Western Sun, Volume 7, Number 17, Vincennes, Knox County, 30 March 1816 — Page 1

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M VRSHAL MONCEY Letter from marOial Moncry to Louis the XV I II, on bis rtfufal to tit on the court ni3rtil tor the trial of marfhal Nty. at r si 1 WILL your mjjefty perniit ine to raife my treble voice to you ? Will it be permitted to one who Ims never deviated from the path of honor, to call the attention ot his loveiein to the danger that menaces his petlvMi and his kingdom ? Yes ine, nothing lets than the imminent dangers of the ttrtte, would allow me to exprefs my (ell to you with the frar knefs which you ought to expect from all your faithful fubiedts, and efpetially from a'l ycu.- marfhals from thofe who dared toupiilt their voice on the noft ditlicult occafiona rhen the aMolute will and blind ambition ot a matter were e very thing, and the counfcls cf wifdom and prudence were nothing. 1 believed that fter my letter of ycfterdsy to the minilter of war, he would have judged (ufficient tlie reafons winch 1 gave tor refilling to lit in a court martial where 1 coulo not preti.le. I find my felt miftaken, as he has tranfmited me a pofitive oidcr from yotn majefly on this fubjccl. Placed in the cruel dilemma of off nding your mait fty, or of dif beying the dictate of my conic rnce, i: became ny duty to explain myfelf to your m jetty 1 enter not into the enquiry whether marfiil Ney is guilty or innocent your juttice and the e rpiity of his judges will anfwer it topotteri ty, which weighs in the fame bal nce k'ngs and their (ubjeQs But the tuhjeCt on which I cannot be lilent, c on w hich I mult (peak dittinctly to your maj fly, is thecretical po (It ion into which you are milling. Alas ! has not en ugh ot French blond been Ihed ? Are not our misfortunes fufbciently greai f The humiliation of France, is it not pufh d to the la tl extreme ? And when it la necef fary to reltore confidence, to foften refent ments and calm the paflions, it is then vou are required to tign new prolcriptions ? Oh fire ! it thbft Who direct your councils Ud only in view your good, they would tell you th t never did the fcaflold make friends Do they then believe that death is terrible to thofe who have fo often braved it ? Is it the allies who require of France But, (ire, is there no danger for vour perfon and yoUf auguft dynatty from them ? They enter the country as your allies, and what title do they merit from the people of AlfaCf) of Lorraine, and of the capital ? They have demanded the price if their friend (hip they have required fecuritiel from thofe they came to deliver ; they have required the inhabitants of the countries tiny occupy to drliver up their aims, and in two thirds ot the kingdom there remains not a (ingle fowling piece ; they have reQutred that the Ftench army fhouid be dif banded, and there remains not a tingle man at hi a colors not a (ingle peice of cannon is bar ne fled ; they have demanded the delivery of our fortrefies, and it fome of them Rill hold out, it is beciufc their commandants cannot believe your ma jetty has order ed their fiurender. So much cor.de ft ention ought furrdy to have foftened their paflions but no, they oi(h to render your majetty odious to your fubjecTts ; they wilb to guard IgainO every poflible danger by Hi iking off the heads of thole loldiers a:.d ttatefmen whofe names t!-.ey cannot hear without being reminded ol their own humiliation Let then a French general be allowed to fay. in the Face ot Fu ope, that if our armies b.ave overrun the neighboring countries, they purrhated their con que (la with their valor and blood Let your ma jetty contider Will the alues ever torgive their coroner. 01-5 ? It is their Ibame and humiliation tiiey w.di to efface, and Dot to it r-1 gthen your throne, which is mote fl.ke:i by thir rutr?ges than eftahlilned their vengeance ! hut when vou have given up every thing, what can you refule ? If the tate rt Po! .nd is to be our":, what rrear.s ol reuttaati have you left I Y ur Srmiel you have nonr your fottreftei they are in the hands of the allies You 1 marfhals, our generals, our flatefmen their heads will have fallen. Will you then relort to the people--to that pro pie to much humiliated, fo much defpilVd .? II it thofe who formed your councils ! The recollection of the month of March. 18 15, p,ul (how yout nnj (ty what vou have to tMvCf from their zal and attachment There remains then no other reii urce than a reliance upon the generouty ot your allies and our enmirs. Have you hen forgotten that in order to gratify the man who occupied your throve, tVv rr1r!-o o. err after another, an ifylttfll in their dottilUoni '

So Completely had they recogiiized hislegiti:n icy, .hat in their treaties with him, they never thought of ftipulating even an inuem nity h r v u. Did not England herfelf negociatc with him ? Would fhe not sgain have trr .ted with him at Prague, hid Lis protenfiooa been lets extravagant ? Did not the people ot London drag the carriage of his minilter when you were not even permitted to appear at court ? Was your rettoratiwo thot' of when they negociated at Chatery ? Had it not been for the houile occupation of Bordeaux, and the royalty roanifetted by the p-op!e of that city, a treaty would have been tinned with Napoleon Still more recently, at the congrefs of Y leiina, ws your ma jetty's miniiier able to obtain a guarantee tor the integrity of our territory ? Oh lire, with the man of Elba, many have had correfpondencies and intelligence in France. But v !io were they that went to feck for him ? Who tohl the Lnglifh fleet to fufVr him to pfs? H is the admiral who was entrufted with the fuperintendance of thf iflaiid been profecuted ? hd not the king of Pruffia 80,000 men near our frontiers, who might have marched Upon Paris ik re ai bed it before T poleon. Are not the Pruttiati cannon daily placed In battery before your palace, and pointed sg'inft your reOdence ? And et you can relv on the fjenerority of your allies ! And yet uudei fuch circumOances you require me to tak- m Teat in a tribunal where 1 lhall perhaps figure in my turn, not as a 'edge, but as a prifonef at the bar. Did I not lead the French army in 1794 to the borders of the Ebro ? Even now the poignards of tbofe who (Hock Brune and , and fo many othert, glitter before my ey and (hall I in n y own per f on fancVion a judicial murder Ah no I while there re-in-ius to my unhappy country only a (he dow of exittence, Uiall I atTociste my name With that of her oppreffors? No, f re, you yourfelf cannot hot approve my resolution What ! (ball 34 vears nt rvlorious 1 bora be tulluo in a (ingle day ? Sh !1 my looks, bleached un let the helm t be only proofs cf my (ha me I No (iie, Or 11 mt he fa id that the elder of the marihats of France contributed to th.e misfortunes of Ids rruntry. My life, my fortune, all that I poffefs or enj -y is at the tervire of my king and country, but my bono is esclufWely my own, 8t no human power can ravifh it from me. Ii my nme is to be the only heritage left to my children, at leaft let it not be difgraccd Permit me to afk your maji fty where were the accufera of mar dial Ney, when he was on the field of battle ? Did they follow his Heps and accufe him during 25 years ot perils and labors And if RufllS and the allies cannot pardon the conqueror of the Mofkwa, can France forget the valiant hero of the Beiefuiu ! Sire, in the unfortunate retreat BCrois that river. Nev laved the remnant of the army; in that army I had relations iiid friends, and loldiers (who are the children of their chiefs) who had ferved under cie ; and Hull I doom him to death who faved the lives of io many Frenchmen, to whom fo many parents are indebted for their children and fo many wives tor their hofbands No, Sire, if I cannot fave my country & my own life, I will at leaf! fave my honor ; and if I teet any regret, it is that 1 have lived too long, firce I h;.ve furvived the glory of my country. H fleet, fire, this is perhaps the la(t time that truth will reach our throne ; it is both dangerous ar.d UUWifc to pufh t! e brave to defpair. Where is there, 1 will not fy the marfhal, but the man of honor, who is not compelled to regret not having fought death on the fatal field r.t Waterloo and perhaps if the unfortunate N y had done there what he had rttm done Letore, he would not have been this d dragged before a court martial, tnd thofe who demand his death would have been Peeking Ids protection. Fxcufe, fire, the f ran knefs of an old marflial, who has always kepi clear cf intrigues, has known only his c ountry and his profefllOt! he believes that the fame voice which raiftd aginfl the invation of Spain ai d th? war with Huflia. might alfo fpeak the I -r-guage ot ti u t h to the bell ot kings, the father i f bis ful cli. It fri knefl is a virtu-, it i not I am en fcioua, the molt profitable of thevirtues, fince, altho 1 an. the eldclt of the marfhals. I am llfo the ooorett 1 will not diiguife the datger m whirh th ftep 1 h.oe token may involve uae, nor t - c . - ace it may draw down upon me fr.m the vengeaoci of courtiers, but if I have been fortunate enough to enlighten yottf Qia jetty as to your true imcrcfts, I

fhall conhder myfelf as but too happy, whatever may be the conbrournces, and if descending to the tomb I ;Hy fay th one of vour anct-ttors ' All is loft, except honor' I ihdi! die contented. MONCEY', Do.ke de Cornegliano. FOR THE WESTERN SUN. "Fellow Citizens t THE time has come when a queftion that has long agitated the minds ot many of us, is to be brought to its cnc is the queftion is Shall llavery be admittrd among tt us, or (ball it be rejeded. As this is a queftion of much importance t the people of this territory, tball treat it ferioufly, by treating it feii,iufly I mean to treat it candidly, expunging all redicule, fophittiy and falfc reafoning, without partiality, (it I can help it) even to my own tide. 7 Every man that knows any thing at all about the nhts ot men, knows, that for one nun to eat the bread of another man's labor, without making him a compenfation, is injuftice. Every man knows that to fell children from their parents, is great inhumanity. Every man knows that to confine the Will ut another, where he has committed no crime to forfeit his liberty, is contrary to the ptincples of a republican government, and the precepts that we ourfelves teach to other nati ms. But this is not the light in which this quellion ought to be viewed. As we would not make one fhve more by admitting them, nor increale the burthen of thofe that are already fl.vrs, this que tt ion ought to he viewed entirely as a political one, and here is the fair way to flate it v would it be good policy to admit Qavery into the new intended ttate, or would it not? Would it m;ke us more wealthy and happy a fl ite, or would not V H-re the queftion is ftripped of all its rubbifh, and placed i ' us In its trre colors ta far r all agree, but here I far we thall lp lit. I infwer in the negative it would n-t be good policy :,; d why? Becaufe flavery will neithei make us (; a community) morn wealthy nor more hppy I be we ibli of any nation confifts in the balance of trade being for or c ii ft it ; what I would he under ft ood by balai ce of trade, is this where any nation eXpota more goods, wvres and merchandize, than is imported, (or to greater value) it is laid that the balance ( f trade is in tiiat nation's 1 .vor, and on the contrary, where the imports are greeted, the balance (f trade is againtt that nation nd with, a nation, fo with & ttatr (r even with a family. For example when any family fpends more than their income, they are Continually growing poorer but where the income is gieakett, they are continually growing richer ; and the lame obfervations will hold good through every larger divifion ot I nation Now the quellion is, does fl very mke the quantity ot produce for exportation greater or final ter, in proportion to the number of inhabitants ? I anfwer fmalier. Produce for axportation is alw y s in proportion to the induttry ot the ir habitants ( browing alide oiflerence of foil. &.c ) and ll ivery is the banc ot induttry amongtt the whitt inhabitants fo true is this, that where there are many of them, very few cf the whites are feen to labor, and where 'he do, it is a reproach to thrm, end they are held in Contempt by thofe that own flavrs now it is plain where one part of the people labor, and the other part go idle and live on the produce of the other p:rt, there will be lefa tor exportation than t lie re Would be if all labored alike, thofe that do not labor being dead weight on the community, confuming that which would other wile he exported. This 1 preiiime was the reafc-n why Pennfylvania in the year 1 SCO exported to the amount cf nine millions ot dol I irt, wl de Virginia exported only f( ur and a half millions. The reafen is plain, and from common orrurrrnces could rot have happened other wife j Pennsylvania 1 d no II v s, all 1 ' rrd, induftrv was ,iot only latViontbie but refpetble the reverie was the cafe in Virginia, none labored there that could live on any terms without it.- B fidi s this, id'nefs is the parent of corruption, and one man that lives an idle life, wades nrnie in debauchery, than two that labeuis and lives by their own it duf try. Having, I th.ik, proved to every honell mar, thai livery will not r 4- us rich as a ttate, wr w i' procrrd to COT fide t the next point propoicd Will it wake us more hap-