Daily National Intelligencer

CRISIS.

FROM THE BALTIMORE PATRIOT

TO THE PEOPLE OF THE U. STATES.

At length we are blessed by the return of Peace. Whether it is such a peace as under all circumstances ought to have been made, it may not be amiss to examine. Already has it been censured by several party papers as having fallen short of the objects for which the war was declared, particularly future security against impressment, and restitution to our merchants for the property taken and condemned under the orders in council.

If these objects have not been attained, is your government to blame? Are you not a divided people, broken into pernicious and disgraceful parties? Have not, at least, one third of the nation done all they could to palsy the arm of the administration, and to thwart every measure calculated to promote a vigorous war? Have not your representatives in congress, during its present session, neglected to provide both money and men? Not to "a weak and wicked ADMINISTRATION" therefore can it be justly imputed, that the Treaty is not more advantageous; but to a miserable, a selfish, and narrow-minded representation of the people, and to the deadly spirit of party and of FACTION.

The impressment of seamen ceases however to be an object of present moment, in consequence of the general peace in Europe. The right to protect our seamen is not surrendered. The moment Britain falls again into her old practice of tearing away our fellow-citizens of this description, and of breaking up our voyages at sea, we may lawfully assert this right, and if there is any virtue in the nation and its government, we unquestionably shall assert it. In the mean time let it sleep, and let us increase and advance in every kind of strength.

With respect to the merchants--have they deserved the protection of their government? Did they not, by numerous memorials, call on it to avenge their wrongs, and pledge their lives and fortunes to support it? Did they not afterwards violate the Embargo, a measure taken for their security and protection? Have they not refused to loan their money, and thereby contributed to embarrass the finances? Yet, had it been possible, under the divisions and existing disorders amongst ourselves, to have introduced an article in their favor, there is no doubt it would have been done, and the writer of this would have seen it with pleasure.

Had we been a united people, we should have humbled our enemy in dust and ashes. Every foot of her territory upon this continent would have been taken from her, and might have been retained. As it is, we have beaten and disgraced her, beyond all former example, both by land and by water, with only two-thirds of our population, while the other third have been, in many indirect respects, constantly pulling against us.

People of America! if you are wise, you will now put an end to PARTY: and you will, above all things, make it a point never again to honor with your confidence those careless agents in congress of yours, of every party, who appear to have been lately upon the point of surrendering your country to the enemy, by not granting the necessary supplies, and taking the necessary measures, to prevent it from being over-run. It is God that has saved us by the peace, and not our representatives. Let us therefore rejoice that it has come in the shape in which it appears. Altho' we have not got all that we wanted, we have got enough to make us happy--and although it is not as advantageous a peace as it might have been, had we all done our duty to our country, yet it is AN HONORABLE Peace; for, without abandoning any vital right, it has SECURED OUR LIBERTY, OUR INDEPENDENCE, OUR TERRITORY, AND OUR UNION, all which were threatened with destruction; and has fixed the seal to the NATIONAL CHARACTER which we have acquired during the war, of being as humane, as just, as intelligent, and as BRAVE a people, both by sea and by land, as ever lived upon the globe.

CHATHAM,