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2e Jkmsk -Minerva.
FRIDit, NOVEMBER i; 1816 i
x
: BALEIOH, (N. C.) ,
ramTKD. wekkit. bt'. ivA&. ;'' "
4VriM of tubteripHtn itkre dullwa ptt yer, OBthftlf
. to ce paia in KjTnee. o paper to m cpounuea imi.
yet-ttuirthree monini alter a yet UbcripiKQ be
' come 4ae, and notice thereof cb&U have been riven.
j hin-utientt rut exceeding 14 1'.nea, sreltvscrtea thrk
; . for one dollar, and for . fwetity-five-oetita eachiubke-
' quent insertion; and in liku proportion where than
m a(jrctcr cumber of linea tliAii fijurlcea. ',
, J- No siitrriptioo cai in any case be received without
, , 'payment ofat lesst SI SJ irt advance. "rj
lieligigus.
loate&il f jeaving commerce at inch un befor Mr retden, if we eouIJ da to itb pro,
haekled poisible which ni the praetiee priety before we reeeive evnfirnAiioD of iLem..
f the tw first admioistreitena, the twit Ut Abstractedly viewtd, the atiackeo tie Firev
art enaeavortd tfl, rejuiaie - every iDing. oy ( sraaa, u in wuiniaa le oe aa miieae'itee
their restietioat opoa it. With iheir non-inter
eeuraee, noa-impertationa, embargoes, &a. the
eoBniero of the country had very nearly be
eeiue a Hon-eatity. Firt, by our non-ioipdrta-
tiea which operated ejelurely almoit, to the
venel, wai a mott waaUo outrage, tueb si tae
Spanish governmtat waald net in cenimeD prv
deaee avs r autLorize, aiace it is in ibe (low
er of the United States et a word to strike te
the Titall ef Spain in hep colonies, -It u (hre
faOM THS SALT. JSP. airUBLIOA-S, ;V
, ' Madras JDe ArHiCner, It !s wonderful (e
.: tiee by what smalt, nnd apparaatly.by'Whatin
Signilieaut tncaui, divine proviJeneft sometime!
work1) the most important ehtBgei in the moral
WotJd. Mihty mooarebl eud the huinl!eit
: pieaiaofs are tometimei iudUerimiuately ued r
ita iniruuicui vmb uioiii vi v iur aui
r sARipIishmenl of his otcii-.ev VVfiweM fr-
'zr riiiljr eVuek h thf , jurtie ef these Mairks
' na 'pfnwin J the foliowio's eilraet frotn 4" Paris
puer i :T-..""!"T;-; -tr' 7 -j-f---
J3sfe, tli-Several petty States have
kWeai'uortaaco to tbe' preattbiugs of Madame
U0.I7 tW, by prphibHwg them, and by! em
'ul( Jpiiiilie fore to dipero lfj numer-
, VJ. attraetad bj tbem. 8oirte. Ger.nan
paper? h&re not faifn!' to tunMc of tliTn an ob-
7 joH ef political cjnjt?(j(urfsf they hav even
- sid, in positive tet-ms, that Madame d lCrud
nsr was the inisionary of a Political sect. Ne
.'r thing is' more fshe. .Thi lady has fletr been
pUeed in the hijc'iest eireles, su as to ha able to
ea'.isfy the mont etulteJ Ambition, if she had
possessed it. But, siaeerely devoted to her pi-
; eus medilaliutt, be ha ne ver endeavoured to
etereuu soy iuflueoee ove r t he councils of llon-
' arehs, Vbo charmed by her wi , deiiUtwd in
Crequenlinjf hr aiPnblia. It eaunot be deoi-
4 that, wiihaut thinking' of jr; 'as jf ai a.riso to
that celebritad ei n;iaet called the ChriHtian
' mnd Fraternal Mianct, t-f '.which all the fctiugi
in Europrt have become ebntrnotin parties.
It was not by flittering sovereigns it was
on the contrary, by a idressioz to them the o-
yerest sermons, that she gave the first, idea of
that Holy Atliauce. She never eeaitnl to repre
sent the usurpation aud victories of BoUiipurte
as a punishment which nrovideneer indieted on
hition and polities. M&d'ne Rrudeoor has
faie exercised her moral & religious ludiienee
in an astonishing manner a pen the persooal f
feet ions of a great Svrtirf. This Prince, whe
la u.iy iooi reiiembl elenry 1 V, a4 L
Ls XI V", has found a Oabrielle, a Lavallierf :
Madame de Krudener by her sei'mens, was able
toeitieguish in two hearts the warmest passion,
and more eitracrdiniry still, to replace love by
pure and virtuous friendship. After this moral
miracle, it would not be difficult for Madame
Krudencr to ercate herself an empire in a. paw.
erful court t -but she preferred traversing in bad
weather, in rainy seasons., the mountains of
Switserland and Huabia, preaching evangelical
morality to a croud of persons whom curiosity
jh&d.madtf her fiilowcr, but who do not by any
means form a uew sect."
- Now it is probable, that when this lady was
discovered picaehiug1 the dortriims of her U
deemer to the prudaod majniSoent potentates
of Europe, che was denominated an enthusiast,
Laughed at for nsr folly, or despised for her te
merity and presumption ; it is probable that the
prostrate temples ef their magnificent idolatry
the cross or Jesus Christ. let, lunuels cay,
that that this mighty change was brought abont
by the means of imposture I What the Grecian
ana Koman sages dimly beneld to the severe re
cluses ef philosophy what they saw and pro
claimed in their writings rather as a dream of
fancy than as a practical good was revealed iu
noon-tide effulgence, to twelve illiterate fisher
men of Juciea. All the admired sages of anti
quity, PJato, Socrates and Cicero, the lights of
phiiosopuy and eloquence, trembled, at ma
thengbt of c
They eonsidered
apnuosopnicat
ulSCttSScU WHQ '
oven bv ohiloaonhers. What the V'deemed im-!bv irliirh tht rhole world weald be eoinneliedJo I of the Chsstneoke; 'oravated bv everv cir
nracticable. was brousht about bv twelve fish bow at our feet amrheseeeh ui, in the v strains leu instance of cold-blooded malice, tbin eii rse,
ermea of Judea, 'who aud ierer htard : of the of humbJa sooDliaetsi to. grant ahem a relier 1 nointcd out by the Itwc of nations, and by tL .
name, cf these . pbilosephdrsV ,, And by what from the craviees 0fnatare. After fourteen rule of reason, was pursued.
awans-did thev brioic about a cbfinire so nurae- months trial it wu ai.uudoned, aad- lis advo-l
. SM ' . i . . v.tv .i 1 .- . t-"-? . - v. '-i.
disadvantage of England " nd oursem, . both ' fore probable the attack, has and dastardly af
Uingland ani rranee were to be compelled 10 it is reprcsentrn to nave seen, win ot iDsiautly
aeecde to our own terms 4 this failing the bob- disavowed by the Spanish government, and ita
haogingiheidolatryonhoaoeientsinlereourse was next adopted, and this tn its antnors punisnen,or oeuvcrrd up tou tor pun -
the unity of the Qod-hdad as , Urn being found to fail in the accomplishment . ishmeut an atonement, the demand f hieh
point 01 inveiiauon, anu 10 ims oi 11 1 oojeoi, 100 emoargo was auupiea. iuh wun fi k, '" tncii vi nu(tn vint. ,
eitreme timidity aud ; delicacy lit was thaacht, would be a sovereisrn -remedv, I prevent war. In flie moeh more atrocious cone 'T : ,
was made the iet of wits aud the banter of the
propbaae. What was the couseorueoce f ill
these exertions 1 DePHii the sneers of pro
pbaoe malice, she boldly seeks an interview.
: with the sovereign arbiters of Europe, and amidst
the diadems that sparkle in th-ir erowns, she
rears lho-triumphaut cross of her Redeemer
What an answer is this to the jests and ribald.
ry of propbane wit and to the snects of infidel
malice I she becomes a reebie instrawen in 1
' miirbty hand for the aceoorplUhment of (he de
aios of hr Creator. So true is the fact that
one can tell how much benefit may follow e
oen th kumbleit exertiona when ensraeed ill l
"just and ttlorioui cause, " Madame do fiLrudener
; must now ha astonished at 'the, success of her
Awn exertions, which eventuated in the treaty
now denominated the Holy Alliance. Now if
' wojeonteoiplaterthis humble, solitary, tad on
7 prelected woman in the.streets of Paris, preach
- us the doctrines of her r'ederiine'fr-wJju the au
gostpotentates of Europe solemnly reeogniaing
his empire in a formal treaty, and acknowledge
ing htm, and him alone as entitled to homage,
.what prepoftiontfeis the'ro'et'sin hiweert so tti
f la eause and so miirhty an effect i We be
1 .'Jail the licentioui infidelity of Roussetfu and
. Voltaire, by it strange misnomer called pbiloso-phy-rall
their wit, and all their genius, all their
.7, literary confederacies and cabals in theserviee
- of infidelity, 'prostrated fay the exertions of a
;lf cinale unprotected woman in the cervice of her
Redeemer. 'The result is Consoling and ani
V mating to the humble christian believer. ' It
. chews bow vain and ineTectual is httmah learn
' J ing, wit, and genius, when opposed to the de
, tigns four creator itls a salutary, thopgh an
humble lesson to the pride of letters and to the
v tseers of infidelity i jt further admonishes the
ohristian never to tremble at the pride of his
opponents, and to believe that the very hour
' when the glooms of infidelity obscure the moral
i horizon, it maybe bet a preliminary darkness
, to the full splendor of a Gospel day. ' ) ...
j ; This has been the usual oourseof divine prov
, 1 ideneo in ' its most ' important : dispensations.
Twelve poor fishermenconfonnded all the learn-1
ing of Greeca and Rente, and erected over the
But. if there are cirenaianea not rrr.rmllv
ulona 1 They told of tho ththgs which tbav te fonld theoi in-thu forT!Hi.ce if ihcr
had aeon, and heard, and felt 1 they ofttrted pcMUshmeni-of their obio-twhea the Wejcgfc- FireCTaBd w any leagues cctwi.rd oYTt
eeeation, stHpes. imprisonment, and detain its tu first tKet bt tt4 .".i, ,, Sr4'DIly.fy' lh fi5Mh..eoft tf she w: its J
;ason oi- espcrmicns issica irooiij"j'" j""' uiiu ,
tiijat awful tbrms 1 thev rxitired thftir lira. blood 1 . Thft iekaoA of oinoritnent Isatisd for, Ahowtll company
in defkttee of their doctrines, arid their tombs. fvV years, and hrought us to the eve of a. des- Jr from -Orteans, destined for a Meitf:
.hreathe at the: present hoar, tb lessons oronritrneUve war. After, having' impoverished the!i. "cttApfenaiy province if, one of tb
own immdrta'hyv , ... . ii iiM?- .f eoanWy by cutting oil' her resources, and ruin-!0' eminent- barristers of Ne w. Orleans wae
ing nUlividuals who d pended dpou their ship- jon poaro me vessel nesuen.aenso!;,J thos 10
ping Cosiness to meet their engagements, the company with the Firebrand, as it supercargo f
111, fno coaracier j our armcu scrooncr was in ,
' . Political. : , 4
iraoM thk aeipAWAHB OAZErra. "
Our Utt ttubargt) awi. The" arrival witlv
Corn from the Vest-Iiidies, have, with reason,
administration at last found themselves enzag
ed in war without iouds to support it Tall of
which mlabt have been avoided, the commerce
of tbe country preserved in its ilourishiue
attracted the attention of the people of thi; wodititn and Consequently, the resources ex
country. In tbts eireumsfance the eueets of
our mbargn laws begin to developatheirtf elves
in glaring colors. It begins now to us seen
that the predietions of .the opposerrof those
laws were dictated by reason, and that the sup
porters acted in despite to her dictates ; or lliat
tbey were men utterly devoid of that foresight
which is requisite to the proper administration
of the affairs of a country whieh depends upou
her commerce for support. ;
' It wa a"graiid objoct with the Federal ad
ministration, 10 oueourago commerce, and . a
void ail eutuajliu alliauces, and un;ieeesiary
quarrel, which might operate to its discour
agement. They eomlueled oar conntry safely
tarougu a period the most dimealL While
Europe was detnged. withblood and groan
ing under the weignt of the French revolution,
&&Wffaw$tut wie polliey, a ceason
of ibsmuittunsianiulod proifteritr.' Atfntnft
we're"! roil efifiy Uad'Wft Sfc- Jtssi4"S44l
European contests, but the engagements were
studiouiily avoided ; and, at the tune Mr. Jef
ferson took the chair of state, he fsundhe na
tion in hsr fqll lido of-coaMssfnLeipori-meat,"
notwithstanding the many ditficalties
that had. been encountered.
The unparalleled insplenee of the French Di
rectory, encouraged by 31 r. Monroe, the ores
ent candidate for President, involved them,
for a while, in difficulties, from which tbe best
exertions of tbe wisest men were alone somcient
to extricate them. But sufficient degree of
nery, adopted in time, prevented au those
miluppy consequences in which the undeter
mined conduct of moJero legislators has invol
ved us, Had their condnet, at that time, been
similar to that whieh has since been pursHod.
or and the advice. of the then opposition been
attended to, we should have benn". engaged in
early war, and the seaoitof prosperity whieh
(bo nation enjoyed wouiu nave been uukuowu
in the annals of our country.
' These observations are made In Coiitfpqneuee
of the frequent use of the remark, that to ex
pect that commerce should flourish during the
late administrations, while the European pow
ers were practising their' imposition upon us,
as it did from 179 1 to 1800, weald be folly
To this remark I would reply, that if these
difficulties did exist during tbe period of the
last administrations, it was also the ease while
Washington and Adams presided; and more
over, that the trouble of which the complaint
is made might have been avoided With less dif
ficulty, bad proper measures been, adopted, than
those which were imposed by tne tyranny or the
French Direotory. Then, as the different ad
ministrations ware placed in similar ciroani
stances in thic respect, tbe soundoees and pro
priety of their measures ought to be juiljed ,af
by the results, which nave toiie wen. ;
Of what use is it to urge that iq consequence
of the occurrence of certain particular circum
stances, that losses have been sustained, when
those circumstances were produced by previous
ill-advised measures? To be more explicit
It proves nothing iu favor of the administration
that theeommereo of the eouo'try is in-a less
flourishing eondttioa- than it watjfn former
years, bceanse 01 our amicuiues wun oiner na
tions, when it is notonou mat tnose flimeoi-
ties have arieen in a great measure, from ilte
mumaoaarement of our owu aiuirs. A part or
the eempiaint agaiust the present admiuistra
tion. eud the one immediately preceding it,
ought to be, that they have so long suffered this
state ef things to exist.
There is no unfairness in comparing the state
of commerce at different periods, and praising
or reprobating the measures of the men uuder
whose admiuistration those measures have been
adopted; when-at those different periods, the
eountry was in similar circumstances, except
ing unnecessary .connections and contentions.
In the two different periods to which allusion
has been made,' the bation was iu those simi
lar circumstances. In one instance, si'shjneas
ores were adopted as produced prosperity t but,
in the ether, the reverse was pursued, , and eoa
sequenees have arisen of whieh I now mean to
take seme notice, , v '
tended, had they chosun to profit by the exam
pis ef wiser and better men. , v
By Comparison ef the exports at different pC.
riods, it will bo seen what was the immediate
less ef the government by these meflMires. .-.V
, t(iU79t the cxpoi-ts fi-om this country a-' '
mwinted-W ; - - gt9,0U,041
- ltlJO yi?y were - . . 70,971,780
Inci-'enka in ten ysn,'
In ISO'., the middle year of their favorito
metsurenof retrictiii, thoy wci .
Whlth boinjf dcilur'jHl fij'jm the ammint
In 135o, - . - , .
Lcnv a docreas nt' .
51,959,739
33,430,920
ro,97i,r
48,540,820
Let us then add for a'pwpunHXttta mcrve. 8y if
the tncre:uie m l yeaj-s Was. jJJl.959,739; how much
should it bo m 8 years J ,7 ''" .
. 10)4l5,67r,9l
This sum, thffl, of -bfteff
Um inevceso rkst nrfftil have Ima
tetd in tb 8 veari of lomocratic rulf ,
wo will add the decrease thereto,! ,-
And it will then make - -
. If the increase, for tlio'st 8 ycrs, gllould
have been ', - . , . , "'
Let u add the amount in 1300,
41,567,781
43,540,820
9O,108,ti
70,971,780
Then the actual amdtwt of exports, iaV
1808 ought to have betu - . , 112,539,.5ri
rrom wiiicii we will U 'iiwt what nai ex
ported, - . . .; . 23,430,960
Thodeflcieiicy then, Is . J590,!08,61l
There eau be nothinz unfair in this estimate.
for it is but reaonable . to exoect that th ex
ports shjulJ increase with the increase ef the
nation ; especially as we have seen it do so for
the ten years immediately preceding the demo
cratic administration. And as to allowing for the
restrict ions open commerce, a is someiimos de
manded, I must answer those who make the dc
mand, that those restrictions were avoided at a
time quite trying as the one in wbi b they
wi re impose!. They were not adopted during
the administrations of tbe first two presidents;
excepting a SO days embargo, when iiauy thing
soHiu niaae mem necessary, the conduct of th
trench Directory did. It will then be found
that tbe embargo coat this country an nmtdi-
att loss for one year in exports of ninety millions
one nunared and eight' thousand, six auudred
aa eleven aoiiars.
1 ais, to oe sure, was expected, it was em
oracea
still
been-
Kii
USpO!
Jt is not possible to- fifrm in idea of the re-
mere evils 1 hat have resAitied auid will n ault to
this country from those treasures. The destruc
tion of shipping prorMe 1 th fhinffo of busi
ness by individfltl4 who had been engaged in
pursuits that brought wealth to th mselves and
the nation and the different views it enabled
.. . . . . . .. .
ctner nations te entertain or their commerce
that situation liable to be mistaken, notwith
standing her colours, for a Carthagmian orotat
er Rrpublieao armed vessel $ if there b any
foundation for these and other circumstances, .
of which we are by letter assured, the case is
certainly altered, aud is involved in some pes
plexity, which it requires lime andeviden4e to
disentangle,
The event is an unfortunate onl-.-jinapy view,
and we greatly lament it. We shall be grieved,
however, , if, urged on by the exasperation of
the people of Nt w-Orleaos, who are prvbnblv
anxious for a war with Spain, our naval ci.mv
mauders should take into their own hands the
remedy whieh it belobgc to the government of
ly to apply. , A war with Spain is perhaps pot
greatly to be deprecated, bat yet not to be ans- '
leusly wished 1 and, if wo are engaged in war
with her, let us see our way clear, and ha Deji
satisfied of the strength of our grounds, ;; ' ,
taoic a EtsiTtctt m Tptj b txo an Va pi a . i .
, Fotifttetafur TFcr, -We , repeat it withoht
feartnger Mgrding.sFii
.7t?:rara
- , - i'- bmiii mi
nority) in our country, unnecessarily to involve
us in war. Wsv are pew at pence, and rony
easily costi.oJ4o.- Now Is the lime to nn
band our resources, to pay off onr national debt
-lo diminish the burdens which oppress oar
peopleto re-establish publie crtdit : to pro,
mote union and harmony among all classes of
e!iizeniaad generally to fix es t firm and pep-r
manent basis the free institutions whieh biers
our eoubtrv . WAR 18 ALW A YB AN LVIL,
and should never le resorted to, cxeept on oc
casions of unquestionable propriety. There
may be cases, but they re , extrrmety rare,
when a nation, remote from eontendiug powcrp
and uninterested in their disputes, my with
justice to itself. become involved with )Lem.M.
W consider it however certain, that underta
king to aid every feeble power, whieh mayVp
near to be resisting oppression, would be the
height of folly, the extreme of quixotism. . Wa
wish success tdthc Patriots of booth America,
wo hope they may establish their independence,
aud wo hope ton, though our hopes are inter,
mingled wi(h many fears, that they may prova
themselves capable of enjoying their independ
ence and rightly using their liberty. But does
it therefore follow, that we'ebght to precipit
ate ourselves into the eontest-Mbal situated as
we arc, still sore from the effect nf our late err
gagament, aud groaning under a load of taxes,
we should . buckle on our armour, and engage
in a general crusade agaiost the tyrants and opv
pressors of our fellow men ? Are we to be gov-'
ernod by eur feelings alone? Are no considers
nous or expediency to inBuence us i Shall we
1
1 ii akx assi iiaoiHii 1 o s .Kaa s. 1 -
as a present evil for a futnrorood: bnLf"" r1"""" " " '" una anuci
this made Vno less an cvit than if it find oequnesa I havo witnessed
osed without this view' to aturiiv. aewi.l w,!Metf,,'-l"a wdent disposition of certain
y as it failed ofprcdoeioavthat 'geoit, aU left P'''" L Jyi4re ia. vf"7
ssessed Af (he Avil. . 1 I woru ' eapose iiiDijaowu v'tvtn 10 tne aanrers
on p
and difheulties of waFTw involve our eouatry
in coustaut hostility . 4
Wht tbe motives of these men are, we shall.
not undertake to say, hot we shall eoocladh
tbs article by repeating the language uttered
by tbe Virginia legislature in 1798 Wa
humbly aud fervently implore the Almitthty
Disposer of events, to avert from our land itot
and usurpation, the .scourges ef mankind : to
feed -II computation. Or the la.t however, f ".ra,,.Iour fie,d,. 10 i
'. ... . . ' i In S tlalt 1 1 IvalA St Ok I M S Si lit IaWiI mF ro-saasatfl sw inlaoi
4 will take
her.
a little notice
in another nnui-
II A MILTON.
f BOM TNI MATIONAt I WTKLLIOajl-ill.. '
We publish to-day an aecouot of the Public
Meeting at New-Orleansi respsotintr the late
attack on the Firebrand br a Spanish squadron.
It would bo uneandid, if not unjust, in us, ts
omit stating, at the same lime we publish these
proceedings, that we have private information
front' New-Orleans, that there were eireum
stances attending this transaction, whieh serve
to paMiate its apparent atrocity. The infor
mation we nave received wo should not pretend
to . oppose' to official information but it has
the, eanetion of a name, and appears to us to
require a suspension of opinion until more full
to instil into nations the love of friendly inter
coursoj lo suffer our youth to be educated to
virtue, and to preserve onr morality from the
polul ions invariably incident to habits of war t
to prevent the laborer and husbandman from
being barrassed by taxes and imposts, to remove
from ambition the means of disturbing tbe com
monwealth, to annihiliate all pretexts for power
afforded by WAR t to maintain the constitution,
and to bless our nation with, tranquility, under
'whose benign influence we may reach the sum-
mt. T .11. . ...
mitoinappiness auu giory,to wnicn we are ocs
tiued by nature and by Nature's Ood."
V . r, . Wtttem Monitor.- , .
A tMANACS. Tbe North-Carolina Al-
fJL jnsnae, ealeelated by Mr. Brooks, for
. J !.. .. i , , "181?, is lust printed at ttm olltce, jna will ee rurnisn
Hkfn,M. 1A 1. ...ai..il Th . .... I. m r..l. I . . - T. ...
-.-.-.I - f . J ..a 1 :.l I I. 1.1 -a .
siaieu n uj onr corrcvponaeni we saomo lay , ernes. 4.
' of single ono at Uie esnal priors.
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