Virginia Argus

If there be a public cause, and true friends of liberty, can a genuine son of freedom & a votary of public good, view, without emotions of anguish and horror, the unprincipled attempts which are made by some of the opposition prints, to produce resistance to the government and laws. The taint of faction, and a base devotedness to the enemy, must poison the hearts of those who can countenance such daring strides in infamy. What infatuation and cruelty, for American editors, to evince, a disposition to accelerate the direful period of civil war! Is it not enough for these harpies of discord and toryism, that the blood of our fellow citizens shedding by the united hands of European and American savages? Will nothing satisfy their rampant thirst for power to manifest their hatred against the administration, but the miseries attendant on a civil war? Or are their threatenings of open pugnation to the embargo, the system of a former period, revived, of unprincipled manoeuvre, to defeat the great and salutary purposes of the government? If the energies of the country are to be crushed by such vipers; if we are to be driven by them from the latitude, in which the patriotism, manly wisdom, and calm resolution of a triumphant majority of Congress has placed us, then may public virtue retire from our councils, and suffer a further usurpation of illicit power! For our part, we had rather see the streets of Boston crimsoned, than the sacred principles of our constitution should be subverted by faction in aid of the views of a foreign enemy.

The editors of a depraved British semi-official print to the Southward, have declared, unconditionally, that the "Eastern people will not submit to the embargo!"

The editor of the "United States Gazette," of Philadelphia, after condemning, what many will approve, the officers who have left the army on our exposed frontier, proceeds with observing. "It is not very improbable, Mr. Madison may want a numerous gang of these gentry to enforce the embargo, and complete the destruction of our liberties; but we can assure Mr. Madison that unless he brings into action, more talents and firmness, he will not succeed in destroying the liberties of New England; there will be many affairs of a Bunker Hill nature, before he effects his purposes. They were born free and they will remain free, maugre all attempts of French dictation."

Thus it would appear, that this editor glories in the chance of seeing the standard of insurrection and revolt waving in triumph on Bunker's hill, in opposition to constitutional law.

Such degeneracy and profligate disaffection should be frowned into contempt and reprobation.—The editor who pens this, deems his native city disgraced, in the support and countenance given to such violence on national feeling, as the "United States Gazette" is in the constant habit of indulging in.

Balt. American.