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Georgia & Carolina Gazette?’ - ■ - IW --- Til. „ , - . . . _ 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. l y iUr!i:ur*. “ f un: 3 ; ISOS. V* L}’ ** 0 j [Number 13.