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From the National Intelligencer.
Solid National Profperity .
Notwithftanding all that has been
faid agaioft the embargo, it may
be quellioned, Whether within any
year fince her independence Ame
rica has made a greater progrefs in
foltd wealth than during the laft.—
To thofe who only view the ftfrface
of things this remark may be con
fidered as vifionary ; but it will on
ly require a difpaflionate attention
to faists of the greateft notoriety
and confiderations of indifputable
accuracy, to induce us, at the leaft,
to withhold an arrogant rejedrion of
it.
In the Eaftern feftlon of the.U
nion there has been an aftonifliing
prog r efs made in manufactures, in
the middle ftCtion internal improve
ments have advanced with unpre
cedented ftep% whiie in the fouth
-1 erh and wellern dates, although
fevercly prefled, much labor
GEORGIA EXPRESS.’
MANY SHALL RUN TO AND FRO, AND KNOWLEDGE SHALL BE INCREASED*
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has been advantageoufiy employed
in the improvement of their farms.
That this has been the cafe the in
.creafed price of lands, and. the un
diminifhed price, of labor, are almoft
conclufive proofs.* Thefe.are the
great barometers of national, prof
perity j and while they keep up, it
may be confidently affirmed that
the country is free from general
diftrefs. The Cotton manufadlo
ries of Rhode Ifland have afiumed a
magnitude that promifes to. rival
thole of Britain, and fimilar aflTici
ations in Maflachufetts have become
fo numerous as ro require a general
a<st of her leg’flature regulating the
mode of condu&ing their operati
ons.,. In Connecticut the patriotifm
and perfeverance of Col. Humph
ries, both in the introduction and
railing of the be ft fheep, and the
manufacture of the fineft cloths,
have overcome almoft every diffi
culty. , In New-York, Chancellor
Livingfton Judging a vigorous com
petition. In New-Jerley the rail
ing of fbeep has commanded g r eat
a.id fuccefsful attention, •in which
no one has been more inftrumental
than Mr. Miles Smith, } an enlight
ened and wealthy, emigrant from
England, whofe virtues and prin
ciples every way qualify him for the
citizen of a republic. ; Pafling on
to Pennfylvania, the favorite feat
©f arts, enterprife and induftry,
Ph'ladelphia and its neighborhood
difpjay the charaCltriftics of a ft u
--rilhing mantifaClurirg fettlement,
and Pit;fburg, at a diftance of three
hundred miles, with the powerful
agency of fteam in acotten manu
factory has begun to draw q>on the
inexhauftible riches of, perhaps, the
noblcft coal mines on
this refource (hall be brought into
full activity, what may we not ex-.
peCt from a place, in the.midft of a
fertile country! at the head of a na
vigation that leads to the ocean bv
a circuit of two thbufand miles, and
through a country, part of which is*
already well fettled, and all cfwh'cK
will, in a fhort period time, fuftain
a crowded population. In Phila
delphia and its vicinity property
has never rifen with fuch rapidity {
and never has Philadelphia receiv
ed fo much improvement as during
the laft year. If any one wifhes to
form a tolerable idea of the manu
factures in and about this place, he
has only occafion to pafs through
Germantown, a Aourifhing village,
commencing about five miles from
the city, and continuing almoft
without interruption five miles fur
ther, a town almoft exclufively fup
ported by manufactures. The
ftate of Delaware, on the fine waters
of the Brandywine, follows boldly
in the footfteps sf her more opu
lent After. Progre fling to the ftate
of Maryland, we find a capital of a
million formed, and an immenfe
eftablifhmcnt nfing in the neigh
borhood of Baltimore,’ with every
promiie of fucceis. Let us not
paf3 our own cicy, without noticing,
with becoming modefty, an infant
inftitution, the germ, perhaps, of
future greatnefs, with a capital of
200,000 dollars fubferibed for a
bridge, nearly fimlhtd,. exceeded
in workmanftiip or fize, by few in
the United States. We might pro
ceed, and (hew that even in the
Southern and Weftern dates, hi:htr~
to fo exclufively devoted to agri
culture, tf)e fpirit.of manufactures
has given birth 10 many a promifirg
experiment*. But we have faid e
nough to (hew that our citizens,
however they may value trade, have
too much gtmus and energy,- when
drivtn by neceffi.y, not to find o
ther fields of occupation.,
* Our furpnfe will be ditbinifhed
at the general rprofperity. of the
country, notwithftanding the aimed
toral fuipenfion of con\mercc, when
we compare,the tnflgnificant amount
of that commerce, in its melt flou
rifhing ftate,.. with- the amount of
the total confumption of the coun+
try. H The fore : gn goods confumet}
in this country have never, perhaps,
exceeded forty millions of dollars
in valufc ; while the total confump
tion of the country does not fall
fhort of eight hundred millions.-
How admirably fitted is this faCt to
humble the. vaunting arrogance of
thofe who aferibe every thing to
external, ..commerce ? It .proves
that a (mall amelioration or advance
in the great occupations of agricul
ture and manufactures outweighs in
utility ; the boldeft ftridc-s of com
merce i and, perhaps, of itfelf fuf
ficiencly accounts for the general
profperity. .1. -* , i. ( .
r Let,, it, moreover, be regarded,
internal improvements of
the laft year are but the feed Town,
and that by far the greater portion
of the harveft is ftili to be reaped j
and, confequently, that the enfuing
years are Ikejy to be more fertile
in ; the general profperity than the
lift*
From the lame*
The following juft tribute from the
Anti Monarchijl to the virtues of
Pr eft dent Adams fuper cedes all net
ceffity of\eommfnt.on the letter given
in our Jajt. Wt have always cn-
Jidered Mr Adams as an up
right man. \ His letter puts a
ft amp upon bis integrity, „ .
. The above letter of the venera
ble revojutionary patriot John ad-
AMs, ought, to be prefer vc<s as a
latting evidence of hh unttiaken
patriotifm. Superior to the calum
nies of the day, he looks with a pe
netrating eye of a ftatefman into
futurity. Perceiving the dangers
which may befal his country from
a faftion, from foreign attachments,
and, from wars, he.warns his coun
trymen a gainft the exec ties into
which they, may be plunged by de
fining men. * .
The points eftabliftied by this
letter are important, and deferving
the ferious at rent ion of all friends
to American independence. It ap
pears/
1 ft. That, like hfs great prede
ceffor, Walfiington, he is oppofed
to a divifion of the ftates.
2d.’ That he is oppofed to a decla
ration of war again ft France as re
commended by Mr. Gore to the
leg (lature of this ftate/ ac the fete
ftifoju
f 4 3d. That he is oppofed to the
doing of the L g flature of this com
monwealth, at the late ftfikm, inas
much as Mr. Gore’s war report has
been - accepted and approved of b]
that bodyw ; • 4 v r
> 4 f h. Thatvin arcordlnce with
the views of the prefent
tion, he is*, for maintaining and
; <f rights and independehce of thi
country, at all events,” and wifhes
to avoid war with both England and
France as long as pofllble, - without
facrificing the tffcmial inierefts of
the nation. *n , jt, <tG’ f
Let not the people; of MafTachu
feus be hurried into exctiLs by the
intemperate proceedings of the ftate
1 1 giflature,irwho’ have the
laws of the Union not bindingrr r
commended a War wuh France,
and endeavoured to prove that there
is a differance rf inteVefls between
the people of, New England, and
the people of .the Southern (lares.—*
Let Maflachufetts rather liften to the
counfels - of the firft re volutionary
ftatefman and patriot. r Let her
regard the warning voice of a mai
grown grey in the fer vice of hfe
country, of one, ; who, aloof from
party politicly, can view the pafling
feenes The Ro
mans have great refpeft forthecoun-*
cil .ofthe, aged.. Let us ipitate the
example, and harken, to the advice
of this venerable man, whofe virtue
is truly Roman. - • .*
. It is . to be regretted that he
had ever placed confiience in Pick-*
ering 8c Hamilton, as he thereby
fubjeCted himfelf to the unmerited
abufe of fome republicans who had
always rcfpeCted his revolutionary
fervices. Surrounded by a Bncifti
faClion, it -was. d>(£culc for him ta
extricate himfelf from their foils.—•
Yet at tl(e clofe of hi? admin ; ftration,
by difmifling Pkker.ng, and others
of the fame (lamp, from his coun
cil, he made a noble facrifice on
the altar of patriotifm. Since that
time he has v been (1 ghted and ca
lumniated by the leading frderil fis,
or rather by the EILx J unto, who
bow control the federal party. The
republicans, on the contrary,, had
him as the firm revolutionary whig,
the enlightened ftatelman and ho
ned man.
NAVYOFTHE~U. STATES.
• • i ; *•/ 4 , r .
The following, (fays the National In
tplligenctr) we underfiand is the
prefent arrangement oj , the Navy
of the United States as to the com
manding officers:
The Conftitution Com. .Rodgers,
ffefident Capt. BainbrdgeJ
U. States Capt. Decatur,
Chpfapeake Capt. Hull,
E(R*x Cap. Smith,
Wafp 4 Capt. Robinfon/
John Adam Capt. Evans,
Hornet Capt. Dent,
Siren Capt;. Gordon,
ArgUs Lt. Jones,
Vixen Lt. Dent,
Enterprise, Lt. Trippe.
. The Conftitution , now at New-
York, will, we underftand, be com
pletely prepared for fer vice in a
few day*. The United States , the
£ffin and the John Adams are in-the
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