"it is only by arms we can regain our situation . . . and without these we must speedily be robbed of it"

   "The subsequent remark bears hard upon the disciples of the new school of politicians.

   "Those whose principle it is to despise the ancient permanent sense of mankind, and to set up a scheme of society on new principles, must naturally expect that such of us, who think better the judgment of the human race than of theirs, should consider both them and their devices, as men and schemes upon their trial. They must take it for granted, that we attend much to their reason, but not at all to their authority. They have not one of the great influencing prejudices mankind in their favour. They avow their hostility to opinion. Of course they must expect no support from that influence, which, with other authority, they have deposed from the seat of its jurisdiction..."

"...We should nourish a proud spirit of independence; we should shew the superiority in which we hold honour and glory to riches and ease; we should distinguish ourselves by a noble military ardour. Before capital and commerce were known, our ancestors thus held the first rank among the nations of Europe, and, notwithstanding the favourite doctrine of the times, it is only by arms we can regain our situation. But basely hugging our money bags, we think we may dismiss the military virtues our forefathers, like scaffolding, although it was by these that this adored wealth was acquired, and without these we must speedily be robbed of it. He would be the last to preach despondency, but he considered it his duty, if possible, to rouze his countrymen from the ill-timed indifference, into which they had fallen, and to call upon them to resist usurpation, insolence, and perfidy. He conjured those, who talked so much of the capital of wealth, to think for a little of the capital of dominion. The latter would be found to have always prevailed..."

[THE PORT FOLIO ENLARGED. BY OLIVER OLDSCHOOL, ESQ. "VARIOUS, THAT THE MIND OF DESULTORY MAN, STUDIOUS OF CHANGE, AND PLEAS'D WITH NOVELTY, MAY BE INDULGED." COWPER. VOL. II.] PHILADELPHIA, SATURDAY, MAY 8TH, 1802. [No. 18. Pg. 143]