Alexandria Daily Gazette, Commercial & Political

From the Same.

The time was, when it would have been thought not only odious but in the highest degree dangerous to our liberties in this free country, in any extremity, to call in the aid of a standing army to enforce the execution of civil laws. Then too our armies were commanded by such men as Washington and Hamilton, neither foreigners themselves, nor the suspected pensioners of any foreign government. And those who were then most loud and clamorous are the men who have now the administration of the government in their own hands. But circumstances have altered cases. In the report of the secretary of the 10th ultimo, several extraordinary legislative provisions are recommended as necessary for enforcing the law of non-intercourse with Great Britain, among which is, "an authority to the armed force of the U. States to make seizures." What would have been thought in the days of Washington, of a proposition from the cabinet, to employ a standing army to carry into effect an act of congress for the regulation of commerce? Napoleon however, who "loves the Americans," does things in this way; and the Americans who love Napoleon, must be allowed to imitate the example.