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The fast anchored isle. Britain has been the cause of more bloodshed, more pain and misery among the poor victims of the world, than for a thousand of her nobles, each to murder a thousand christians. Her sins and crimes, the world is now loaded with, and all in consequence of foreign commercial iniquity, millions and millions are murdered, and the blackest deeds of sin committed, for British usurpation, that extreme inequality, to which British ambition, rivalship, interest, humour and caprice, has extended.

The true spirit of our constitution, is as much lost to the deluded, as ever Adam was in his fall, and its dead letter has by British emissaries, become a perverted implement to British favor, as much for retaking these colonies, as for the true spirit in the remaining party of the states, to defend themselves from the destruction; and as Britain has availed herself of the use of Canada, and a party in the states in her delusive favor, under the pretence of neutrality, but in reality. hidden British assistance, dampening the ardor of the people and prolonging the war, which Britain profits by, and will not make peace, so long as she can continue our division and debt, and the states not enabled to complete their independence from her, but yield in despair a recolonization, with the ascension of her royal party, and the destruction of congressional power, for British laws under the controul of her king and parlia

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The two parties of America, while temporally bound together, by the dead letter of their constitution they are really separated by good and evil spirits, and the British aristocracy avails itself of the advantage of that division which the aristocrats themselves made, and still continue to exasperate for the same purpose for which they divided us, and so to continue us by deception as all kingly aristocracies of Evrope are always riding on division, till our union rots down under the oppression of British aristocracies eternal delusion, as we were when colonies, always divided till Washington united us, and shall we again unite, and revolt from her ungrateful arms of damnable delusion.

The world, now under the overwhelming burthensome superiority of the seas, all beholden to the small Island of Britain, which is no more to be compared with either continent, than an ounce to a ton, whose local situation gives her the advantages of the world's best, so great that, that black spot of misery, gives robbing law to all the ports of the world, and price to all produce; how inconsistent even to a fool, that one spark of favor. itism is shown to that midnight nest of stealing and murdering pirates, notwithstanding her treasonable gold for every vote to her favor, an Algerine ought to spurn at even a thought to the favor of British aristocracy, even without the vote, the author commits a sin, no matter for his eloquence, riches or false religion. Yet how many thousand aristocrats of Columbia continue to advocate and support British acts of usurpation, acts of all others the most mean and dirty, and full of sin, rebellion and war, rendering to her national weapons, national advantages, to be turned nationally against us, our injured nation. Can sins like these, be forgiven by a God of justice, by a Washington of heaven? Does not his spirit look down upon the rebellious gloom, and frown upon the disorganizing sycophants whose furious kidnapping noddles impel them to imbrue their perfidious hands in the blood of his Columbians, promised with the mansion of bliss, for which he fought and hazarded, the long seven years hard bedded camp of the revolution. Oh ye black fulcrums of all the new world's sin, how many times has Washington in the latter days of his presidential station, by the other branches of congress, being the majority of wolves, been compelled to yield to the deluding breeze of aristocracy, but his delicate management saved us.

Washington equally opposed the dark power of the kingly Guelphs and the Bourbons, he, was so much of a republican that, he regarded, neither, while to worship the kingly existence of the old. Bourbons, was the idol of pretended federalism, who could not bear the dethronement of Louis the sixteenth, nor to see Bonaparte conquer the kings of Europe, but rejoice to see rise the new kings. What says Washington in this case, in his answer to Adet, the French minister?

He says, "My anxious recollections, my sympathetic feelings, and my best wishes, are irresistibly "excited, whensoever in any country, I see an oppress-"ed nation unfurl the banners of freedom; but above "all, the events of the French revolution have produ "the deepest solicitude, as well as the highest admira"tion. To call your nation braves were to pronounce "but common praise. Wonderful people! ages to "come will read with astonishment, the history of your "brilliant exploits."

These expressive words show that Washington's: republican heart was in favor of republicanism, to unfurl their banners of freedom to the dethronement of. kings. What better right had the Bourbon family than other family or Louis the sixteenth to the throne of France, than any other man whom the people had a right to eleet, as all republicans ought, instead of having an aristocrat forced upon the throne by foreign kings, how is it possible, that those pretended federals so much in favor of the hereditary succession of the Bourbons to the throne of France, are Washington republicans,when Washington's own words condemn them. Are not these aristocrats, the best wishers of kings, who cloak their hypocricy in the name of a Washington society? The simple fact is, such men are no republicans, tho' they so pretend, nor are they federals to our salvation, for they meddle with the aristocracies of Europe, they quit their own to stand on foreign ground, forsake their own country, and rejoice for the success of kings for foreign aid, for their own ascension, under the aid of eastern kings; as the Bourbons were reinstated by the sword's dark powers of Europe, hoping their kingly turns must next come. Washington was no friend to these kind of hypocritical federal republicans and Washingtonian christians. These are beautiful names, but I cannot discern a republican, heart within them.

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These pretended federals for the sake of British aid for their own ascension, aid her in all her acts of usurpation, against the rights of their common country,. in order to acquire a permanent ascendancy upon the throne of Columbia by the British arms, as the Bourbons were reinstated by the arms of the allies. Aux

ious to engage the Columbians in a war against France, with Britain, for throwing us directly into her arms, as her privy orders in council had ordered us to become tributary vassals for all our trade elsewhere, as well as to her dominion. Which, in case we obeyed her orders, we acknowledged her dominions and king, when she would have been able to have compelled us to have a king, as she has reinstated the Bourbons, that our republic will no more alienate from her, her subjects, that her seamen will not all forsake tyranny, for a Columbian asylum.

The deluded dupes think that if this war had not been declared, we should have been in no danger of falling back under British dominion, as though our declaring war, built all the great guns and naval danger of Britain, or as though Britain is like a lion, and we like a lamb, and that the lion though ever so hungry wont touch the lamb, unless the lamb points his finger at him, not dreaming that if the lamb in these days, should attempt to lie down with the lion, will be at once devoured. Supposing we should have knuckled to all the demands of Britain, and lain down in sleep, and said naught, or why do you so, majestic Britain, and let her go on with her orders in council, ordering home her coTonies by clandestine warfare, taking seamen six thousand, vessels nine hundred, and duties eight millions a year, and so double every year, how long would it take a hungry ravenous lion to destroy a lamb, or Britain to destroy Columbian independence? How then can war build up British danger; would not Britain, if she knew we would not resist, very soon grasp a retaliation for the revolution, revive her hope, to behold the sun of English glory rising in the west as a lion fond of the blood of lambs, be used to suck for life? would he not be for sucking again? For what did Britain endeavor to keep these colonies at the revolution-would not she, as the lamb, loosened from the lion's claws, like: the lion with redoubled fury, regrasp her sun of Englishglory? What more respect has Britain for slavery abroad, than she has for her slaves at home? Would not she as soon deprive us, of the right to vote or to bear arms against her, as she has her own subjects 2

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Fearing the lamb may turn to a lion as it did at the révolution against her; or for what has Columbia been these thirty years, training her militia and making cannon but that the lamb shall reject the lion, when should we declare war, British danger is now the highest, shall we knuckle and be her slaves, or shall we shut ourselves from her ocean of danger, and fend it off at the shore's edge, as a lamb out of the reach of the lion, is not devoured since he cannot combat him amidst his danger for the want of ships, and did not we declare war when the lion was elsewhere engaged, for setting his right claw off the north beyond the shore's edge, and did not his left claw withhold our power being lion also ? A fool might think that if we had not declared war, we should have been at peace; but wisdom to him says there is no peace in these days, when the lion and the lamb is together, while Columbia admits inroads to the sea lion's danger, as Canada is a long and broad one; the lion walks along its carpet, be-yond his cage slily crying peace, peace, that he can catch the lamb before he shoulders his gun. What else is the political difference in effectual reality, between cur declaration of war, and the British orders in council; than the former is bold public honesty in plain words, to all the people, and the latter a clandestine roguery, cloaked under the soft phrase of orders in courcil, and not of war; when it was really war. The latter stealing and robbery, and the former public justice for punishing the rogue, before the grand tribunal of the world. Before ever we declared, that war cxisted between us and Britain, the British war under her steeling phrase of deception, took six thousand seamen, nine hundred vessels, and eight millions of tax a year from the Columbian farmer; but as soon as the Congress declared, that war was going on against us, Britain changed her war phrases, into war in terms, but she could not take vessels, duties and seamen, half as fast as when she was stealing them, and we could take from her as well as she from us, and perhaps faster, after Congress (June 19th, 1812,) told us all to look out for her stealing danger, and the lamb stuck up his power of resistence to the lion. What is the definition of

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