Virginia Argus. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1796-1816, 1815-06-14
DOMESTIC LN'IELLIGE.NCE.
FROM THE NATIONAL ADVOCATE.
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FROM THE NATIONAL ADVOCATE.
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II would appear that the salvation of New.
Orleans remains yet sore reflection to would
be federalism, irasmuch as it has been terribly
disappointed in all its representations aud its
prophecies, as regarded that section of the Uni
on; together with all their lamentations, bicker-
hugs and anathamas, which the destruction Of
that city would have given them an opportunity
70 level against the President and his cabinet
what, gentlemen was not one copfasraticu
enough for you One would have supposed, that
the vandalism displayed at Washington by our
generous eiienye-by the officers and soldiers of
the B'tlwark of y0an Religion, was enough to have
satis'ed moderate appetites One would have
supposed, that the far field which these objects
OF your adulatlon, these enlightened islanders,
gave you, in their imitation of Alexander the De-
iiverer, by bulDisg down capitals aid places; to
iainpoon your chief magistrate, and every officer
OF his councils, and OF which YOU did not fail to
avail yourselves Gas reference TO your witty Jour
nails on gazettes Will show in epigrams, ballads
and squibs, of attic relish. One would have sup
posed that this would have been sufficient 20 have
quehched your spleen-and bitter as was, YOUR
gan, subject sufficient to exhaust it But no,
Se1uemen-your appetites, we perceive, are of
no ordinary quality. Like the salamander YOU
4I-Ien m the flames, and swallowing down one
burning city, only whets your relish for another
Thus, an organ OF your enlightened ethics, in
tins fair city OF New York, who, according to his
own account, would rather see 1t in ashes, and all
ats wives and daughters delivered over to the
brutal lust of the soldiers of that generous nation
whose password and counters;gn is BOOTY and
5eamy, than for few hours to forget the homage
that is due ajudge, has ventlred to express him.
self in his editorial capacity in his paper of June
Isl, in the following manner:
Extract from the Courier
:" For one, feel more grateful TO Judge Hal,
for Furnishing the violation of public and personal
Liberty, than TO general Jackson, for conducting
the defence of Orleans Il would have been bet
ter to lose Msro- Orleans, than the writ of ha5eas
esrpHs. II would be better TO lose city, than to
destroy public liberty
You, gentlemen democrats, think otherwise"
Think otherwise !!!-yes, indeed we do-and
thank heaven, no far-fetched philosophy, no refine
ment of casuistry, will ever alter our sentiments
On such an occasion.
An assertion like this, from the Courier, is de-
serving OF niche in the temple of Hartford con-
ventionists, and we do not doubt, but that the
peferan patriot, that good old Timothy Pick
srng, is OF the same opinion; and, indeed, it
ought to be placed along side of his epitaph, it
smacks Of the same ingredients.
what, Mr.. Editor, you would rather have seen
New-Orlearls in flames its brave defenders butch
e ed; the gallant Jackson imbaled on British bay-
onets; its wives and madens the fury of brutal
last, and it's children thrown into the Ponchar-
tram or the Mississippi, than that its general, its
saviour, its miraculous deliverer, should have
been, for a few hours wanting in respect to a
right honorable judge, who in the hour of peril,
fled from the city, and left it to It's fate!!!
What you apply to city, is, certainly, ap-
plicable to aresher-New-Orean or New-Yorl-
1T is one, and the same and it was Just rs pro-
btble, or more so, in the opion of every one, that
-Xarlr hfat 4
as the other. Now, SIR, we are inclined to think
you have gone little too far in your zeal, even
for your own Pary--yes, sir, we repeat it, eDen
for yon o'On party to bear you through with these
sentiments. We know that you have a good ma
ny jealous men on your side-full blooded, and
statnch IN the cause men who like nothing bet
ter than continually to revile the President, and
all his crere--as they call them; men, who, if
they kHew any secrets against them, would glory
IN publishing them--and, not like the generous
editor OF the Evening Post, keep them locked
up IN his chest +; men who 1vo7ild tell YOU then
would go all Ieagfhs--but some ofthese men are
ricn--have houses in the city--are married men,
too--haye wives, and daughters, and mothers, and
fathers, and sons, and sisters-and when YOU
come to propose to them to conhagrate their
houses--pollute their zvives, their daughters and
their sisters, with vile soldiery--to have their
s7si, their sOas their mothers, and their fathers
throats cut, rather than not pay due homage to a
Judge in one of your courts of law--believe us
they would hesitatey-(not TO say laugh in yor,r
fIce)-No, No Mr.. Edtor-reconsder this mat
ter, man, who writes great deal, as you do,
sometimes over-shoots the mark we have, now
and then, caught ourselves getting rather ahead
but then stop, and rest, and, sometimes, go
back again. Believe US, this reasoning Of yours,
although very pretty, very ingenious, VIII not pass
IS orthodox. Such ideas might suit in other cli-
mates, perhdbs--UToPIA for instance but are
not calculated for the ATTITUDES of New Orleans or
New-york, or any section, that we know of ex-
acNy, in these states. We here have to bid you
sdieu, Mr.. Courier. We certainly have spent
come time with you--aad, in consideration of this
courtesy, we trust you will excuse us for that
6tinfness which is ofteutimes the companion Of
truth.
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