Virginia Argus. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1796-1816, 1814-03-05

every other family. to social defence and il
berty--those families will not look on with
indulgent patience on the Perfidy and trea-
cherry OF those whose contact is an cncou-
ragement to foreign outrage, and without
whose subverviency to the balcfnl Influence
ofthe enemy. would meyer have dared to mo.
lest Us. ~ 80
From the pulpits Of New England IL chief
ly preached dissolution cf the union.
BY the magietrscy VI New England the
constitution is trampled upors
BY the emissaries of New England dis.
persed through our Cities, sedition and resist
ance to the government are openly preach.
ed. rs
New England priests and other hypocrites,
preach up the massacre of our fellow citi-
zens, and TO renew in America those mea-
sures which the British have themselves per>
petrated in Bengal and throughout India
which they stimulated and fed with arms &
stores in St. Dominso--which by their agents
and emissaries in La Vendee. they desolat-
ed the fairest provinces of France. and sys>
assassination, prostituting the ban
ners,of the Holy Virgin and the Cross, by
making themselves, as the governor of Mas
sachusetts has made them since, the defen-
ders of our religion
On our frontiers and in our camps, we find
the same traitorous influence of England,
carrying daily to the enemy the most minute
particulars OF our military and naval Cir
cumstances.
We have seen the governors of states,yain-
ly Disgusting their treason or their coward
ice under the mask of the Constitution, and
publicly branding themselves with eternal
infamy, thus encouraging the ene,uy aud con-
founding all vir.uous men by their horrible
depravity.
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In the newspapers conducted principally
by these disciples and missionaries of east
ern hypocrisy, we see the same spirit spread
and the same corruption.
The ministers of Great Britain boast OF
their power in Congress.
And theyreciprocaie IN their festive toasts,
the telcgraphic language of sympathy and
treason. t
Our military system, already sufficiently
exposed by the absence OF ali discipline and
the influence of factions intriguers while
those who have been best or almost alone
qualified, have been the objects of persecu-
ton, or the calumny of the professedi friends
OF the government and the OPEN adherents
OF the enemy bad as it has been * is, were
there virtue, morals, honor, or patriotism,
the weakness would have been ccfccaies.
through fondness. or felt @ith silent regret.
But 1t is not thus that the rights and honor
of this narion is treated by these who arc
loudest in Boosting Of religion, asid iouGer
still in boastins of the name OF feiIeralists,
the very principles of which they labor to
overwhelm and destroy.
See them, when any of the affecting Incl
dents inseparable from state of war arises
-exultiug at the injuries of their country /;
see the base and profgate herd, when the
nasion derives honor, polluting by their pre-
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very men who triumph in national disaster
associating to celebrate the triumphs OF Rus-
STA only because she is the ally of England.
The people of America require to be ava
kened to the reality of their condlition--they
may read in the history of every republic
that has existed, something parallel 70 the
actual state of things
The enemy practising upon one part Of
the peopie--excitiDg theirjealousy-8c goati-
ing them to resentment upon the most frivo-
lous pretexts, even making the different tenn
perature OF their climates, or the fashion of
their apparel--or the productions of the
earth in one part of the same country griev.
ance To the other
The Amcricop people have in the last 12
years of tranquility and prosperity, forgot-
ten the evils that they had escaped, and he
factions which had songht to establish mon
archy upon the ruin of this repubIic-sedu.
ced by prosperity and by an influx of wealth
arising out of the Affections of foreign natl
ons the passions of ayarice meeting with
an unexampled facility for qualification, the
name of countryside purity of virtue--the
pride and glory, and even the happiness Of
liberty and independence, have been lost
sight of---wealth, inordinate, rapacious
wealth--which has become the passion of e.
very man almost in the community-has SO
much corrupted one, part of the union as to
lay it open to the enemy ever ready to ex-
cite envy against the rest more favored by
stature.
The enemies of freedom. those who have
no feelings for equality of human rights
those whose eyes tell you as they pass, tina,
they long to trample upon the million a.
| slaves, who are now their equals in the eye
OF the law-these men gain something Il
their views by every incident which assail.
the government
| Is the government moderate and gentle
They tell you it is feeble--and the admin
isirators weak.
! Is the government vigorous
They tell you it is the tyranny Of demo
cracy.
Is the government patient, aud solicitous o
| peace with great sacrifices
They tell yon it is pusiilanimeus, and can
not be kick u into "a war.
When all efforts at peace fail aud war j
| made
1 They say the war is wanton and unpro
voked.
When the laws are proposed to maintai
the public rights:
They say we have no right to the claim
we make.
Tie enemy sets the sayagcs upon our iron
4! tiers