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v. ri ! 't .fw; 5oI2jVj f riif T , '.RALEIGH, J. C.fPUBUSTiEP,(wEtKiT) By LL'QA5"A,ND A. HBOyLAN V V"S J.vl;. S3 . so 3perli .m. t . ' r rjs .yy ' v x ' ;"'' --a '..-'i '"""''i-A u ' , V' .gg-- 'J"' ' ' ' "' " ' n lone hand, v-jdnpern nothmj; Uit patriot-; ed thepsMa to'Jterfiiends.a well theroppo- tir of wroog5r p occavon'i sipnllsr, jtu tjjst l-a--MWt& M:t$tjeimtto :$tttt$, - ' ism and unidn; and pn' the other political, jealousy, nent o-tiatf Jaw..h:iiig:pto.r9nVhich tin giveijrFrMHCv'a )imifef.rrrgenepttwiii-.t. : , '' i' i" ".' " ! " ' . revolution, - disulytttf, ad the inseparable associate teen taken iii JTnce never 6ncSe tecuYred :.it wa? tered Toto'jyitit preaf liritain carried1 iftto Itftcti - it 4 1 a! u; nil ;-4, ' IV 1 ers . I ana I ;wit Sci' ircb .en1 i. I' v it- of. .irc ; C3EBTi ' il-i-1 r'But Mr 8peaker tha. people of the Eattern that govaumen,tpl4.a; for heavy .retaliataAa on Iliad been thcrrojf situation J laa.thsyijot t-ui .! i y .. --.1 - . . ; ' V," j.- . ties wui never irive ineir asseiu 10 a tiiaauruLWiiji u. .mvh ww?,ttuhs,!i-i hw.wi.ii-, s jic wuvki i X)a ileAatniSMon oi..tne,-i errjrory ot Urieans ta- 'to the Onion, ai a Stated- ; - v 'rMr.-P.rindixttr't Gtcttb concluded.) ', "The - niind; which 'once resolve "on ; political Wici1adJpeveV;bereaiofd Uo a ejise of moral vmuec "irgiivy. Ano,wreTcnea:wauuioe yi'iihaihratioh of iu "govern nieot jiut W;ficctl8ri3; o(the people ; a beggar in1 Hs. nda";fit jnstmmJpjjje used by fo.-'fc'S-.?!' :bTn& 'di'stress and ruin on the uOtry.lifMnft' .which his crimes' ' have expelled him! '"d. yejt'that; man did not dare to . go the )Bgln'.)i)cf0he ''gnUem.an from MasaaChvjsetts Its beenvperroittedrto gd within tliese w1ls7DTd AaWm Burr t all the ramifactions of his treason- gbisrojects ejer declare, to an assembly of citi ietifc that ,the states were free from their moral of the Union. They are bound v to the vestern cpumrt by sthe inseparable tie? of nature and 6f interest, The hardy andadv"enmrous sorts pf eyr, jpana wqi, in a snort limey coropose; a large, proportion-of the. population .on the waters vi M-riYUS9i!sippi, . a. unocnuiye ia assure nn jjtn J tlf rrLnn from IVIncarKiita . iKat thus' mill , i vr tbeWlVO' "'V -yuuifj, VtlH8 OCSlHiUS CPUJlUit- ."T j-.-yvMy-vr -t.vv -". W to thosV wh bpetly"av'pw"that (nteBjion Th rttur tohe y break into bis house, or ih hoaatfs fWV folilirafcvf, Aaron $urr.' had fpcitatpf JoeiyK, or Sfcjt tbcir .children's Mua bt to the bVk?&cot timi;r&&i& VSrdvwhit, rt was -foU ihif WlMTe itgipi), the hand ofidystrv 19 teward (.uiadl ihiivlH : lixilefro'nfhisfiatfve cotiit- a yvUh'aj-ich1 return -of the. con .forts of, life, ri; uilith'-he once'ihtid' a ffistineuished blace. which the liberality of Us inhabitants . disiibutes with benevolence. aj)d hospitality. Besides these natural bonds which are eyery day increasing be tween the Eastern and - Western portions of the United States,1 there is a reciprocal advantage in the intercourse wbich is preserved between them. The western country u peculiaily adapted tio tHe purttuits of airftuUure and "the river Aiis- long continue to be the carriers of these suvpl us I altogether inadequate to coercion on them, .syffei products, to the seaport cities ot the yniteajeu.to remain in existence i Let us suppose a States, to the West Indies and Europe. Is it not Liverpool ship, containing the cotton and tobacco thehthe interest of those who ar4 engaged in the of tha. Southern states, arriving in Epgland, was carrying trade 10 give encouragement to agricul confiscated; and the proceeds paid into the British tore There are mutual benefits in thi inter -Jcxcbvquer, on the plea of retaliationtd that non itain as milch as it aflcct'ed France. Let stssippi is the irfeat hlirh way thro which their juuuty articles are conveyed to , a suitable. iind pro fitable market. 1 , T , . The Eastern. States have long been and Will obligations .? i " And that as it will be the right of iB, jt Vil) be the duty of some to prepare de ini'ely '.-.fora' separation,, peaceably if they can, wlepty liihef must V No, sir. Had such ex- prtssrons Dten esiaDJisnea, Dy tne evidence on his trial.'. I 'hazard an oninion, that it . would Havc tocdilqed a rvery different result. Perhaps, sirJ change 'of labor..which tends W promote the wel- intercourse- law, which unque&tionably did afi'ect Miead of exile," he would have been consigned to 1 "re of cactl section of the Union. Jsfo collision r Una t jlbbfii; For it cannot be Concealed thit thelan j interest can ever exist between the growers of us suppose, in consequence ofihe passage of the erciai intercourse, me Marq. very polite note, we are disposed the edicts un- para'ion to these states, it would.be found to pre. "er which our property had been sequestered should ponderate in tavor of the Western division. We I fccjiuspcnded conditionally that Mr. Pinkney in should at once become" possessed of the public j rejoinder writes a very civil note to know what is lands which are said to be-a fund on which the j 10 ketone with the. money, the proceeds of se- r.ation may rely tor revenue to an incalculable a.u;lrea American, cargoes, locked up in the mount. ,i . , , .. j Treasury vaults, and that the Marquis should re- '1 litse lands have been acquired at the nationality "hyi to that affair, the principles of re- expense and it would therefore be unreasonable ; pnsa j,vjli govern it i I will say nothing of the t ratioh -ai eonfictivioi of ATftetfcan propefry in France baTO beeoniadc avowcdlf in retaliation of the ,non-iotercour5e' law;o. 1. Fromi that law, ed our frottV, nij took post 6n'vtlle'acthe, forgot thtitle of itpneerning commercial intercourse and 'So-foith-tKi act,f lastseBsion, ,'XndnoWit Mrt' U KVjme & they; were ( ht amoi. fic1on;ujf Lu X, p stnAC pa4 m- 40. iw' edaway, weakeneoVlike.io'we parrt of fihis wH& iig ; in oine'rs buttrisstd and supported, no toatj ter at Tla't expence of public prosperity or hap-pinesft-wne hall the. building' in a state of mag- ' niricent repair ; the pthjer leaky and unlit for the rsidencef human beings. . ,. v v Nothing was further, from hisVish, MiirR. said, than to enter into a detaileAexposition of our; foi'eifc'n relations. Biit he asked all sides of the House to Jay their hands on their hearts and ask hadf since optratedhelivanot disposed to- atmul v" - 11.1. r....iv yyyi VI . 4 II u in ttl& ndh-iittetxohr&e ' law-NoTl, and that of the last session, 2s 0. 2. Why did they co'minue on the statute book these acts ? Why were these mea sures, totally imbecile as relates to foreign powers, goige of the gentleman from Massachusetts, if nemP i10UIj couon, tooacco ana sugar, and theaw -ciaug u, corom accoinpaBied'by an over act, to carry the"threat 1 carrier who hncls employment in theic transporta- V.UAsiy. write to kirvv mkney a 1ucb it contains into execution, would amount to tlon t0 the countries in which they are consumed. Mntoriiung .him th&t'inasrouch as treason.; accomleer to its literal end technical He. I any advantage C01ild .be derived from a- se-lto withdraw our measure, so hostile, finition intherconstitutin and laws of the United &aefA ilhei fate of Aaron Burr ought to be a taltttary wartiiog against treasonable, machmati. WiiWHii others, havingthe same views, do not share a similar. fate, it will not 'be' because tkdo'poydiscn'e it. Sir, the gentleman from WaSiacuasetts, Huafortinattly for himself, has re Herrtdtb the opinions of the present minister in Bussijw Compariwas are fr.deed' odious but on occasion thcgentleman has invitedfthe pon travln the memorable discusshari no thcjdoiV and unjust, to confer them whplly on She Western states. But if .the irkleterioJs consequences which fiavcf beeo Dredictert hvibe .eeotkmarv fromibLt.. ltWtenslii should be realised, such will be the in' asf aC; the highest advantage to us : and'fvlUblc cfiCt 111 relation to the territory belong ing 10 tne unitea states. - . Surely, sir, there is patriotism enough eveTi "in the.ci y of Boston to counteract the. deteriorating the gentleman from '. lentucky himself, who has fedwith'lin'h eloquence the immense wt'wutHsv it tun wvun 01 me possession oi me ceded'edtmtry, cannot. carry his ideas oa that suh- jed i farther than t do.'' A"d on a subst;qutnt oc psioo.when called upon to decide the delicate n..whejief;a member of the Senate of the IJ.SUtestoipxrwHed from that body fcr treason and misdemeanor, with which he wss Mr.'Ada'mi jn bis able report to the Se mite on that subject uses the followingirniigand jwajicif?us (language f-' It the ingenuitv ot a seamen lying; in the dungeons of France not that 1 feel les for the rights of man than for the appear" to havVbccn touched in the notes from our minister to thk minister of France or, if squint ed at, not deigned to be noticed by that minister in reply. The President of .the United States (said Mr. K. continuing his hypothesis) on the ,iemon were tasked to weave' into one composition w, iney great moral and political evils, which touM H jn (licted -on the peopl of these stat es, nuuia produce .nothing more than a texture 'ol watj dismemberment and despotism,'' ; - These l J4entimenta and feehrgs of that distin Stt!?n?Q Citizeri who is now our minister at the 6f Sj."Pet,ersburrIhey breathe t he apt rit an American who " cherishes the constitution ojderwhich We'a.reassembled as the chief stay i V 5 ?he : fight which is "destined to W!'4ayyhprospect it sheds over f. Cnildreru'T ,: Let us examiner whether the gen min from Massachusetts falls not behind him m uch,!seDtimnts'., The inhabitants of the Pyi.:jhich:pr minbte'r in Russia declared to such jwnjenie importance, to this union are wta be. admitted to a participation of those !u which belong to every American citlze'nii y0u-TO.Ht'.hcorp)rated into the Unit M States, Oorrinare. I beseech von." sir.thi t lan. .....1 : rc am- L Wf diinlved' ri;i ,;h knMn,'.".n:'ar J u mauf; nght in tath of; tHe statesr if 7 ars not permitted to separate peaceably.' wuicai jealousyiirmculcatedTetween,the East- 'na . Western slates Every circumstance 'wen is calculated 'rd an4 division, is ' stucfioubly adverted 7 , t e inftabitantsjoT Louisiana are represent 5 w. and uncovered io the woods, arid de- Went oh wrEastern .states for elotbes to cover .'rnaWdne-they are cilled at one time the JW irief ofMissouri, ahd at another the Anglo iti ii ",?,"c,VBiis,, wno DaR uii mc saiuis q U)e moniii ti u. . .1.- ' t, f t 1 ka a f nr hohumn Jf -J? ?&li$vt?-br lor medlh thV W est, D&m t0 saw up trie power of the original 3Becon3titutipn, and control the na u 'A. these-the suggestions of a mind which JitWs jo none hilts attachments tolhe constitu- frunl thelr are the, ebullitions' of political desin-nft r ; nivirtin-t iofin;r war. designed. to. prorluce, internal war, "nemberrnent and esnotUm'.":' I- do-inot think to Kwtleroaft from Massachusetts has any reason., . '-"hiamiate- bimtf IF.rm fhfi reiemnra whirh T??i10 the.bpiriidris-'ioi the ' RuVsiah -rnunister. principles of that gentleman Let us. adhere to jl!ay 'which the promissary note becomes paya the; maxims of wisdom, and by union of "sentiment j'',e issues a proclamation in which he suspends and action convince the nations of Europe that -we i!-h's act respecting commercial intercourse. 1 are too povtiLl to be conquered, and too happy vv til-suppose that ori the first of January a vessel to 'he reduced from the- allegiance we owe to th i-i leaves 'Liverpool conveying a note from Mr. Pink government of our choice. . ney,-:fxohi our cpnsu'l Mr. Maury,, from any agent nyHcver low in uie ciipiomatic scale, stating that aij ue vessels on .whom these decrees could ope . . ' i : f- 1 DEBATE ON FOREl.ClN lUiLAiTONS. Houh; of Keiircs-r.iarnes, .- ' '.. , Saturday t February 2." '. Mr, Efifie moved to discharge the committee of the g' hole from the further consideration o'f the 0111 supplementary to the aot cowerning com mercial iDttrcourse, $cc. for the purpose of recom mitting the bill to the committee' who reported it. ' ' Z'Z -.--V'r: MnGoidaberough wished 'the" gehtlerran to state the reasons which urged him to move a re'com mitment of the biJ. , It waa-usual in such cases to state the grounds of ihe motion. Airy Mppea said he had no objection to state the reasons which operated with him, The bill con tained various provisions respecting enforcing the law vof May last. Then non intercourse system .went into operation to day. . '. It had been consider ed by the committee of foreign relations, that, in me present aspect 01 our aairs,it would be bet ter to provide for the relief of our own citizens and suspend the . passage of ihe law for enforcing the non-intercourse until the doubts hanging over our -foreign 7elationsweredissipated. Under these impressions, the committed hurl thmio-ht proper that 4 distiact bill should be repdrted to auum iu eiury an vessels sailing irom tjitat-Uri-tain after the 2d of February. Mr Randolph wished to know whether it Vas in ord"r tajmake a motion dmendatory of the mo .tibn for recommitment I". s i .-7.;The'a.feplieci-in- th afnrmatiYe' y Mr. Ranfalfih said he had attended the house withreat anxiety yesterday with a view to make the motion which he was. now about to submit as an amendment to that under consideration ; but courd not procure the floor. The amendment which he wished to propose, Mr. R. said, was one which he should have wished to have offered in the, shape of a septate. resolution, andiwhich he came down to the house to-day prepared to Offer. uAc should makebut few prefatory remarks on mis subject. Aime was short, was precious ; and, above all,; he should wish the House to act . with promptitude, 'in whatsoever manner it mlerht de cideiorf this questiorulto and really nothing was farther from his wish 4' no thing r was -Carthet from his policy, 4han a desire to create an unpleasant sensation 6r reflection in the mind of any member of the house it would be re collected, 4e' said, i. that we' had made a sort of re treat from the embargo to the old non-intercourse law. Among the objections which then suggest 'r 'if late hud been put in a . -state of sequestraTimv-T say on the 8ih December. Would, ii be possible ior us, however well disposed, to gloss over this viie conquct, to otiieve that official advice had not been received at London in time for an order to arrive there before the first of January ? But in the case. in question our agent, did-not reside at a Qisunt port, but at Fans ; so that there was an interval. -between the 8th of December and 1st of! Januaryv'in which7to send an order for the release of those - vessels to Bourdeaux. I will suppose in addition to 'all this, that an American frigate, attempting to enter the ports of Great Britain, when in thiaaCf; of amity is treated with indignity ana compenea to periorm quarantine. I ask ypu near-ect ijpprrfhe nation i ever; wron whirl - Vnt Xme'r. unrt'iinwi-T -tvimhinA vMiy) 1.-JK &' a 1 i 1 J v in AataWangemfty5hiR bjuritB w.ere.Jeft Sr future ' lhtr.. . the, JaW in that castas fa me. Dreunt.A-a cni dered amtfe an-ahgemcpt for, ijWwijf . Me.' Err lo t soq!!,r.Verf farces ti seihTJCrt in the, resent ooEtur,Ar,r' - iirj thia counrt7,4ecuil4 hot oiWnf tuloan which would go to violate thd faith of thla hation,1 .M. ...w tfu.iVVVMj .ui legislative auxiKuu lyV,Thfe propositibpas distinctly, made Jnuhe - iaW,Jf eplH.te "rent; the evUlencer V furnished as required by our own law of the 'rcV- 7 , " . i-J 7-,na Vi whert.they did not know of a single casein wluch, the; decrees. had since operated, he. wo not disposed to- aimul f Mi? P-diwQentlemca would recoW -J lect that the an ahceiherit I gust ; and frbni that time, iinti the arrivnl of ;h6 1 ' Essex, do circumstance had occuried" to'give to'''' 1 France a certainty that the' United States had coin- . plied' with the' engagements into .which tlVcy halJ ' entered. The case of the .Vessel seized at Bor-' i deaux was not that V a vessel froni the United -' ' States but from' Gibraltar. . It was not known Nbf what her cargo was composed, pr. what the &r-ri , cunrstances which .induced Jitr seizure.' jTlhesi V circumstances were, all unknown , and although as' : an individual, 1 said rii., I am hot . disposed atV the present 'moment J untilJ t nntp riri uintn .l.w . ' f 1 ar. ttrilliiti.aiiiK iA n 1 ... . t.- m ' ' i i ' - -, r--"- .Mvfiivi,m .cviucnce in; France has violated the faith pledged to this n tlon. ' ' I - ' it The arrangement with FrancevshmrT :'iIt;. onjhersame footing as ;witb. Great Britain, both cases the Executive accepted the. faith oMli nation, pledged throtieh their, mimater t-SnVt ;f 3 should turn out that .we havV hfn Uri;.,A kJv, both, it will move that therr hn hn -.i the part of the Executive of the U tutcd '.States a inr..p' litrrilir,': f. 1. n ..'.t. ...... . , ,T. A v ..v.. ;W nave .caiv un . yiese; na . , tibns. On the subject of tlie'siioiiaiioiis ''id1?:? property, bJtbecaasethatubject does itdtHWhJf i-ff&k&)&i& -kr wtthwwfil wnWi--1''! uons, n wpuui oe tound that in every leljcr ad dressed by our minister to that., government ihe7- :V restoration of that property has considered as fnak- " ingan essential part of the arrangement The cir- .. cumstance of the minister being ,oblige(f, to re-'- ' turn from Fiance, at a period perhaps rather yn-i V1' favorable, miht have prevented, that part ofihe arrangement from receiving that decided ''r ha ap'oV acter which it ouht to possess, 'i-Mr. E: said hi colleague was mistaken as to the alleged cause of X the seizures in France ; it was not aYetaliadon for- " the non-intercourse law, but for1 "the; supposed; 'iH seizure of property in American'iriiXiMi':Va 4tevedr4haUtJriLatact that , no'such' seiziii-iFT' 3 propeity had takenplacendjifheJabrre-l pnsal was to govern in this case, 'if any tWnk like'1" justicexould be relied on ;f'.Fiwce,:W:i)ro . 1 .1 i a.. . . if. -.'- . . pcny wouiu uc promptly restored. - AlrE. c6n-f c eluded bv susrsestintr' to hi'Vnllftit Wm, U J O Mf.UVVUW UlUUIlC ty ol offering his propositibn separately from. thVHi present motion. There were considerations which - ought to indeee the house immediately to pass!' re gulationsjbrithe relief of biir cUizens .rp Mr Randolph said itt wbuld give him" great pleasure to comply, withljrji xequeVf r his col league, were it. not for the circumstance "that this y non importation went into operation to day. The . truth was, if there were to' be in hoint nfr, sir, if the proceeds of the cotton and tobacco 0foperation at all ; if the ''"jrpedjeine (were to work ;. if the Southern planters, instead of'beW denosit ed in their pockets, was locked up in the Bri- usn x reasury, ana . mey were told that it was a retaliatory measure, and 'must be settled by the law of reprisal I ask whether we should not have' war against that country in four and twenty hours I Unquestionably we would. Butr Mr. R-aid, his objecfwas hof tb make war. ;ilis experience of the temper ofihe House, however strong his inclination might be that way, hatLtetlainly operated a preventive, cure , upon a ny disposiuon he might find' within himselL to turn knight ei'raht j A II he would wish to press upon the House was the propriety of relieving trie President of ihe Uftited States from the dilemma in which ire-must Yiovr stand, in , consequence of, ui piutiapiauon, py on immediate repeal ot that law of commercial intercourse to which this new bill frSm the committee of foreign relations is sup. pjementary. Mr. R. therefore moved, bv wav of amendment, that the committee of loreign relatk ons oe insuuciect to bring in a bill respecting com mercial intercourse betwecen ' the United States and Greit Britain and France and their dependen-cz.-V make you this motion, said Mr. -R iand for.Gi iake let us once, nore havevelear stays'. Mr, te"saidit-as not his intention on the present occasion to take a tedious vie wt of our for eign relations.' . It'was sufficient for him v to ob law ot .; the iast session ; :f the- Berlin and Mi Ian decrees 'having.-been; withdrawn, and these (being 'the "only decrees 7 violating the neutral commercc-oi the united States,' in consequence of that withdrawal the President khad issued tne proclamation required by' law. ftWith regard " to mo ujjuiics, wc naa Teceiyea . irom eacn bejiige' rent, Mr. E. would:;n6t pass vthroagh the chap- it were to have anyractrcariffechliSuld let it pass. But although in 'poinfpf fact it would do ' . the. belligerents v ho harfn, ahd unquestionably do : us no good, it would be'made anVengine fyt jsinltf. s ing the value of . the property of;hisi cbn,stituehts. Mr. R. said he was opposed to this' sort. f legis latiye quakery Vit went to tHepairin'giion -healjhtithout.affecUft'g'r the genikman lia-a atated "thate case in . which U Bertirf Manecrt;s-v Had S been applied totttr'opert V'emher. In the" name pf cornmoi seriseilsaid 'Mri 'b R. pf what consequence 'is'itlp 'lis, we xar'pluh'if dered and robbed, ' whether jt be .tuyeT'0nVaec1i or another. y Will thehikman say that thefeiipf no case in which bur property has ;heeii rbbbrT J andthe proceeds put ihtheFjenc of no manner pf u, consequence;; :'to uwhethefw.,;! are murdered orirobbed orkihe'htch wav'or ih5 .Ci cnromaterial. - There is a deeper .die of ctanr'aiiivv ty in .'one case than injlve btHtr, as relates tx?ih'e4'i' offender : not a shade ofditTerenceas relates to the V7 panyffehded; Ifsctms,;; sir,; thatwe'atteirda much of; late to modi and 'so liule ao substance" " that'if we afenbt rbbfietl and! nTurck-jerf hfttt il-lt' panic .blhrmanhef , we may. be rpbbed apd plunder i edioriheart's-fontent ;afiertano,'ll,M fashion! The ; question witirs isVwhether wc are icbbe'd j and plundered, It ni&y be matter at Paris, hetli. :1 ' er there' h so muchjirthwctivs old-(shi M: he.d f people; it;'i nb 'imtter. ; so; air w loVjfc Hx moheyji liow',if wtaken,:',1?;; ' ' . Mw R.;said he ( shojild';'. bav'e..i'ben,e"xtrcThfe!v,';.!"r glad to have submitted this prcpcsiti6R.in the sape ' j of a resolution, ami dhcusstdjt In thetrn jiiiittc s - v
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