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Volume i.]
From the National Intelligencer..
There is no fall more urn
doubted than the universal evils
resulting from war, as well to
the victorious as the vanquifneci
nation , and yet there is fcarce
}y a nation in modern times that !
has not by her conduct illustra
ted the truth of the maxim. —
The United States have the rare
felicity, the distinguished honor
of having maintained in this
refpedc wich equal harmony and
vigor her theory and praflife.
It is probably to this deport
ment fire owes more eminently
her prelent prosperity than to
any other circumstance that can
be named. We may add, that
Ihe will continue to be more in
debted to this circumstance than
to any other for the duration of
her liberties and happiness. It
becomes then an object of the
firft rate confequciice to secure
co a distant period this great ie
fult. How fliali this be aeccm
plifhed ? In no way so effectu
ally as by producing in the
whole nation the th ong and per
manent conviction that peace
ought to be maintained with the
utmost care by all means confil
tent with national honor. We
have teen, in many ages and in
several parts of the world, that
few barriers, so efficient, can be
raised against the abuse of pow
er, as the deep rooted opinions
of a people, even when those
opinions were the offspring of
prejudice. If prejudice, univer
sal!) diffufed, lias such extensive
powcq can we. doubt the irre
fi liable weight of truth, under
iimilar advantages ?
It becomes from this conside
ration a duty of no light obliga
tion in all who poffels the pow
er to use the means of enlighten
ing the public on this point. —
Thiscanonly be accomplished by
uniform conduit, and by proper
explanations and illustrations un
interruptedly made. Such are
the irTidious & seducing charms
of war, and so potent the pafii
cn of resentment for injuries,
that there is aconftant tendency
in nations to abandon conciiia-v
tory measures, and to -rush into
an appeal to arms. To check
tins unreflecting spirit, to chain
the paflions into subordination
to reason is an arduous effort, re
quiring the constant vigorous
and united exertions of wife nd
good men.
If these remarks be just, ic is
sc all time seasonable, by tacts
and argumc nts, to (hew, not only
the general superiority of peace
to war, but likewise the peculiar
benefits which the United States
have derived from peace, com
paring their lituadon with that
and Europe. Where, if we pals
in review the different contexts,
v. hat do vv’e behold but a pros
tration of their liberties, a de
ilruttion of their happiness and
extinction *-f the:r hopes.
PETERSBURG :-~C Georgia) —Pointed by BURICE & M'DONNFUL.
Never, perhaps, has that quarter
of the glebe lowered with a
blacker sky, and never has ihe
been the more afflicted viltim ot
war than during a few past years.
To go no further back than the
era of the French revolution, we
behold at that period, compared
with this, a relative elyfium.—
Then the different nations rested
In iecurity. There were form*
causes ofanimoftcy among them,
for the ultimate adjustment of
which an appeal might* perhaps,
have been made to the sword.
But, had thac been the case, there
was little profpelt of the flames
of war being marked by any
considerable extention, or pro
ducing those dreadful lcenc
■ which have since disgraced th*-
annals of humanity and juft.ice
Never did reform wear a brigh
ter alpeft than at the commence
ment of that revolution. The
whole French people, with hob
enthusiasm, role at one instance
from thdr numbers, and noblv
vied with each other in patriotic
facrifices to liberty and their
country. Under these Iplendid
auspices the good work went on,
until the allies, wholiad receiv
ed no injuries, without cause car
ded their arms to the borders of
France &dared to invade ground
facredto liberty & human happi
ness. Here began to be unfolded
the bloody feene, which isflill
vivid in the recollection of the
reader. This was the Pandora
box from which 10,000 plagues
inftan&y rushed into the world.
It is unne cellar y to dwell on the
successive ads cf murder, ra
pine, and desolation, which co
vered the greater part of Eu
rope. It is fuflicient for our
present purpose, that not a na
tion who rose in arms against
France has not rued the rashness
of their conduCt. Belgium,
Holland and Italy have funk
into vanquiftied provinces where
personal distress only keeps pace
with national dishonor. Aultria,
Prussia, and Portugal are lubdu
ed into perfect inflgniflcance. —
Russia, secure in her distance,
surrounded by her satellites,
Sweden and Denmark, alone
maintains herftacion among the
powers of the earth. England,
unfortunate England, worthy of
a better fate, is doomed to a
war, without the profpeCt of an
end, and to exertions deftruClive
of her peace, her faftty and
her prosperity. With a people,
towering in thdr habits of en
terprise, and industry, above ail
the nations of the old world, we
behold the dreadful fpeltaclc of
more oppreflive taxes, and more
individual distress than is pre
sented by any other region of
the earth.
It may be computed on a very
moderate eftimare,’ thac in Eu
rope there are now under arms
two millions cf foldier* or Tai
lors, and that their maintenance,
with the incidental expenses of
war, ccftuhc annual ih.n cl u /a-
T H U R S D A TANARUS, August 29, 1805.
hundred millions of dollars.—
This, then, is so much loft to
f the flock of national wealth, in
dependently v of its effects in
withdrawing such a large porti
on of drcdive men from the
plough and the loom, in leaving
1 1 many millions of wives, and
children to the precarious sus
tenance derived from their own
labors, and of rhe increased con
sumption of those, who raising
nothing themselves, are occupi
ed in deftroymg the productions
of others. Who does not per
ceive that the inevitable effeff of
tht-fe things is to abridge the
circle of innocent enjoyments of
:he lower clafles of society, by
ruling their value so high as to
deny them the means of obtain
ing them ? How different would
be the result if all the effective
labor of common Ties were di
eted to the production of ar
mies of utility. There would
then be enough of wholesome
food and good raiment for
ail. *No man would be poor,
unless disabled from working
by bodily infirmity, or unusual
misfortune* Combining all the
circumstances gnu me rated, we
may fafely estimate the loss of
withdrawing two millions of
men from labor, and the effects
incidental to it, at an equal sum
with that required for their
maintenance, making together
the annual amount of one thou
land millions of dollars. Who
is there that seriously confiders
the magnitude of this sum, and
vtews the effects of the extensive
deprivation, (of which it is the
representative) of the power of
nations and the happiness of their
fubjelts, that does not fee thac it
is a millstone round their glory,
destined ultimately to be atten
ded by incalculable mifehiefs.
With this rapid lketch, let us
compare our own situation i and
we Ihali be enabled to form a
faint idea of the advantage and
superiority of a pacific ‘over a
warlike policy.
For twenty-three years past,
we have maintained, amidst the
diftraltions of Europe, a state of
peace, which can scarcely be
considered as disturbed by our
differences with the Indians cr
the pirates of Tripoli. During
this period, we have at no time
had an army of more than three
thoufand men, nor incurred, it is
believed, an annual expence of
more than two millions of dol
lars. Taking the succession or
years, the*average expeace did
not exceed {even hundred thou
sand dollars. During the whole
of this time we have been ex
empt from the carnage and def
folations of war, and scarcely a
human hfe has been facrificed.
Every man has been employed,
according 10 the bent of his ge
nius, in advancing his own in
terest. In a moral point of light,
the condition of the U. States
has been so effentiaily cliff rent
fxoc.i itidu cd che nai’Dns 1.
rope, that there are too few
points of refetnbiance to form
any companion between them*.
The difference is almoit infinite.
In a pecuniary view more de
finite ideas may be formed.—*
The population of the United
States was five millions during
the period of time referred to.
That of Europe may be esti
mated a: two hundred millions.
During this period, in mainte
nance of her peace the U. States
have employed three thouland
soldiers ; while Europe, for the
carrying on her wars has em
ployed two millions. Accor
ding tG this proportion, an equal
population in Europe has enga
ged 50,006 soldiers. The ex
pence offupportirtg the army of
the United States has been about
700,000 dollars a year; that of
supporting die arm y of an equal
European population* twelve
millions five hundred thoufaud
dollars. Computing the Joss
fuftalned from the fubtraliion
of labor occalioned by the mili
tary eftabliffimcnt at the fame
sum, it will follow, that it has
virtually cost the United States,
per annum, one million four
hundred thou land dollars; while
it has cost: an equal population
in Eurojpe the sum of twenty
live millions, leaving an annu
al difference in favor of the U.
States, of twenty-three millions
fix hundred thotifand dollars.
Supposing Europe to have
been half the above term invol
ved in war, (and (Tie basin fa<Sfc
been engaged in war more than
half) and her peace to be one
half of her war eftablilhment, ic
will follow, that the military ex
pences of a population of five
millions in Europe, during the
pad twenty-three years have
been 431,000,000
And those of >
the U. States j 2^000,000
407,000,000
Making a difference of lour
hundred and seventy millions in
favor of the United Stares, and
in favor of the pacific over the
warlike The effect will
be the fame as if this immence
ti eafure were taken from the one
nation and transferred to the
others independent of the in
creafcd population of the one
nation over the others. This
sum is little, if at all, fiiort of
the whole amount of the wealth
of a nation composed of five
millions !
or TO R\ B IB 2? V
“jp) EQUESTS those who owe
ii'iw him, to caii and pay or
liquidate their accounts without
delay i and notifies those who
may employ him hereafter, that
in every case he will demand *
note payable at a convenient
time, immediately after his Cer
vices are rendered having de
termined to cldc iiis accounts
and keep a Note-Book only.
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[Number 13.