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-I S ANDt A. If. BOYL AN. mi I i .n I.. . , I,...,,, , ( . . i. ,l, i,j VVf . 1 V.0L.L5. THURSDAY, MARCH 28 , 1811. -51k. ';v R ALEIGH, N. C- PUBLISHED (wef KtV , . . . , :B),qf(.HK,vlKt3KVTAtlY2.s, ':: $PEEai O THE H0MrPEARON, . ; :: Viifrh Ms. Ejijiea , o; 'Moitr Intercourse Bill. I ' lib but' Mr. Speaker, I address. you, especially on .subjects ot the nature ajid impor tance of.tbat which is now under diicusioiV Per f haps, pa this account J may'riofbe thfc leti n. titkd to your indulgence and theiaUt:nuQno( this wsstnhljfc , . . .... - ; J am not so va,n, as to indulge the hope, of being aoirjo ti mucn aadliun,d Irght on the Tooioifcteus wbjeptbefora usy acd fr&hitJw- icanoft8 which but w pjainiy perceived, oil the iieiei raintuion ot a majority ol this house, to US DiU . wlUaiLits imBerfectiflna-n its this government and France, rnusiihe propriety cree4jntoc of the restoration of, the immense jjjrwsT In which there is incpicsciu measure w jusirneu or conoemneu, amounvoi American property, pt which your acquisition of a rental of The net Alluded tn."Jn RiiH;taTir d-!;ir. ' "'Pt,. lii.nt hitit hton mt!.,.;!!..'!. . i.tf t1 V ' in case either Great Britain or France shall be1ed by this?,'!! monster of the Cere and which the fore the 3d day of March next, so revoke or modi- President icdared,' throu'icb the JjcVreUry of state. 7 icr luiua, vnav nicy snail cease, w vioiaie tne neuirai icornrnerce of the United States, which act (he president of the1 United States shall de clare bf proclamation, and if the other nation, shall not, within three mopths' thereafter, so revoke or modify her edicts in like manner the- restrictive provistoasof the law of '1 809, are Jo. be revived and have fuU toree and effect 'lagptrisfSe ;TaliPn': so refusing of neglectini? tb teitokCef' raodifvi hie tJii date ofaucb proclamation to cease attd be dis opntlhued in relation to the nation revoking or mo- giving ner uecrees in tne manner atoresaid. ' The emphatic words of this law are; so revoked of modify, as that they ce ae to violate. Here is a positive, unconditional, indispensable prerequisite, to be complied with, before the President was authorised to exercise the Dower given to him ; a specific.ff was to exist, and he was empowered simply to make its existence known to the nation : no discretion w niii. tract, and violate not the faith so solemnly plight- vw iu iHuls-" e oreai ' untortunately the evidence oh which theyxely, dhfireve he fact, and we are enabled to do what can seldom be done. & ought never to be required prove a nee ative. The letter of the Due de 4.. A. llll.V .1 nu3f, isiu, we prtHinmation h.cad? I despair of pbtainin'g. within thefce walls, H Ein'ij convert to my opinion : but sir, the- high, iruperious voice of ddty, summons me to aa ex ertion, and for my country, myT constituents and myself, I am bound to obey, I embrace- the pre sent moment with more cheerfulness than I should have done any preceding period of the debate; becaoM i feel nortificial, warmth, no excitatinn, except that which' flows immediately frota the subject, ly feelings naturaUy ardent, have, it is true, been much quickened at various ttages of tnis.tiiscusaioti, and air, I am much indebted to resununK mac lunoer oT m nrl i,irk .w .. . - u..t w onweme ought to be fnanifested in our deliberations. The calm, dispassionate, and unassuming address of that gcutleman (Mrj G.) deserves my approba tion, and 1 give it freely, but as for (he truth of ou premies, tne soundness of his logic and eor tectnesi of his conclusions, they are leftta the sanction of those whose perceptions arc very dif. ferent from mine. h the course of my remarks, some of the most prominent obbervations of that gentleman win not escape-my notice. - -Mr. Speaktr, no nation can be gerat, prosperous ii'J f " i is, can continue that great aesv prosperity and haDDiness Ion nnU. u governed and directed by the sound r''i'inciitlfi n( i t . " .. . - JUItc, uwiurLnu i.7iiarttattly ; and n ore especi -mu.., iinnc puucipiesoe regarued in a Jit puMci whose very base is Wriue.nd'vi&M Pl;t i the aki and approbation"of Iwnest and hon waoie men. i iie lustant tbiiT f jurtdaion and his iaPPrt are lorn away.jhe superstructure chftn'blcs into Hunt tk 1. m r.v: , m : ? . - .- .-, .fiam wiiwi ttorcnj ts seen no More, snirchy witU aU its deformities, ordespo hsra with all its horrors raise their hideous crest, pull Jow;t the temple of liberty, and-give 'chaina to its votaries, it is to be hojed, Mr. Speaker, thst tMa staie oTtbingj will not be the result of the prcient rrieas urn j but when connected with the proceeding of tins' governmentr foi several years past,, and particularly. with something which has Keen .lately done, but, which 1 am not at liberty u Minu isn,ita wttn dreadiul fo.x Wmgs of ourfate, and no slight anDrehension.; Jorthe character of the nation, and the best inter mi? 01 tnepeppie. Being oppwed to the principles of this bill, and Mving o confidence in the reasons or pretences, "r which if is attempted to be'-justified, .! shall ot trouble you with an exposition of its particu w ..details, howeverfnovel, arbitrary, and impo Uctbey may appear The bill proposes substan. .. reviytu . ot that system of our in letters to General Armstrong Of the Sth June ctq J wy ruust precede air arrangement with Prince, aiid was an indi&ticr.uablt evidence of the .iusturpot of France towards the United States. Inad oiffcavin forty or fifty millions wprih of ogr propter restored, we ate vauntlngjy told, thai ths prdpef waa confiscated as a measure of re- IV. I .1.. ill. i. i .. . le principles oi reprisal mnst be the jv wwsr;.T foa a com EngltrfTof ' iteefi and utlius amused. i Commoa honor and i:6raraoi sense reyolt atihe idea. -An honorable ge'ntlei maft from Soutti Carolina (Mr. Cheves) whom I am very much.incnned to respect, in an ingenious argument, which he made the other da'yto prove that the Trench decrees were revoked, told you that the rtv-jcarion of those decrees depended on the mere.rofotfi of the 'mind of the Emperor; not requiring authentication, or form; and al thoughihey might be revived the next moment, or substituted by other-reeulations enuallv kf. nusn government would upt abandoa of blockade abd.' adoDt ihe; wind ijto lot by Af r ance; -tfc&jeW I sir i the Mpkadcwlifcn' is po. ;. Britain. . But on the, 2d of 3iAv th' 4.mvI ' y. .v fivwmi, t. mtu orougiu me ctTrespon -dence between otir ministers atpris 'nd Lbndonj and-the agents ot the BriUshand freochg6vern?v mentsj on the subject of the. repeat of their seye ral orders and decrees ; and wherf If wis knowtV WW UK. D her system contended contained noUnijr demid theegtal at itl Drone rlv nL iulr ciniem. confiscated by Ae oirdet. of lBonpar.t,; was 'da ciareci oy me execuuvxj as ,an. lixUspeneablc piV . requisite to an arrangeBen with tlie French g.;f VernmehtV "But the ro4amaticn of. -the Preff i dent has been issued without a cent of nroncnr being restored, nor is there jibe mo&t distant pros. Q pect of our regaining shilling from Us iron grasp? A i nus nave tne administration changed the ground i firnt taken, increased the 'demands un f?rt. ArJ"-'-; ed nohing left to doubtful construction-r-no con. ainonai promt tfory note oi a perndious affent. oft a nit-re perfidious master, was coiitemnarl hffectinp our neutral ritrli. c,;n th, ll,e ,aw he great question now is, does the nus attributing an authority to Bonaparte, des fact on which the proclamaiioii was alone to issue, O iptive of the power of the G jd of Nature when he said let there be light, and there was li$ht. And In reply to the centleman from q;icstionthe burthen of proof unnnestinnalilv : setts (Mr. Ouincv who mr.tfnrVrl that sn, ought to rest n those Who-call on us to pass this 'essential to the repeal of a decree, he remarked sumed, that the requisition taw ; ancl in their own language, execute the con- Mht the gentleman Wanted fnm and not substance, suquc&tered nronertv will rrom this course of reasoning, I conceive the gentleman has admitted, this pretended revocati on has .neither form nor substance. An edict may be defined to be, a law promulgated in such form as the institutions f the country require, or some act of sovereign authority, which has trone throutrh Cadore, of the 5.h ! thc e4abiuhcd forms of office, so as to become obli- of the 2d Nq ;gdluy edicts of France have an appropri- vembtr, and Mr. Pinkney's diplomatic special ate form, their authority is attested by the Emne' K.w-... .j. icucr 10 me secretary of state, of or ana pumicity is-given, lor .the direction of uic lum i7eceno,-r. constitute the whole burthen ;lse whobt doty it is to carry them into effect of proof upon which the advocates of this bill rest iir, the decree of the most absolute monarch on i;a deUnce, and the evidence of the. act, on which ;earlh is no. decree til it is published I contend alone it can be ju'.tified I have stated thei;iw,;that -a revocation or modification of an edict re and what I conceive to be its obligation? on tie uilcS the' tame or equal solemnities with its Cn l rrsiJent and ourselves It will now he proper to j ctnvent'; the Jact must exist and be officially t B'1 V'ew pt this famf letter of the ;madel1known .before it becomes obligatory no de DMcdeXdore of tbe:.Jili of; August, thiss.h.nie;ii 'frn imetido-nUo ' revoke, can' cotibtitate w. ,. c iMa seaucea us into a labyrinth, ian act.ual revocation. The act ought not only to - .r 6"""t vena iio cevious winclMiL's, uc ."ric"eu and puouc, but suscent ble ofau -.v., . nv awn iu uc. exuicured. 1 his If I tain, and abandoned what, was ueemed indispeul sable on the part of France'. . :. .,.:, &i conscious waa th President of the lust ex-f peciauons oi tne people oi this country, thai pro- ""u" -uiu,wc mauc iur me resiprauon oi incir property, he , informs Mr. Armstrong on the.Sdl November, the day the proclamutioh was.iasuedi in issuing uipjiiDtwinauoa ii lias oeen pr .. sumed, that the requisition on. the subject ot tht-V.V suquc&tered property will have been complied wlth.From what this Jiretuiniiiun aiose lanitf a loss to say- the letter ol the Due de Cadoie ta ' general Armstrong of the I2tb September; had J MeefKreceived here, we had been tola there : woul4 T uc no compromise; me law ol rfirtaal must go vern ... Sir, the law of reprisal, as recognizid bjr the laws of nations, coCld never have authoiiaedf & the seizure. Reprisals can only.be resoi ltd to in r case of an act of hostility committed by. onena-i uon on me propeny or citizens ot another, and af. ter compensation for the injury has been demand- v ed and refused, and even in that case, the pibpeitf taken, is to be held only in fUdg- tiU sauslastich' . is made by the ofiendtn nation. The mx&rf'Jj that conbscation takes place, the., principle . r. V prisal ceases and it "becomes an acUpf war ViKJi had Vlone no irijury ,'JbVanc, i4 S ; neuner me rigius ot the pcroj nor property of - r her subject....no demand of; iiideninity . waa ejyer :'z made l not a comtlaint whianernH. till nuaiiar , , itsjicuons,-under which the people of our coun P C ,0 ,onS and severely i flared. It sub aoiially denies all intercourse with Great Britain 5Mluhfr Aln!.. t ' - ter, which contains but one sentence of plain truth, viz. That the emperor applauded the general em bargo laid by the U. S." after asserting the most palpable falsehood, by denying that the Fmperor had knowledge of our law of March, 1809, until Very lately- and .justifying the seiznrp. nnri n Tl r i. . r ucmiiai:on oi an American entered, hot only the property which to the natioi., andlhc world. J'i his opinion, if it nev(is authority, is support caoy tne lunructiojna ot the secretary of blate to our minisiers at runs-and London, of the 5th July, Mr, I'liikney is duecti in these words If the British govtinmcnt shoulJ accede to the overture coi.faint d in the act cl Conirress: bv-re. had ftl Kr n. M,n U-ii J . . . - . 7 ... . . ' " " "-J " r; rCiV' V "uana, aatmg irom the; tease to violate our naitral rights, you will trans 20th May, -1809; and declaring tlfat reprisal was mit the repe-t properly aulhnncated, to Gcneial a right commanded by the dignity f France, a cir.i Arrastrone and . if necessary. h , i v j i w i MauLLiai cums ance on which it was impossible to mal compromise, the letter proceeds :, V Now congress retrace their steps, they revoke the act or the 1st Marcb the ports of America are open to the French tomjtiS; and France.ls .no longer ' interdicted to the Americans. In short rir m n. . toU -4 a . iL- - t o . mm one oi trie be heerent ntiw. 'senger, andjou will husten to transmit it alsj to ers, which should refuse to acknowledge the rights of neutrals. In this new state" of things, I am wtish vessels of every d-scripUon, and the pro- , , - --- v vy. iiiav iiauun ui .Klftfl. and to Hhnmanrvpp fh Kl.,. . -tbe shm-:",!. : T ?' " . l vi qusnce ot this dt MwttoT Y P07lbh ,ndu,Scncc i3 8rant- this declaration, lr"l Vm. and , rcvoke their ord - r uv. una mosept the nations which she BOblliirat't fir.,1 r " ' i , -j-Q-..v. uu iif:irjriuni irom us. iifTL' lertne remark, that nVhn.. i...;. . ?. ter r "V'-"CC1 mcir imeresi, or. tne in wsu pf either of them come in contact with the wierests of mw n.vn k.... rr r ..... t , z . wuuii, icci no prcierence, ke nondiscrimination ; my first bet r.-hhta -"i urc at An,n. f this department similar Hi. - VV"""J Mb KITvil III. Gene rat Armstrong. ' Will it for.. moment he contended, that the for malawAoifcwion required by the administiation, could mean a JesuuicaUjitoblentMuiyocalr--coiv-ditional letter full of sour.d, and meaninij i,othine for our goodBut, say gentlemen, the president received the evidence and issued his' proclamation. Ih.s irtroe, but why he has done so. and how lUStifird hv the. law im. , U " . . iiicii aione ne was auuioristu to act is to my mind, perfectly inex r . , . vnuise pi tins arrangement Willv r ratice. he. has vaii.,1 ,u , . . not this fact) the English ahal first took-why dispensed w iL r Z 1"! ers in council, and rcnnnnrV. !,v,l ! time cltrlarpfl. nwIUf,. rc-n ...... . renounce the new n.-WmW ui :7 "TTwl,l ne oavuncea ia r vi uiui tyaue, wnicn f" iioni mey nave WSn?a t0 establish, or that iheTTni.. coniorma?Je to the act authorised crets w ucciaare lo vou. sir . ihnf th li. of Berlin-and Milan are o,, after the 1st of November, thev will every k -t. . u-:- .. . . . whomsoever thev helono-, hiut : . . " -1 ? j . """stooa, .thaunxonse- , . 1.i":,.?r - qu-ceoi mvs aeccaration, fremark. Mr. Speaker, tlcm. . "v" "t""'u apjjctii 10 gen- 3nf why shall we, at thismqment, make this mctbTFityhjr .ball wc take this hos ue attitode against G. Britain, and open our arms w ie embrace of FraSr k . torn.. ' t -. . "iivn uj uumg su, we aoevitably afflict our own people, and .dj. W .l .nat character of oicutrality, which has ne alleged boast of tlie present and late ad .auon ; and which alone; 1ms afforded those JZ" . apology wiuh the people for those be,ir poucyvwith-which their couree has distre? Vu pllaSy marked and that accumulated si which every man has scen.and every honest 'lt?i 1"-lCn " because Bonaparte Jias thtr -a i A,ericdn ? I sin know t no ihi nSl i 8,en said onjhis floor, Doiti , .V-. "c nonoraoie gentteTnan Who.re- ChZ - x , IU' -anr MwottiMe coUeagic (Mr. ) that the Beriincrtliian'decreea are' LJy. and 111 'compliance, with the law of the WedS1--? SftngrtssJ the faith of this nation is . to Bonaparte, for the, due' execution nf . "v WW against flM:-n.:..: to those kldcrstandtng canhot'-asseuttheliga.' C.?" 1 neilh feerndr beljeve.- That t 7 'ich. exinti will T,. ':'.- sti-?.'.i ,1- tin.' . . r-vic. it b. be dif- For a fair Understanding of this- ecornes necessaryfto annlv ir the Inf i. - - SiiS' l31?r-0n that law and the proceed .""f -:cn. jutiaequcutly- adopted by the act vou have, met communicated, sludl cause their rights to he res- pecwu uy uic t.ngusn tlien follows in sweet ac iitjs Americans, bis solicitude for our prosperity, and the glory of France. . . . .1 his is the elided nil!, in whirh l.irtc deadly vtnom, and which if we swallow, t fear a., lut Hu,m.ai qnai Kery oi the n..tion cannot sav us. Ohis letter, gentlemen rely for the revo .ul.u..v u, u.i. r rei n eoicts, and the freedom of our commerce witn t rince- Allowing the roos fayourable construction, to this letter,: and ab stractmg it from circumTtances, and facts oth before, and afteririts date, it wilj not bear gentlemen Out in their conclusion ; it does not satisfy your aw pd did not warrant the state tf things; which, have been, and are about to be produced Instead of an . existing and determinedyacr we i,arc a promise, anu that too clogged with condi- iion, wnicn . u was well -known to the Emperor u v-uuiu iioi. oe comDhed with to th. i - . - . . exieiittrcnuirea oy lum-The cnntlitmne uMk depended on Great Britain, he knew; never would ' . yieicen, ana that which depended on ourselves was ..nothing short 0f war with EnManri r ... own "citensUy oprsing ; them with a per petuaUmbariro. Instead of an 'iutheiiiWi;; of revocation bearing ihe authority of the most or dinary law or edict ol thc French empire, we have nothing but s letter from the agent of the govern'. i.rxui,i.u wiiieii me emperor may disavow at pleasure-lS was done in the Case oF the . vAiatiaiiuus m vjeitcrai' Arm . I. ...... . 1 . . - - , " -,- I - - uienucauon, uiui capable ol beine' communicated twelve-months alur tU ram r .k- i-... antr us expiration v.oj Winch is made the pretext for this monstrous outrage. The law of renrif. had nothing-io do with the affair, and thcxonfis.' ' catiorr of our property excludes tlie ideaf i estor r.auon...! coniess I was astonished, and felt huiu bled as an American, when I heard the, language of the President of the' Dni'.ed States, in his mts sage to congress at the opening, of the present session, on. this"lubject.w-Instead of that hioh in. dignant tone, demanded by the honor icd feelingv of the nation, he, in the mildness of calin philosoi f -ny, says, it was particularly anticipated that as a further evidence of . just':disbbsitioni' -towards thtm, restoration Would liaVii Kin Imm.t.ii-.' made of the property of our citizens seized unr" der a miJiiiication cfA and a-rnisconstructiotrQ, i.laTifaV' y. State This expctlon has not been fuffillcd. ,Thus"thi question as to the lestoration seema to be- aban lioned ; one kind loving word fixijm Napoleon thl Great (as he has betiivUiurnphantlyxalled in thi yiiuuui B1J IP tuts, with all his laul.s) disarms usojf our rage, and we give, millions tor his embrace. It i in ' vain tir, lo seek for evidence b 'lhricvocation of the Berlin and Milan decrees in this letter of thc 5th August, we jiaiebtfoie us the most conclusive, the 'toostjdamiiing tesiimcny 6t their continued operation as late aathe 23th TJcdmbcr. By a letter from our charge d'fefFafrs dated- Paris 10th December, we are informed that " the New OriV leans Packet lately anived Bourdeaux, has, with hercargo, the bona fide property of citizens of th United btates, and laden at the port of New Yoik, been seized Jby the director'of the customi: iiM the titrtin owrf Milan decreet:' He furthej- states, that " the case of the New Oileaha Pacfeef U ii,V . first which has gccu:d since the firstof Novm- ber, to which the Berlin and' Milan decreed would -be applied, and if they are applied ib this case, it will bedifTicblt for France to shew one solharv m? stance of their Ijaving been practically revoked.' 'Av The lettet from Qbarles Meycr our consul at Bordeaux pf the 14th December, states, that th brig NewOrleans Packet, of New Vork; has been Great Britain , t r -- wv IVii mj ti v , . m SOH t rance, is left for him se fund those who have more wisdom than my Sell, tn flelfi-mtn!. I ...... ' . .'' - ......-. . uuh, sir, i jiave a proper . r. w.u.iv.ib.iii me executive, and have liposnion to detract "from liis merit : hut h. omy man, and; therefore subject to thc frailties- ,,cir to. ve. nave as yet no such maxim au.u,.jj us, as mat tne executive. is infallible hi cat, uu no wr eng. vvh3tever may be the disposi oi omer geniiemen, I am os yet too free, to much ui Biuioc renuot$can to subscribe to such a doc "me saia, air, that in the course of tliis ar .....llc..u wiiu r ranee, the administration ad. yaea m meiriemands pa Great Britainind rr icucu . o jtrance. . : ' I argue from the documentr;w;-k ed the preMdenfs message at the opening of the present session of Concrress -Th fi, the documents from ther'secretary of state to Mr. Pinkney, of the 20ih January. 1810. do nnt rnnlmn a vbnrA r.. .t- l . ; .... - --- - yv' mo suojec.! pt Dlockactcs pn 4uB vyuum,,, uie orders in cPnncil are required to be repealed, as nrenarat, treaty with OreavBrifain fanX the Sruish y. ernment are assured of thecordial disposition 0f the Prestdtnt to exercise anv finwer ntay be invested to put an eqd to acts of congress, wWM iW.:-)reaprted to hut for , the orders ... council,, ana. atthe ame time, of his determi. natif nto put them jn force against France, ,in case v U" nouia M.lso be repealed." " -' His letter'of the' 4th of May.vhich l;wa Con- oeizeu oy me coueqior, and her caigo put in tbft imperial custom hpuseil he schooner Fj-iendhiw of and from. Baltimore, has betn eeaut steredTh v gentleman from Virginia' (Mr. Gholdabnl' hua.'. gued against the operation of those decrees, on1; the authority of a letter Irom Mr. RusseUj. cchta'; I ed in that bundle of Vra.A. acrarieif unU, .IiS surplus" fund of rubbtstec'n the files iri ihWr-S ; of the secretary pf state, and which was, cart fully X .m vu uut lauici me pmcEiayi rjom ylucfl"; .i i i,"'.. !m arirymenr.-- v ' the letter alluded lo is-dated'-UicvUrcfDtteinberi--,'-t---' wueuiiiuMu no seizure naaDeenmadebut why f Because no vessels had 'therir arrived. It t sttfely unnecessary to tell us of whatXlid nor har pen on the firstof peCtmber, when.we.wellkr.o5 What did happenpa the 10th of Dctsnber. The
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