Daily National Intelligencer (Washington City [D.C.])
November 17, 1813
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FOR THE NATIONAL INTELLIGENCER NEW SONG. O’er the wood-cover’d bills and green vales of the west When the sound of the tocsin has roll’d— Our youth rise in armor for liberty press’d *Tis a beautiful sight to behold Creen-Mountain Boys north throng the hillock like ants When serpents intrude on their bed- In the teeth of the warlike attack they advance, Nor stop till the British are fled The south and the west, like the hornet and bee, Whom locusts presume to annoy; Repel the band hostile to liberty’s tree. And sting them, defeat and destroy. Bold seamen like falcons sweep over the lake As swift as flotillas can go V Sharp conflict” maintaining for freedom’s great sake, And ruin the flank of the foe. Our eagle of union majestic in wrath Prepares the red darts in his thong To trouble sea-lions that waylay his path And smite the vindictive and strong! Who would not brave peril our states to se cure. Bold, martial, instructed and just; Where exercis’d talents and virtue insure Fame, fortune and freedom robust How rich the resources that millions regale Farm, factory, forest and bowers But little, ah little, would riches avail If nothing but riches were ours. Enhancing this treasure, that order controls, Worth China, Peru and Japan— Our country’s true opulence centres in souli'— Her noblest preduction is MAN. Virginia, J\ov. 1813. FROM THE BOSTON PATRIOT. REVlEW— Continued. Anticipation of Marginal Notes, on the Declaration of Government of the 9th January, in the American Ration al Intelligencer.—London, 1812. We now come to consider the repeal, as by custom it has been called, of the British orders in council. When the tenor of the instrument was first known in this country, it excited, we believe, a pretty universal disgust among all par ties. Some federalists, as we have un derstood, openly pronounced the repeal itself, cot,sidering the terms in which it was made and the pretensions it advan ced, an insult on the nation We trust that we shall be able to satisfy our rea ders that this opinion was hot lightly ta ken up. The President, however, with that caution befitting his exalted station, and that prudence which in him is cha racteristic, declared that it was suscep tible of explanations capable of meeting the views of the United States.’ That it was susceptible of such explanations, we by no means mean to question that it ought to be received without them, we presume no one will contend. At the same time we must remark, that this as fords another proof, if pro'of were want ing, of a disposition in Mr. Madison to accommodate, on reasonable terms, all our differences with Great Britain.; We say then that the extinction of the British.orders was made subject to three conditions, with two of which it was not within the power of the United States to comply. First, the repeal of our non importation law—this we were able to do. Secondly, the revocation ol the French decrees as to other neutrals as well as ourselves. Thirdly, the re vocation of the edicts prohibiting the admission of British goods into the ports of Franc*. Each of th. se facts, we think, may be placed beyond the reach of controversy On tie 21st of May, the French dd received a wound in the arm and had it bound up before he received the mortal wound. ,1c had such a countenance as I shall never forget. He did notappear to ipe so large a man as he was represented. I did not suppose his height to exceed 5 feet 10 or 11 inches, but extremely well proportioned.—The British says he compelled them to fight. Poe tor and Elliot j m an ay d the comm- neement of the action The British officers are cursing Proctor for a cowaru and a ras cal.”
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