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-- -- -- WEEKLY SUBOO UT PIIOSIW. AURORA. TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 21, 1815. THREE DOLLARS FEB AKNDM. PHILADELPHIA! FEINTED BY JAMES WILSON, 1»0. 98, MARKKT a>«<* TMpapercoMaimitePeUticaland literary ar'icUi. VOL. V n peace, without the aid NO-*?. STBEKT. price, to *ub*cnbert, ts Jv4»',,/«^D,,,r Ayaow, Arlfe £%%?%'%* *4> S 3 /or <M yeaf-- °' ./ ·> JwLn'^.n/or ycar--r,,rca,uhe paper bent to my per"" ce cut payment fir the tcrmiubimbcd "i ad'»"' (fe W,,to Aunra fir ·"·^M,? ·""""'r Ml,' of Europe, to arm all the nations of Europe, and by her subsidies to subjugate Fiance. But the same corruption could not be accomplished with a whole people extended over an immense territory like the United States, and therein the superiority of popular government has been manifested in the most fortunate manner. Tin's result has been the more manifest and important, both in its operation and man ner, by the fact that by means of commercial agencies, religious and political emissaries, and other means, England had contrived to deprive the union of the physical and moral force of three of the states of the union, and a paralysing disaffection in two more, so as to obtain from the union itself, an indirect alliance of Massachusetts, Rhode Island, and Connecticut ; and a partial suspension oT the physical and moral force of Delaware and Maryland. The war has resulted, nevertheless, in demonstrating, that the union of a free people was suf- of the cut. iiostility and in despite of Massachusetts and Connecti- These truths are now notorious to the union and to the whole world And the nations of Europe see in the result of this war of only three years, that the resistance of h popular government, nart of it in a state ol seduction to the enemy, das been able to repel aid defeat and triumph over the nation -s been successively marshalling them which against ich other for more than 20 years past. F'roui a state of humiliation in the eyes of the NATIONAL BliSULT OF POLITICS. THE WAIl. plates will overthrown, and of ascent to their be apt to be dissatisfied with the peace. (he Those who profited by the continuance o! other war, either in places, contracts, or any means of gratification or aggrandisement, may the not probably perceive the peace exactly fairest point of view. nea peace Others again, who will consider cessary to their individual interests or vitws, i will preLocal passions and partial interests result ol the vent many from peiweiving tlie true as the war Those who considered the war. to P.? means by which the party i» power we, e ' world, we stand on an elevation which now commands the respect of all the world. The conclusion of the treaty, appears to ficiently strong, when five out of eighteen of the states were faithless to themselves, and favorable to the enemy. will go into the opposite extreme. influence of It is through the medium of the on the political concerns of the nathe view the eace tions with each other, that we cau with the greatest certainty of duly estimatir, » the true value and the result of the war. Ever since the treaty of 1794, the U. & ates hnve stood degraded in the eyes of the r'.ur ., nations ; in that treaty not only our own rights as an independent nation were betrayed,,but a wider latitude was given to the usurping sp rit ol the restraint on the freedom of commerce ai suffered an enlargement of the prinseas. connived the basely ciple of contraband^ and capture of our own cargoes, upon the bae condition of payment for the cargoes by the editors. were All the outrages from that period t 180 the fruit of this abandonment of national honor wr The union has learned, and the world has seen, that thirteen of the states are competent to sustain the independence ot the nation, and to protect tlie faithless states from " their own worst enemies, themselves." | .· m We The result of the war is, in another point of view, propitious ; we have seen that the enemy has possessed all the advantages which he could possess from the unrestrained licentiousness of the press j from the constant eulogies bestowed by presses within the bosom of the country on and by the most laborious treachery the enemy to which the press could he perverted in attempting to spread destruction and disunion, ; I < . and independence. I ie repeal of the embargo by the tent gress, gave as heavy » WV..M, to 'he chai contel <· the nation for tish treaty wisdom and 6TMi.oS ^ nor had given to national morality and hoand Mr. Quincy's libel in congress was uttered by only the ctho of opinions repeatedly : and to weaken and defame the government, and favor the enemy, during the whole course of the war. The result of the war has shewn the superiority and thestrength of free government in this most cmispi-cuousYy. The result of the war has sheivn that the prostitution of the pulpit, and the establishment of Bible societies subservient to the views and .e<licy of the enemy, could not seduce a fi ee people from the dcl'toir.e. ,,f tl.m.- rights and liberties. cities for teveral the "British agents in all our only the went or years before ; Sir. Quinrey had currency. eivino-the sentiment a legislative to prove that been One result, however, has The war has shewn that with equal force, and of»en with inferior force, we can meet and hea and this has been the British by land and water -- have been a measure very sudden, and not at consistent with the language of the regent on thei opening of the session of parliament, nor with the apparent predominance of the British influence on the continent of Europe. It has not been the policy of Great Britain, in any period uf her history, to conclude a peace under terms of ignominy or discomfiture; the only instances in our remembrance are a peace with the Seven United Provinces in the 16th century, of which there was a speedy rupture; and the peace with the United States of America in 1783, which she continued to violate til 1794. In both these cases, like the present, England made peace under the most humiliating defeats of her naval and military force. But in those former periods, her situation, relative to the- powers of continental Europe, were very diftinent. The United Provinces were aided by France, and the armed neutrality of 1780 kept the naval usurpation of England in complete clv'ck. The case is at this moment in every respect the reverse as to England. Her subsidies have kept all Eurnpe in conflict and commotion for 23 years, and the peace of Europe has heen concluded by the boasted efficiency of her bribery ; every court in Europe has been herrtipendary ; she has been alternat ly at war and at peace, and in alliance with them all; and her capital has been the theatre of her exultation, ere the emperors and kings of Europe have t.ec-n paraded for the n~^?*4&kmm of John Bull, lit" "··> inmsTTnn royal tigers and bears, exhibited in the tower of London, as the evidences and emblems of the magnitude and Paris and Vienna extension of English power exhibited the predominancy of her influence, all ' demonstrated In the naval victories of lake Erie, lake Cham- amid be kicked into a war ; and that when kick theinemy kicked, we could turn about and ive into a peace. Before this > ar, just closed, we wire so wholly ignorant of every thing necesiWy to maintain and to conduct a war, that I e first year was a series of the most extraetjinary "movements, exciting at once anguish an ridithe cule.; every thiyg that' was done appears veverse of what ought to be done. proThe experience of that war, tended duce more correct ideas, but the second j Ir proto the lei duced only such fu ther experience as paths in which war could he conducted v-th eland this experience was on the vkge ot f cl being realized when peace was conclude, Before the wife, it was the opinion of he seeasury, that the war iiihl ha cretary of the conducted for several years with only arvenue «f ten million* and some small loans: w have learned 'hat this was a fatal error, and e shall know belter, should we be ever iavulvoJn war i i : and plain In the actions with the Guerriere, the Macedonian, and the Java; besides the actions of the Frolic. Wasp, Peacock', &c. This lias been manifested by land, in three battles on the Niagara strait: in fie battle of La Tranche; and at Orleans in a manner unprecedented in human annals. Audit cannot ever be lost sight of, that these 'leiiilid ami signal achievements have been obtained, while three of the states were actually in rebellion; while one of them suffered its territory reto be occupied unmolested by the enemy fused aid to assist itself-- and was publicly and in the most audacious manner cai rying on measures to defeat the protecting measures of the union, and to prostrate the nation at the feet of the -- -- enemy. ' again. have learned by the war, that il necossarytu begin with an adequate instead « an inadequate force. We have learned that science shoulJie enainirnged, thatan army requires discipie, and that the time to provide for battle is nut jen the We The war has resulted in proving, what was heretofore disgracefully held fourth by one part of the union to terrify and delaine other states, poputhat the menaces of danger from the h ack lation are ideal; and teaches the important truth hnd shall in we that win 'never we may be at war, of that class of the population a powerful means defence. The result of the war has shown that the yeoiuanrv of the south are superior to the most experienced and hardy veteraus of Europe. tia of enemy is present. But we have learnt what is of very rat importance to ourselves to know, and whi all the world will perceive. H'e liuec shewn lay world i'mt a free representative grovnour.<ii,e t at the moment when it thinksitaetj thewenke Ureal* in the strongest result of the war has shown that the milithe eastern states, about which so much lofty huastiii has been heard year after year, is a mere name ; since it has never appeared even in defence oi its own soil, and has shrunk from The while the torch of conflagration consumed the capital of America. It is indeed true that the signal defeats and the unprecedented destruction of her veteran troops on the Niagara frontier and at La Tranche --the defeat and the flight of her naval squadrons on lake Erie, lake Ontario, and lake Champlain and the signal evidence given to the nations of Europe, of American naval superiority, Tlie severe chits* are considerable drawbacks. tisement inflicted on England by the U. States, is an ample admonition to her, and a repro eh to the coalesced powers which cannot hut make a powerful appeal to the pride and tlie understanding of the statesmen of Europe .who see what oan be done by a young nation with only ten or twelve ships of war of every denomination, against a p< wer impudently pretending to hold absolute rule on the seas. The considerations, in reference to her rein* tious with Europe, gain additional force when brought into view with the general scope of her commercial policy, which never before abandoned the pursuitof a rival, without paralysing or destroying the commerce and naval power of that rival; the reverse in every particular has been the operntiun of her hostility against the United States; we have no doubt lost all thai carrying trade which vvc possessed from 1794 to 1809, a/id which excited so much of British envy and animosity; but the greatest amount of thatoominerce to the United States was a mere incident, not in the strictly natural order of commerce, but arising out of the troubled state in which ; -- the obligations of to I common deleucc which is due government in ilnWflttd has been able by ej he social body. result, has subside or in : the purchase of a few cabinet ministers, c»si'U shewn that the naThe war, in its tion c;.u Bitot in honor and glory and success, in England had placed all Europe, toe tyranny which she exercised on the seas over all the minor naval powers of that quarter of the Lrlobe, and against whom she necessarily directed her wholo policy, until she destroyed force of power an them cither by seducti in ami internal distraction as iu Hollaad, Portugal, and Spain, or by vio. 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