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ARGUS.
«t Here TRUTH unlicem'd rrings,
And dare accost' e'en lings themselves
...Or rulers of the free.”
MILLED GEVILLeI
TUESDAY, MAY 8, 1810.
Massachusetts Election.
The votes for all the towns (ex
cc*[)t 20 which were at the laft elec
tion about equally divided) are re
ceived, which give the following rc-
fult—
• For Gerry 47,418
Gore 44,265
Repub. majority 3,835
Shewing atepub. nett-gain of 5,679.
Nat Int.
of which in defceftdinj;, lodged at
the top, which caufcd it ro Hide from
the (lump, and completely wedged
him between the falling tree and a-
nother. In this diftrefiing lituation
his loud cries rbnt the air, which
were heard at feveral miles diftance,
but were not recognized as fignah.
ofdiftrefs. During his confinement,
nearly four hours,' he had the pre
fence of mind to fix fomething to
the neckof his faithful dog, on which
he put fome blood. The-dog wem
home, but his badge was not per
ceived unt : l Mr. Stewart, alarmed at
his fon’s long abfence, fet out for
the woods, when the dog evinced e-
vident dcmonfiraiions of joy, by al
ternately running before, returning
and fawning. When he was difeo
vere'd by his father, he was fpeech-
lefs. He was immediately liberated,
and after procuring a (leigh, removed
home. His thigh bone was much
fradtured. Hopes are entertained
of his recovery.
Bojlon'Pap.
We learn from Rhode-IGand that
'the republican candidates for Go
vernor and Lieut. Governor are-e-
le£tcd by coufiderable majorities, &
that a majority of the Senate and
Houfe of Reprefentatives are repub
lienn. ibtd
L tverpool, Sunday Afternoon,
February 25
I write to apprife you of one o
-the molt calamitous events that has
occurred in this town fince the me
mory of man A charity fermon was
to be preached at' the old Parochial
‘ church this morning, when about ten
minutes before the ufual tim" of be-
, ginning the fervice, the Iteeple and
fix bells fell, the former carrying the
whole roof of the church with it,
and buried iii the ruins a great part
of the congregation that had already
. afiembled It is not yet known how
many people have perifhed, as the
ruins are not half removed ; but a-
bout forty dead and mutilated bodies
have already been extricated from
them. The poor charity children,
we fear have fullered moft, as they
were feated immediately under the
centre of the roof. A feene fo af-
I Hiding, I never beheld ; the heart-
The fiiip John Avlams with dif-
patches from Mr. Pinkney has ar
rived in the Delaware —The next
mails will probably put us in pof-
fefiion of information relative to the
true (late of our affairs with the Eu
ropean powers.
Lyncbtsrg Star.
More Twi/itng and Turning.
« I told yon so," fay3the anglo-fe-
Jernlifls, on feeing the kings fpeech,
4« we always faid England was de
termined to treat us as friends'’
The fad is, they have traverfed the
whole political compafs, and may
be quoted for, oragainll themfelves, , renc |j n g cr i es 0 f the relatives of the
Strange as it may 1 * . 6 - . - -
the" people of this country than
myfelf. There neverwas a mea
fure adopted more deleterious
in its operation on the morals
and intereft of the people.*—
The (ingle effect of it has been
to deprecate the ftaple commo
Tity of the 'country at the rate
)f an hundred per cent* and ex
alt the Britifh manula&ures in
the fame ratio—to make cotton
Cell at eleven cents a pound, and
to make the. growers of rtqsay
fourteen dollars a yard for broad
cloth. Look at the practical
operation of it. A cargo of cot
ton from a fouthern port is land
ed at Amelia ifland. If BritHh
goods are there - ready to ex
change, they are taken in ex
change for the cotton, and fmug-
gled into the country. II there
be no goods “there, th-y bring
back no return except the h eight
for the (liort navigation to -A-
melia ifland. The cargo is land
ed, a duty of eight per cent paid
on it, bolides commtfiions, &c
and a duty of eight or ten per
cent- more on re-exportation,
and that freight- the Britifh drip-
holders chufes to demand.—*
This is not only the eftett of the
non intercourse. It mult be the
effect ct every fyltem of com
mercial reltndion (hort of the
meafure o( embargo ; becaule
all the penalties and fan&ions
one am willing to get rid of
non intercourfe and not fubfli-
tute any thing for it. To ob
tain this objeft there is no mode
left but to concur with the Se
nate in their amendments, and
ftrike out thofe clanfcs which
can have no other effed than to
perpetuate the fyfteru of non
intercourfe.
Ext raft of a letter wrote at Wajh-.
ington City. ,
' It has been very much of a
complaint that Congrefs have
done nothing ; but like all pee-
vi(h complaints thofe who utter
doubtful whether they weak! L
contented in any firutnion. A-
mong ail the nations of the eart!,
we are the happieft, and the btft
off, yet there are thofe among
us who want us to be better than
the bed;, and more happy than
the moft happy nation ; thus
violating all the rules of political
grammar, and all the maxims
of ^hutnan life.
It is no difgrace to us that we
cannot coerce the eldeft & moil
powerful nations of the globe.
The ftronger will, in physical
force, forever domineer over the
weaker ; and nature has counter
them do not inform us what i balanced this neceffiry ineqoa-
fhould* be done. It is true one
writer ftateS his plan, and that
perhaps, is war : another has his
proj.>ft, -and in all probability
that is preparation for defence :
whilft athird contends for naked
non-iuterccmrle or non impor
tatton. I am for my part a neu
tralift, and I do not think it of
fo much importance how we
preferve oUr neutrality. And
although Congrefs have, in re
lation to foreign affairs literally
done nothing yet, as that doing
of nothing has not conrpromit-
ed our neutrality, it is perhaps,
the wifeft thing that could be
done The PrefidetfPs policy
was I think, the bed policy, to
wit, to keep the door open for
which you can poffibly devife • negociation, and to prepare the
for carrying that lylletn into o i country lor defence. Had this
lity by cunning in hi ures and by
wifdom in men. Policy there
fore, and not war, is the true
weapon for America at this
time. War would (how that vie
have fpirir, but would it dewion-
ilrate that we have underilartd-
ing ? Let ddpondency, then,, be
banilhed from the vepablicaa
bofom. So long as the crime-
of our Congrefs is that of doing
nothing they are fafe enough.
It is much, eafter to do a thing
right when nothing has been
done, than to do it right aftei^
it has been done wrong.
Clarion.
From the Lynchburg Prefs.
To gWe with certainty the
news, which flaflv.'S continually
with electrical rapidity from con-
peration mull operate on a clafs plan been lteadily fupported in tinent to continent in fucccffive
on every point
'appear, the <lifmiff.il of Mr* Jackfon
has produced the mod friendly notice
of America, that has ever appeared
in any fpeech of his mod gracious
majedy. Let John Bull a£t well as
be-now talks, and his calves in this
. countr y will country no
Bcjlon Patriot.
Marriages /...Since Napoleon’s
divorce, the Englifli prints have not
allowed the updart to have an hours
Nap! They have married him to
the princefs of Saxony—next day to
Catharine of RulJia— the next to
Ferdinand the 7th’s iider—and lad
of all to the Emperor of Audria’s
- daughter J Lord have mercy on us !
if the little Coifican has net work
cut out for him move than he will
able to flitch in twelve month !
They had better, in charity, fend
him over the Prince of Wales and
Duke of York, as Aids de camp.
Aug. Chron.
Gen. Wilkinfon on his way to the
feat of government, touched at N
Orl eans and there took a wife with
a golden fleece. This reminds us of
Jackfon’s expedition to Colchis !
The general might have nights of
pleafuie, but we fufpecl he has days
of trouble before him. Ibid
We dated in our lad that Gen.
darted to Wafhington City. A cor-
rilpoiulent fuggeds to us that his
dart to the fcaffold will not he his
Ld —He believes his final dart will
he to the bottomleft' pin—The Ge
ncral, it is rumoured has fent a com
munication in cypher to old Charon
to know if Spanijb dollars pafs cur-
lennt in his country.
Columbian Cent.
APPOINTMENT.
'Die Hon. Stanley Grifwold, who
v/as much perfecuted by the feder-
t bits in New-England, during A-
dams’s adtriniftration, and whoaf-,
tcrivards underwent :,11 die fury of
Governor Hull, of Detroit, a treis
buU Ya too republican, has, we are
plea fed to fay, been appointed bv
the Prefulcnt of tlie Hinted States,
one of tire fvapreiue fudges of the
Illinois Territory. ibid.
A fop of Mr. Charles Stewart, of
Sedgwick, (Mas ) was employed a
lev,' days flace in falling trees, one
dead and of thofe unfound, and the
dreadful groans of the unhappy fuf
ferers, were too much for human
nature to fuilain. All the laborers,
and many tradefmen of the town,
are digging'in fearch of the fufi'er-
prs.u. and. 1 funpofe to- morrow wg
tune —
A net her letter ofthe fame date.fa\s—
“ Had the accident happened a quar
ter of an hour later, when the con
gregation were afiembled, there is
no calculating to what extent the
mifehief would have been. The fo-
licirous inquiry, and anxious looks
of parents, wno feared fome of their
children might be found among the
dead, together with the cries and
moans of others in the rubbifli, pre
fented a fcenc too awful for deferip-
tion.
Mr. TROUP’s SPEECH,
On the b:ll concerning Commercial
Intercourfe, ffc.
r March 27, 1810.
4 Mr. Troup faid it was the ob
ject of gentlemen to get rid all
commercial reftrittions, they
could only do fo by concurring
with the Senate. If they ad
hered, their object would indeed
be defeated. The non inter
courfe would be iaddled on the
country as long as the law con-
Van.Poffenbutg had dartedirom Or-, itinued in operation- Look at
]eA, ' s 10 I^I'iniore. He has fince the feSionsof the bill as it went
irom this Houfe (faid Mr. T )
It is true that one of thefe fe£ti
ons repeals the non intercourfe;
but it is alfo true that another
feclion fubftitutes a meafure,
which if retaliated, muft revive
the non intercourfe in faft. Not
only are thofe provifions incon-
friltn?, but another feftion of
the bill recognizes that incon-
fiftency, and provides a remedy
by authorifing the Prefident to
execute the law within four
leagues of the coaft by employ
ing the public armed veffels of
|the U. States to drte£f fmug-
glers.—Nowl fay, fir, that the
amendmentof the Senate, which
goes to the deftruftion of thefe
k&ions has for its obje& the de
ft ruflion of the non intercourfe
law. Sir, no man contemplates
the non intercourfe law in a
light more ferious as an evil to
without the reach of thofe pen-1 congrefs, there would have been
aides, people who are without neither the appearance of delay ;
your jurifdidbion people too who nor of irreloludon. ' But, fir, e-
will tell you m the plained lan ! very member feemed to have
guage they have no country, his own little notions of things,
that they are governed by no and fo there has been nothing
fentiment of honor or principal performed. So that our fitua-
of patriotifm, that commercial tion is not vrorfe than it was, if
gain is the foie objeft of their , it is not better,
confideration, and mat every o j The danger 6t leglflating on
ther bbj . tl will be facrificed to foreign aftkirswasi that we might
it. Does not every day’s expe- \ b t - legiflated into a hobble which
the truth T& at the common I which woufocolt uTa’great dfal
praflice and habits of thofe cal
led fliip owners. Are they not
every day lending their veffels
to the Britifh merchants for the
purpofe of violating the conti
nental policy, to the French,
Dutch or any other merchants,
for the purpofe of violating the-
Britiih orders in council, or to
Britifh and French merchants
(or violating the laws of their
own country ? Ana is itpofiible,
fir, that you OXpeft to execute
with any degree of fuccefs a lyf-
tem which is to operate on the
of blood and money. When a
legiflative body moves it does
fomething ; and it is fortunate
if that lbmeihing is not harmful.
I proteft to you, that 1 do not
perceive how we could oe in a
better fituation than we'are, con-
fidering the prefent ftate of the
world j and by luck, it feems,
reveifion, would require a ge
nius more exalted, and a mind
more expanded, than the hum-
ble writer of this ferip, would
affume to poffefs. But it is not
neceflkry that every readerfliOukl
be acquainted with our political
relations with Great Britain at
this uncertain conjecture, nor e-
ven with the fentiments of the
people of England.—Let it be
admitted that the majority of the
men r»f rhnt kingdom, nnd fuch
as are not biaff d by party pre
judices, or impelled by ir.fereft-
ed motives, are convinced of
the reClitude of the Executive
of the U. States in refufing to
negociate with their late mini-
fter Mr. Jackfon. That the
rights of our government are
conclufively maintained.—And
that the imperious hauteur of
their agent has received a much
to operate on this clafs ? It is
inipi flible ; fuch a fyftem muft
be futile and efficient.—Becaufe,
'we are precifely where the moft
enlightened wiidom could have more’ fevere condemnation in
placed us. I England, than has been uttered
Hot heads, Valiant hearts and againft our Executive by odious
noijy tongues, all fweil up public envy hsrfelf, though excited by
K ... , . - . .. pride' to a-height of fpirit which difappointment, or Britifh gold.
belligerents, when the penalt.es would be admirable m a corps Let it be faid it is enough t^
for a violation of the yftem are of grenadiers juft about to llorm inhabitants of that Ifland defire
clafs . It is a fortrefs but the exigencies peace, and if the people demand
of thefe times require fomething it, their will muft ultimately
.t T ... f more than political or military prevail inany country—that they
then I am dtfpofed to get nd of courage. Cool, fober, folnienfe are heartily tick of their ruierl
,!°n d iSH caution > fo i ef 'S ht ^ nnlefs fome unexpected good
dlfcretion are neceffary to re-; fortune fhould attend their mi-
deem us from a fituation in ' ferable armies, a friendly adjuft-
which one fall'e Hep may ruin -ment may be expe&ed. Still I
our hopes forever. | would afk, can fuch a nation be
fort of commercial reftri&ion,
conceiving it injurious only to
ourfelvcs, can it be faid that I
am difpofed to fubmit to the or
ders and decrees of belligerents ? Becaufe the executive has not : confided in, who aie” juft, then
No nr, tnofe gentlemen have precipitated or infifted upon what' only, when misfortune and ilk
u tendered the rights and in- 1 are called ftrong meafures, he projeded expeditions place them
erefts of the conntry who did , has by fome unrcfle&ing perfons in a ftate of humility ? By a rsl‘
originally fubmit to an abandon-1 been denominated timid. But! fercnce to the correfpondence
ment of the embargo. It is true ; thefe judges of prefidential fit- ! between Madifon and Stnrk,
now, and it was true then, that | nefs know very little of the : publiflied in the Lift Prefs, witii
coiiflitution of human nature if j which I heartily concur, it may
they call uaimpaflioned rational be feen what the voice of Stark
forbearance, timidity. It requir
es! more ftrength of mind to re-
fift impreflions of anger under
there was nothing between you
and the Britifh orders-in council
but embargo or war. You re
pealed the embargo and refufed
to go to war, and now as then
•there is no remedy fliort of war , injuries, than to fall into a violent
or embargo. Propofe what o-; paflion on every occafion, and
ther remedy you pleafe, and it 1 threaten death and deftrutlion,
is only calculated to excite ridi- j without in reality being able to
cule abroad. If you propofe fo do any thing. The Prefident,
convoy what ? it will be afked I conceive, has done his duty ;
will you convoy a trade to every
quarter of the globe with fix,
eight or ten frigates ? If you pro-
pofe to arm the merchant men—
what ? it is alked will you arm
your merchant men againft the
Britifh navy ? If we are to have
neither eu'.bsrgo or war* I for
and although Congrefs have po-
fitively done nothing they have
negatively done good ; for thev
have not plunged into a fyftem
of war or a fyftem of fubtnifiion.
Such impatience as is manifelted
by fome writers, is a bad omen.
It goes to prove that it is very
declares we ought to expect
from either of the belligerents. 1
Domeftic improvements then
fliould occupy moft of our at
tention. In tins fource of wealth
ccnfifts our national harpiiufs
and independence. What body
of citizens are moie indepen
dent, and who are happier thru
the banner or the Planter who
lives within hhnfclf. Let us maker
exertions to incrcafc lifts fan;ro
of happmefsand vcalih. Of all
the live flock common i * -a form,
Sheep arc the moft prolific, Jrsfo
exper.five and moft un lul. Ma
ny advantages ccrfpiic tc induce