Kentucky Gazette

FROM THE TRUE AMERICAN.

The greatest objection that we have heard to the Embargo, was founded on the supposed impossibility of enforcing it. We think this objection will be obviated. That government has the will to enforce it, no one can doubt. That it has the means, we fully believe. Our Custom House officers can, with the powers with which they will be invested under the Embargo-law, do much to give it effect ; and our frigates, sloops of war, gun-boats and privateers, will pick up most of those who may evade the vigilance of the Custom-House. If the Embargo had been continued and enforced before, it would unquestionably have brought England to honorable terms without war. And with war, we indulge the hope that it may be made to contribute powerfully to the same end.

As we every where find those men who are more devoted to Britain than to their own country, the most clamorous against the Embargo, is it not fair to infer that they consider it as a measure which has a tendency to injure her severely? And may not American Patriots be almost sure of being on the right side of a question, when they differ with British partizans?

Federalists do not say more against the taxes now that necessity requires them to be laid, than they once did in favor of them when laid without necessity.

When the Republicans repealed the former taxes, many Federalists condemned that measure as strongly as they now do the imposition of new ones.

When Federalists recollect that it was their opposition to the Embargo and other peace-measures, and their siding with Great-Britain against their own country, that rendered war necessary, one would think they ought to pay the war-taxes without grumbling. The Republicans, who did their utmost to avert the war, have far the most room to complain.

Some of the federal papers pretend an abhorrence of the blue-light signals ; but these papers themselves are no better than those lights-being like them employed in betraying their own government and people, and aiding and abetting the enemy.

We lately observed that the establishment of a manufactory of pins near Boston would prick John Bull to the quick The Columbian informs us there is also a pin manufactory in the State of New-York, which will be another thorn in the side of John Bull.-At the rate we are going on, we shall not long need to call for English manufactures.