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L at. 1 - • CAZENOVIAf AW UST ldj-iSoB.. ADISQN»eOUNTY, (IT. Y.) AT TWO DOLLARS PER-ANNUM; p\uce to villa;) payable quarter/: enty-five Cents', Snfcfcribers vj mail, Two Dplll HQS. o^' r»« » fijbicilbers, Tv& Dolors, or One Z)o//a4 f ?i|3 in advance ho receive their receive and Sev- papers'-- By rs, piy^ble-in advaqcpAV Subfcnbers in <ib- 'djacelit^towos, who re- Tielve their pantB\\«jf* One M J),ollar anii^ijtg Cents) payablcflplt yearly. Pod-riders will duftion from the [ajl Advertifemetits terms. Implied at a liberal dc- moncd'pricr. « .rjted upon reasonable. AT a time when' 'Europe -threaten u viliied world—wlie the laws ot natioi —the two-great nv*| i.< laws rf nature arid ipeiily difregarded by •0 uers, wlile inn 1 own we may from time to'time receive^will berea- 1 ,] dily and impartially conimunicated-to our reft* \derst - , - 1 1 - AVOWEDLY djfciplea of. the new {phool^- believing that hierarchical tyranny has been the moft bloody and\ vlnujftive in every age— 1 J_that the mflireTrce _ gained* r 6vcf' the unenlighk.. ejiedi credulous mind', 'by*the hypocritical-pro-' ffffions of a worthTefs, profligate SiCT, has been owing <o^a want'of proper energy it), .thc^c friends of humanity and moral'retYitude, our colums.wiUbe open toetem<tjrsa)(^T(Iert«tlohs on.'.tjioral fabjY£lr j and while pure unfophidj- cated morality; is advocated, fitereftrfVapdTci. en'tifical refearch wilt receive all the encour agement which the circumfcribed limits of a public gazette, principally devoted to poljticaS- news, will adinit.- €oTTcjaiVrNG that the agricultural intend jorrns_thc bads on which mud be-built her \future greauiel'iif a l'uluult por- and murder—aH vr!l .ing power! aud forget unprecedented u -gi Jl terrilprvj to ciifc mi\ J nation*, and to a* ai ergy, is the duty of A yjutircn lj far ~a3 bis n-ttie icene ct blood firrig\ Da'tons, < l fceU jjr^r,\ Violuit\wiih k.our j.ir.fnKtloiwl W£t pohuHl lJlb»4 &Kakiiw 1 Jiirit Jf patnosic en- tion of Otir paper will be devoted to its ad vancement-; and men of erudition and genius verfrd in the various departments of literature. and vFat would acquiefcence dn.our part prove other! than the, moil abjeft fubrrtjfllon and*] £a.verW \ -f- * .„ \ I 1. , UiJirnited riches Held 00 fuch terms -would he iirfhiitely worfe tljan the enjoyn.ent of lib erty and indigence. For, howevry, in the firil cafe, ie might want-'the gratifications of the ferifuaffh; and fdnie of the epmforts/bf rational J^b^Micc, we fhoutd retain a conscience.free from reproach' and an elafj$.cfty of fpirh unbro ken byo confeioufnefs of'.crjnie. Of a nation G- inp<+ud of fncn>irr'dependent minds, it nyight lirreaft<T be faidi.t^'uft the language of antj «legan*fwriter, ««altrio.U'gh the- Trnrffjriri;ur.b , was ben^ to the-ground, no fooner dirl tl/e hur- .ic.ne pifs away, than it again rofe with frefli vigoranl more lively vegitation.\ ./The fa- /t-her of a numerous offspring mtgh? confole himfetf ^ith the rcfleftion that die hardflups be was~3idaring were for thtfgood of hjf fof- 'erny, aijx that 111 leaving to tbein a country undtbafr^T)y a dilgraccful l v ^feg f i_ he left hem a vtpple equivalentj^^^ftanty patn- \~ h fail, t • thr eye^aiSofophy and vjich-lcob entiiefy to^the aggregati F' liappimfji—what are Tucflee ti)<g (hich lor n diort period ca(f~a \Ihade capacity slid i'p^^TCu r i gern.i: TF our natioi...l c<»-iftnrnt an'. il c ccm rrrunity at lac^r, ^rre^rbpiTr >n the mm lightened thws o' lura)c !.it ^.l iytfnn>— it tyr^nn; —1 merit were hf reriitary^ ndi the pels M |,o\or only to be fiilcd-l)yji unqualui^d oy other the ci\i h* c?pfice\of rrni JprefsV and more .rieceffaAy 1 fo fully fubjugated (t unjir5nr;i > 1 i 't* -ji»\-*-»is : ' «^thtlf 6 «n\w«rft\enemjs,\ ther. l,c virtue and the libert of thff. ver)t,\d.at r tlie mandates _tyranpy or eAlcd by popular-contempt; but 1 lung 3s- our ftiagif- tratts derivftftrir authoi \y tiom thf pe*lc— while wiHrfind impartial l<wc tre ei>.-^n>! rigoroufly e3tetU '*'d, ni ional cluract-r.k'h. permanence of pubi.e it itutrpns, apJ a tec legiflative ^epfefenYatiot (the vitaj pjiritiWc of a republican-governr M) depend tipon 4e geperal information ot a daffrs of tl c cori munfty ) for whenever 1 1 intefitgence are -bfoc ted ij> or tort thah birth ,orT« peared iu the National MelligeieeV, oyer cl-anne's nt pnbiflj ar become oirrup' M cd, thtliherttes of-the p|opie ..ir in imtrment danget. IT IS an al'owed axio^, fanf.ioned by com, mon obfervation, that - ] rtodical gazettes Tf propetly qonducled, tew more than any other ^publications, to improve :hc c .nrals, and-en- ligUen -Wic nun<!s of the readers—far while voluminous publications re laid afide, .as te- diou» and abdrtife, the fttkly riiefiVnger of p«iEng events is fciztd*^ vh avidity) and pe- ruh\,d with care : And iti. tntoufch this medi um only, that important intelligence call he trarfmi'.ted to the con mmity, with that pjonTptriefs wliicfi the e»feency may require, fia lorg, then forf j- as p'. tical mh rniation is regularly and impani.iit/ diO>mip?jed, the people hjay'defy the infid-Ais fciienieaof trai tors and diforganiaers. | RKASOKV tqo obviousio require elucida tion, render an avowal \ol Our political senti ments indifpenfable : A^rm attachment-to the prtfent aJminidration it the national gov ernment, and a hearty confidence in the meaT- '. ures which have been recoimende-d'by the fu- vpreme executive, t|ucugh-Jie.-wholo^period of Bis public lile—in\ entire approbation ot the kife pulicy purfuedby thewpublican majority . | o^.tlus date, in local Snd (jblic corjceinsj'and are refpeftfully invited to enrich the colums of the PrLOT with* the produtlioiis of their leif- ure houis. IMPRESSED with the importance of the ua ig—-encouraged by the premifef. J?!,^ lillai.ee from men of talents, and relying upon l.e indulgence and jiatronage of-an-wliglu^rj- ed comn-untty, we offer to the public the fud number of the PILOT, for their patronage. ' _ 1 H& ^PUBLISHERS. [VVe 'commence the. publication of a feries of V Vie.ll wjkten numbers, which have lately ap- tlie Ggnature-of <« AN AM ^<t PCA N WHto.\ To all honed and welLdifpofed Americans, bers.] From the NATIONAL INTELLIGENCER. To the People of tie United S.atcsi A mnmentnui crjriahni nrmrrfji ifi\ J'SUTa; I n>». The irjufTice of foreign powers h s i»i .ijnny, reafon, of humj clouds, cvfcr htllian fcenes, compared' to thac total rfarknrr..)which fo often fpring*-from A radical er'or ir,the pohw of nations I What are the mporry effec\s anting £om a fufpt-nfion to f resptl/fiuits wl ich ought invariably to fl*w from jpod principles, compared to thr perma nent bandoiimenlt of thofe principle' I The AfBT^Kje-rSas gfeat as exiCs between an in- d'vjdtal of gener|al good health, who is occa- fiindy exp\lW\to~d.feafe, and an indmdval fcif sfiiabltually oVbllilned and-firoK tutji. 'yis. Very analogy, which comei> home to the fj. J\g'jof every man, is driflly ap'plicable to <<iijprcfcnt fituation We-Jiave afTeQe.' 1 ^ad. ai ^contending for prmcinles, which are juft in th fclvrt, which no n3tmm ~«wtt *artl) ha<i a rying it on ; as though fhc had fail t i$ Fo m»^ ny words, \the U. States are, hereby prohib* lied-, from authorifing ady veffel belonging tc» hey ciiizens to navigate the ocean on pain of capture and condemnation.\ Surh an undifgulfedV aflertion at tyramiy woiild have roufed a feeling -of univerfal refenc [.menu No. man on American_ground would have dated to have been' its. apol\gi{) or to have thrown obloquy on the'government that refilled it. And yet the exifling cafe differs i n \no refpecV Except, in the terms in wh'rh- the mandate -js-couched. The only difference is, that inflead 'of being expreffed in fuch frat 1c in- teligible, -honed language ; i f i t he not auiurd to afenbe honorable rrutivca to-fujeh a dctell- , able exercife of felfifhityranny ; the fame prin ciples \\ affertrd, anditne fame 1 vil Infiifted in ! circuitens, infidious arid jefuittcal terms Thus 'ffj!, that in priv>tt life the darker o'fthe 1 af- » faffin is often wielded under the cover-ot.the night by the band that has net fpirit to hazard the open encounter of day light* The greater the pr,ofperity enjoyed tty \5 na tion, the more .fcnfibly will fhe feel the blow thit fufpeuds it. , Such is tlir unive.fpl influ ence of good fortune, that its poff.-ffors ff.ldom realizes its fugitive nature, or calculates upon if interruption nf lofa. • He forms his plam— l^ht Xq deprive us of and which ve_cannot Inquifh jwithwr irrftnT^ _ Shalf^we then hf<-nt to wear thofe humiliating chains, he jtfr they are fet off with baubles to dazzle , s . ...... .-r'J' f nl'.:s, 01 becaufe a rcn.nai \ of libcr.v ts we recommend a candid perufal ot its num- ^ ^ „„ t Bfcely tQ rfnlain , (ngj / h „ ubiritin.g to fuch daring pretenfiont ?—For [or*, I fiy no I Mouhijather dig my own grave, ai'd refigr. myfelf to v 'i-nta-y death, than do an a& which would ine!frta.My de. gia'le me iniuy own eyer, and-my country in. the. tyr.s of ti,t w rid. In fuhf qnent numbers i fliall enter more fully into this lubjed, and oilier? conuected WItb.it. AN AMERICAN -WHIG. duced you to niakf a (land <g^in{r; the.r Cf- tefTiuns. In making this fbnd, you ht/e cln fen the lead evil that prefented itfelfj tad have adopted alfourfc of meafures, defenfit»>of jiur.bWii in'ereltf^. and only fo far offenfivl a- •^Mnfl t'i. Te of-other'natTonias the^ owrijbn* A patricidalJpirit has already dared toxoid; urftTioTe meafuTes to ridicule and re,roh:<ion. fe'MfvTy caTculatTng Upon your want of -Jibhc i -.rtue, and upon ycur afcendam devotion ,'0 the' ^ermtnajQarl, founded jpon deliberate re flet\rc«, t to yieMLnur undivledTuppoTt toTlieir jtneaf 'WW* uuth f fi.d 3ne-w of our*8Iitical creed. ©^SAVj &wtwo^ny attaament to either,of powers of*4u>iW an»\ holding all na- iy_^e.corojjft)n\np. j in peace tnends, Itry tnterefts the rroment, th->fe ifo arirf n ot embroiled in the horrrs.f aauai fy 111 exciting prejudice and dffuffb/falft liod, flatter themfelves on our want of dif- c-tpment or ftrtitude. Yielding implcit'y to tl-^o'.d monaichical dogma, that the people al- t:'.)W tbwk on? ocLas tbey feel,'ituf flatter thtnfrlves that the temporary* dulufles pro- ducaby tlie embargo will render ym bodile t^Kmd-tbofe who gave it exidence- Wjh you. fellow citizens it red\ to lefute or jolify thefe (.rtdicltons ot faftnfi; to de cide, >^ce fjr all, whether to ma luin your liberties^ and to place your republ^tan inlti«u tiors oiten -impregnable foundation, you have the fpuito bear a momentary di privation t>f t part oltour luxury and wealth, or, whether nted, and con Pent to le flaves, pro- ire fuffered to induce, even 111 a —ce', your merc/nJ/y,feelings.— - J head? Inhere 1 Would not ra- ^property than k.-ence in which and entail fu- JT tlie d from the vided yoi moderate Can tl .erelfc a doubt on t a fyig'e /Mcr .icarrirrheait ther facruiTJl a moiety of fanftion ptiV&plcs, an arqu would' infiictflbrefctit difgra turc flavery » his copn .ryL This is thweal quilliofl' concern of thTOa^, a point enr^ ;_but a l &ftion of which as muc 'involves the United as the- whiclried us liWigh JJTDO manctptioti^ yance. d<| _ - - • 1 Brtarn. or in and England de.Urcs.fll dialed by Franc ^unla* , No. II. Befof^ I proceed to an tnvedtgation of the intereding topics, which will form the fubjeft B\ this addrefja, if is proper to pay Lmo atten- tijn,to a pom; which has not been tufficifntly noticed-; but which is all-.inpurtant to the fo- nution of a corrtel judgment on the mmiurts adjpted by the govcrmvent Brcaufe we are therewiie many among us who infer the exist er.ccSOTfome ; radical error in thufe meafurei from tDe2ohllru£liona tf the oidinary occupa tions of liTe, and the coiTtqurnt injuries to in dividual intered. Thry m .ke 10 allowance for a date of things, f ireed upon us, and which leaves us only a choice of evils. Their jaundiced minds, inftead- of Sirwing thefe r. vils in their real caufrs, the mjiffuce and hof- ti ny of foreign natitjis, afenbe them to the means purfurd for rem ving the caufes either ' by the removal of the -inducements t o commit -them, or by the pun.lhmcnt ot their authors. The.e men are infenfiye^of the derm that rat grs ar^U'd .hem, -nd blind to the general wreck .you aie re/Jy ,to flirink-ro? the Tu roOnding norld B-caufe for fcven II is npt a mere ordinary ex-pedi- il importance, one ,i independence of f Jolutionary lcenes tjumphantiy- to e- lares that you (ha)l r.tim-^piftrfiudities; .15 tra3ef not inter-, jl. She moreover, ,war, enemies,\ fuch {9 h •.tnaaed decrtS•fd\r\Ti|fencing that poition of trade fhe toleates, 3£A f o r impoQng upon it the moft opprtfiyg which, in fome in^ani , ginal value of the|u ye.r«bad, this country has enjoyed univerfal profp;rity. they cannot, or will not realize the chan^ produced by the alteration of its for- eign 'relations; by the drra'dful conted which is roantained between the two rival n.aiinnsof Europe wh.i after having attacked each other mall dieir vulnerable points Have, finally deter mined, as far as they have the power, to make thefr o<jn caufr, that of all Tiaitom. One bel- ligerens narhrn, in the furtherance of thefe comme neutral Si ol tliefeio The naked truth is, that- nof S ti p floalsija-t-her-ojCean'but at the will towers. So far as that will goes, and m intelligence as J this but'oppreffionj i '•. 1 . - • .7! as it reffi\s England, it is almod omnipotent, our i .o.-imerce' is 'annihilated ; it therfame a» though i nefrer exided. By imputing con- dittotiruranthaf portion of it which her pow-\j |,er U ablrito- protect, which no government? jurtbewii—burthebs, < that repri(ents an independent'na,ion will dare i, f»r exceed tt* orl-1 to fanfiioi, -fhe has in trutn donn the fame thing ies taxed. What is {as thonghfhe had paiTed an td ft, prohibiting 1 moft odtou3*form,Un cxprefttei'ms, tlje United States'firom car,' under the flatte-ing afiuranre of a continuance of the fame, and ofceji of^ a brighter funfhjne. JD a country wjiere every thing is progrefTrv^ where the population mcrea? s, with unprt- ••edentra rajnaityv and where wealth, in peace able times, increafes dill fader, where too the fi'ld of cnterpnfe and theVourres of opulence are unbounued, i t is not fiiip'rifing that every 'marTTaya in Ma mind the fo \Hidation of a wide- Ipiead proipetity, that is toT^pdei rut only himl'tlf but 1 is children independent i.nd happy. Such has hrcti, mc.ft illudnoufiy, the fitntrtion ,ot' the Unite 1 States for thjvJaft feven years- _The calual clouds that have for a morarnt cmi-fij.-r' Tiif; frfpf, h J v y been; invariably difllV i _pated by the wifdom, the. rrode^ifVibn and th^ v.i^aji^o£a^0Kninieht; e«du'.ively fceking its reward in the happinefs ot the people. But, all at once the fer• e, is .overcafl •• jlie f-mpeibjidength rea.-hes us; and we are com? pelled-tfrTeck a fhel'er from its tu-y. Not a jle- to cope with the authors ot the menaced - - evils, ajid fure either to lefe our trade l-y it* expolure on the~6?eaii, or tc forfeit our politi- , cal indeptudii c- by rrejUiefr'r\-» otlr govern ment has adi pted the only meaiure cucir. • J tl maintain the laft unimpaired, and to pre* Tefve the firft from a f tarF WrecK iTmeaibffe which, for a time, will have the inevitable ef> left of producing cpjjjjderabL;.. temporary in- convenience : infinitely lefs, however Jtlian\ would have flowed eitberfroro war or tital coni- .mercial mill. i'h .s meafure, !h the eye rf realon and ,_af;~ common frnle, is as rouciu -Ui be afi uhtd LJ. tlit hrlngerent power-, as tho* they had- 1 - rieed it. Bv doing that tl «rrf lve», wi<ith kit to ni 1 o otliti areni live, th '-y vtr uah/ bicamt its .uiliQU.--^-f then us p-'fforc is frk ; it it U .1S 4i»tenuutrd th' p <-fp riiy ot irdivtduMs; 11 it has dall td their fchrives ot future e'j^y- neot; 1 it has produced a I'ufpn f- of a'l ft .-iiei thr moft painful ; let our lef^ntmrnl lig''t err — thofe vjhofc injudice Has rendered a retb't tn it inevitable Let it not be made the ini'ru* ment ol d'vfion am- ng cUifelvt -s ; the tr >giRe of petfonal piques, ot political ref nttner.1. of i ithbrnrl ipvecirves. bet us rot, nt tbrjuxm uient, when eHtern »l danger ca)tsTp »>n tes foj uni n, rxh'bitthe rpc &acle c fdid'aAton ; : embolr.cn e .ur etiendct to't hendi the I., p c thj whe^ *H 'u ftrMigth is lequired ^o otir invaded rnjhir, me flull iall a prey not much to iViyjower as to their own divif Let us rtr .olle't _t^e denfion with w.hicjj_ governments -nt F.uropeTjave uniiTntnly trc^ repi bticiiti rtnu-iani.w -tet us recollcfl that th«y huve ridicV d thenj as-f>ne fptm theories, that Will not bear a pra&ical application ; as viTions of philofophy that wjll Wd at the ap.'' proacb of danger, let us recollett-that tliej\ ~_ have denied them all energy ; and l'at _th £|E__._ have taunting'y to]3 us, that while the enerny^ was ar> our -gates', we would continue-Sjuar- reffing among. ourirW'S, inflead of mik'tug an uni.cdTrefiftaflce. Let us recolleft thefe views, fas virtually Jenied to Heutrala aTlprT--things, and fay, whether *ve are not encour-. tercutir^ with the other; or, in other wo^idV^ ^agiugJtneie fentirnettts- ani-tba^nijuU prttcn^^i^P h has delfoyed the veiy exidmce of pintraf \frojli of our enemies, fcy hickeripgrambng our- .iSjKL felve_s x b^ indulging par.y ranc»u>y^^doinB*^iC ^ ~ all in our pawej to tScTte rithtifTuah reprel»ij*^ , our internal divifions. . .—^^^d f^\ Let us recollect that the meaiure, w l-of«iffir \* ficacy is now put to tlie tc(t, h7,s dee,! herttd , i^!?\».'. tore confidered as am-np the gteRt c *ur power ( and that, accordingly 'as' rt^i^F-;- *j • now operate (andjts jperation-ftujldir,<ni! r together on'the ngi /wiili wi.ith >' u'cnf^&T * , ed«>1t i«Ul hereafter b'e vieweJ l.y t>e .foretgfi T t^orld Avrth difrbay or dcuti^i^ t-fcgi^S ' /sN AMERICAN WH* fe '* Mr ^ \ A