Alexandria gazette, commercial and political. [volume] (Alexandria [Va.]) 1812-1817, 1816-03-07
Glory and Taxes.

The mammoth bank bill seems to have
hken a long nap. The great secretary
IN the mean time has amused himself
vita framing new :. TARIFF" Aye
Tarif-Thst must be something new
saws the unlearned reader--somethins
grand, no doubt. What does il mean
Wight means Idres-TAxEs-g-TAX
ES! doubted, tripled and quadrupled.
Itisa new name for the old disease
Taxes, taxes, TO pay for the late glori
Gus war, In which we aeere tohave taker
Canada but lost Moose Island lii
which we feere to settle the doctrine o
hockades, aud the security of sailors
rights: but which matters are left on TIN
same footing as before, except, that they
are all given up! Brown fought we'll a
Erie, aad jackson at Orleans. Anc
thereby they got glory; and &c got glo
~, and even the BladenSburgh racers
got glory, glory And now nobody vii
even dare to go to war with US again
Glory, glory! The Spaniard to be sure
isshew;ng has whiskers; the Indians are
shll restless; and the British hold as
tgbt commercial rein over US, as ever
But few military men have distinguish
edthemselves, and therefore the natieI
Is covered with glory! glory! and with
tares. TAXES, TAXES! But then thes
are laid upon us by tGrib. An honest
Shoemaker told me the other day, he
would willingly part with his share Of the
glory, If they would exempt him from
his share OF the teees. | believe there
are but very few of different opinion
Al industrious community of repubIi
cans, willing to exhaust their propert,
to pay taxes for the purchase ut glory
are in fair way to be sacrificed, thu
uOey, to the cupidity and ambition o.
4 TIE tew.
While a republic cultivates ORDER.
4 QUIET, JUSTICE and HAPPINESS, as its
most rGfiiabte possessions, ii is truly a
republic. But when its citizens can be
eadced TO war, by tue hope OF unjust
conquest; when the loss Of nsfals and
'he larsh expenditure Of THEIR trea-
saresand THEIR blood are deemed to be
9iaclently compensated by the glory
Which may have been obtained by few
a'litery chiefs, the cool observer pro-
p@nccs at once, that they have nolong-
those feelings and tliose principles.
sAlch ensure tue perpetuity ofrepubli-
san liberty and equality. Ii IS impossi-
We tAat the people should be long highly
military, and purely republican. And
saers taxes take from the people their
'0Aest earnings, and the creatures of
srernnent are multiplied in order to
@llect it. Where the expenditure is
'"aOat economy, and almost without
%soqntability where SPECTATORS and
suSe,seskers look not to the people, but
y ue administration for reward where
We duty which the people eve to them
~'sss Is forgotten or disregarded, q
aa they themselves tamely consent
Dc ranged, arrayed and disciplined
. Ne ranks Of party where they
session themselves to listen not to
aelrreason, butt their prejadices; aud
scewe doctrines not from their con-
Seaces but from their leaders, far gone
r 'he wane is their republicanism -
aaen they permit their national amino
Isl 10 iufame them to war; aud part
.Sa their property for a little empty
TSador; when they pay taxes to folly,
S'Aogt q murmur, and open their stores
xckedness without regret. they must
reCt to be subjected to a repetition OF
''as they so much like.