Virginia Argus. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1796-1816, 1815-06-17

| ali our experience OIL her stern unrelentlno
arrogance and persecution-and above all,
alter this new outrage, can it be wondered
at, If the Americans should hate the En-
| glish And is it not to be wondered at
| that the English and Federal newspapers
have the intolerabe insolence to charge
this hatred upon usa crime ? Have not
the English viliiied us through the world p
Has not their government succeeded in
exciting among them spirit of inveterate
hostility, which In its operation leads TO a
total disregard of all the common courte-
sizes essential TO politeness, and renders
their warfare against this country dis
grace to the civilized world Have they
not, while hypocritically voting two thou
sand pounds, to build church in one
quarter of the world : appropriated forty
thousand dollars to keep up a bloody Pa
gan Temple III another quarter Il and rob-
bed christian temples in third. t-Haye
they not burnt our towns and public edif-
ces, at Havre de Grace, and Washington,
and wherever else they came ? Have they
not stood looking on, when their Indian
allies were scaiping our officers, in VIOLA
ton not only of common humanity, but OF
the express terms of their surrender ?
Have not their officers turned their backs
when urged by poor prisoners TO protect
them against these terrible outrages Have
they not violated our women at Hampton,
and broke open collins, and kicked about
the sacred bones of the dead at Tappahan-
mock ?--And have they not now, in time of
peace, when the passions of war have had
leisure to subside into forgiveness or obi
vlon--have they not entered like butchers
into the fold of cur unarmed and imnrison-
ed countrymen, TO stab them in the backs !?
Yet haze the Eagtish and Federal neaos-
papers tie intotera6ie inSoienceto charge as
scsth tie crime ofhGtMgtae English! We
ought to love them, iOrsooth, because. two
centuries ago, their fathers prosecuted
our fathers out OF their country we ought
TO love them, because they abuse and ca
illuminate US IN their pulpits, their sermons,
newspapers and reviews--because they
0verwheIm us with eternal falsehoOds -
rob our churches (; burn our towns violate
our women break open graves ;and, in
period Of profound peace, murder our de-
fcnceless prisoners in cold blood, TO appease
notifications for defeats which they have
not the proves to resent in any other way.
For all these good Offices we ought TO
love thus magnanimous, thinking, canting
and humane nation. For these neighbour
iy Offices we ought to treat all Englishmenl
as brothers, or rather as our masters-ifI
theJJ smitc Us we ought to give them both
cheeks; ii taeev spit in our faces we ought !
TO make them low bow; if they pick our
pockets, we should open our strong boxes
to teen; II they calumniate US, we should |
return it with praise if they tickle us, we
should not laugh if they prick us we
should not bleed if they tread on us we
should by no means turn and If they In
lure us, we should not think of revenge
Far from 1T; we ought to feast them as the
Marquis of Tweeiale, and his band Oiled |
captains were Toasted at New York, and
Fhlladelphia, by certain good people, who
never feasted any body before, and who
never viii again, unless perhaps the gal
liant commander. of the assassins at Dart
moor should chance to g honor them,o as
ire polite federal papers say, with a visit.
we ought to give them balls and teapar-
ties to parade our wives and daughters
before them, in hopes some mighty ford
ing may cOndescend to throw his hand
k2rcmet, to some favored dame or da1nsel
The yound ladies should be taught that il |
is the highest proof of gentility to admins
ter TO the vanity of English officers, by /
staring at them as they walk the streets.
or whenever they enter a room. They
should be educated with full conviction
that no human being can be half so brave,
generous, gallant and accomplished as
British officer, and they should be in
structed to admire little red coat without
any skirts, above all earthly things-ex-
cept an English Lord with bushY head |:
they should also be carefully instruc-
ted to despise our clod-hopping officers,
with their miserable blue coats, and LONG
skirts. In short, these British officers.
whether DULLES, bottle bruisers, boxers.
Boosters. rblackguards, ought alwaystO be |
preferred to our gallant fellows, who have |
spread blaze of glory over this wide con-
tIBent. ii, for instance, a knot of these
officers, no way distinguished either for
character or exploits, should he STAYED at |
Washington Hall in New York, or at /
Renshaw's Hotel in Philadelphia, at the |
same fine with one Ortwo Of our most gall |
ant proteCtors-say General Bissel and
Colonel Brown, for instance, men. whose |
namesare associated with almost every IL !
lustrious achievement on our frontiers
II this should happen TO be the case, the
British officers with their little read coats. |
without any Shirts Ouuht tn ne called unon