Alexandria gazette & daily advertiser. [volume] (Alexandria [Va.]) 1817-1822, 1819-03-09

ldSt Tt-tIcCtCu W VI VIZ,
FRAscrs ADAMS, Esq. of this town. is ap.
pointed by the President and Senate, to be
Consul of the u. Sat Trieste.
The president has, by proclamation OF
the second instant recognised JONATHAN
Sw1rT. esq. consul ofthe United Kingdom
ofPortugal. Brazil, and Algarves, tor the
district of Columbia.
The late discussion on the Seminole war;
embraced a variety of topics, which were
we'll worth the consideration OF the man OF
humanity, and the moralist, entirely apart
from the feelings OF the factionist, the pol
itician, or the party zealot, and whirh have
their root in the great duty that man owes
in the first place to his God, and in the next
to the human race. remember that was
one of the leudest amongst those who oeri-
ded or execrated the fanaticism of Anach-
arsis Cloots, in the early part Of the French
revolution, for his setting up to be "hs ora-
tor ofthe hnman ruce"-but truly begin
to think that it is to be lamented that there
are not scattered up and down in society, a
few officers of that kinda sort OF every
mans attorney general, who should be al.
| ways authorised, and It the same time able
and sincerely willing to plead and to main
tain the cause of humanity against all the
majorities and all the powers upon earth.
know very we'll that those great men who
! excel in the trade of manufacturing words
into that treacherous net called eloquence,
are, in general, so exclusively devoted to
the contemplation of the materials they
work upon, that they know very little about
thing, land therefore always conclude that
when the labors of men in public assem-
blies are expended upon words, the things
of which the words ought to be the SYM
bols, fall through unnoticed. Were all that
we hear said, true, there would be no oc.
casion for laws. This man tells you that
the word of OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES, that the
honor-a third, that the conscience---a
fourth, that the sympathies, and fifth, that
the moral sentiment of good citizens are
sufficient security for the performance of
the human duties, and from their careless
ness about providing proper modes of COM
pulsion for the security of others,one would
suppose that they really believed what
they said to be true, were it not that in their
omn cases, they never fail to take especial
care TO secure themselves against any ac-
cidental want of justice in those they deal
| with. In the discussions allude to, the
treatment OF our aboriginal beardless sava-
ges, by the bearded sayages from Europe,
who INTERCEPTED upon them, was touched
upon by some, with genuine sympathy; but
it seemed to make 70 other impression
upon the bulk of the hearers, than to excite
merriment, or to kindle fresh antipathy and
resentment against this much wronged race.
Tie sympathies which nature has bestow-
ed upon US, we lavish away, till we have
not one left, upon the sufferers under the
despotsms in europa little too on those
in Ashland we should expend their quo
ia upon those in Africa, ii they were not
black and woolly, and can be worked al "a
lower price than mules or plough-bullocks
and therefore il is that we are SO laudably
firm and philosophical in enduring the suf-
ferings OF the lndians, who are in point of
right many centuries before US.
Illuminating on this subject, yesterday
afternoon, it occurred 10 me that had some
time or other, read something upon it in the
works of the great scholar and moralist,
Sam. Johnson-and was at the pains TO
search for the passage, without we'll know
Ing in what part of bis works: however, |
found it, and now set down TO give it to
you, being persuaded that it is, in an es-
sential moral view, as applicable to the A
merican people this day, as it was to the
British nation in the year 1856, when it
was written.
"The general subject Of the present war
is sufficiently known. 1t is allow ed on both
sides, that the bostilities began in America,
and that the French and English quarrel
led about the boundaries of their settle
ments about grounds aud rivers, TO rhich,
/ am afraid, neither con shoe any other
right than that Of pooCer, and arhieh neither
can occupy, BAT by usarpation and the DIS
possession of the natural lords and original