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" J i " 11 ' ' ?nf.RgpreientatiTev were rrejectexLor ..passed by Mr, Adariis atytEeir.H frTTTtini;7;Aa1 ' 1 . v " f ient contempt," be, withbening hu: presfcionViRheyVcxU ' , ' rmi1' . f miiitfl acquiesced j reposing himself now ,on the in council .The, pro . - TMTpiCfcEUlNG ADDRESS t ' 0Mt Of" THK VMTX St ATM,- .4 tfast armrhber I mentioned the declara- 'ii'if ivrJvTJnjQaiiiqrAdaot while fcVnator C w,i?ttuuhe British order in council, of ii 18oV were notedly a cause, but a P) (o,! w'use, embargo.' Jik words are.tbat Ct;anf4f1!Kmtof'tM ft-! cause of .the superior - wisdom of the , majorities of the two on news-paper reports, fiouis of Congress. - Yes when foe saw thatine,! ments yet Mr 5fclr ..ngUle .-orderly in uTi tr thfc iitnbarcci Mlf; fcrnbartrd1 hid ( e.taerf i itiure i t hat what had been "enacted anller the fcaWof an embargo was r ah ernbargobut &i total, Unlimited Jnterdlcti of all commerr w.tlu foreign tiaticrts i ? till biandi4 Andjlevated mind would notVleste'nd to entertain sutuctons of timair view's in "the, ex. eCtitivej andvhis leaders in the two ponies ; The hxcn vfharad uniformly opposed HAhe fneasutes ileimd'bifion father ta be necessary for the fery' hjoT4innterest of oui co(ry,asivefl dining Tanton'3ladministratioras7 is own '; weteii deei vd had 6 ivaUy oyerturntd the federal administration ot our gov? ijernment, fAfss men it rfm haa exhibited so much, wisdQin, so much 'patriotism, ahd-, had Shewn themselves so unamhitiotis, so pure sOdis-, interested in their opposition., ihat to wafiect'ihtm, nqityi of sinister unfair vie'ws'f would be improper and dkhonorable ! Yet Mr. Adorns admits " that vie-il ant observation i at all timi and wjiicioh Jts' partizans artfully Htnded with the original pre may ?cca$ioiatlu become nttesnttry, upon the con-' tences for imposing the embargo t and the warmth I , j . r,,,,- t An4 nf alt raon wvhrtnri nf Tr.' Arlama'ft rlascirtnc. Jinrl hl nreilffliri. rr- KA .decree hd thecorresponding aecree oi( ..wH to those who aseeniled to I aentments ittd hatred towards Great Britain, led aift furiushed: onlyto tor his acquiej I ,t th 6teps to wh;ch I haVe so ofteii al'Wrnalso to confound them with his .original rno- Uvea tor ..advocating and ?oung tor toe emaargo. L3i of of Janairy foll6wmg Qftcawu I ttpon which I have acquiesced in its Ldnaance to.this ay'-Hcre J pray it may yobstrved that . Mr. Adams, the advocate for Cs'taibargo- has 'conformed ; liny atateraent, ( that L four pajWrs comrtwhicaled by TVlr. Jefferson, Qn lie recommended the embargo, did not fuf ki(Jicieflt" ground-'laf.'iti' adoption - by Coni CitMi-ot rather that they furnished no groundat Ol'' For the BriiUh orders in council, "and the them fre .of all 'the t and impa1"4LexaTn"m-"L therabatgtjci w;w it ndt one word was :iltfcre rve; fnortbver', titaf J,I of!eVing'v tht' repors scc council as grounas tor that he. fi'-cen'idjsclair t iaci' voinerin! uKi- 'n. sess-The 7y5vitableo isthPt .tHe.i iiish lonterii .'.in countil were "not e yen in .l the cotAm p I t ibi cd.M ri A d ams h i mself, when' heVgave-brl zealoti absent to lhe embargo. And without imputing toliim a paJpsble violation ortruth, his; cofttfary asserjiion may be accounted for, by the subsequent 'actual appearance 6f the orders in council, whjeh the administration and and of which he could noV have been igno- the kiset? tjftHshed no reason for , continuing the embargo icVcould have lyrauB;...,-p., "--rihe mojinw Pcrh.p il will also acce.r that r " J .w. ;v ... u'.k, -enter into Mr. Jeflerson a views in recommending i imniiaihc it. ' ror recollect that it -was u. Inc . . .... ... . iad metChandijEe shewn in those fiaiera on Vph Mrf JfctFerson professed to recommend the p!;?-- dangers," whatever they contmue'd the same. ; m P If tli.rn to the rimh Orders in council, l ii Mr ;.Adanir has asiertd, they stood " in foal of line reat eauses bf4 the e mbargo,1 who jiat has . witnesssd the promptitude and eager hi mtU vfbkh Mr. Jefferson has always seiaed la every Cactland circumstance to awaken and ag Wue..tbie' pobttc urri.uiUons.j'against Great Bri in. will believe that he would haVe been silent res- Mr. Adams, they, have not been officially received' : and M be otters as a reason why Mr. Jeflerson . did 1 w fflpnUon ihera I !ask then, why he comma Vicjted the British king's proclamation of Oer. 1 6, 1807 i -Had thit beeit officially received r No. Sir. Jeflerson had seen it-in the comm.m news But t must acrain .-recur : to the extraol-dinary presume it has been satisfactorily shown, that Ideclarai ion of Mr. Adams, of the ground on which nrrnoured British orders in council diu .''not' he yoteJ for th6 embargo. " The President " (says he) has recommended the measure on his ".high' rfsponsibility ; I woidd hot consider I would not deliberate; I would act. Doubtless the " President possesses such further information, as " will justify the measure." The French Emperor has a legislative body but they frame no lawsj these arc prepaid by bis ministers, according to ronfrt ttitir loss aod 1 unad vaflUe6 umil tli. ' aled nn the ; mean, tirhe - fheir' VesseH when he gave his zeftwus assent to it akhougl he says those orders " formed to his understand, ing a powerful motive for assenting to the embar go I" and in another place, as J hesyo a!fely re marked, that ; they stand in front-of the real -His will ; and his legislators have the" honor of causes for the embargo.1' Nay, hs goes further, ' giving their asseiit to them. In what oes this and represents all the other causes a amounting 'practice of a despot and his, slaves differ from the to nothing. His, words are" To argue upon the ! principle's or sentiments formally expressed by Mr. subject of our disputes with Britain, or ufitn ihe Adams in the Senate ? Jt shocked'even democra motives for the embargo, and keep them the or-icy itself in that body. "However I may vbtE dersin counciljout of Bight, -is -like laying your (said a democratic member) that is too much for finger over the unit before a series of noughts, and me to say .' And for rny own part I view the then arithmetically proving that they amount to sentiment as so abhorrent to the principles of a free nothing." KLeepihg in mind these various asser-1 government ; so derogatory to the character of a tinns of Mr. Adams concerning the British or member of congress ; and so disgraceful to a citi- 4en in cunfiilj and their powerful influence on ; zen and, iran ; that I am incapable of conceiving his rat ml, tovadacs hiitnovote for theerabarco :'of any cotmterbalance in official honors and err.o- Jl pray every reader-to go back svith me to viw : juments. An , embassy, judgeship, the presi- jijpe'rs Irom which he cut two copies, mrio each house of Congress, -with nn,i a-nf the original scene of passing the embargo bill in denry or a throne, to an honourable and indepen his other tn fena,e' This scene was represented three jdtnt-mind, would in the comparison be " as a iMV pretences for an embareo. If the mind of l'car aB my corresponnence wivn governor arop m tne ducrci ana me smau oust to me oa- letter from my colleague, Mr. Adam, "--who voted :dams,.what becomes of "-the checks and balances- Imsy ,p MM teffefiriayiM im pressed w ith an idea of the liamig y; muac mucn) Miuugip cauuj L)rV,.rJfJV pr ; Urh.- rihn lp fmharRO, nd stilLxonsldejed it a wise 'which are the main pillars-of hia. fathers ' great Ij : ' Vi . i : i I measure anil a nefearv nnp." I unc rnnclnin. rV' r American Pnnstitntinns I ITS thA diera really influenced hismind, as Mr- Adams thcymffuenceliis. more than all thecommu aicated causes of i.the embargo : why should he bf iis silence, withhold their influence from Con- . m - -. '. r . i-i , . gressf Was Jit vunlawtul or ; improper, thaT7Sr aiodsshsuldbeinffuenced by a consideration which powerfefly impressed his own ? If the orders in (rHincil were at- all in his cotaphuionA and Te iTfopitutecl alnuve'for the embargo, what objection ''would exjst to his Informing Congress, But such were the-intimations injiewspapersand measure and a necessary one." I w.ns constrain-1 work" on the American Constitutions t By the ed," in my own U!.ihcaUon, to detail his; conduct ennsiituUoh of the UnitedStates, the Senate and on that occasion. I thus wrote to the governor; House of Representatives were intended as checks " In my firsfletter, Iinformed your excellency on the acts of each other, and both as checkb 4theJtastejth-whidi-lIiejmliargo bill was pas- no he sets of the-President. The sentiment ex sed in ihc Senate. I also informed you that " a pressed by Mr. AdamS resolves the whole busi-littlemoieltime-was repeatedly asked, to obtain ness of leRislation into the will of the Executive. further faormatfow, andjy consider a. measure of I have oeen simple enough to' suppose" iMo be the the presiaent of the U." States, to convene' cchgres txpressing-?his opinion that 'they furnished an ad ditiohal reason i foV layihgTan embargo ? The Inubis,' tbose newspaper intimations if they had Kerneent bf; the President, were entirely disre ankaTwaco; ne i recommended the embargo. fe'lwd received' fourdays before from France ; liio fiis' thnug1T3rwe iri pre- paringtor the adoption? of -, an embargo an em- itrew'uDon av. novl. Di'incinle -toclianse &tem faary detention of our vtssrls at home " which . S ,1 : -r r ! I- I . i s me universal Tinaiiaootmri-ine-n.aiure 01 to embargo t-intd an unlimited suspension, or mderdict pf all foreigiH commerce ! in reality a feWarient embargo I a thing never before heard .wt.'which under the simple name of embar- contributed to dsceiVe the people into a be- t that k was but' a temnnrarv m3m-p 'anA :rt 4 induce their acquiescence. ; Even ? Mr. Adams Knntf -Met, to , nave Decn the impression on liroiTO,mind.V .In, his letter tQ.Mrl -Oils' he tey'sU." I, have indeed been myself of oDinion that 'he embargo must m its nature be a temfiorarv ex. wtu"i..;t$s i. anu only twenty- days, lrom the irtgof the embareo 'law-had elaDsed. when Mrs Adams bffered a resolution for the appointment of committee to enquire: at what period the embar Jiimielit,' consistently with the public interestrbe ftaovtd.":. " But (says he) my resolution met no WcuKigtn4ent.r';rNo t a new convert, and still wiiis noviciate, he was not let into U th sc more) remote ,tnan a simple embargo, a tempirary, si$speusim of commerce. And; as IfjVvoitiiij; jbr the embargo- h'; reposed himself, frit o-eh tire1 conBdeilcei oil the recommendation 'eiiofe-iufpi matiott of the president ; so af rwai'ds.' when his Drobosition in the 'aVnat T. the. time. al -which theuembargo should yij an end,-.atid Similar attempts, in the house Utter - of March 31, 1803 to rL G. 0tist the Houst. (and by a member) to limit nthe contiauahceJl while the embargo bill was before f !cjl)resertativcs a motion Was niad oeritfe solbncuv Wreceivl,. COSfhi-'ihi whJck March and 'A Pt taster preverW your.peiWvHWf;it!ll causes a large, amounti vbinnaia: creatlHo law'isVepe will be useless tcvlhcm," thei r earnen bnemploy i and 8 commtrcc'nc8 ; profitable iuty Bwrishirig' "our'peiitionersy.while engaged In a lawful c6ft1,; merce ,hSve thus suddenly without timat being alv Ic-wed them td escape bfcea overtakep - Joy i ths calamities. ; Undey atich 'circumslancw lif suffer' ing, they very-hatialjy.Jtiii.bk Ifence: t.v; proceeded, and whther they' wcfc innjctcd by 1 constitutional huihomyf; In roakiflg4fii9 inquiry lish comme rca? was M we. great bjet!ts prdX posed in that metnprable itjstrumept r nbr Citit they ; bring themselves to believe; that ( in thej'national f compact, by the power to Iartifc the 6tat t intended to grant a povvet to destroy luf.CT't" Your petitioners, are far frem-fmputihg to iki general legislature anyjbut 1 the; roost 'correti tives ih passing th non importation taw j but th t consequences of that la w, are peculiarly- deatriic-i tive to their interests j it places them in a state of uncommon embarrassmentVit ruinslfiheir pfoper-i? s ly ; it dries up the sources of: their prosperity Ji': and they perceive' no relief ctcept'lrort'T-iisTriiX.vT peal. . - ' ''.'. - .V- . -'-J-'''vwv ' If the operation of the hori i nqortatlpn - .laW thus severe Je oppressive not:toly;io"yoi-ttipn ers, but to all persons concerned iti foreign comV , merce, does not present One of those u etraordin ary occasions?' which, autlioitsea the president toi i convene conrress ; your petitioners tespecjfullyk ' " Suggest, (hat auck! occaiol fttayibu the change which hasta&en place m our ioretgli relations. The president's proclamation, and ther lawih question, was founded fin an engagement ot, the French government to revoke the Berlin and Milan decrees. Those decrees, it now appears, have in fact not been revoked. That power has not ceased to violate our neutral lights. She sc.. SuchTKOoveht, of such universal concern ; but that duty of every member of a legiblatiye body, in a these requests, were denied;' and I must now; free P-nvemment. to deliberate 'TiSon the mutters i ti a r recommended by the Lxecutive ; to corrsider by sufficient reasons, and were necessary or ex-jcase requires add, by no one more zealouslv than bv Mr. A. dams, my colleague. Hear his woi'tU. But even whether the measures proposed were supported your excellency's strong taith in the presidtnt's supreme wisdom may pause, while uidependent men will be shocked at the an we league to those requests. " The president (said he) " has recommended the4, measure on his hich responsibility : I would notr counter I wuuld JL(KiJLwould act. Doubtless the fire- pedient for the-welfare of the state. I, still eh aaln this opmiQJL; and that ap-imphcit reliance on .the Executive -a blind adoption of his mea sures,7 would be a rermqoishnAent of my indepen- denceaTiolattfrn of my otrty and a stirrender-of- the riehts of the people. But such bid notions sident possesses such further information as will 'are now mu " justify the measure" t" On -this extraordinary' de obtain favour with the' ruling power must renounce claration I made the followins remarks V Keed l l them. There is no sctunir alon?. or beinc anv LVljLglncy7a"y other pro(though; thing, without popularity" was a sentiment once ouier proots aoound) ot blind connclence in ourexpressedT-ATfT7aTns-WTlI not haVe forpotten questers our property in her ports j 6he burns or sinks our vessels on the ocean aod, what is stilj more difficult coiii prehen'd, after such acts, the - ; authors of these injuries and insults receive by laivV a hospitaW"fecepu6"fflTrcrnrw Your petitioners, therefore, respectfully: Solicit ; as speedily as his powers will tohsiitutiohally allows in order to enable them tMake thesubjettfhisA peiition intQ consideration, and of granting td your4)eti.igtLert sijeh relief as the nature of the ARd your petitioners, a in duty fc'pundJji 4 PRESIDENT'S ANSWER." ; ' To the Inhabitants of the Toivn oMwJtave:--; Uiave received, Fellow Citizens, the petitibri rulers I Need I give further evidence of the dan gerousextent of executive influence r- " When the people of Massachusetts see a man of Mr. Adam's acknowledged abilities and learn ing advancing such sentiments ; when they see a man of his knowledge of the nature of all govern ments, and of his intimate acquaintance-y ith our own free republican government, and of the rights and duties of the leg'slature ; especially too of their right and duty to e.onsiier, io.deriherate, and according to theW, own judgment, independently of executive pleasure: to decide on every public measure -When, I say, the people of Massa chusetts see this : will they wonder if a majority in congress should be overwhelmed by the author? ity of executive recommendation ? And 'had I not reason to 'be alarmed - at the dangerous extent of executive influence, which to me appeared to be leadiogjhe public mind, , by its blind confidence, , roTrabficTUTn?1' Sue h were 9riiy reflections in April 108. ;The subject now reqQires some additional observa tions; ; '1. '"" -:" ' Universal experience, 1 as well as the highest authority, assures us, that " out of the abundance of the heart the mouth speaketh." If as Mr. Adams represents, the rumoured British order? in council were ,so strongly impressed on his mind as to constitute the most powerful motive for the embargo, is it conceiyeable -cart man be lieve-that hk (as well as the president and every other member of the Senate) v ould- haVel been absolutcly.-silent' concerning them r When the embargo-adyocates in the Senate were urged to. it. And while every thing which Mr. Jtfferson did, pleased a majority of the people the sure way , to obtain popularity and executive favourat the same time, was to please the President and support his measures. . . TIMOTHY PICKERING. JuneS, 1SH. .' Letter to H. G. Otis, Esq. ' ' new haven, June 13. 0- Interesting. The committee,rappointed to prelei" aTpetTtion to the president of the U. States, on 'the' subject of the distressing and "oppressive operation of the present existing non importation law, have received Mr. Madison's answer With the usual avidity, we gratify the publick with the eailiest possible publication of the sentiments-and expressions of the executive. .-'. TO JAMES MADISON, : v President hj the United Sidles of jftnerica, The petition of the inhabitants of the town of New Haven in Connecticut, in legal town -. .'- roectag, convened, Respecffwly ShowetiX, I' That your petitioners, are in general, either direjUly engaged in, raercantile pursuit's or in the occupatioris connected 'with them; in those pK suits they havejembarked their fortunes, and from them they have not ; only derived a subsistence for themselves ahel families butthaye fui nished employment for great numbers of persons ; to the mechanickthef have opened a market for the pro ductions of his labour ."and skill to. the farmer for e . time e embargo, to sixty days : but the motion was consent to a little delay for the rurpose of obtalhv -' "U.v?d & .'i"i- f neaily; two to, one, " 1 'wig - furUier idbrmatioivow ould they, with I the products of his fields : and atTihe i hiclv ycu "'Save' ; addrt ssed to me, represehtinE the imvemcnce5'periencedrl importation lav?, andTsoliciting tatifie'Uo Legislature mayfce speedily convehedj :T,VI It1 is ki own to all, that the Ccimroerce of the UV ' States has, for Gnsidtrable period been greatly abridged and annoyed, by Ecicts of the belfiger-." ' ent powers: each professiDe retaliation only on ihlj other; ,but both violating thelilearest rights ,th P" unucu.Qiairs as a iicuiivi imnuu.. iu tutJtuiut dinary state of things, the , Legislature, willing ttf avoid a resort to war, more especially during th concurrent aggressions of two great powers themV Selves at war, the one with the, other, and dtter -Z ' mined on the other hand against an UnqualjGc!. acquiescence) f have endeaycure.d' by sutcessives i anu non importation.has Ktctvni the atate oftorumfercef. was no . otherwise qualified, than, by a Jproyisionf that in case either of the btjligeien.ts should revoke . 4 its unlawful edicts, and- the 0' her should fail to dcr ft; the Sainc, our ports -should Mbu' to..lhe;vSe'li.,t and rnetthandise of the ri4t;Thia;Vprcvisioitf, nnicll.UKe an our i;icviou very pretext set tip by eaoh, that us edicts r gainst. our rade; with the other, t; waf -iriftfcU-edyapCA qniesicence ill like edieia of 1 tie ct.her, va&ifluly;, presented to the atter.ti9'nica.t;v.i.Jp i of he communication, the-,Fifcni K HnVtrnmtnl. As thJ declared Jhat its decrets rcre 1 cvr-Ued:., British government hai . ex mp-Jd ... ? t . . in issuing its ordctsy wrah. to find in the occasion! for putting an enjlw.tSftnihe cxfec'i-:- it haq, ej; ,,r i,.7:tainc r. Hf r,d" t&ept&ty signitg.'- .eiatapJe of1' .vei sry h. ation was the more , connuenji, ,J i.bi ,iperpcwiy. would be promptly mbrace.dri and the period allowed for the tfv t bf ufi '- reiiod . r -jt. ... . - i.:.... elapsed, our ports oecanvs .tf -:wf rF-.r' .-' and metchandize.Wheiber 'rtit9;V French goverfcaieht' has IttP, s ir.r.s , 1 :ii tctch as v. J - 1 4. .. -if,.' V -- f f t
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