Washington the art of war, in the taking of Canada, was the losing of the states; a dear bought whistle, and the astonishing youth, too wise for a Braddock, became a man of memory, and recollected that an example set by a mother, might be observed by children, if for the best. So he revolted from her arms, and sent his Montgomery to fulfil the will of his mother. And what he failed to do was left for his Columbian sons. As Washington's angel of never failing spirit shall direct his examples we will obey; for our own salvation as well as our friends, we for our Canadian neighbors ought to do, as we would wish them to do to us, unite and fling off the dark and hard yoke of civil kings, though with fear and trembling, or the grave of Montgomery will be considered of the devil's cause, instead of Washington's; but the scene of British prospects changed, her sun of glory disappeared for the bright clouds of the west; and at the signing of the British death warrant,(meaning the treaty) Britain to her down falling sorrow, conceived nothing else than her brilliant sun of English glory had forever done shining, unless some other policy can be pursued besides that of war, say her defeated lords; for the American bravery we cannot encounter; and which policy must be costly and lengthy. For, in vain is war, says lord Chatham, two large armies have been sent over, and one hundred millions sterling expended, in vain is war, in vain; but peace and policy must be the only possible means, and many were their arguments; lord Chatham maintained for America that her independence she must have, and unconditionally; but England must be ruined, says lord Shelburn, if America is independent, and parliament concluded that America was already independent, and an honorable and humiliating peace was the wisest step next to be taken, accordingly the treaty was stipulated and concluded, to which general Washington foresaw the evil consequences which now follow for not including Canada, for which reason Washington declined his assent to its ratification till he was obliged to. Britain concluding that on the ground of the reserved Canadas a hope is retained, that a reserved part might be the means of recovering back their losses, that the sun of English glory had not set forever, that if a spark at least is left, it may light us up to a new day; our Canada stand in a future day with an extended navy will be of use, for commerce is dear to the farmer, to an immense wilderness the principal must be true, true ch Columbia! of the west, and of the south, shall our Atlantic aristocratical speculators, bind this nation to British misery. If she has an advantage not yet ripe, shall the deluded farmer; shall Washington's great name become a tool, to undo what our fathers done, oh sleeping sons! rise with the armor, en masse in the ma jesty of your strength, leave your fields and hammer, or be slaves; nothing relieves us but union with all our might, against our dreadful foe, this is no war but of Washington success, or his and our ruin. A dividedł -nation is a tool of easy prey to the nearest danger; there are no other European arms to receive us, but those we rose out of. The lot of man is always to be duped by man, and nation by nation, all the wars of kings are fought in this underhanded manner of clan. destine war. The plea of peace into the ear of the inexperienced generation is the most powerful of all war. If this generation had revolted from Britain, as cur fathers had, not a vote would British friends have to carry them to congress, not a single soldier would have to be enlisted were we united, but the militia to a man, would volunteer if wanted, and drafts taken who shall stay at home, not a man would be slain for no Canadian would be brought against their friends, friends, because if we were united they are with us, nor would a British soldier be sent over, but the olive branch would soon appear, and Canada be ours, in union and in peace. Was Britain to find that her aristocratical friends among us were by us forsaken, like the tories of old, and the deluded farmer turned about, how soon everlasting peace is tendered to our honest terms, as at the revolution. Then why not unite, deluded farmers, the pleading for peace to our own divided people, never brings us peace, it is nothing but a black sham of British deception, it is like an infant in the arms of a bear asking for mercy, it is the only manner of destruction; all republics have so been overthrown. The Roman re public was overthrown, and so was that of France in the same manner. Energy is our salvation, all kingly nations, are eternally blowing their emissaries into the bowels of republics, for no other reason but to continue their subjects in delusion from forsaking their lords and masters, and fleeing therein for liberty; to the downfal of kings, for a general reformation. And for no other reason is the British pretended federalism, Boston junto and John Henries made use of. Her loads of gold and secret societies are sent among us for no other reason, but to steal from us our liberties, for which our fathers so much fought, bled and died. When we have conquered Canada from the British and Indians, we have done our duty to our Columbian sons and to our God, to our posterity and to thousands of our endangered brethren, endangered by the Indians and tomahawks, who live within their midnight groans. Not a single year had rolled over our heads, before the revolution, but we were eternally harassed with wars, and rumors of wars, nor is a person ever at peace of mind under kings, but always fighting and dreaming of witches, from the straw-bed of ignor ance. To rid ourselves of which destruction, we must obey the words and spirit of Washington, and all European republicans will continue to be looking up to our peaceful abode, who says, why quit our own, to stand on foreign ground, (Washington) when all the advantages that heart can wish, are here in a land of liberty, to support which not a moment should pass over our heads, but we must watch and guard against the dangers of Britain, who masters the seas, and holds us in her flattering commercial bosom, three thousand miles from European assistance; Britain extending and continuing her established interest and connections, dispersed in every city among us; and in all the commercial rivers and roads, which lead thereto, through all the vallies and fattening villages of our country; all using the same laws, languages and fashions, endangers us on every side, to rid ourselves of which, we revolted from her unnatural government of kings, as she is our unnatural civil enemy, she is not our natural divine friend and equal, if she was she would seek our peace; but she seeks our destruction, her religion is false, she is no natural friend and equal, but to herself, she is an unnatural enemy to us, haughty above us in wicked pride. For our war is unnatural to her unnatural lords and to their unnatural friends both in America and Britain, and by them called an unjust and wicked cause of God, because it destroys their false pride and royalty, and prevents Boston from enslaving Columbian farmers and Britain from enslaving the agricultural and manufacturing world, by their cold underhanded connection of foreign speculation, against which this war is just as unavoidable, as that of the revolution, and just like it, it is a war of the people in which they are all engaged for all their liberties, against the British crown of op pression, for which clandestine war of the British now rages, and has these eight years to subject us. When by which our independence is lost, by divi sion as before the revolution, when again we have got to struggle for it, as much as we ever had; for since which Britain has arrived to an unexpected naval superiority of enticement, division and compulsion, she has raised up the devil and God's wrath also, for since Britain has subdued that naval power which balanced hers, our embargo of equal regard and neutrality to the seas, can be no neutrality, for freemen in the cause of God must form a union or lose their freedom, when of course our independent government is lost; for when a people are divided, they have no government, but a kingly aristocracy rages in secrecy, and if they have no government, they have no independence, for our constitution is a rope of sand, our union is rotten, and who divided us the only nation that can reach us, and who but Britain is close in our doors, in our pockets, and on our tables, and full of all the means required to subject us her slaves, unless we do as our fathers set the example, and so we must every generation, until she respects our rights and liberties, and acknowledge her unjust foreign pride and oppression, no longer to compel us to bow to her insignificance. Was there a naval power to balance Britain, we should have been all united as we were under Washington, and our in dependent government would have existed, but neutrals are done with; as to the sea, there are but two parties, the sea and the soil. The naval power of France, to balance the naval blow of Britain, was once like two monstrous strong men, both knowing of a distant prize, as Canada is to democrats and federals, one became a balance power to withhold the other from catching the Columbian prize, as we cannot take Canada, because of our two parties, one in opposition, becomes a check to the other; were we united in obedience to our government, Canada is soon ours, but the United States are soon Britains; since all the navy of the world is ravaged under her serpent's head. Britain has a thousand times the chance over us in taking back these divided not United States, than the States have in taking Canada, so long as we are divided; because foreign dependant commerce has a thousand times the means of subduing a nation, to that of a divided people in arms to defend it, for it makes the division our downfal, and dependant commerce is our only destruction, all Tartary was subjected to the slavery of the Chinese yoke, by no other means than by the commercial advantages, manners and Tashions of China over Tartary. Washington had his greatest interest in farming, held slaves himself; happened not to be a collegial lawyer or preacher of hypocrisy, nor a foreign merchant of that ruin which speculated in human merchandize, thrown into the bowels of his native Virginia; his slaves were not of his make,but which being the products of mighty British lawyers, merchants and preachers of British commercial government of corruption, taught him and his Virginian associates that wisdom which opposes the continuance of the dreadful evil. Yet he could not, or did not prescribe any possible plan to rid himself and country of the many indolent and ignorant slaves, which surrounded him, consistently to the safety of himself and his native citizens; but he always opposed the continuance of that wicked practice of impressment for human traffic; yet the entangled situation in which the blacks and whites were jeopardized, the lives of both would not only be en A a |