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! President i He General have been acs
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courted, and encouraged to improve >
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CORDETLONS.,
“Phe prt ot, A Pap CE is: psisgollarsy
nd Efi cenigs pev anham—bat if paid halt
arly: i advance, LW dollars only will be
charge
Advertisements, making no more in
length then breadth, wiil be inserted three
tunes’ for enc deitar ; “and for every subse.
quent: coptinmance twenty-five cents. —
7 hose of greater length in proportien.—
wile or figare work double those rates.
No rubripes will be received for less
. than, one yea a ontipu
: | NOE any pa
ed until a avrearages are;
snbsériher 2g
¢
merchants. “The accumulation of 2 rive |!
Aik fortune was but the york of a few years:
Tatil country seats and Vikas Hrtng Bp asf
by magic.’ The enchantment of that day
however, is over,
sondition, Fi hey are solicited to enter A
hel pb ject ore Course 0
sidered &s at rest.
If there is a charge which can be . justly
made against the administration, it it that
‘cotimunily ‘of the wiles, not as slaves but
igi to ho coma’
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upon equal terms as brothers. Govern:
Our traders must vetorn
to more sober and moderate
ment not/ like Mahomet, presented to
them a fabulous cieed in one hand and the calculations.
Yet, making all possible allowances for the
sword of extermination in the other; but
dimioution of American tonnage, by the
has held out to them the comforts and prof:
of neglecting lor too long a time to clear
{the American seas of the pirates who ine
fest’ it. An act however, ha at
length passed for this object ; and we may
calculate on its being executed with €ns
ergy. In referring to this part of pur éub-
jecty we cannot avoid remarking: what kas
frequently fallen under our notice, and thag
prevailing peace, the increase fiom 1789
to 1819 will still be found to be equivalent
its of Christian civilization.
Why therefore find fault?
Manufactures it is said, are pot encour.
aged. But it is not apparent that encour
agement of manufactures belongs, not to
the executive, but to the legislative, part
been,
‘0 a gradual augmentation, from the former
(0 the latter year, marking a permanently
growing prosperity sufficient to gratify the
reasonable expectations of the best friends
of the dountry. 5, the leaning of indulgence to these pis
The! measures of “the administrationiratical cruisers, from the persuasion that
which/have chiefly called forth the animad-| hey aid the cause of the Spanish Indepen-
versibus of its opponents, are—- dents. This argues a"great corruption of
ic 158 not. a adis
. entice of his paper, at the éod of the
yea wil be considered as aiew engage-
meht Mtihorwapon fib uatdod gecaiding.
k as
ih | Suibseriora he eck ei papers car-
ried by the mail; must be liable for the pos-
tage.
Letters addressed to the editor, must be
ho pe i %
ar om Yeh - Notoad pti
of the government ? Domestic manufac-
tures are not to seek for their adversaries)
in the public departments a Washington;
but in the classes of society. whose pursuits
conflict with" them. The store-keepers| 10 The refusal to recognise the jnde-
and the landholders are their rivals. The| pendence of the Spanish American prov.
SLOTE kecpers tive by he re salerof furgine Hates = :
goods, and the. Jandholde: °$ are impressed) fi AThe seizure oF F Ansefis Tetand., Arden
with the opinion that a dimunition in the] 8. The invasion of Florida
quantity of foreign goods imported, would] Ofthe first of these acts, or rather no act,
moral principle in ceriain vehement fricuds
of the pawiots, ltchows, if we view it
{in the R05 favoral te i light, that, they Cone
oes on
sider the means—even if the means be
MEASUFES or TRE 4DRINISTRATION, pillage.and amurder—as Justified by the
Ahe com nefcement of the last sess-
end. move : it
Cons» the President, in. his first
It demonstrates, in wuth,
be attende by a diminution in the amoyn!
of native. products consumed in foreig
“| conntries. puch i is the leading obstacls to
the fault finding has been so vague and
wild, that it is difficult to fix upcn any one
point wherein the advocates of the recog-
proves that there are men who regard pol»
itical revolutions as authorizing the attgina
ment of wealth by plundering and a sasinas
ai Hheitfons, ‘Tounded upon iti
mations that the government, itself has, by
its measures, reduced the community al |
‘most to a state of ruin, The best answer}
to all the cavils which have been ade. in
this respect; is. 2 plain refettence to unde-
~ ‘miable facts. N .
"What then have been the acts, good andf present as it was du
“evil, of president Mon on? bibl;
When Mr. Vetferson came into | power,
nd thes intel i iaxes were’ liar oe ath “ ic; ft aries enon hee en the result ? Why the provinces were
abotiiod was held as a feck of ameli ie ted 8 # 750, the ton-| found pot to be. “united; and the Patriots
oration. | Lie 1 bf of thermsevesyas to their internal government
Upon Mr. Mentos accession, tho same}, ina state of distraction: Let any reflecting
description ot taxes, to. a uct greater a~ man put the question to himself, whether
er the circumstances, the executive
und pg surely does not expect to derive any cred-
ought to have volunteered a recognition of}.
ion, also
: it, either on the score of humanity or of
independence {The question was fairly
repealed. 54 PR
1f the act of Mr Jefferson, i in hls respect, | Os : h
h : good faith, In provoking further uvesi-
tried in the house of Representatives, gation,
the adyancet ent of domestic manufactufe
which have. I50 to encounter difficultie
the high price of, Jabot ged in inthe want
ed capital. ®
if 100, it is said
that to be wonde: ed at?
nition of South American Independence
infconcur. Shme writers have insisted on
the recognition of Paerrydon, and others of
P Artigas; and there have been persons who
ting the citizens and subjects of all cours
tries,
b= :
Arbuthnott and Ambrister.,
" We had thought that all further dis-
i vé recommended a recognition of both}: . . ;
3 cussion on this subject had closed, and
We know of individuals
gho reg: 4 Puerreydon and O'Higgins as
bri tors to South American liberty and in-
ependence. The executive went no far-
ps that the event had been consigned to the
means any thing, it means
(onnage of the United States in not $0 are I
Uswers of th:
impartial judgement of History. Bat it
are dispos-
ed to keep the topic alive ; and
seems that the British ministry
insinua-
tongbave been thrown ent that whe gays
ernment of the United States is to be cals
led 16 account for executing ‘those two
atrocious malgfactors, Arbuthnot and Am-
t shen 1 fo i inquire i into the situation of the
ut American affairs. | And what has
brister, 8
YWhat can possibly influence the Brit-
ish cabinet to this course of procedure ! I
57 Z. tons ; ; In cv it yas eXtended
“ 10 1,372,218 tons 7 “This enormous in.
trease Was tecasioned by. the neutral post-
tion of the. United States during the wars
in question, which rendered them, without
a war premitm for insurance, the carriers
of almost all the nations of Europe.
‘mount, were upon his recom
was good so was that of Mr. Monroe ; ; and
even better, for the taxes were not only
greater In amonnt, but there was a reason-
able pretext for keeping them on ; namely :
to pay off the heavy war debt.
At Mr... Mooroe’s suggestion likewise
the officers atid soldiers of the revolution
‘have been provided for. This is a meas
ure; hot only creditable to the president,
but honorable to the nation ; and, to the Ja-
test generations it will # tell well in his-
tory.” ;
Ee At the earnest recommendation of Mr. ly
Monroe, moreover, large appfoptiations},; of their tonnage,
have been made for increasing the navy’
for augmenting fortifications ; and suita-
ble officers have been incessantly employed
ulin surveying different parts of the coast,
hixing upon proper sites for arsenals and
depots, and giving additional security tol;
‘navigation.
and
was negatived by a large majority. This
a Asia n relation to
“fwas during the ston oO ¢ hiteenth |. .
When the late general peace took place a 8 EShBession of the h "lis public engagements, could be wace
congress.
lore, the Several nations of that quarter). . {toany government, such a conduct may, us
of the world would naturally reclaim their Amene *t respects fhe Iutrighes and plots (al Ar.
proper portisn of the carrying trade; and
this must necessarily check the aroun
and employment of American tonnage. —
The remarks of Mr. Seybert, on this topic,
are very judicious and »ppropriate: « All
hations extensively engaged in navigation,
(says he page 304,) have been affected by
the peace in proportion to
If ever a sinister conduct,
Mr. Cray, the principal part-
izan for acknowledging South
Independence, after secing the reports of
Messts. Rodney Bland and Graham, did
not in the second session of that Congress
think proper to renew the motion. Every with Spain, the American people have not
freeman in the United States wishes well sufficiently
to the cause of emancipation in that portion |
of the earth ; but very few, we apprehend,
buthnott and Ambrister, be traced (bo the
court of St. James. Engaged as the Upi-
ted States have been in a diplomatic broil
attended to the connexion bes
ween these unhappy wretches and the
British ministry,
The British nunistry, do
we say ? Nay ; the Prince Regent of Great
Britain himself,
The documents which are now ina
course of publication in the National Reg-
ister; clearly prove the following facts—
1- That Hillis Hadjo, otherwise called
tbe prophet Francis, visited England at the
close of the late war between the United
the place are confessedly incompetent to do States aud Great Britain
it, By the revenue laws which in-
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‘lterdict smuggling ; and the laws relating
- - 1 Le a i
5 are willing to compromit the peace and
Lie dugimentas
during the late con-
{licts in Europe ; none has suffered more
than Great Britain.
welfare of the country by too early an in-
terferrence in Spanish American affairs.
of Amelia Island was justi-
By
‘he law of nation$, which authorizes a suf-
The seizure
Whilss the late po: fied by law in three points of view.
litical storms were almost desolating the
civilized world, the vessels be longing to
France, Holland, and Spain, were swepg
{irom the Ocean.
fering nation to break up a nest of free-
hooters, when the regular authorities of
In proportion as the
tonnage of these nations diminihsed, that
) i EH) . !
Under president Monroe’s administra-|of the other states was augmented ; anc
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tion eur fereitorial limits have heen fixed,
¥
by treatics with Great Britain and with
with Spain, from the river Mississippi to
2d. 2. That he was received by the Prince
Regent with marks of great consideration ;
o the slave-trade which prohibit the in- presented with a tomahawk, which, amon 3
. shin ia sroduction of slaves from Africa. And, 3d.{(he Indians is cquivalent 10 a war-walk 2
regain the navigation which the late wars!
'|By the special secret acts of Congressfand ticated witha grand entertainment og
had taken from them. Fee
concerning the occupation of Florida.
none in a greater degree, than our, ew:
Foreign nations will make every efiort to]
the northern Pacific Ocean ; and the whole
of the Floridas have been added to the
empire of the republic.
We must angici-
pate a reduction on our part, of as much
as was formerly employed in the trade be-
tween those countries and their American
colonies.”
hoard a British man of war,
With respect to the invasion of Florida,| 3. That Hillis Hato returned to Flori-
addy
administration and general Jackson|da by way ef the Bahamas, accompanied op
Injimmediately followed, by Arbuthnott, if nos
the newspapers, in congress, and by pub-|by Ambrister.
lic 4. That Hillis Hadjo invariably asserted
ie in the Union. By the House of Repre-{that he had been promised m ilitary sup,
“Fhe national debt has been rapidly di the
minishing for the last two years ; and there
have been tried in almost evergshapé :
has always
been money enough in the
treasury to meet lawful demands upon it
The calls of humanity have pot been un.
attended to.
The commercial prosperity which the
United States enjoyed from 1793 to 1806
may, indeed, be said to have spoiled ou:
meetings in three of the principal cit-
The Indians, whilst
‘excesses have been checked,
sentatives, by a large majority of the pub-) plics by the Prince Regent; and it was
lic journals, aod by the people, both the! upon this assertion of tbe Indian prophet
their
been
have *¥ Seybert’s Statistical Annals pages 5, 6.