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Ill .... fiw-..i . . a4ar-" i, I ' ; ? " ii"li"Wrr: j ? v - ' FUBLtSlifcU QrrrrRyiLLIAM BQYLAN. : TWO DOlLt. fin. AffNr PayahleJuXitt'irje, RALEIGH, N. C.MONDAY, JUNE 23, 1806. LNo- 532-; W ni i : . t' '.. 1 1 7 : : . ' 1 r : -Vol.,). ; From iti&'Boston fcrisry. R;:ficrt3ru. -? j uu uuucaviAy nas iciuorn, remaijt-' ea long iincloud. Jbut it may be qoutt-ed'.whfith'er.- -ituas- 'ever rbafe-eri with ;i blacker tempeftlhaa that we hart lately jjccvi yuru upn jpurope. r ranee cas ac coijipIifliedt in twelve years, : as much as Rome did, m frve hundred. The. 3am pites, who occupied a little province that isnow a part ot the kingdom. of Naples, refitted the oman arrns for halt a ccn Ituryvancr it nut.tiUterfourand twenty Koruan triumphs and twice that ftnrhfesr-flf pitched battles that thy 'we;rQ . iCiiiK Prrrh'iis landed In Italy too late dfterape.Samrut haii !ofl their fpjfU ho, (efs thai'theinlbre, He proved an ene? ijiy WQtthy oi llQman dilcipjine and cou- rage,: yet he ta8'.uni'uceefsfu!. : i Xh'e- RoViiana!trIive hundred years dfincelTant war with the petty nations art) and rhenv who their equrds in valour, 1 inferior Oiily irt cilcipline, at Jfenjh "fptrd t6 ektend their dominiori bd;5 ohd the bounds of Iuly Fir it Sicily v.iid then' Spain vfere difputed. in . arms, vith' ths CrtlianiansI " TTfty years iver-si pafiTed n battler -aid alarms before this great cfoitfpverfy was decided, in favour oF Rome. - Vhch Carthsge hadfallen Greece, the inilirrfs ot.K.ome in arts, her rival ia arms' and renown,' fell an almoft.unrc fiiHns prey to Roman Ambition. She fell with all her "confederated republics-, atiurs imll certr.t?!fjW, if Frince - fhottld om?nueto'wi5ld cur factions and our 'ficHohs todjfpofe of cur government. Iof fal?.ms 1 n ac democracy ar6 fincere -opTym. their 'hatred and fear cf each o her. Whether the JelTerlor.s &; Madi fonsiand, or the, Randolphs and Mun roe fhouid rife in their Itead, our rulers can have no patriotifm. Their emula fian iii too fierce,' ;and their objeds of ambuicn: oo..iuritlve and too psffonal to allow them to take the views, (lijlleft to qherifli' tlie fentinfents 6f1tatefrnri: Old Rom? had patriots, but who would expeel to find, them in the ampfmheatre among the gladiators lliofe who love power will leek it in the contelts of party. The lovers of their country will be found nurfing thur griefs and their defpair, .among the uilcarded difciples of WaHi jm;ton. To return from this feeming ctigteflion, Rome-availed herlelf of the ..'divihoniof tiii Grecian republics to tub- fcfiDu'r's refiflan'S. Ili'couli' tranfoort fjfeehi vvi'ih mere ex'pe,diticn and eafe,s wKti' nrJ r r- c .J..r r r....i.i. KiiTANDiKo Army or .two regiments from the frontiers, to oppofe them. Yet this sanding armv, fo potent to com mand the types, the exclamations and the filly fears of the democrats, though it aflrfted as a bug bear to niale Mr. JefFerfon prgfident, would no better pro tecl his houfe, at' Monticello, from a Frencli lquadron of. horfe, than the my of the Imperial Virginia Formerly de fended its afTemhly from Coh Tarleton. Cut Our fyriads cf militia might defy the world 'in arms. Excellent hopes isjt r unpopular ? Becaufe the made conventions, to pour the Fullnefs otj pip e.i. i'reiicnapm nation is notieen ourtrealurymto thecoffersof Donapanc Ml or !Vcen Vth aiatalcomplacen- 1 he has dilated laws in aid and to carry' cy, ecauie we love our monev better into eftefV Krenrh 9t . ! tbsTe ? Whc'rji Auilriain vain orpo'es two.und'.ea tnouLaria veteran.-; to, toe progreli' of "Bonaparte, when -'Ruffiat is repdlled in the pitched battle of Aufter litZj' xvhcnPs uffia vvithita armies, com, plete'in numbers and difcipline, flands ttill, jiot daring fo ftir, and waiting let arknowiedge Bonaparte conqucrer or to come "more plainly to the point, when' wt.lee haT ja millipa. of. nh(h yplun teersT as fofmiJable andVstlifl in buck ram as it is in the power of tailors to makenifpf-ms, ; parading the coafts of SufTekt-'EteK and Kent, and yet ftiriiing only to the vigilance ot the -pntifh navy lV 1 1.1 i -ili- - iT 4.1, t.4i. LiiiLi tin. iiiiciiuic a Ziiviii iui iikii liberty, fhc cfrered her alliance, and the allies of Kome, like thofe of. France, Avere her Skates, the Greeks joyfully aided Rome -to conquer Macedonia'and ployed agaitiit Anriochus, called the Great, the Syrian monarch. Egypt was t'So bareto make anyrefiftar.ee, but fub mified to' tribute as quietly as vq do. v- -Thus every independent republic and powerful prince fell. a prey to Rome. Beyond the Euphrates, theParthians at ltiuh formed a mighty Empire, which the diftance and the deferts rendered like the modern Rulli a, inaCceiFible to the Ttoman' arms. It was remarkable that - jomefekjom hrrr more than one-enemy to mnder the Fien'cn from'crpulng the ch mnel-furely when we fee thele things wemulb be unwilling to reflect, or utter ly incapably of reflection,' if we can fup-pofe.-tli".t the array of the militia in the fecretary's ofiice would tranp!ant fear from Mr.' JeB'erfois bolom into Bona partes. ' To fay nothing of the improbability of the militia obeying the c ill for actual fervice,or, if they fhouid appear prompt ly and in fufHcient numbers, or the im pofTibility pf detaining them in fervice long enough to make; their arms ot the lealt imaginable ufe, direful experience has at length "jnftrucTed nations, that when they are in danger, they are to be preferved frotn it by their real (oldiers. Thefeare made, not in alador's fhop- by facing blue cloth vfflh "redsor fellow,1 but by learning in the field, that fubor dination of faitd that will make men do and cnlure their doing all that men poffi bly Can do. . ' Old Rome did notoutmunber her ene mies. Two legions each, of lefs than (ix thoufaad men, and as many ol the Latin or ether Italian allies naade a com plete consular army. ' Such, an army routed the numberlefs forces of Mithri dates and Antiochus. It cod the Ro mans more exertions to fubdue Perfem, king of Macedrn, than to conquer all the ealh His phalanx, of fixteen thou- fand men, '-was harder to brjeaktharv the million militia of the other fuccefTors of Alexander. Rome, by the perfec tion of her difcipline',, became miftrefs of the world. . Would Bonaparte calculation the vi gor cf our government, , as an infuperH rble obuacU o his military attempt. 00 the United States ? Would the Con gtefs majority like a Roman ijer?.tc cre ate means and employ them, with a fpi- rit thatwpuld prefer death to fen itude or tribute r -The French Hanibalfurely vith cur 17 millions cf trihute money tjhan oar country ; becaufe we enjoy our cate aimott as mucn as we love our mo ney, and, becaufe by ihutting our eyes to enr public dangers, we efcape jhe Infup jxjrtable terror of their approach, and the toils cf an efficient preparation to re fill them. r " Tt is a- thing incomprehenfible, that even thcchildifh babble of the Chronicle is not dumb. Admitting the ffupidity, admitting the b?enefs of the democrats, yet without admiting that they are both lupid and bafe in a miraculous degree, it is unaccountable that they fhouid not fee, in the victories of Bonaparte, the firide and almolf feel the gripe of a maf ter. If a ftorm fhouid fink, or a fire-fhip burn the Britifii navy wc fliouldfeel that gripe in a month. Gen. Turreau would quietly exercife a?! the authorities at V afhington. Confidering how tamely we pave dp our millions, ho lefs than fevenreen in two , years, while that navy till, renders Amerka inacceffihle to France, is any man alive fo abfurd. as to fbppofe that our lubjugatibhto French j delpotifm would colt the great cation a ungle flafk of powder, lake away the Britifh navy, or give it .to France, and ive, free Ames icans, fo vf lidntof tongue, j tie up in our fbils as tamely as our oxen. ' The peh of Talleyrand would be found a lharcer .weapon than Gen. Vainum's horitv. over ih( blacks of St. Domingo -a degree of fcrJ vne condelcenlion beneath the indpnenJ ; dent fpirir ot thofe blacks : and now his I minions in Congrels have begun a war rare againit the Britilh trade, aj if with-l out our own active co-ooeration to WioJ pie the maritime refources of EnglandJ 4 1 ' miRnt meet with too orpar cbftructions and delay in fubverting the inucpeiiaenceano nnerry or out Country If we love pur country as we ouuhr. we cannot but , with that the conquered nations of Europe break their chains. We cannot hut wifh that Great Britain may courageoufjy 6c triumphantly mainJ tain her independence . againft France. out on this point what are we to expect ? A military oppofition on the continent! of .Lurope has proved unavailing. Will trance, now miftrefs of the land, b'e-l come mntrets of the lea alto, and eftaJ ni:in her iron domination over the civil ized world t 'J his is a queftion 'of lifd or aeatnto Amerrran independence ancU the awtul decuion is near. cn. ana tneir urvituue was conceaiea, jtvjgh it was embittered, by the title of tohj-af.jrimej iword. It is preiolterous' .to luppofe that a military renltanceto France would be attempted. Her faction in this coun try would revive, the clubs and the max ims cf T 704,. and Genet would rcain 1 fummon the enemies Of Riiiifo h.fiue,ce, to rally -uadef his banper.- fhouid be called .the allies or France aud cur loyab-addfeiFes would .accompany our tribute to conciliate thein'cndfliip of the jtreat nation, and to claim a (hare in its glories, 'i he men who could be nothinc without France would be inyeiled with tne.uuesanu powers ot magiHracy, and' property would be; -made to fhifit hands till it reded with thofe'who would be re ally inrerefted to fupport France, that France might fupport them in keeping ir. i hus we fliould avoid the odium of a violent revolution and yet would reap all the advanfsge of ir, to rivet our de- pen dance on her power, 'ihc diltarfte of the Roman provinces at length favor ed their emancipation from her yoke. But with the fole, po'flefiion of a navy,'the transatlantic provinces of trance would not be diltant. . ; V ith thefc irrefragable, proofs, of the tal certainty with winch the powev. or France would reach vs. and ot the un- tefiftingtamenefs wiili which we fhouid ; endure it, if France fhouid ruin the Bri tifh naval power, what comments mall we make on the ferde or fpint of theion impprtation'projecVdf Conref?, vthich - though iheirecciiiil-lev Us purpo'e,is in tended to impair the force and refources of that navy ? - l Kiw deep r.rii' coiifide rate wijl beovir fcor n and execration cf .the Armflioiig-3 r.nd Livingftons & Mun roes, vho, to niaLc their flattery Avcl- cone to a tyrant s ear, have blended it Thf extreme iength cf Mr. Qumcy's Sp;ech on the fubjedt of foi tifyog the ppits anl harbour9 cf the United States, has rendered itj publication, in cur paper, impracticable Ip this days inperl we make the following extrafls, v l.ich. will bef alike admired, Icr the folidity cf argu.i)eBt.--for;e 01 expiellion and brillia icy of wit.J Eos. Ca ELEGANT EXTRACTS. " Can we expect to be rich and not! tempt the fpirit of avarice ? . 0 be de-l fcncelefs, amid aimed ninncs, and in nd danger of robbery or inful ? I ?fl; nsainJ Mr. Chairman, how is the u iiity of fori tin atiens pioved u'ppbf.,Jtl? tliefakd of argumcnr, it Ihould be admitrcdJ -X' slues. France-has af jhieVcd her purpofe the ftriiggles df iibe'rty arc over, k the con- Ci Europe are now lieep-. t.nental nations :n;r in rherr ciiams. IFFian Dofldfed lhe"Britim difcouragmgfear of this forf. " .When he reads our treaty w:th T jjdoa, by which it appears that we chofe tribute when victory was with-irrour reach, , when .he fees that ihevjiey.of T urns pre'umes to fay by his minifler'at Wafliington, pay or fight, what can Bonaparte .conclude navy, ; out that honour is a name, and in Ame thule chaias touu ce adamant,' wmcn t -nca n' empty one, anaatmaiioniLL oeiJiiugeaiiuwyQ rgxpoie --opr-Hefgn at i ve ruroaeer-trrere-cs'n tnoTmmaorretrl be roufed -to a higher dangers. So far as our fate "majj ; 'depend thing but 4in-t)ea!'S. '-.' . tvnmrv h!ce the crcat draWn, woutd f pitch, t hart To make a "cafculation.-- on our -wifdbm or'our choice, iris pro- . ' . irnl-.V-T. j ) -.hvifiinrWdThe remofelt Yeciohs of With us honor is-a coin, whofe very per to calif the attention of our citizens On all fides we"are net w tK r;v;!;-.- -rl wnr'.-l ur.iihihcnear'enouuh bafenefs coc-fineHtat homefor a eurren-44o-the fact. that-BonaDartethou'jih he T iectiofl, here are the n tac;;tch pe'ftiltneefrom his breat Yet v,.c r.rt infatuattd enougii to thm Afi?iirt ivl;iai;it! nlacefiir Hoeity,.. where craded before they are fiibdued. Ihev are too abiect to be clafTed or employed afl -fiirs will not tckjferjijyn t hem toil inprcpalilc T3tTk U thai would protect On. what j-eaVonablelfoiindatibn do it- tx :e ehinypriKnis-iexpetation-relt r w:.-1?ra;ncp ima-br of bothiaud and .Jea. ;v!u 'vliilince prefer ve us ? 1 With l.b!:ur.drei(;ihiis-m theiepartmentot theT rtc, .!;fiance would be nothing -to Boinprre III- eourd tranfport an- ar My of :s.if- flinuiand men to -occupy ..V-4i-i - t t I 1 O cy. Such a people, he "will fay, aree-dtmidoirtnuchj has done it in vain, un to feed their matters and to replenifh my J treafury with rributC. - V Is there a lpint in our people tnar woud fu pply the want of ft in pu r rulers ? Our total' unpreparednefs. both by land and fea, to make even the mow of re fi ltanceagain it an attack, is cer tainly not from the wmt of military means in the United Srates, but from a d read or the lols'o! popularity if they fhouid call them forth.' ryif:.:r:: yettives agamtf'that" navy v e jeern: to be emulous ot the fpirit of flayery before we defe'end to its condition, as if we .were refolved to- me rit their contempr, by an earlier claim and even by a iufter title than their yoke. ' For as. long as the Britifh navy may tti- uph thatyoke is not inevirabie. i he rnoft fuccefsfulway to prevent our which however I deny, they crmot bej erected m lunicicnr force to defeat very! great armaments : yet is it nothing id prevent - the part.al attempts of fmgld ISoihingevcn to delay an attack? Is I vorth nnthine to have the chanced crippling an afi'ailant I The enly rcru tnent 1 have heaid urged againft the .uti lity of fottifications is, that the whole can- vet be futtified. io that, protect as fironH as. you will particular points, the invades will land fomewhere elfe. Sir, this m the very object of fortifications. N: man ever thought of building a Chmefd wall .all along the indentations of oi;t thore, from the Sr. Mary s to the ht Crois- 'J he true obitct of fenincat ioni j . . . . 1 is to omtge your enemies to land ; it is tri keep rhem at ann's length. If they rf net reach yohr cities vithi heir batteries nd vvou d a'lScK. thev mult come oil fhore. 'I hey are then only a land force and cur militia tviif find no difficulty irl riving a good account of them, V' " It is net denied .that our un-boxj are weapons of confiderable cfrect, c that in' certain fituations therarc ultfu or that, in aid of other and heavier battd ries,, tney may not toraetimes oe impo taut." It is ch!y when they become t'h I favourites, to the-total exxhjfioiicf-uicjj powerful mooes' of defence, and -dra away to the lefs power, appf oprfatior tvhich arc wantii'g for the greater, tk the fyltem which upholds them; becomd an object 'of contempt, or -of- dread.H Nowadays, fir, put what you. ttill in? the crucible, whether it be feventy four orf rieates. or land batteries, the refu is the fame ; after" duefucuigjriiril iiesoutnq lefs he can do one thing more. Give him the Britifh navy, and he wHl govern, the United States as abfolutely, and cer tainly vith as little mercy, as if our tei ritory Were a French department, arid actually lay between the Seine'and the Loire. Lerour fcribblers then extol the long fcrcfeing wifdom cf the JefFerfonian' dminifi ration.-- Let.them boaft of their deVbtednefs to the cau feci the people, 1 he man whofe. chief merit is groun"defl on his having penned the declaration of independence has done more than any other man living- to undo it. He has ith theol :eansLfd " the pubTc debt tcjhe, difcharged, if w man, none 0 these difficulties are infurrnountA we, vihenswrhtrn ht:H is to bt f prcktsee, A Vben cur .new Ut tilorUs tn the jfissisfti .etm t ed River are to tfiex0redt-er ivketidia it tef in the vaster n couvt'j are ts ie exttngutsa ed.- A'e have paid wi'hin thefe wo yean fifteen millions of dollars for Louifin and have fent off twd millions moje t purchafe the Floridas I afk on wfis principle can either of thefe purchafes b palatable to the people of the Unite( States ? Do they wanlmorelaad or wide .1 . V -t
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