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VTP re acquiesced in f. -.n efta nation,
,-hat could such conduct produce, hot
i au invitation for similar treatment from
i the ether ? When the nation is dis
armed from pretended motives of |*ar
simonions economy, what but ridicule
and contempt are the inevitable cou
i sequences of threat and bravado ?
Such is the origin of the present un
exampled and disgraceful situation in
to which the country has been dragged,
aggravated by restrictions on cotn
,ncr(.e v ith the avowed intention of in
| pin'.: ‘ one belligerent, and promoting
the schemes of the other. A thousand
P leagues of ocean has not saved us from
; the continental system, violating the
liberties and imparing the resources of
t;.,; nation, at ti e same time that it is
degraded to the rank cf mere vassal
. l*ge-
Agreeably to this baneful predilee*
ti-m, has the crisis been gradually ap
proached, which demands war with
with England, while the Chesapeake
affair having been settled, and a tender
of adjustment on the seject of impress
ment, having set it aside, haves no
cause cf war but the Orders in Coun
cil, and as they are retaliatory of the
decrees, they should in justice he level
ed, if act at the first aggressor, fin-tin*.,
demanded by his atrocious conduct, in
direr-minutely against both.
But shell st war, in tfi.e’pn : ent r*i,-;t •
cf the nation, is neither called for by
its interests tor honor. For. beiog
without a navy, w hich is ir.dispcr
fbr maritime wai fare, and without a
organited army, it must event*
| ate in defeat asd disgrace. Besides the
defenceless siteatir.r. cf car sea coast,
Sand towns, would with impunity cn
eo;;r” gc dor-redstiort.
If hones- demands war, why then
have.the various and multiplied iiisiilis
ftad spob atioHS, piracy and robbery,
sot only of France, !>< of her petty
tassal, lMamafk, been so longpatient
ly gaaered r Is administration only
alive to that sea tire eat, when its own
false pciley has proda.-cd a pretended
cre.rnJ cT „r,r veil* gtr.nd ? Its
whole <• -fiduet renders any plea cf that
kind perfect bafttf&gnc and satire.—
The Pkc:;x of Amihuca, not the im
parted rabid ; of But ope, are unwilling
ftrw tc go to waziou account of the edicts
es the belligerents. The Ncw-Eng
d nd stairs composed entirely of native
Americans, have unequivocally dee-tir
ed their will, against the ruinous pro
jects of administrateby refusing the
loan cf their mercy, and expressing;
ia-.-irdic-.ent at the polls. If the wise
. policy of IVifIUNGTON hud not
■ b. n departed from, and die imti in bud
■ at ail times been kept in a defensive
■ attitude,by beirg r. . pared for w or, it-.
H present degrading hiar ilialh:;: had m v
■ cr existed.
■ A war withßritain has nlv-ajs been
■ the favorite policy of (tie French fae
■ tios, ar.j now to render if. plausible •
■ they associate both belligerent?, with
■ -.lews es the most consummate artifice
■ he pretended concrssfo’a that we have
jßjqual cause for hostilities with belli
Hpigl-'isd and Fr.nu <•, is a piece of deep
Hpiec-pßoa, to di.;.,,:ffc Hair .;bj< -t sub
■smieney for the cr.e, ami ulnW the
■ d-t- ‘• ■’ *: ut
il
■ W - :; • an
■.. . .
I jSfd i:re
Hfct tiie same tithe . sc n:.-> , r *ai:i
Jvo-.iM render it an eSectuai etr.br.rgr,
■ ll ‘i thus contribute to destroy that cvr.i-
Merco to which the democratic faction
Bhxve always evinced iuvcic-r lie en-
Wiiaty. The numerous petitk-ns, so
mhaineMly heard by the Junto in C.’o:i
■grws, flawing from ali descriptions aau
‘■ciesscs of a LVe People, praying for
‘H-eiicr . distressing cA.•’ sos
embargo, ami their warn; remon*
and indignation aaraamt the
jWEontineotn! -system, prove their deter-
not to submit to a c u.ttfiu
,B lSp e of slavish fetters.
Bet.to secure liwdr object cf Imiae
hostilities, and, to facilitate the
the Amelia affair is net only
jMMjfiD, but it is rer'i.v,mended to seii.e
the ground of expedien
cy or necessity, ard 5: 11 it
ulterior negf.p fimi. ; our first
remarks on v ‘■: -i/ ..,ie.e realised,
and this affair unexampled i r its in
famy, its hasenes-v u> and corruption, i-,
unlilusliingly advocated. -The motives
win*.Si may induce some gentlemen to
take this extraordinary course, we have
nothing to do—with their arguments
we have. The plea of necessity, w hich
comprehends all the arguments that
arc used, is one of the most unprinci
pled nature—it is the same with what
every robber, thief, and assassin makes
usa*of to calm the stings of conscience,
and when employed by a great ami
free nation sinks it to the blackest in
famy and contempt. On the same
principle wily not rob the unoffending
Indian ofliis hunting ground, after hir
ing agents to instigate him to discon
tent r Are administration afraid of
that revenge, which a sense of their
wrongs would urge even savages'to
gratify ? Why not seize Mexico—
that would prevent a future enemy
from making incursions on our south
western frontier r But resistance w ould
there be made ; and the same pusil
lanimous and base disposition which
would dictate a seizure of defenceless
colony, is restrained by its own de
generate character from attacking ei
ther the same province, when its moth
er country was in a situation to resist,
and from committing aggress ions where
retaliation would he the consequence.
What was the plea of revolutionary
France, thro’ all her horrid and san
guinary change ? Ofihe assassination
of her king ? Os the proscription and
guillotine r Os her internal rapine and
murder—but necessity s’ Once admit
the principle, and every application
of it is justified, introduced among us,
oor liberties and safety are endangered
Federalists maybe proscribed, which a
few corrupt rcncgadocs, have the au
dacity to deiUHnintlo -‘tonesand an
infuriated mob, or foreign hireling may
justify on this principle and actually
commit indiscriminate assassination.—
From irieir humanity there is nothing
to hope, from their malice every thing
to apprehend. Introduce the principle
of necessity, and let the aggressor be
his own judge of its existence ; then
every vestige of justice, every particle
>;f‘ morality, is at once banished oii r
soil—the Constitution i3 stabbed to its
vitals, and a pack of Idood-thirstv, un
fjiineipled v retches are let loose upon
society—ami to this state we are last
verging. The affair of Copenhagen
v.as cot i[ an*lively honorable, for there
a bold attack was made upon a pow
erful navy, in a well fortified harbour,
ami was executed in an enterprising
and gallant manner here traitors
are bribed, spies employed, arid a most
miserable crew of unprincipled wretch
es are stimulated to invade a defence
less territory, at the express instance
of tile United Males who supported
them to the act. IVuat was the justi
ficatory pita ■ f Louis Xl\. tn his ty
rannical invasion on the rights of his
neighbors, but necessity ? and even he,
powerful as he was, felt towards the
close of his long reign, the humilia
tion and disgrace, which his unprinci
pled !v ranuv brought upon him. Vml arc
v, r to make the example of tyrannical
Louis, our guide ?—-allow it—where
then is our safety as a Cnion ? access*-
r; max urge the maritime states to de
-1.-.md commerce, guaranteed by the
Ci. stitution or recede-. J\'ecessity may
urge Virginia, upon Hie rain.ration oi
a treaty with England to withdraw
from she union, or threaten that step :
in char t the principle is one so preg
uart with ruin, that it dissolves every
ligament that connect* society— a ml al
ter having established it by onr own
practice, how absurd -vnuhl it not he
to rei.-ic. strate against a retaliation
sift.nose then from toe mismanagement
of pitiful Aladison, Aug-affine should
not fail, ar.il he amply supplied v.rth
troons an i ammunition, ai-.d the !bpa::-
iarii-, should retort our treatment,
where would he the safety against in
surrections of or own Zealots? Our
count:v would be converted into a se
cond St. Domingo, and we would he
disarmed oi Compiaint.
Is it not an act of open w..i, and
doe? it n,7 involve (he wli ~,• t’ a lon ?
this is n .t denic 1— still it is justified
an expediency, and safety of onr tron
tirre, which ere said to he in -rent
danger, and to prevent its oecemui.-v
hy Biiiish. As to trio f • j lC
tenee. facts plainly prove it void of
foundation. If fit. .Mary.s and tire
southern frontier a*-c so much endan
get-'d by a foreign nation having p,.,-.
scssfieu (ri j l ,. 1 iolid.i, why 1 ave the:
not for many v ears past set sot th their
complaints duly ahtlfentieutcd. for the
eonaideratii.’i of govcnuneni, instead
of which not only, have there 1> en no
complaint or remoustrance, but every
moral and cons.oerate man denrecates
the infamy which tin . base aHnir part
ly attaches to him a, an American.—
The manner in which it originated,
proves the people of IVor ‘u-.d no
apprehension of any injury, tnii.i not
having E. Florida in possession of the
Union. Many months were rnploycil
in rallying a small band ofdesperate
and unprincipled adventurers, by the
tb 8. and were tl en unable to effect
any thing v it limit the assistance of its
land and naval forces, if St. Marv's
and the frontier were so hnrr:i*srd and
endangered as is pretended, v.. uld they
not t'v- moment tiiey kaevv the euter
wrize wassnctirmedby administration,
have rushed upon Amelin and conquer
ed it. as a retaliation for previous ag
gressions ? This it. not the case—no
murmuring has been beard—no ag
gressions were eorniniited—no cause of
complaint exists—hut go far from par
licipatiiig in the infamy of aiding the
U. S. forces in this piratical theft: the
considerate citizens at the south re
monstrate against its unprincipled cha
racter—and the. country presents e
spectacle, at the present monu-nf.,
which must excite the blush of ir.i'ig
dationon the chwk of every real Amer
ican. Behold a great and powerful
nation, contending with the. constitu
ted authorities of a defenceless and un
offending province, thrown info a state
of uproar aa.i disuvrganizafion, by its
our corrupt and degrading artificer.,
identifying itself with a band of dcs
paradoes, after having stimulated them
to an unworthy theft 111 \, !;at i:i;cx
ampled infamy !
The tyrannical conduct of France in
the invasion of the Peninsula, in the
annexation of Holland and Italy, in the
innumerable continental robberies and
murder, in its early invitation to other
nations, to throw off their allegiance,
and its uniform hostility to even ves
tige es Liberty,planing its own power,
slavery and tyranny, as (lie criterion
of opinion, to which others must con
form—who will among a generous and
free people now justify ? Who will so
stigmatise himself with odium as to
palliate ? What American will so
humble himself as to advocate? Yet
they are honorable and virtuous com
pared to the Amelia business. There
was room for resistance, for combina
tion. for mutual aid and succor, ami
many were the arduous conflicts which
they occasioned : The plains of Italy
and Austria, the provinces of Spain &
Portugal, as well as the inhospitable
rc-vion of the North, are marked with
the bleed of a glorious resistance to op
pression and bondage.—While here a
barren province is attempted to be pos
sess'-,; rl ,,t i-y open warfare, but bribing
citizens to become traitors to their coun
try, which b ins- indignantly spumed,
to inveigle our citizens to become pub
lic robbers!
But it B lid, tl it if we do not pos
sess our. elves of E. Florida, England
will. Sc. will a highwayman rob of a
man man iris purse to prevent his be
ing robbed by another. But it is de
nied. V.’hut inducement has she for
such a. step r Spain has no declaim
cneni: iv tijis quarter of the world,and
no danger being apprenended, thei
v.-oulii be i:<, necessity for precautiona-
I-,’ assistance. Why has she not pre
vious to this occupied Amelia.- ‘ oulci
not the information in possession of tne
British government, of <ne artifices
practising, so early as last summer, up
on the inhabitants of Amelia, justify’
them in securing the province cf their
aky bv cat ■ - the powerful arm of
proteeihio . Vet iV.-y forboreinterfe
mv'. lu. snppo .’mg our n;huiui;.fration
v;;s soh>,; to its on a honor, ami mired
in degranatior. as to act in the maimer
t-icy ha\ -. Florida when under the
protection of Aapoleon, was never
inentiotu--.!, a:-.d bed; seated the negoti
ation for jnirehasi*. When tending to
a rupture with F.nglam!, is k(o!c:i ft:
disputed rpoinitions, which may imt
wive an exhtcnce,- - —to guard au-.iinU
an evil vvbii-ii wool 1 not exist, for the
sake of i-ouv cti". o■■ which stimulates
ihe enierpnze of the robber, or from
nf ee. sity wiiicii etulmhlcns t!-a fehm to
tin commission of everv species of en
ormity and crime, j
b ill tb ‘ nation submit to tbisact and
its Cfiiiseqiienees ? Will (hoy allow
thesiv elves tub. plunged ii:i-: all the
calamities and privations of war. with
a certainty of a u fig-race ail fisin- r
ill they permit their eom-ineree to be
annihilated, and oppression to dm
them into the field like couve/up/s—to
have the first principles of L.brhy, fi,
(the g( ttius of our excellent :
violated and trampled upon, mers-ij to
execute the project ofpus:. • Flori
da upon the most unprincipled pre
texts ? There is now no more doubt
as In the object of admin: truiiois in
thc:r determined war wills |-i\':j:>;d
---territorial ag;;i amli.:- t-iei.t is if ii ;um
— ihe uct|tii*Hioff of new State, in the
Southern section of lii” t uiori,tci over
v. helm the voice of (he A oil hern States,
is the grand ohpet of the Denieeratic
policy : (bunnieiv is first abandoned,
then under tlie pretence of protection,
is fettered by restrictions, av;i in a man
ner d.-slroyed $ a war is sought, .pre
dicated on falsehood, which is (o oper-
ate as an effectual Eoihariro : tl:,-. - u
irv, with aeh >r.. : ! ..•! vvith i
- vvilli.taxes opp: —sing a fr.;e peo
ple, with tyranny ; • iiiiiimr tl om t.ilb
dust, vvitli the eoiitiiic-idal system load
ing them with slavish fetters, with u
combination cf ev lis fermentinp da* na
tional body with corruption : “ be
loved country ihtissiv.iated, is about ta
king a plunge which max he that of an
agonising death, and to be involved in
horn-rs which mav rim.! r Anieriea in
practice as in principle a second r: -
v oi'itfe,-: Fro wee.
~~M vlll a li NKWSj,”
ro n t of s.l vj] .v. v ; //.
Unfit ft ; Jl.i.t f; 67t. +V?ii-
ARRIVED,
Ship XV ini Tied t ,cv inbin-nv, New Y- rk.
UnionLipj i-t, itavaimah
CLEARED.
Sch’r Minerva Ithodes ■ Voviu. nee (a. i)
John Ires, Bnaitu t
Sloop Marv Bolles Alc.xundvin,
r 7” The brig OKOZJMBO, H. B.
Vail, ma ter, will ...it tor ‘few
on H \ TURD AY NEXT. For lreig!
of a few bales L'otton, or passage, rip
ply to
DUNN'IJtfi Ss. CLAY.
June 0
(U a Turtle Soap,
A Fine Fat (IrTen TURTLE will
he dressed THIS DAY, at tl o’elcok,
bv Sylvia AVhitelield, next door to ? :r.
("harrier, on the Bay Families can
be supplied by sending early.
June (5
To Let,
THE TWO TENEMENTS
0( EUI’iLD by the suhveiibersf
possession can be given immedi
ate! v, and the terms will be made easy.
April v to
■ C. Pripet S. Murid.
June n \ t
Kolice.
the subscriber
K ESP! FITFULLY informs her
friends in the town aud country,
that she has returned to Savannah, nmi
has taken Mr. Bolton’s house on the
Bav, adjoining Hie Custom-House
where she intends carrying on the fal
lowing liranches of her former busi
ness. namely, Feather Beds, Bolsters.
Pillows, Mattresses, r< pairing hair a ml
Koss Mattresses, making -hipsjL'.l
----oit.-s. Curtains, ikiviiions: Ac. ‘ rnm
’ - r due attention to the above bn.- ices*.
she hours to merit a share of tiie pub
lic patronage.
1 MATY ( ELK.
„T jjliU .7 e> i ‘ “*
Auction.
lillS DAY, sth Instant,
WILL BE SOLD,
. thf Dwelling House of Dr. Jo rut
J'.; irr, [who is abquf to leave thi
State,
A Qt WUTY op
Household & Kitchen Fuamture,
.turn :g which, are
I ‘ <*! Board, SOFA, Dining, Teat
Ur J I VBj,ES, ilamUo and
B h .STANDS, CM ALA'S Be'L*
-ii ,Al)s, \V Ui*; bAFE GLAhi'A
SHADES, &e. &e.
. ALSO,
Lood i louse <k Chaiih
And about to doz. PORTER.
-V to com ccnee at ti o'clock:
D. Y- itJ i.FOED, Jird'r.
June 1
Aussdmslraior’s Sale.
V. H.l HE HOLD,
• ; ; ’ - r of C: \ i.iMut
• ii ‘ m Vi om:ht;"i Street, on
■ Vi 7;, i; r. jC’ day of July
ne,vt,
A'l the PvTscn! Property of
‘id licensed, irns/sting of simdrv
uiii. Is us (’aliiu-t Furniture • Bm-ii
-a.’ aid !) a; Tables, Bosun
‘tan!, t;;e. (’abiuet-muker’s Tools,
He! ■ • ->y 8.-ards, Yfnrk Benches.
• ‘ ’ Id Furxiti .-. us
various Hiiih.
Conditions Cash,
’ 1 ■ Cvmmruct nr 11 o'dor k .
’ or Ar of <!>; \ d;n*r.
HOX\ “, & Dlirox, Juctrt.
FOR VVEir-i om\
, Tlieiirig BAYAN.VAH PACE *
’ P. a!<•;• tin muster, was to
bav ■ -York on the J7th ult. and
may h • i-.i vly *■:.pi'il. and. For freii lit
nr - .... --nnmoiiious uetamJ
odutious, apply to
Ik 001-I-N & eo.
June ‘ ia
>;; n .-u t fit A Western
’ T. “ w GFFICE.
siibscriii is having purehs
-i .<1 Ji-e i -S’. tiF ‘BTAOES
■” Nv, ’• to tb” Hulf-vvay-housiJ
“i ire .*• a ‘ i I'l'i-'d have remove:!
tiie Oik": to iff . 1 a*.".viinworth’s oppo
!<i >:.e(unit-:Soir.v. v. :u:cthe North*
..lid “ ■ ‘ . ullii, s i.a’ y
nt me time past, every at*
tf'i'A “i V.in 1 •• given to pa-.sentyerj,
< -1 ■ br. *g.;.*'C; by
t!:e i aldieks ck-dl •;.( - rvanfs,
i;.r tc. hoT tttiiKS,
: t'IUN G. TAYI.OR.
r. i e.v.-eii*,...rtiii will aceo
n o XL ini. ,eiu- .swiih oateitainnient.
16
FOUND.
r j*’ N-ii t h.-vvhig artich : rr* foyai
5! 1.-, a i bay. under a r.-.ff! *
ilimrs steps ill ) liberty Ward.—Viz.
ti *.".:ii’ Or l • list, one of them hair.'**
spun,
f, i-t'.: ,■ .*:ffuf:.c-:chi ?■ Vardit
huinliHins,
1 *•: .- ;"iiN ! l-.oe l pair sioefy
i . r. . and
A shoulder of Bacon.
“, i- !■ >” iy •.. .i- above ar
eieH I p": viug In right t:; them, re*
v arr'ing tl.'; hoy v. fouiuL iDm L-r
. • yi f 1 N :.. -
vertfi i-uieiiti apply at this eIH-.e.
Jane 3 13
50 TALufi i ewurcT
STOLEN from the FNt'sh Lb iff
EmpErioa i.t Ameiia, by h
crew
Her ; ! enr.ner, a fr? Feat, 23 fivt
keel rows six oars, .bus wash streaki
all r if. !od her, and a gralini’ from
her fore thwart to the how, whiek, w iffi
all her Standing l!.v, arts, arc fastened
by iron b -,et s—painted ina::fi or.l. -. {
coior, li'i! 1 . i'll pit: ;,;d two uo*
per sir- J*s black. ■ad !:i.s v. cup; a. i .•*
iiume ‘vb'.ani Bound” painted irt
’snioll iettrrs ins:at the stem.
Aim, he ‘ Ey Beat, printin and
oat - except under wutrg
which id w hite, and inside unde! -lie
bottom boards black—rows four ox.j
—is f rin - ifi .’tened—-17 f'd kiei nad
: I::.!!!, together r-;th Hi
oarr, sa.h, ike.
A reward of thirty dc’.kvrs for t;.5
Finn;-• ..and twenty dollars, far i's
JoU/ Boat, v-ill lu- j! dfo their t: .1
return to cither A’vdia nr this pluctU
k. itiOHAKufiON Si cii
June .3
Foil s7\i7k7 .
M the o.fwe of the American I'ciri'*
iMLiik ChccFfi,
1G On n. bh'cet.
;vH > r f hut.'*’ ::
for a:,le f.t -