r
-r (Ccetinoed fco fcooj pit)
people to whatpurpose we have na
tional government; I cannot bring
myself to believe that there exist in
- thta country a dippaitr6t.; (and I ata
eorry to see this very resolution, he-
-auee seems to imply that there does
exist such disposition) to violate the
lawi and tap the foundation M ..-
janiBuu inp me lounciation or tne un-
' 1Mb 4 shall not act onhe presump- iJLIw ""r"mu" V Fw " high--tion,
but wait until m ease shall occuh Cl0red of
' and when it does octtur I wouM-.ni ntty, ' fl oo much the condition
the only correct th- fcn.T. mI7J.
.. .. . , - C'J
the only corrective the bnll anri ik.
actual cautery.. But on that account
, I do not the lest deprecate the effects
wf the embargo; I look upon it as a
measure ruinous in a groat degree to
"xmry. ai ine same time there
sr aspect in which I cannot but be-
hold it with pleasure It is a test of
... pie. 1 he ubmission of thoso who
think even worse of it than I ' do I
will say their.: ouiet lllKmiaainn
their opposition has extended' onlv ta
... ? n
argument 'is a test of the virtue of
" our people, of their willingness to sup
port the government, in any sacrifice
foe the public good to support it even
, where that government has obviously
mistaken and misunderstood their best,
interests. Compare, if y,u pieaM for
. moment, the ore.snre f the
.and the degree of lufTering which it '
oi sunermg wbicb it
with the degree of preI.V
meet wnim m. r
from the celebrated excise law. -Put
ited eici. i. p...
me two things in the balance, and
weigh tbem. In the one case there
S .ri?""' elliotT you
to extend hi arm to chastise his un-
siiuiui cmwren and reclaim them to
the path of duty. In the other case
you see, (whatever may have been the
evasions of the law) ostensible submis
sion to it. The virtue ia tbe one case,
which withstood the wronger tempta
tion, is not to ae put in competition
with that which ."succumbed to the
weaker, in the other.
But in viewing the policy which has
been pursoed for some time back, and
gentlemen seeded "determined naV to
adhere to it; I am irresistably led to en-
aire into, the causes, which pre-'
duced our present form of government.
I believe they grew out of commerce.
The principal difficulty, I beliee, a
xnong tbe states was that there was oo
'general power for the regulation of
commerce. That commerce was the
principal sourca whence revenue was
; to be derived ; and the want of general
and uniform regulations dried up thai
-ftm.v.. , Mm proposition WSS
tfisvest the old coneress with thnni..
f laying an tdialortm duty, general-
, ftwvitani in luai me meetmir at
Annanolis. the nrecuraor of k
. s
' e - VB tvirv
veotion of 1787, waa a meeting direct
i ed to the promotion of the commercial
Interests of this country. Tbe United
Statss were governed by this consider.
. anion primarily for surely they were
in very little danger of going to war
with one another ia forming a govern
ment under which this very commerce
has arisen to a height to which nonua
could have anticipated. And are we
now. without warning, to break up all
our infractions heretofore, and de
clare for a Chinese policy t Do gtatle-
men remember, when a discrimination
, made between American and fo
reign ships, the excitement which it
created? The gentlemen from the
T Southern ststes said you are going lo
tax.us for the benefit of tbe Eastern)
navigation. When a proposition was
rnidp ia Isy a heavy duty on the import
of foreign manufactures. This Is well
remembered. But did any man ever
dream that these two sections of the
countiy should unite, and Ihe other to
cut up commerce by the root I There
was indeed formerly a contest between
me grower ana tne carrier, each con
l.lnift f kU !-. .
- v , --. vw..-
-k- nicresi out .
wat both ehould unite, the one to pre-
ven th. growth and tltcother to pr..
not the carnage of produce, i. really
a solechm I am unable lo explain
J ne rentieman irons Msssachuaatia
(Mr. Q.,incy) speaks feelingly or the
sufferings or the people of Massa
chmetta, I believe the picture which
he drew msy be correat. I am even
willing to allow, (holding up my hands
alike same lime against all hia calcu
latiom) that hi constituents may suffer
more than mine. But what is the si
tuation of the tobacco country, and I
live in the heart of it. whether you
draw the line from North to South or
fiom East to West? If we pursue this
eoyfe of policy? the product of the
Ntw-Eng'snd fisheries may be con
coaauoicd, the hce of Seuth-Caroline
. .
way bee.ten, and the cotton of Ceor
gie.may beepun. What is the tobacco
s planter do with his two crops oftharri-
:. .1 -.1 .. i '. h"
he to do with (be third crop, fortius
time is last aDoroachinc
u.vuiyu. uu nauieous luxurvf What
. . . -"""S. wnen prepa-
' U1 T"1. be .made -P-ot it And
fl r Pd ? I
.... . " "
. Ji- ju.itj
OI lmu P m which. I
which I
... l. i . - ft . . . " w
much about iU It is deoloMKi- .k..
. vuoft
,UC i. A -V
vtUZk m? 'H
whaieer objeaion be taleif to tlvef
two nifl refolutions, there can be ao
, . , men can De no
, b' of ,n 1 PerfeQ propriety of ihe
fina' OBe What is it ? Refolved
tken,io place the country in a
more complete Hate of defence.
. .... . ftT.ni uiuiner oi me nrit.
Will you nefer it to a cominittee to
draft a Wliin purfoance of it I Are
you going to refer Ae firft refolurion
to a commttiee, that a bill may be
.Ur.A .k- nU- I r" '
placed on the (We book, tp fcr.
1 r i j j i w
re infulted and have not' refilled ?
for as far at the report goes,' of
': v,'T' 'r5" vt aeepmg
what does it foeakr Of trnm.
hiuiii vuiigivci. ana
If .n bffitiS
j beyond llie '.power of human emiu-
bevond rbe Mt r s, i- i..
ranee to tear; bow does he refift f
By retiring to his houfe and addine
another bolt to his flreet dor-ano!
icui f ii inn me wav in whirk
will refill t And Vet lbs fami mm
mntee fay that they will not fiibmir,
and bring nothing before you but a
vgue proportion that the U. States
be put in a better date of defence.
Shall we ajfe more troops f Gen
tlemen will hardily venture upon
that. Will you arm the militia )
That plan, to ufe the flang- of the
day, has been the go-by given it.
You are fold that the militia can
only be armed in fucb fmall portions
mat tne gooa to relwlt trom the mea
fure viirmnilnr.Ai;..i .'
Tore will amounrto little or nothing.
Nothtne remains then, hut t k..;i.i
Nothing remains then, but to huil.i
more guiuboats. The preGdent of
the U. Stages fays that it has not been
deemed expedient lo buil.l thofo aU
ready authorifed. Wht new mea.
furei of defence are then contempla.
led? We have tried every chord and
A a til at -
Tioiaie, w nat
will be the next ref iri ) fn f.A r
none or mem win vibrate. What
extremely forry to be oblieed'to
fpeak in this free manner of this re
port ; but il appears to me that this
houfe have sliced of the committee
of exterior relatiots, bread, and
ihey have received a Oone. They
have received naked refulutioi s."
Really, to ufe the words of one of
the gentlemen (Mr. G. W. Camp,
bell) who advocates them, they a p.
pear io all the nakednefs of infantile
imbecility. Naked they came Into
the houfe, and naked they iniif) go
out of it. They arc not to be cloth
ed with cnesfurei; oral laafl trts
generally avowed that no mea Aire is
lo be taken in confluence of the one
under difcuflion.
I do not know how far I may or may
owh?ch
say hastily, because it may.be supposed
t&'SX
When OOthinr WSS furthiia fmm -
... ""'iiqun,
mind. But before I sit down I will ask
the gentlemen who brought In the re.
port to reconcile soma things which do
not appear to me altogether intelligible,
uoi appear io rac ail
as inev now stand.
The MJaa dec.ee of 1807, fly.h
December can .till less rest fcr it. d
fence on the supped acc.ukUe.ee .f
the U. States in thrUisbordmorthe
"- was uivuLui biiilbj innu TirnaN
which have not certainly baen acquies
ced in, were not even known in Ame
rica at the dateof tbe decree."
The decree or Milan then was dated
on the ITth December; the orders
were not known in America at Ihe date
of the decree j and the embargo was
laid on the J3d. In another part ol the
report we Sad the lollowingi
"This wss received on ihe . of
December; and a copy of the decision
In tbe case of the I (orison, having at
Ihe same time reached the government,
tbe President, a are of the consequent
ess which aould fallow lBtl ne wsta;c cf
L. LI.L . ' . . . . ' -"
tbinjra, communicated immediately to
Congress the alteration of (he French
decrees, and recommended the embar
gp. which was accordingly laid on the
K. wiiifcij wii accordingly laid on the
sd of December, I8074t which tim!
wu uuucrsiuoa ID-4DIS country.
.that the British orders of council of No
,yember precedina: had issued, although
.they were not officially communicated
to our government,'? , , :,
1 uis i an anachronism which I can-
inuuiHc mouen i 00 not aav in at
u : 6 . v Ul n
i. MiEiuiikiiaiMc. . .
.It is very far from being'my wi.h.if
,he U' S- "e nined not Kitt
to the orders and decrees of the bellige
rents nothing would be farther from
y ii
.that
mo man loaestroy uve unanimity
hat resistance : but I r.onfft. tk.t r
wish to Me in what that resistance iato
consist. I am as firmlv ofoninion I
am -certain that I am nn Jr....:n
you, that the difficulties in which the U.
. now are, take date from the year 1 80 J
a date at which aome gentlemen
iiave, in the discussion, commenced the
erics oi loreign wrongs inflicted on us.
Mush has been said of the spirit f 76.
fT iia . . v
"uu ' oeen saia oi tne spirit TT6.
-Twaa in the year 4805 that this apirit
-ep-- einentnewtnatour territo-
fry wa trod by ftoatile tteps, and we
'would not take eoa to assert its tha.
racier. From that tim. i. ,u..m
r-rom was time its character
u nccii on ue nrriin. m i. nmn.
re-e- ' U
better than thia Knort-.1.Sm,..i,sB;
better than this Teporthy something
very uierent nature -unless in
deed the first resolution is meant to con
tain a declaration of war against both
belligerents,and the second to devise the
best mode oT carrying it on against one
of them, leaving at the same time all re
sistance to the other out of the question.
I wish to confine myself to that part
which goes to excluding imports; that
part which excludes all foreign armed
ships has my hearty totrcurrence. i It
has so happened that from the time to
which I have referred, the difficulties of
this country have been thickening, and
the character of the country declining
abroad. This is a fact no man will or
csn drny. Then it must bebya'dif
ferent policy from thai pursued fruns
the time which I have mentioned, that
cnaracier ot tbe country is to be re
COvered. The old policy bas been tried;
r F.. ' . u.w',,"c,l
me character ol the country is to be re
.a.u.. t . .
it will not answer. What have we done?
We have been tramnled nnnn imiwiitt.
Ingly by Spain. When the minuter of
our country was at the court of that go
vernment, and when I have every rea
son to believe, as far as the papers laid
before the House enable me to judge,
that he had Uten an imposing attitude, -What
waa the result ? The negotiation
was pai-alixed by the news that a sped
al mission, of Mr. Bowdoin, a respecta
ble man, (if there must be a special
mission, as good a man as any for the
parposc) was to interfere with that nt
gociation. We had already two minis
ters at the court of Spain. When our
negocialron was pending with the Bri
tisbeovernmenttoo.ther.r-ntiAk...
been a rear lest a minister or our coun-
try should come into collision with L
reign governments, and a special mini-
steH. sent after him tokeephe dUcuM
sion forever hune un in a sort It XZ
matic court ofehW... tv- '
malic court of chancerv. WinnuJ,
non importation law; andntitber tbe
House or the nation have forgotten the
auspices under which that law passed.
When it was said that it would lead lo
the destruction of commerce, was not
the idea scouted by many ; and amongst
. hsnd 6f death, and who was the rep "
fc ' . WiW theide. of our com-
merce beine circumscnhcd. VVr .
not told that we could sweep tbe com
merce of Britain from the ocean ? And
what has been the consequence ? We
have swept our own commerce from the
ocean, and I fear we ahall sweep our
agriculture from the land. One false
step leads on to another. For want of
due resistant! to the wesker poerf
Rit ... k... I . i . i .
atronr-e. V .1, ik;... " .i.J.Z
k"m uccn immpiea on oy tne
n " ' ' - ! i eeiknji IlllCt HUB
hesltsting, this extraordinaty mlssioO-b'y
policy will not do- An tl.io..-..M
brought to their Iste and present dias
trouscondition,wclsidancmbargo,that was lo be the penacea to re-act on the
enemy it was to be the sword and the
shield ; the war in disguise ; it was to
bring Europe in general, and Great
Britain in particular lo your feet. We
have calculated long enough on the
weakness our adversary. We have
walled with upcast eys wstching her
downfall till our ownbegifisioapproacb.
It is time lo calaulate les upon her
weakness and more on cur itrrngih. I
am amused sunictin.es at the argu-
nients which I bear on Ibis flour. Th
Grenville administration get intopow
erfjpu negotiate, with tbem and make
treaty; it is rejected scouted. Be
it so. ; Meanwhile tbGrenvilleags)
out and the. Portlands and Canninge
come in and, as if destitute of argj.
rnents of our own, the doctrines of theso
ery men in opposition Loru's Cren
ville, Auclaad and Holland, (from them
nothing better than the rejected treaty
could be obtained) with the Barings .nd
Broughams in their train, are bailed
with joy and resorted es the text hook
. whence we quote, to prove what ? -To
shew that the sentiment of the people
of G. Britain is in favor of us.' And yet
when we come to negotiate with these
very advocates of ouVs, we cannoi agree
ine same ume tne aeclaration ttu
this flour are resorted to there as argu
ments in their favor. In fact it is high
time for ut to give over counting on tber
.....,., v. ,u, wiaubucsier wea
vers, and for ihem to give ber count
ing on the revolutionary spirit of the
Green Mountain Boys, We calculate
with as much correctness on the eficcta
of our non-importation and embargo
lystem, aa they do of tbe disaffection of
any part of thia country. Wo know
tbem to be mistaken, and why may we
not be f In fact we know ourselves to be
notbef Infactwekno
.
U?!'.Sr?
rl " ""npu
,on of people who calculate that the na-"
vy of Britain willftni hert or that the ar
my of Napoleon will ruin bim, there is
no arguing. They are out of the sphere
of reasoning. For those there should
be a new dictionary, and a new system
of logic After all then we pass the
ertbargo. This was the real genuine
panacea. What has been ita effect?
After speaking of it in thia Houte a
measure which would coerce your ene
mies to submission, and talking of it i:
Europe as a municipal regulation, n Of-
feringto withdraw it we have beta by
one power incited, by the other laugh
ed at. The report says, from one of
them no answer has been received.
Iroto France Sir, we have an answer
from France which satisfies every one
who has seen it ; and there does not ex
ist a maa in this countrv bsse enmirl t.
comply with the wishes of ihe one par-
w - - - , V ftfti
have gone to Europe, and said of thia
embargo, which was laid unquestiona
bly, even by the report of tbe commit
tee, before the British orders in council
were received because aa they tell yeu,
it was before the Milan decree waa
known we have told the belligerents
that .hmnpuM shall be withdraw,
if they will withdraw their provocations. :
In act, like lack in the Tale of a Tub,
we have hanged ourselves for spite, ia
hopes that one or the other ol our ene
mies will come and cut us down. Both
have refused ; and it remains for us to
say whether we will longer dangle io
T vr tuft. ruBiluaica uini omer. vv m
garters
our gancrs. i tor one bsve co such
J!k k; 7V.V , .'
SCSirS tas??i.?1,?BOfc " U
i .u ' 10 th, ""oversy.
I'? "tlut ll V,ew Uken of h
t,n b"b?uch more errors tb
pwowiioos ss-to its effecU. It ia
well known to have oririnaint in tk
determination of France to act on the
Berlin decree in the broadest sense of
the letter of it, and in the proclamation
or G. Britain inviting home her native
subjects. It ia as well known to me
that it did not originate in the orders of
council, as that it did not originate in
eventa which took place long- since it
Was cnacfed. For aliho' the orders In
council were unquestionably issued be
fore the embargo was laid, as unques.'
tionably they were not known to u, and
were 'not. ones mentioned In my hear
ig aa a cause for tbe passage of that '
law.
-Sir, I have occupied your time to
very little purpose I am as sensible of
it as any man who hears me. It was.
ot my intention to have tsken some of
the positions which 1 hsve advanced
' I got UD, 1
since I got up, 1 have been Irresista.
sl a jo. " , ...
qtons which
"y lesd lo unpleasant discassKin I but
I could not omit the lemotation to lelf.
justification. .
1 know, sir, that I have hsd no part
in bringing yoo into thia dWsstrous si,
tuation, and that reflection ia worth to
me every thing which in a political point '
of view, this world has to siford.
WILMINGTON, jr. tv
raiitie airs rcsuiaso sr
WILLIAMS. JIASELLy
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ttt 4U,, H m f.U ktua Us IUI .
la ataatW.