Alexandria gazette & daily advertiser. [volume] (Alexandria [Va.]) 1817-1822, 1819-10-28

that they have their consuls resid;nSsS''
those places. This is in fact a,;,s,
acknowledgements their indepepdso'aass'
ard i will remain for Congress ~ ,I S'
eide, whether i!rry will nov BY ro,s Vt,
act do what they have already sr,, ,%"'
TALLY done. II la, been said. that , Ia
rope would take c!sence at sucI, . -, Id
sure. We 10 mol know bow this assrr.. ',
has been made outby eyif,nce. %
the European powers have locked
witt, the most tranquil indiiitreuc,
beheti the controversy between ro,n
naud and his re,oitch subjects. n ia,,
have rs &c; afforded 10 assistarcc,
the Spanish monarch, and il r,n,.
surely from such evidence be rro'aJ
that they would interfere in his bsb'I,
if VIC adopt The cause of The rcIo ha;
colonies. They wish to enioy tao Cn ,rU
moice Of those Colonies Which ,hev ~,
yer can do. il ti'at country is rcducrI :,
its former allegiance they have tbcra
fore The strongest motives TO wish Il.
INDEPENDENCE uf South America p
sides We have ministers residing at E,
reign courts. and we can hardly sunnoo,
them so Indifferent as never to ba,s
sounded the different cabinets on ,Lis
subject.
y report was some time since in cir
collation.. that Alexander had ode,ad
himself as mediator between Ferd;
naud and his revolted subjects this re-
port wants confirmation, and # "a,
hardly be believed, that England VIM
has 50 large a stake in the independents
of those colonies, would look wjthout
alarm on this Russian interference. In
fact if any power in Europe did intend
f. eslOuse this quarrel, or even to be.
come an arbitrator. the question is, WHY
ha, nat this been already done. Can
a,y other motive be assigned for this
European GOODNESS, than that the DOW.
ers are ia, orable TO the cause of South
America. Their indifference answers
substantial, all the purposes of an ex.
pr S. acknowledgement. 1t may rea.
sonahIy be conjcctured, that Mr.. Clay,
vii! bring ttis question Of acknowledge.
mem before the House of Representa-.
ti'rs, md perhaps under more favorable
auspices than he has formerly done.
Thu, is one view which the question
will bear; We will shortly present ano.
lhcr.
THE F.l!SCLN:aTIO.NS OF W.iR.
he frs great obstacle to the rxtinc.
ton of war is the way in which the heart
man is carried off from its barbara
tics ami its horrors by the splendor Of
lis decritful Accomplishments. Their is
fcc.ing-of the sublime in cOntempla.
ing the dev"nring energy of a tempest,
and this so elevates and ensrosses the
whole man, that bis eye is blind to the
tears Of bereayed parents, and his ear
is deaf to the piteons moan of the dying,
and the shrek OF her desolatpd families.
There is d gracefuIncss in the picture
of youthful warrior burning for dis.
tnciicn Oh the field, and lurcd by this
generous aspiration to the deepest of the
animated throns, where in the fell work
of death, the opposing sons of vaIor,
struggle fora remembrance and name,
and this side Of the picture is so much
the exclusive object of our regard az to
disguise from our view the mangIed
carca S of the fall"n, and the writing
agoDics CT the hundreds more who have
been laid on the cold ground where
they arc left t. lausuish and to die
Their no eye pities them. No sister is
there t. weep over them. There no
gentle hand is present to ease the ,ly-
ing posture, or bind up the wounds,
which III the maddenimgfur, of the COM
hat. have been given and received by
the children OF one common Father
There death spreads its pale ensgns O.
YER every c"uhtrhanCe. and v ben night
Comes un anu da' hnesss around them,
how many a despairing wretch must
take W Ith tn, blood, fell as the in
tended bed of bis last sufferings, without
one friend To hea' the message of ten
dernees to his distant home, without one
compa"'en to close his eyes. avow it;
ohe'ery side of me see causes at work
winch SO to spread most delusiye CO.
Touring over war, and to remove its
shocking 6arbarities to The back ground
OF our CONCENTRATIONS altogether. Isee
it in the history which tells me of the