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THE LOUISVILLE GAZETTE. VOL. I-] LOUISVILLE: Publifhed every 1 uelday, by AMBROSE L) AY, at 3 dollars per ann. payable half yearly. f rcm the Conjlituticnal Telegraph . STANDING ARMY. Mr. Parker, « We fiall feel the frovgefl mo tives to fall on our knees , in gra titude to Heaven , for haying been gracioy/ly plea fed to give us birth and education in America, and for having defined us to live under her laws. We have reajon to exult if we make our cempanfon with England and the Englifh confituiion. — In America , 4< there is no funding army* (President Adams.) The mod renantable ground a man can take is to recur to frf principles— It is a path which can be purfued with the utmod fafety and fatisfa&ion—in a re publican government, it is a duty in which every individual called upon to praftice—for, if, the original fentiments are right, and a fydem adopted upon (rich ; rcafoning, as naturally arifes from the premifes, every devia tion from them may be confi dered as countera&ing the objed of the eftablifhment— The quedion then is whether a f landing army in a republic is confidered as confident with the fundamental principles of fuch a form of government—the bi nned States are avowedly decla red to be a republic —the form of our conditution is in dired op pofition to a monarchy—even the Britifh government is an nounced by the Prefident as in ferior to our own—and why ? Becaufe the fovereignty is in the people, becaufe there art no titles of hereditary honors , and becaufe there is no funding army . Thcfe are the two prominent points in which a republic and a monarchy differ—and the didinftion is Ve 7 evident from the nature of the government, as the monar thy is the will of the prince, whild the republic is the will cj the P' c ple —The former naturally in troduces the fovereignty ol the monarch, and the latter the fo v«rcignty of the people. Sove~ T( gnty is the elfence of govern ment—wherever this is placed there the energy of government feigns— To (hew therefore the propri -7 the Prefident’s devout 3 orat * nn to Heaven, that there ls no fandmg army in America t C onl y obferve that, while ,? C an cdablifhment is made, e overe tgnty of the people is n\ey e( j , n a degr eejrom than j) W !?,^ c ft an dmg army —for as « ;r 1 hatchcr judly obferves, iu V !T y lndiv,dual feels an in y one to his country, and T U E S D A Y, December 3, 1799. ASON AND TRUTH IMPARTIAL UUUiE THE WAT. wifhes to redore it to a date of happinefs wiih a bayonet at his breajl , a dragoon will compel him to filence—if the people awakened to fee their intered and their duty, ademble for the purpofe, a militaiy force is at hand to fubduc them, znd by leaden arguments to convince them of their error/* The doc tor reafons like a patriot and a philofbpher on this point, and in the dronged manner (hows that, while a handing aimy exids, the fovereignty 0) ihepeople is wieded (rom them—The Pre fident in the fame judicious manner contemplates the happi nefs of America, and with bend ed knees to Heaven, exultingly proclaims, there is no fandmg army in America . Happy, thrice happy Ameri ca—when the renown*d patiiots are thus pointing out the fatal engine “ which has ever been wielded by the hand of domina tion." While they are adoring the Supreme Being in ac cents of praife, that America is free from th is fcourge, c; n any real Iriend to his country be backward in joining them in their devout ex etcifcs ?—W hile contemplating this fubjeft, I was naturally led to examine minutely the ienti rrents rf our o ators, on the fubjeft of handing armies— they are documents of the mod (üb ftantial nature—under the deep impreffion of rnadacie and flaughter they warned their fel low citizens of its pernicious and deftruftive tendency ; and while weeping over the mangled corps of bleedirgtownlmen,they (poke a language which warmed the bread ot their attentive audi tory. Agreeable to my plan of Sup porting the Prefident in his fenti ments, I drill offer the follow ing cxtra&s from the oration of Loftor Thomas Welch, deliver ed March 5, 17, The learned and judicious Dodor thus proceeds: a fc< militia is the mod natural defence of a free (late, from invafion and tyranny, they who compofe the militia are the proprietors of the foil; and who are fo likely to defend it, as they who have re ceived ic from their ancedors — acquiied it by their labour or obtained it by their valour ? Every freeman has within his bread the great edentials of a foldier, and, having made the ufc of arms familiar, is ever ready for the field ; and where is the tyrant who has not reef on to dread an army of f tt men ?** “ In the battle of Lafeby, in the days of Cromwell, the num ber of forces were equal on both fides ; and all cirrumdanres equal—in the parliament's army | only nine officers had ever feen aflual feivicc, and mod of the foldiets were London appren tices, drawn nut of the citv two months before : in the king's army there were about 1000 officers who had ferved abroad, yet the veterans weie rouied by apprentices ." “ Rome advanced on the zenith of glory and greatnefs, and conquered dll nations in the times of the republic while her aimy was an unpaid militia.” M When communities have fo far miffaken their intered as to commit the defence of every thing valuable in life to a /land ing army, the love of cafe will fcarcely permit them to re-adume the unpleafing ta(k of defending thcmfelves." “ In tranfports of gratitude, whole communities have weakly facrificed at the Jhnne of a deli verer every thing for which their armies have fought and their heroes bledf* “ Nations the mod renowned among the ancients for their wif dom and policy, have viewed the aimy with an eye of atlenTve jealoujy ; the Romans character ized for per fonal bravery trembled Jor their country at theJight of 150 HSors or peace officers.” u When a government has a body of fandmg troops at com mand, it is eafy to form ftreten fions for the didnbution of them, lo as to effeft their own purpo fes ; when a favourite point is to be carried, a thou land foldi ers may convey irrcfifliblc argu ments, and compel nun to a6l againd their feelings, intered and country.*' Further extracts are rcednefs,; for the whole oration hath the fame patriotic fentiments. Ihe do6lor reprobates in the dronged terms, a body of mercenaries , and advocates the mi ilia as the certain barrier of the rights and liberties of the people. Here then let u>, citizens, paufe, and for a moment re(U£l, how it is poffible for any Ame rican to vindicate the eflab r(h mtnt of a dandmg army. Iheic is no other way to account for it, than what has always lak n place in other countries. Ihe diffblutc—the idle—the m edy, and tire ambitious leek pation age and fuppoit through this p.oditutc medium. A b uk rupt views it a the c:ty of re fuge. The profligate, as the mantle for his didfpation — Ihe amb tious, as the depping (lone for preferment, and the avarici ous, as the (ource from whence all his aits, intrigues, and ini- portions are to originate. Thcfc mult have been the ideas of the Piefidcnt when proftrate before the Supreme Being in thankful adoration, that in America, there was no Banding army. Thefc appear the leading Tenements with which the orations on the sth of Maich were fraught—The citizens of Boflon on thele oc cafions, gave full alfent to the defliudive tendency of fuch eflablifhments by 1 heir unani mous applauses to their orators, the abfuid idea, that a (landing aimy is nccclfary to controul the cirizcns of a republic, is too abfurd (o be noticed—men who canrot take care of themfelves, arc a poor fubflitute to take caic of others. “ Go call thy Tons—in(lru& them what a debt they owe their anceftors, and make them fwear to pay it, by tranliniiting down entire, thole (acred rights to which themfelvcs were born.’* A Friend to Truth, From the BEE, It has long been a fettled opin on of the bed informed citizens that the political /alvation of (he United Slates depends on the event oj the prejent Fur op-an uar % If the combined powers are defeated by France, and the fleets of the republic and her allies, maintain a rivalfhip with that cf Great-Britain, the anci ent h lance cf naval power will he prefer v< d, the forces of cadi nation will keep the other in awe, and the American com merce beccuited and her (lag be nlpeded by all parties. But if the coalition of defpots accom plilh their plan of exterminating lepublicanilm from France and 1 urope, Columbia, without a friendly power to countenance or afliti her, will become the lervant and Ipo t of England, and the (corn of the other Eu ropean nations. In advancing this pofition, we arc neither fmgular nor ab furd. The ennduft of Great- Britain towards us upon every lucrelsful campaign of the com bined armies and more paiticu larly within the lad Gx or feven months, obliges us to expefl the wo il treatment f om her impe lious navy in c »fe of the con* quell cf France. WebJ!er t has the following (piticed article on the luhj 61. “ 1 he tyranny cxercifcd by Grcat-Brstain upon the (cas in creales with h r (accedes; and ihould a peace take place favor able to her wifhes, we (hall find our trade more reftrifted by [No. 44.