Alexandria gazette & daily advertiser. [volume] (Alexandria [Va.]) 1817-1822, 1821-07-13

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"a "a aunaranl human power on the part
Gus ,n. o,r,.,sur. He welded al will the
Elective torce OF The m'gntiest nauo" IN
S,rnue. tie, with more tlan poelic trTIp,
"..rtet the dom:nlon OF the waves ne
a,,,er 10 whose UNJUST usurpatlOn Your ia!h,
=. hurled the gauntlet OF dehan e, oafled
nd yanouished by them, has even slnce'
',,,nneo Of all the energies oil TINS continent,
IN found adequate 10 give Inc law 10 us
"s"" ouarler Of the globe. and to mould the
,,,n,.s O, the European word. 1t was
A.,S . s,,ug and stone that your fathers
Wv" ,orth 10 encounter the massive vlgor OF
~. Goiiab. They slung the heaven dTec-
va bsavie,t sound he giant monster fsH."
.",;d IN. shouts oil victory your cause
,nnmi friends and allies IN the rival. OF
w" enemies. France recognized your In
}aod.nce as existing IN TACT, and made
"mon cause with you for ITS support.
Soa;n and the Netherlands, without adopt
~ r,,,,r principles, successfully flung their
"s -, ,nin your scale. The Semiramls OF
~. North. no convert TO your doctrines, sun
Don;nred all the maritime neutrality of En-
rone 10 array against the usurPauons OF your
..t.gouist upun the seas. While some Oh
,hs iairsst of your fields were raVsged;
'shIs vour towns and villages were consum-
al with FIRE; while the harvests OF your sum-
,nsrs we're blasted; while the purity Vi VIZ
a,o innocence, and the chastity OF matr0niy
s;r,n. we're violated; while the living rem
nap,s of the field OF battle were reserve LOT
tine gibbet, by the traternal symPa'hies o.
brit0ns throughout your land, Inc waters Oh
the Atlantic ocean, and those that WASH Tue
shores Cd either India, were dyed win the
mingled blood OF the combalants IN cause
OF North American Independence. =,
I'm the progress OF time that vial oil wra'n
IVA, exhausted. Alter seven years OF ex-
pIoIts and achievements like these, perform
I'd un,,er The orders oil the British King; 10
u,e the language OF the treaty OF peace, II
having pleased the Divine Providence to
DISPOSE The hearts Of the most serene and
most potent Prince, George tue Sd, by the
Grace OF Sod, King OF Great Britain, France, ;.
and ireland, Defender Oi the faith, Duke oil
Brun,wlck and Luneburg, Arch Treasurer
Ind Prince Elector OF the Holy Roman En-
I,ire and so torth--and OF the United States
OF America, to"--whal! 10 forget all
nast misunderstanding and differences that
have unhsppiIy interrupted the good CORES
posdence and friendship which they mutu-
sIy wIsn 10 restore what then! why,
"rii, britannia, Majesty ACKNOWLEDGES Tue
said UAred States, VIZ New Hampshire,
Massachusetts Bay, Rhode Island and Provi-
dence Plantations, Connecticut, New YORK,
New jersey, PenDsy Delaware, Ma
ryland, Virginia, North Carolina, South
(arptina, aud Georgia, 10 be Free SoUer-
,sign anu Independent States; that he treats
with them as sacb; aud Tor hlmselt, his heirs
and successors, reIinquIshes all claims to
the government, proprietary aud territorial
r,pbIs OF the same, aud every part thereof. !"
Fellow citizens, | am not without appre
henslon that some parts of inns extract, Cii-
cd 10 The word and to the letter, from the
treaty OF peace OF 1888, may have dlscom-
posed The serenity OF your ,emper. Tar De
il from me, To dispose yoHr aeGrts TO ieVity
unoecoming the hallowed dignity OF THIS
,iay. +bui this treaty Of peace Is the dessert
appropriate 10 the sumptuous banquet oithe
Declaration. Ii IS the epilogue to that un-
psralIeled drama OF winch the Declaration
Is the prologue. Observe, my countrymen
and friends, how the rules OF unity, Prescro-
ed by'tne great masters Ot the hCtive stage,
were preserved ia this tragedy OF pity anu
terror in r. al lite. Here was beginning
a middle, and all enc, vi one mighty action.
The beginning was The Declaration which
we have reau: the middle, was THAI sangun-
ary, caiamilous, but glorious war, winch
csas for dee per cOlors, aud brighter pen
cd, than mae TO p0urtray: the end was The
disposal 10y Divine ProvidenCe-tbat same
Divine Providence upon whose protection
SoIr fathers had 50 solsmnly and so effeciu
aIy declared their hrm reliance, OF the heart
OF the most serene and most potent prince
70 acknowledge your independence 10 the
precise extent IN which II had been declar-
I'd. Here was no great charter OF bunny
Mead, yielded auu accepted as grant Oi
royal bounty. That which the Declare non
had asserted, which seven years OF mercy
narrowing war had contested, was here, m
express and unequiv ocal terms, acknowledge
al. And how! BY the mere disposal OF lie
heart OF tue most serene anu most potent
prince.
rounced the rrevocaLle decree OF political
separation, between the United States and
Their People on the one part, and the British
King, Government, and Nation, on the 9TH
or. Ii proclaimed the hrst principles On
which civil governments rs founded, and de-
rived from them the Justification before
Esr,b and Heaven, OF tins act oil sovereign
~. buIIt left the people OF this Union col
/ Give and individual without organized
Government. In contemplating this state
u Things. one Of the proloundest OF british
!. ,,esmrn. in an ecstacy OF establishment,
sycIaimed ANARCHY is found tolerable -
i -, there was no Anarchy. From the day
the Declaration, the peopl. OF the North
Ane.icaU Union and Gifts constituent States,
,.,.rs associated bodies OF civilized men and
chris, a,,.. in state of nature; but not OF an
srchy. They were bound by the laws OF
O., v.,.:eI. ,bsv all and by the laws OF the