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For THE AMERICAN PAPRIOT.
MILLENNIUM,
(CONCLUDED.)
How far wars are compatible with the
mild doctrines of the Gospel, is a point
much litigated, but not settled, I do not
presume to decide the Important inquiry.
This far we may ventureto say, that wars
for undue extent of power, wealth or fame,
are unchristian ; but in the preservation: of
our country or family from monsters of cru-
elty and oppression, I believe that he who
would not give his aid has « denied the faith
end is worse than an Infidel. The United
States have shewn the forbearance of Chris-
tians to the government of G. Britain,
Your women and innocent children “were
murdered and your unprotected commerce
.“harrased beyond endurence, Now St. Paul
., appealed to the power of the Romans from
~ the unjust ‘hatred and persecution of his
{countrymen ; and our blessed Lord himself
on that night in which the powers of Dark-
ness were let loose, commands those very
_appostles, whose minds under his immedi-
ate tuition, had been imbibing the most re-
fined sentiments of philanthrophy and’ be-
nevolence, that could be dictated by. per-
fection itself, saying, ¢ he that hath no sword
let him sell his garment and buy one ;’~~so
I would say to every countryman that val-
ues his liberty and independence, to take
rectitude for nis ling, and justice. for his
plummet, and that power that has establish
ed you a free people, will preserve you so;
Your enemy is howerful ; she is said to be
triumphant in all the courts of Europe
where a few individuals have divided that
continent and its inhabitants by line ; those
(it is much to be fearcd) will look with ob-
liquity and jealousy on the erect and inde-
pendent spirit of the American, and may
remember the shoek from which they are
surviving, caused by that same infectious
¢ spirit of liberty : ‘and is it not probable, that
if they do not quarrel among themselves
about their maritime affairs, they may \-
nite in humbling America, and causing her
to receive a master, that she may not be ‘an
eternal reproach to their own slaves or
vassels ?
Be not dismaved fellow citizens, the air
you breathe, is so congenial with a spirit of
liberty, that you might as well confine ‘the
Western tribes of natives toyour ploughs’
tails, as for Europe to place a master over
you. They might indeed crown a king
for us, in one of our seaports, and some En
ropeans, used to the ceremony, might bow
the knee, but the majority,
have sense and experience to know, that
libertas eat portior incttalis ;¥ and that poli-
ucs and religion is vain without it.
I would just call to your minds, before I
* take my leave, the example of your fllustei-
ous Washington, which I before noticed,
as indicative of something more than ordi-
nary. When I consider the tokens of his
divine mission—the very savage of the
wood declaring that henever was to be kil-
{ed bv a bullet—a. minister pif the Gospel
: from the pulpet, that Washington
cen vaised up for some great good to
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his country; and compare with this his
subsequent. achievments, whereby it will
appear, that the freedom of these states
were decreed by Heaven, and tobe obtained
through his heroic virtues, I feel lost in stu-
pendous amazement, and much affected
with my own responsibility as a citizen of
such a government, language can serve to
give you but a very faint hint of my sensa-
tions on such reflections. I would ask for
whom was all the care and solicitude of this
patriot ?. Not for himself l—It was for his
country !—Not for his friends or his rela-
tives, but his compatriots in suffering—
the'r decendants—our children for the
people of United America. By following
his example only, ¢an you enjoy in: unmos-
lested security, the happy fruits of his la-
bor. Itis a fixed principle in the physical
and moral world, that, :
Those arts, by which at first you gain’d it,
You still must practice, to maintain it.
England has always looked onus as re-
volted colonies ; and has still had a drop of
resentment peculiar to disappointed ambi-
tion and avarice, at the bottom of her heart;
which rankles and breaks forth on’every op-
portunity of shewing her superiority, I
cannot believe that we are to expect an ho-
norable peace, from such a nation at the
heigth of military glory, who alas ! baye too
much reason to despise our military charac-
ter, from our want of union and energy in
supporting the ' maasures of our governs
The Spartan valour of a Washing.
ton seems now necessary to ward off the
impending storm, which if we do like men,
we'may like thie Lacedemfonians boast of
centuries, that our women have never seen
the smoke of an enemies fire, and reflect a
more benign lustre on. the Eastern Conti-
nent, than Europe with ali her arbitrary es-
tablishments ; and complete what European
avarice never can a “political Millenni-
um. SER That
An American Democrat.
[ Nothing pérhaps is more galling or mor-
tifying to the feelings than cheated desires ;
but the human mind, loathing to believe *
“that to which all its hopes are in opposition,
is ‘still true to the principle of regulating its
faith by its wishes: possessing perhaps, a lit-
tle of this temperament, & governed in some
measure by ‘tis principle, we have fre-
quently given publicity to reports, flattering
to the hopes of a speedy peace, and has had
them as often centradicted. Thougn the
following can scarcely be classed with tha,
number, we are still faithful to the determi-
nation that our readers shall not be m re ig-
norant than ourselves on a subject so very
teresting.
In a letter from our Correspondents at
New York, dated Saturday evening, Au-
gust 6, it is stated, « that’ the Acasta, Cap-
tain Kerr, bad recently captured the sloop
Diana, and the schooner Stephano, both
from Philadelphia bound to Havanna, with
flour, and ordered them for Halifax. Cap-
tain Kerr, of the Acasta, expressed a belief
that there would be a speedy peace between
this country and Great Britain.” © ©
Poul. Daily Ady.
ins
Com. Chauncey sailed on the 1stof An-
gust, having so far recovered his health as
to be able to resume bis duty, The British
flect was off the Harbor the day previous.
Something decisive must soon transpire
on that lake, if the British are willing to
risque an engagement.
—— ¢ Phen
We have seen a letter from the editor of
the Herkimer American, addressed to the
editors of the Commercial Advertiser, New
York, dated August 2, at night who says
that he had conversed with an officer direct
from Fort Erie who informed that general
Ripley had recejved a summors to surrend-
er, from the British commander, and that
two heurs only were allowed to return an
answer. | Doubtiul.) Alb. Reg.
Savannah, Georgia, July, 26. ¥
FURTHER PARTICULARS
RELATIVE TO SPAIN.
By captain$ argent, from Havannah, via
Amelia island, we learn, that a Spanish
packet arrived at the former place, on the
4th inst. in 40 days from Cadiz that she
brought the intelligence that Ferdinand
was in the city of Valentia, and refused to
comply with the new French constitution,
stating his reasons and motives in a long
manifesto to the Spanish nation, which capt.
S. gave to the cornmandant of Amelia. He
further states that Ferdinand and the old
monarchial government were publicly de-
clared, on the 5th,in Havanna at the point
of the bayonet, and the people told they
must submit. The same evening the
guards were doubled throughout the city
—the coffee houses and tap shops ‘shut
at dark, and the inhabitants not allowed t©
walk after 8 o’clock.
Ferdinand likewise issued a proclama.
mation from Valentia, disclaiming against
the lic/ntiousness of the press, and order-
ed it under such restrictions as nearly a-
mounted to annihilation of its liberty.
Captain §. also informs that the fast sail-
ing schoonerems——, Captain Mortis, from
Philadelphia, arrived at Havanna on the
7th instant. :
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Extract ofa letter from a geneleman of the
first respectability in London, to his cor-
respondent in Boston, dated June 1.
“« We know, what | when you wrote] you
. were ignorant of—the blockade of the re-
+ maining ports U.S. We know more, that
itis likely to be rigidly enforced, because
on application made for licences to export
goods in neutral vessels, government has
given a refusal. "This is an answer to the
revocation of the commercial restrictions.
« The pegociation is yet to begin. It wil]
it is said be at the Hague or Ghent. Per-
haps you'expect that peace is made or ma-
king when the respective commissioners
are not even arrived at their destination !
If you celebrate peace on Christmas day you
may reckon yourself very well off.”
een
NOVA SCOTIA.
Halifax, July 10.
A strong reinforcement, from 12%o 15
thousand men, under Lord Hill, is destined
for the southern coast of America. Con,
siderable reinforcements are aiso intended
for the Canadas. A number of heavy fri-
gates are ordered for the American station,
and every thing indicates the intentior. of
government to prosccute the American
war with great vigor. In the interim Lord
Gambier, &c will proceed to meet the A-
mwerican envoys or agents at Ghent, in
Flanders, but whether their instructiong
from the United States will be found such
as will meet the present views and ideas
of the ministry is yet a matter of doubt and
uncertainty. Indeed the British nation, ir-
ritated at the conduct of Mr. Madison and
his colleagues, in coming forward in aid of
the Bonapartean cause, at the moment too
when Europe was ripe for a revolt from his
tyrannic and unnatural sway; seems deter.
mined on supporting the war, mtil Ameri-
ca shall consent to such an arragement as
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DUTCH MINISIER ARRIVED.
SarLeM, Jury 20,
Arrival from Holland —L: st evening an
alarm was raised at Marblehead, by the ap-
proach, into that harbor of twoiships, which
were supposed (0 be enemies, and the a:arm
was communicated from the fort in that
place, by a signal gun to fort Pickering in
Salem, it consequence of which the Essex
Guards, with great alacrity repaired if arms
10 their assigned post—the alarm soon sub -
sided, from ascertaining that the vessels
were the Dutch sloop of war Ajax, Capt
Barker, and the merchant ship Prince of
Orange under convoy, bringing out his ex-
cellency Mynheer Clhanguilon (with his fa-
mily and suite) as minister from the Prince
of Orange to the U. States. :
The ships were destined to New York,
but put into Marblehead in consequence of
contrary winds.’ They sailed trom Helvoet-
sluys, 22d May and touched at fortsmoutly, ©
England, and bring papers of that place to
the 6th June, containing London daes to
2d Tuly only not so late as before teceis ed.
They were yesterday boarded by HE. M.
ship Leander, one of the blockading squad-
dron, and on the grand bank had been also
boarded by the United States sloop of war
Rattlesnake, two days before her capture
The commander brings the pleasing repory
that a speedy peace was likely to take place
between Great Britain and this COUNLIY
but on this subject our recent Eogiish ac<"
counts probably give as much information
as this vessel can afford.
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Erie Penn. July 29. 4
We learn tion Mr. Wolverton of this
place, who arrived here a few days since,
from Fort Gratiot, at the ‘head of the river *
St. Clair, that our squadron, sailed from that
place for Machidash bay, on the 14th inst, -
On the 16th lieutenant Harrison with a :
party of 13 men, landed from a boat at the
the mouth of Surgeon’ Creek, about 40
miles below Malden—A party of Canadians
dressed as savages, lay concealed in the
bushes, fired upon them, killed lieutenant
Harrison and 8 men, and wounded four.
Only one escaped unhurt, who succeeded
mn bringing away the bodies of his murder.
ed companions, and the wounded,
[ Nor. Cent.
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Extract of a Jetter from Sailing. master J
E. M'Dcnald, to Captain Kennedy, dated
Erie, Jury 27th, 1814.
« Agreeably to your instructions I sailed
on the 23d inst. on board the schr. Diligence
with 16 volunteers, which with the 6 sea~
men from the Lady Prevost, made a party +
of 22 men, for Long Point. At day light
on the morning of the 25th, I landed with 138
men. We ascended a high and steep bank,
and advanced about halt a mile info the
country to Charlotteville, a small village.
At this place the enemy have commenced
a very large block house, We broke open
the doors of an inn and the jaily and seized '
the jailor, from whom I was in hopes I
should be able to collect the information
wanted. t this moment an alarm gun was
fired by the enemy, which was answered by
several others: we. then retired with the
jailor to the boat. When distan from the
shore about half a mile, nearly 300 people
had collected on the bank, which number
seemed constantly increasing while we?
were in sight.” é Vig
« Our fleet entered Lake Huron on the -
13th, with a fair wind----and I presume the |
attack on Mackinac will take place this day. W
The moment I learn. the result of the ex
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will insure the future safety’ of the British. pedigpn, I will inform you of the same.”
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