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ing the blessings of freedom with the rights an


privileges which the American people, of all tn


nations upon the globe, alone enjoy, so trifinl


and inconsiderable, as toustify us in this cupabl


indifference to the proper and necessary measures
to secure these blessings to ourselves and to pos
terty? If we have lost all sense of the solemn
obligation under which this dear-bought inheri
tance has laid us-if we are determined to ac
regardless of the claims of patriotism and of what
is due to posterIty-f in the partisan scramble
for office, personal profit and aggrandizement, we
act upon the maxim that 'sWc are men of princi-
pie according to oar INTEREST," then may we ex-
pect and shall assuredly suffer the fate of an an
cient Republic, which was openly set up to the
highest bidder; and if this be the design, it is GER
tainly expedient to scramble hard for the loaves
and fishes as these must decide who shall be the
successful bidder.


To enlist armies of mercenary foreigners, and
put arms in their hands, is laying the foundation
of our overthrow-it is yielding our most invalu-
able rights-it is in contravention Of the most
impcrious duty-t is literally giving up our coun-
try.


The descrters are Irish, English and Scotch.
We commend them for refusing to fight against
their countrymen; and as to the dishonor of having
enlisted, received the bounty, and then deserving,
we expected nothing better from them. 1t was
right to deraud us of the bounty, to punish us for
our credulity and confidence. 1t was ri ght for
them to desert, because it would have been unna-
tural to have stad 1t is our own authorities we
condemn for their folly and recklessness, in thus
imposing upon and disgracng the United States
by giving counenance to foreigners, as officers or
soldiers, in her armies; practice which all eX-
Perience and common sense condemn.


The Commercial Advertiser says: ''Durng a
time of peace desertions will take place from all
armies. The soldiers life is life of inactivity,
and many who would make good soldiers in war,
desert because they like change"


How many native Americans can the Adver-
tiser point to or name as deserers from their own
ture to say. But if this desertion was simply be-
cause they were inactive, why did they all 60
over to the Britis:l-why did they not go in any
other direction? Was Canada the most desira-
bic place? or did they wish to take sides in the
Canada contest, to find field for their patriotism?
Stuff! We would have expected better logic
from the Commercial Advertiser and more pa
triotism from those who profess to be patriots.