Virginia Argus. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1796-1816, 1815-10-25

act of injustice
However,, there may be opportunities to discuss
this POINT hereafter AT present have to spcak
| to your Lcrdship upon the subject of the expec
! tatlons, excited here by this event. The CouRt.
Err says =" ;ts Play is 0rer iet us 90 10 subDsr
! And this is the general opinion. when men
nave long been intent upon one single object:
when they nave long bent their minds to one sole
wish, they are always disappointed in their ex-
pectations, because they have not given item
selves time to think OF the consequences to be
produced by the means which they make use of
| to obtain theaccomplishment OF that wish Thus
will Ii be with John Bill, who has been made to
behevc, that, If Napoleon could but be gotten rid
OF, England would be freed from all the caami-
ties which she feels that she would once more
come back to her former state; and that the vi
sits or the taxing people would cease to be as
rsqnent ~ those OF tue apothecary. Napoleon
isactuaily our prisoner, but still the taxing people
come.
'Ihe p'ay' may be overi but, oh no We can.
not " go to s;:bper" We have something to do.
We have forty te millions gear for ever to pay
for ths Play. This is no pleasant thing. But, III
deed, the play is not over. The .rst act is, per-
haps, closed. But, that grand revolutions that
bright star, which first burst forth IN the YEAR
1889. is still sending forth its light over the
world. In that year fsudal and ecclesiastical tv-
ranny, ignorance, superstition, received the first
heavy blow they have since received others & in
spite OF all that can be now done In their favor
they are destined to perish.
This % years war, has it been TO bit down
one mln2 Hayewe sent hundreds of thousands
to shed their blood, and have we Iosded ourseIye,
with endless burdens, TO put down one EttLe
! fTenchnGn Have We all been paying the sres.
ter part OF our Incomes, for many Years for tiis
purpose No: We are n0zS beginning 20 Be told
II was not for this it was for the purpose Of
putting down French brinc.t!es And what yer.
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this moment more firmly than ever rooted in the
minds of Frenclmen, and more generally mbibed
throughout Europe.
The bridge ofJena, the column Of Austerl;.z all
the memorials of French triumph, brought from
Amsterdam, Naples, Vienna, Rome, Turin, Ma
drid, MUNICH, Berlin, Moscow, & dearest Ha,.oUer
all these may be destroyed but, never viii IN =
Whole world, combined in arms, be able to des-
troy the effects OF those principles, which sent
the conQuerora forth, which first Waymed III a;,.
hearts with enthusiasm, and which are now be.
come part of the settled possessions of their
minds.
Show me, in France, priest with his relics.
or ms bottle ofholy water, able to extract s,7.s
Tor either, Is preservatlve against the fatal eff
fects OF thunder and lightning, except from some
crazy or peryerse old woman andithen, | will say
that there 10 some hope OF success aairst E,.,,-
principles. Five hundred industrious priests
would do more against French PRINCIPLES than
live hundred thousand bayonets But, alas tba
former have now materials 70 1Soyk on 'ChoS-
precious materials, ignorance, superstition. and
human degradation End misery, have been driven
out by the Revolution Perhaps there are not. at
th!s day, hundred farmers in all the vast md
d4e country, IN which you now are, who, If IL
were translated, would believe in .lIooy.'s Alma
nac as 70 TIE weather or that would believe a
g;yPsy-thiet endowed with the f-culty of telling
then the future events of their lives Peace and
tranquility are very good things but, if derra-
ding ignorance, brutal superstition, and their con
stht associate, base slavery, are not to be gotten
rid OF without even the most terrible conyul-
SONS amongst people, those commissions are TO
be wished for. Such was the state of France
mat the good OF the people called for terrible
CONFUSION 1t took place, and the Preach nation
has to congratulate itself on the event.
Our writers are eternaily reminding us
OF The cruelties committed during the French
ffe0oktto't -----Ihat revolution has now
teen gong en- for Is years; and during the
whole OF tins time, though SO many foreign ar.
mes though SO many domestic wars, have been
assaiiing the revoutionsts, SO MANY cruelties
have not been committed, as during an. s;,~I
year, OF the reign of Louis XIV who committed
MS cruel'ies TOO, in tie name of religion. What
are the suiierIngS Of iavasionp What are rerui-
git!ons! What arc military plunCerings p
these only last Tor time. They bear no resem
olahce to the never ending plumber and insult of
N-N'''S'fN tJia'lg' 4 ne man OF sense weighs
ry scrupulously the difference in the weigRt of 3.
Wis Il IS only the b2wling, huzzaing slave that
brags about national glory while the nation. pro.
perry so called, are treated Ike Lessts of bur.
dens.
Joan Bull my lord, who, as YOU well know. is
no copJurer, ispuSzled beyond conception at see.
ing, that troops, horses, cannon, powder, and
bail, are still going off to the army upon the
continent, even nov, when we have r6g iaDoyeon.
THIS puts him ina strange pose lie was dancing
AMI caperng and singing and bawling for three
or Tour days 70 degree that seemed to Indicate
that ne had forgotten ell his own domestic affairs.
and that even The faciny beobis had, for forty.
eisht hours, escaped from hrs recollection But
nov, when be sees more troops x ng OH, he does
los know wh@t 70 tbinls. However, he consolss
himself ''lat the allies viii ",.oro finch the
1o6." Iic farmers hope that you will do some.
thing 70 prevent abiHdgut b1rrestg in France
The tradesfnen that you will make things as dear
as they arc mErgand, TO prevent Their customers
from ehl6iatH5 aud there is another class
who, ] dare say, arc fiil rs anxious that YOU
should re-esiabiish tythe5. How disappointed
they VII Be How they will stare az one a.
mother how mutually iasrd 60 Z! be their talk,
when they fiad, that the only real solid effect
produced b. this brilliant achievement, VIII be
Oh 7fdHSa 20 ,heir taIes
40 TO tie d4desmeh, however, tiare sDooars
TO be pan nagtaton for f5rciag their custy,,scs
Go reo0ir re- home. s Mr. TaoGSroS a Inegib.r
Of the honorable iIousc. has given not.,c, ina,
lie shall DrOuO3c lay FOR. ~ 4 ,,fr ~ Ma. ,,,. 90