hecause they do
not ehu=c TO pass it. Offering no suri-
| Gus obstacle 10 their actual power, it
rises, Ike C!ihese wall. against their
sentiments und their feelings.
II is natural, Sir, sus., heiu, nav OPT
mans, on the present state OF things.
that | should be asked what, in nv
ini,meYt, ought 10 be Gone. Ii the
first place, then, answer, Withdraw
your invading armies, ard follow eoun-
els which The national sentimen. will
support. In the next place, abandon
the system Of commercial restriction.
That system is equally riinous to the
interests, ard obnoxious to inc feelings
of Whale sections and whole States
they believe you have no constellation
al right {, establish such systcms.-
They protest TO yen, saat such is not,
and never was, their understanding of
your powers. They are sincere in this
opinion, and il is Of Infinite moment.
that you duly respe ct that opiniun. al
though yen may deem it to be CIRQUE
ous. These people, sir, resisted Great
Britain. because her min;sicr, under
prctence Of regulating trade, ATTEMPT
ed to put his hand into their pockets,
ard get their money. There is tbrt,
sig, which :hcy then valued, and which
they aiil value, more than money!
That pretence OF regulating trade they
believed 20 be mere cover for tyrau-
ny ard oppressian. The present en-
barge, which dnes not vex, ard liar.
rass. AID embarrass their commerce,
bat ann:iiates il, is also laid by color
of power 10 regulate trade. For il
i; he Dol laid. by virtue of this power,
il is laid hv v.::tue Of M power. Il IS
not wcnjcrful, sir, ifthis siionid lie
viewed by, ihcm as a slate of things,
net contemplated wlch they came inio
tie national compact.
Let nc suppose, sir, tlat when the
convention of oac cf the commercial
states, Massachusetts for example, was
deIiberaiinS on the adoption Of this
constitution, some person, TO whose
openius; vision the future mad been dis
closed, mad appeared among them. lie
would have seen there the patriots sYa0
rocked the cradle ofIiberiy in America.
lie would have seen there, Statesmen
and warriors, whp had borne 40 disho
noraoie parts ia the councils Of their
country, AID OH her fields of butte. -
He weu;d have found these men recon-
minn1ing The adoption Of this Lnstru.
ment, to people full Of the feelings nf
independence, ard naturally Jealous of
al! governments by; their own. Aud
nc weuId have founa, tIat tI,e leading,
the principal, and the finally prevalent
argument, was the protection and er-
r.