Alexandria gazette, commercial and political. [volume] (Alexandria [Va.]) 1812-1817, 1816-03-02
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activity.
Whittier do these observations
tend ?--On what country DO We put
these sayingsa
0n SPAIN. On that country.
where the half despairing agents Of
rebellion now calculated for fresh
lsxperiment. Give them resting
Iolace for their lever, and they will
1raise the world.
That resting place they must not
have. IL matters little to Europe.
whether revolution is The pretext for
rebellion or the cause.
Spain is now the only country;
lfor We no longer take France inlo
the account. humbled. conquered
land punished: which masisests q
Revolutionary symptom; and, as
symptoms grow Into diseases, and
diseases end in death, we must en-.
deayor to cure Spain. before we
send her to the Hospital of Incura
.ibles.
She has the tokens upon her.
he full plague may not have yet
broken out /; bat we feel it hot in her
breath
And it is fearful prognosiic,
THAT our Jacobins, or our Napoleon,
||ites. no matter which. woo were
$50 wrathfuI at Spain. while resisting
her Usurper, should now applaud
Iihat resistance, when il is directed
against her legitimate sovereign.
j In their eyes, tho Cories, While
Iwithsiantios zonaParte, were
mad, ara. t9aEisli, AID criminal 80
Withstand Bourbon, renders the
same na;oess sanity, The ssme folly
Wisdom, the same Crime yir'ae.
| And why's because q }calbon
Ipossessstts not the Recommending
Icbarni oiaseppaii9', the sanctiF3ins
lnern % iliegii;uiacy Win our
Ithorouebya den;a 30 ues, 5astaI.
d a,ase is net base.
lGl It's evii toaehed herself,
-, IN toolI no trouble 20 resist the
neral eontagion. Many years
;, re gone u, s;nce Burke assured
10 .hbt hes aid gas an hopeless csl
i.,.lat;..s-s y,hat.' said Ibis safriot
IolliIoscn!ler.. What can We expect !?
Ispain is like whale cas: GO tie sea
shore
md Il she has started from her
torpil.ty. il her sluggish slimoers
have been broken, If her inec; mass
has been stimulated WITH anY Snal
Iprinciple, she mus; not exercise her
new vigor 10 flounrlering about and
Ireyiy;ng the storm which she did not
help &c allay.
Briefly, since Spain was lille while
Igurope was at war spain mast net
Ibe active while Europe is al peaee.
/ For, If she did II leDgth arouse 10
Iany energy, il she did al ishsth con
tend against Tie universal despct, en-
lierown soil, fer her own existence
she must net forget tie iHaGsqaacy
| of her own exer,ions.
Neither are we in our cemflleera /
ton Cor tie sufftrinss of Spain, iol
lcalculate these by our own feelings
We may be glad thst king Ferdi
hand should adopt liberal govern
lment that he should dismiss his
embroileries and his Jesuits; that
he should give to Spain a regular q
freedom.
But Of this, the quality, ard the
quantity too, mus' be propor'ioned
no the capaoisy Of the recipient.
What woalt be hali starvation TO an
l:.ngIish Sc a9cn, would make a
lSpaniard lie IS ~opletioa.
1t were { curious experiment, aDd
a special wise oue, to change the
absolute monarchy of Spain for cur
Limited constitution, her hieraehy
/! for our bench ofkishops, and her 10
onisition for our Old Bailey.--AsI
we'll might her catholicism tie chang
ed sor cur re formation
Simply tbis.--Preyiens habits, aadI
|temeers, and principles, must beI
consulted and even prejudlces.
Yet; putting al! these aside (; were
&C eanable Of revolution as the bet