Constitutional Whig. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1824-1832, 1824-02-06

ten without any cause whatever For my part \
haveno doubt that he is just as well acquainted
with his own interest as the good people of Salem
or Boston--and if our commerce with him is so
lucrative as we are told it is should conjecture
that he would not very rashly relinqush it. il being
but fair to presume, that he makes something by the
trade as well MS us. have no doubt that the
Barbary Powers in particular viii hesitate little
before they provoke to send another feet to the
Juediterranean--unless indeed some person takes
the trouble to translate Mr. Cuthberts speech for
their special benefit in which he gravely protests
gainst the folly of sendirg our ,ships beyond the
Straits, least forsooth those incarnate fends, the
English should sink, burn or take them
Buthowever well persuaded am that the adop--
ton of Mr.. Websters resolution would have done
no harm to us, l am by means so well convinced
that il would have done any great good to the
Greeks. The resolution offered by Mr.. Clay is of
infinitely greater Importance. Perhaps the time has
not arrived a; which il would be proper for Con-
gress to express any opinion concerning the appre-
hended attack upon the Republics of South Ameri-
Gu. am far from thinking that it is very probable
that such an attack will ever be made England is
habitually jealous of Russia and France she en-
joys, at this time, almost perfect monopoly of the
trade of the Spanish Colonies and seems prepared
to go to war rather than resign it. It will there
fore be question for the serious and mature con-
sideraton of the august Congress which is about to
assemble, how they are to transport their armies
across the steep waves of the broad Atlantic-and
whether French or Spanish fleet will be able to
leave the harbors of Cadiz or Toulon, without the
particular permission and consent, had and obtained
of his Britannia Majesty. But if indeed the legons
of his Holy .4uiGalce tho most impous and formi-
dablc League which ever formed against the
freedom of mankind should invade tbs territories of
Colombia and mexico, it will then be question for
us to consider, whether it is consistent either with
our honor our safety" to preserve Quaker neu-
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| generosity, bnt our prudence-we shall then have
to determines not whether we will protect their in
| dependence and guard their liberty, but whether
we win bravely defend or tamely surrender our
own. We should consider a declaration of war
against them, the part of these base conspirators
against the common rights of the whole human race
as the awful clarion which calls on al who wor-
ship Liberty to wake from their inglorious sleep
which calls on the conquerors of Chippewa and the
disciples of Jefferson-the Scots and Jessups, who
now repine in the obscurity of peace revenge the
death of Riego by the side Of Bolivar Whoever
falls in such war will win eternal fame.
God prosper the cause Oh it cannot but thrive
While the pulse of one Patriot heart is alive,
Its devotion to feel, and it's rights to maintain.
| But ii in His inscrutable wisdom he should once
permit these atrocious tyrants to succeed they
who die should feel no fear, but like Palyra's he
roic sage, consider that since the earth has become
one vast and dreary prison, he is the happiest whom
| death first frees from bondage-and they who sur
vive should show no sorrow idly bewail the des-
| tiny of those who will leave this degraded world
TO join the bands of holy martyrs who rest in Para
disc on the aowery margin of that Elysian stream
from which they quaff Immortality and joy"
/ PORCIUS.