Alexandria gazette & advertiser. [volume] (Alexandria [D.C.]) 1822-1824, 1824-05-13

elements OF fluids, and endowed man WIN
skill for uavia a,ing them, but he has not
seen Il, 10 bes.ow ON any one nation every
thing which was necessary or convenient
for all lis own wants; and thus most iorci.
bly, demonstrates his design, that mutua!
intercourse amongst nations, should take
place-or in other words, that commerce
should exist amongst mankind. In no Ole
instance has Gods infinite goodness and
wisdom been more manifest, than IN impo-
sing these mutual obligations and depend
encies upon mankind, for their own ell
ioyments, happiness and the Improvement
of the human intellect. Through con-
merce the greatest blessings have been
transferred from one nation 10 another
Letters from Phenicia, The mariners coin
Lass from Genoa; printing from Germany;
seeds Of various kinds from one country 10
| another; improvements IN the me. asl'-
cultural and mechanic arts and III all the
| Intellectual endowments oil tue human
mind, &c. 10 all these respects The Unitec
States have derived more S2neht from
commerce, than has fallen to the To- OF any
other modern na!,on. They have been
! greatly blessed toe in their own indigenous
! Productions; but II mas not pleased uou TO
| bless ihem With every thiog usetu! and
necessary 10 the enioYn,s,t oi man: they
nave not been rendered posi'igely inde-
penGeni 81 III other nai0us. ! here are
two articles, amongst others. which are
deemed highly desirable amcnsst all man
kiud .ith whch ,hey have Been ou! spa
ring suppivsi-g,id and silver. Perhaps
how ever, he r,rI schemeIs misht.rely
upon the omu;po,enCe OF their schemes for
diverting labor from It's natural into ariih-
cial channels, to torce ;uilcenl supply oil
! gold al leas, from zoe gold mines oil North
Carolina; or trey nigh. conclude, that
po,d and silver were not wanted Tor AMIN al
qualifications, aud might be- dispensed with
altogether.
lfgold and silver are not TO be eypunged
from our catalogue OF wants; then positive
independence is not attaiDable TO the Uni.
ted States. Until the Tariff schemers Turn
alchymists, and shall make gold and silver
out OF any thing or notblDg, they cannot
render the United States positively inde-
pendent of foreign nations 10 regard to
relative Independence, the United States
stand upon high ground in their inter
course With fore ign nations; and viii conf
nue. TO do so, until they throw away the :,
bundance of good things which their God
has most bounlful|y bestowed upon them.
He has given them climates and soils, SUIT
ed to The production OF wheat, cotton and
tobacco, amongs, many other good things.
These articles are wanted IN other Coun
: tries, and it the U. S. will not refuse tar
interchange of the surplus OF these good
things, tor the surplus OF the good things
produced in other countries, which are wan
! ted here, it will always insure TO the I. B.
sa!utary relative independence OF foreign
nations should no: iee) aiall dependant
} upon foreign nations for our gold and silver,
so long as tue nations which have them
, shall indulge the appetite Tor our -four and
tobacco, ard taste for the articles pro-
dur &c by our cotton; and so long as the
political schemers of the u. States should
) leave them TO their natural effects; and
should not drive back the gold and silver
by their banking Institutions, or by their
. ruinous schemes The u. S. have hereto
fore claimed pTe-emnent ground in their
: relative intercourse with foreign nations.
They possess thin. active population
a fertile and unoccupied soil-subsistence
in abundance Their surplus productions
consist Of raw materials, in great demand
tries, the population is crowded-there
+ are more bands than employmenl-tbe
subsistence scanty. and our raw materials
wanted TO aid in giving employment to the
: surplus hands. These circumstances, it
not Impeded in their natural operations,
could not fail to place the U. S, OH van
tage ground in their relations with foreign
nations. A lew months ago, could not
help concluding, that the preIension TO a
, relative salutsry independence on the part
of the u. S. would unquesiionably have
found an authority in MIR. Speaker, OF the
House OF Representatives, which would
have been irresistible in its influence with
majority OF that House. When con.
templated Mr.. Speaker, with his Briarian
hands, and tanCied hin engaged in deli,
vering his infatuated Greek speech; with
one hand battering down the Constitution
of the United Stales-anOher batterIBg
down State Rights, save only the keutuc-
Ky none resident and reliet laws-a third
beaulifyng the United States with inter-
nal mprovementS-a fourth spread over
Mexico, and all South America fifth
stretched forth 10 European Greece-a
sixth with one little fGger pointing to A.
frca, Messurado--a seventh with the fo.e-
finger pointing to Pacific, mouth OF Co.
iumbia--and with all the rest bus,ly en-
gagged in unshe athing to the view OF ,rem-
bling astonsbed Europe, one million OF
gliiteriug American bsyoneis, &c. &c. !
thong ht that Mr. Speaker must be buoyed
up with the hope, and even 6.luded with
the belief, that the U. States wer. posi-
lively independent of the whole world
indeed more that the desilnies of the whole
world were at their command. Could it
have been expecled! .can j, he credited!
that within one month after Mr.. Speaker,
10 this gigantic, appalling attitude, had sci
at defiance one hundred l. fifty millions OF
! the most nnleni nennlp unnn earth tha. he