Alexandria gazette, commercial and political. [volume] (Alexandria [Va.]) 1812-1817, 1815-09-16
From tie Baltimore TsIegrcoh
ceMMuNIcAT1oN.

hrly !astwinter, Mr. Harper's pocEo.
was picked at the theatre in Ba!i;mnrs
|of a pocket book, containing several -
Ysrs. A letter printed in a I!andHb%i
yesterday and circulated atont tawr. l.
lin al probability, enc OF them. Frnm
having never been sealed, It spaears ~
be q copy which Mr. fiarner Fert. qrJ|
which has been obtained By picking Ill
Ipocket, and reserved for the U.s.. 70 xE,tI
1T is now applied. Snch arc Tie dern.|
cratic means Of asoa,o1,i,y der plansi
Il may be propeY 70 remark, by tf.I
way, that the " British doctrine Of IN
[pressment." spoken OF in Ills letter, !
their claim OF .igilt to take their own
subjects (not native citizens OF America
from ocr merchant ships onthc hifyb se,<
they have never claimed tie right 70 i'm.
Ipress native Americans. I Ills il an ?.
|buss which they have always disayowe.I
lad repeatedly offered to guard against:
but the democratic administration, deter.
mined not to lose any pre!exi for Guar.
rel and a war, which Boaapsrte had or.
|dered them to make, and Which the
were resolved to make as soon as thes
could, always rejected these ofer...
So, also, the British doctsiue OF perpr.
+tual allegiance, spoken of in the letter, i
the denial on their part OF Cur right 70
withdraw from them their power over
their seamen in time Of war, natara)ising
them in this country. This iSa practice
to which we ourselves, in our own case,
never should submit, to which no nation
ever did or can submit, and which We
ought never to have claimed. There is
no sort of doubt in the mind of any well
Informed and thinking man, that it was
set up by the democrats merely because
they knew that the British governments
could not and would not submit to it, and
1t therefore furnished sure and ready
pretext for the war.
AS to the letter itself, thus understood
It contains no sentiments which MIR.
Harper, in common with every man CT
sense, information, and correct principles
in the country. has not always, on every
fit occasion, expressed. He has, at all
times, publicly avowed them. and has ta-
ken occasion to prove them in a manner
which deGed refatation. He has not
only asserted, as he does in this letter,
but incontroyertibly proved, that the De.
mocratic party in this country was always
bent on war against ngtand, and always
engaged in attempts to bring it about
that they at length make it at the orders
Of Honaparte that" Free Trade and
Sailors Rights" were mere Fretexts ;S
that the administration never intended
70 make peace, till they heard Of Bora
parties downfall (; that they then gave up
all these pretensioDs, and patched up
peace. without obtaining one Of the OBJ
jects for which they professed to have
made war, is known to every body. The
letter, therefore, contains nothing but the
truth. The noise which the democrats,
who probably got possession ofitby peck
are foolishly attempting to
make about it, proves that the truth
stings.
But it is perfectly well Known that
when the question was to defend tie
country against the attacks of the British
str. Harper's opinion about the orisinct
The war, and the view Of the democratic
party in making, did rot keep him
back. His conduct On this head as well
as that of the iederalists in general. is IN
the knowledge and recollection OF every
cody. This, and not noisy and hypocn-
teal declarations. is the true test CT pa
triotism and public spirit. /" BY the.F
fruit ye shall know them
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