Virginia Argus. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1796-1816, 1815-03-29
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ON WEDNESDAYS AND SATURDAYS,
BY JOHN sRKE.
From Co6test's Weekiy Register. Of
..a Nouember &c.
LETTER I,
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TO THE E.dRL OF LIVERPOOL,
ON THE AMERICAN WAR.
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upon earth, how fond people are OF place
and mower; and that no part of any oppo.
sition is so bitter and troublesome as that
mart which consists of men, whose ambiti-
1 Gus hopes have been blasted by their being
turned out Of place. II now happened, very
Mnaturaiiy, but rather oddly, that the Fede
ralists became the opposition to the Federal
3Coyerument but they still retained, and
do retain their title /; though, really, they
ought to be called. the Aristocrats, or Roy
alists.
This opposition is now, however, chiefly
confined to the statsof Massachusetts, the
State Government of;which has even talked
about seharGting from the UniOn. Your
Lordship has hsyEa saf ssAlr. Henry; who
was, it seems; "a Fiase cssssaita'jon and cor
rcspondefce with TIE persons holding the
reins Of Government in Massachusetts, IN.
ON the subject Of such seftarafioa, and who
pretended that he was employed by Sir
James Craig, Governor of Canada for that
purpose. Your Lordship, believe. dis
claimed him and his intrigues, and, there
fore, must believe, Of course, that he was
mot employed by our Government nor By
our Governor, But the people of America
have been led to believe, that there must
have been something in his story.
This s ate of Massachusetts contains
great number of men of talents; many rich
.
at a uery lo7u RATE, of The certificates ofsd
diers zvho serUed tn the tate 7uar, and by
hrocuring acts of Congress TO cause The
sums to be fiald in f1tN, which, indeed was
thought, and openly said, to be their main
object in pressing for n Federal Govern
ment, with large powers. These men. now
disappointed in all their ambitious hopes
seeing no chance Of becoming petty mobiles
men seeing the Offices and power of the
country pass into other hands without the
smallest probability eff their return to them
selves, unless they be content to abandon
all their high notions of family distraction /;
these men have become desperate and, if
am to judge from their proceedings, would
plunge their country into civil war, raA
Their than yield quiet obedience to that We
ry Government, which they had been so
long in the practice OF censuring others for
not sufficiently admiring. But, my Lord
though there is majority Of votes in Mas
sachusetts on eur side !; for on our side they
< really are. there is a ,thumping minority on
the other side: and what is IF great impor-
lance 10 The estimate, that minority consists
of the nerves. the bones, and sinews of the
population of the State so that the sum to-
tai OF our ground of reliance, as to sepa-
ration of the States. is the good will of the
most numerous but most feeble and inefE-
Gent part of the people of the State of Mas
sachusetts and even these, am fully per,
soaded, are, by this day, awed into silence
by the determined attitude of the rest OF the
country.
The same charges, which our vile news
papers have been preferriog against Mr..
Madison, have been preferred against him
by their Serene Highnesses of Massachu-
sets. They have accused him of deUoEion
to France they have, in our newspaper
style, called him the /" tool of Napoleon :"
they too, have dared to assert that he made
war upon us. without the slightest provoca-
ton, for the purpose of aiding Napoleon in
destroying England, "the bulwaFk of their
religion" They have held public feasts
and rejoiciugs at the entrance of the Cos
sacks into France, and at the restoration of
the ancient order of things. You will bear
in mind, that these people are slaunch
PreS6yterians and it would amuse your
Lordsbip to read the orstions. preachings,
and prayers of these people to witness
their gratitude to heaven for restoring the
Pohe. whom they used TO call the Scarlet
Who're, the Whore Of Babylon for the re,
establishment of the JesuitS and for the
Opening of the dungeons, the re,skarp,
ening OF the hcoks, and the re-kindling Of
the flames of the Incubation. Their oppo-
nents, the Republicans, say, we never were
C.
ven as az Emperor we never approved
of any OF his acts Of oppression, either in
FRI 5ce or out If France , we always com.
planned of his acts of injustice towards our.
selves but he was less hurtful TO our coun
try than other Powers and, as to mankind
in general, though we regretted to see him
with SO much power, we feared that that
power would be succeeded by something
worse and we cannot now rejoice, that
the Pope is restored, that the Jesuits are
re.established, the Inquisition re.invigora-
ted that Mockery is again overspreadiDg
the fair face of Europe and that the very
hope Of freedom there seems to be about to
be extinguished forever. And this, your
lordsbip may be assured, is the language
OF nineteen twentieths of the people of A.
mcrica.
There are, il is to be observed, Federal.
ISIS in all the States, which you will easily
believe, when you consider how natural il
IS ior men, or, at least, how prone men are.
10 wlSh to erect themselves into superior
eases AS soon as a man has got great
gear OF money, he aims at something beyond
, MAJ re 'hirsts for distinctions and titles
Ills next object is to hand them down to his
nm'y. IL will require great watchfulness
ana ereat resolution in the Americans &c
defeat this propensity. You have not lei.