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r ' - r : this w ay? -and means.. ; ;Jft e '- House', resumed this consideration' of t,'e," bill for laying . and collecting a direct tax wUhin Wion tpeBegeot tIUj. Jf Jl l4.r, it w to be presumed ttoJf- ' ri'ime code or Napoleon would be adheied to, or relinquished. ; U adhered U Ue orders -were to .sLi-if Mtthamshed, they i were' to .tease. iut dispute biwetniheUteaiAl.d.jG;eaJ - 1 the fact bnfeDeal of no repeal Vtbe French decrees, and not whether thcrepeal wis l.rTiiied to'Arfterlca alone, or extended to H ' ' inntvfita nntentSt further than may be'coUccted from the correspondence between Mr, Monroe and. Mr. Foster. The for . '.i- Air i trijntlcmen as the , latter; (letter June 3d, 18 13,), whether the recollection which he "has of the import of Lord Castlereaghs. dispatch, it to differ from Mr. Foster's' own ' -i.tir of the SOmMar. in tbe circumstance o! declaring, that the decrees must be repealed ( not '.kiu ..nnei th umteri stares, nur, aeainsi vorfd, before Biiy revocation -will be had of the accurate or not. M r. Foster assures ' iim in answer, onthe same day that there U no difference between At letter and he dispatch. This letter of the 30th May. unquestionably con- tains no aticTrdeclaralion.TrLet itrbe twisted as it iftar.' it states nothing more than that a .-partial Temniion from the penalties of 4he decrees, up oh the conditbo of a co-oflerat:on in their object. could not entitle any neutral to claim a revocation .hi the British orders. It is an adheranceto the oi-nnnt nriainallv taken. And which, noon the ileaftfretalliation could not have been abandoned Bat I. agree with the gentleman from Tennessee in the sentiment, that Foster's letter of June 10th does express the opinion that a repeal of the de -trees as to America, would not entitle, us to claim " . .. . - . .l . to revocation ot the oraers to me same umucu ient. Now sir, if this opinion of Mr. Foster can be viewed as founded on any special instructions ii would be entitled to great weight. But it is re rna'rkable that no such pretence is advanced by Foster., He gives it merely as an opinion wntcb ite infers from the public declarations of his g ev- , emment, justif ying their orders, and avowing the irhTunria on which thev wouldbe revoked. From Ihese,, without the imputation of arrogance, ny oj us is aa wcll enabled to draw the proper in ferenceas Mr. Foster himself, and therefore any ' pf aa could claim to know with as much confi deuce what wouldbe done by his government, on the happening of an event which had hot been Jkrcially provided for nor anticipated. That this is a correct view of the nature of the opinion giv en in this letter, appear from the very words of Tostrr, immediately following the sentence con taining th- oninion. . But, sir, to what purpose nrtrlif unnh Mufifioaed tase i or UDon' a Statfc of of thincrs not likely to occur r It also a 4Vnm hit subseauent declaration, in his letter the eecr, vwasto oe . couectea iroro ac priv tne pieqge given, s.xo.nc.rciuur' j.Biyg tne oraer.s, anr pi ineir ceasing vicp lrJir -v tha decreei bij . which .they were tounded. nai was ita effect vthis order manifested. It imme- diately produced such- atevocatidn, as tendea to MtiMUK the - infereoiire'ff ' between - neuCrals'!,and belheerents; xipbn its - acemtomed principles those principles .which the decrees, and order bad teroooraruy. tmpairea. c inai u vwguiu uvi; nroduced the lame effect at any.: antecedent mov v -i ..... --..'.f .' --. I' I. Mfi.L ment. a candid enauirer can scarcer oouoi. vv na eierv reason to belief e. and not one to disbe. lieve it. uicreduritr is thflouaDnntr ot prejuaice But it Is dotrmed iwhether.a timely . repeal ot the Order In Council would .have prevented war Sir, such a doubt cannot be removed, by arcument. He who indulges it will cherish it the more, because it is almost exclusively his own and because it soars above the reach of argument There is scarcely an Intelligent man in '.ttje union who Vltrea not know that the orders in council were the Divot on which the war turned. Had these orders been removed, and our full inter course restored with G. Britain, the man would have been deemed insane who should- have pro posed a declaration of war. True, sir, the ques lion of imnreamenl was Vet unsettled and this imow trumpetted forth as the-great cause of hos- tames, indeed, when tne buck catalogue or in iuries was to be made out, it was not arms to ?ive this a conspicuous place in the inventory But, we all know that this Question had slept without any efforts to settle it since the rejection-' of Mr. Monroe's arrangement. And after reiec tirjg this arrangement, our government CouW not have had ;the audacity or the guilt to plunge into a war about " seamen's rights, without an at tempt on our part to secure them by negotia tion. broad ancf at home. "The treat obiect of thest .. . ,- T . t V V i v resolutions 1$ to ascertain the truth , or fattehood of these chsrges.Wheh I reflect on the situation of those whom I renresent v on Wis floor not we weltbjf jnhabitant of yout citiesr who iri times f brother mendmenti1 thereto" w pro&fl neerJcart Jive i ? ifixuribusly upon the -js Jifch . Tariously (flisposed ? of. vNumerli wejr nave amassea in mc uys oi prujci7 yv In general the "plain In Justrious farmers bf .7 jrotif coontry, onci.,coinwriHGia. auu ,uri :"wb heter rich7-when I consider tljte general emoar fassmeht which prevails among them, and: the new hnrthpn which vour tax bills are about " to impe When I think of the ptter distress whkh has seized on that nortion of mv constituents WhO once crained at decent competence by laboring in their native torests, or oy navigang mcir uu. gerous coast, or by mechanical pursuits - connec- nnr1 rrnlWt that all these calamities have sprung from a fatal war 'which had its oricrin in a trick, a delusion, I "should , be h a traitor hi them If 1 did n6t lid with mV eM forts in disebvering the authors of the fraud. It is due to our citizens, that they should know how the nation has been betrayed into its calamities, However mortifying the acknowledgement, better, far better, that they should learn that their govern, ment has been the dope of France, than that they should suspect it of having been an accomplice in in her perfidy. " ' SirIt is premature to pronounce an opinion before the desired information is given us. But as other gentlemen have not hesitated to declare theirs, and as forbearance ori my part might be misinterpreted,: I have no hesitation in expressing my belief, that the assertion of the duke of Bassa no is false- I do not think that the executive could have been guilty of an act so detestably wicked as the wilful concealment of a document amenamemsjiaying DeenprorKisea, ihe previous 1 question, was called for, and determined in the'sf. firmative, 83 to 78. A 'question of order wa raised 'iyu''f Whether the agreement to the pre. jbusqueition in this case, . precludes - all furihitu ' amendments to the bill I ;l W ' Ti The Speaker having decided the'Vq'uesticn' in the arTirmatiye, Mr. Pitkin , appealed from tihe decision, which was confirmed .by the House by a vote of 98 to 68. i; ir ' ';iv ' ' -The question onengrossing theiiitt for a thinj reading was then taken, and decided iu-the affi matiye, lalo'U'ywa i : ,'v -v ' y;' vc j.,.il... For the engrossment . 9S :-T7. Against it ; ;": On motion of AVIrJ?Wi the House ed jtself .into a committee of the whol son in the chair, on the Tax Bills. Tht tabli3hing the office "of the Commissionerrof p. venue was read through, and no amendment pro. ine diu laymg.a auty on renned sugar 9S I then reso! A k'i Mr; Ne', The bVll so all imfortant to his country. And although I know nothing of Mr. Russell, our former minis Mr. G. said, there was another point of view ter to f ranee, i win not oeuevc mm guiny iwmi in wh,-K thP iinnninn of thfs renealint? decree out far better evidence) of such foul treason against waof immMiir imnortance. Although it had not the nation which he represented; I feel assured, nf thp. n5pia in that the result of the enquiry will prove, that the mnnrii 5t n.iMiratlrtn m.t havft nrftTentcd war. guilt, and the meanness, and the falsehood of this transaction have their oriein in the cabinet of which the first appearance of this document Napoleon that laboratory of frauds and made on mv mind, and sure I am there is at nies. But while these are my hopes, least one honorable eentleman in this house who my belief, I will not conceal my . apprehensions vrtl fr thf wr. f nA nr. rfmibt unon the fcest From the silence which has hitherto been observ calum and this ed by the executive, when the occasion permitted and even recmi red notice of the accusation from the palliating tone in which the insolent de cree has been spoken of as rather ' exceptionable ... . . . : niaranH rnnHnnffl il in tts inrentinfi as Jin in its time and manner." I tear that the honor ot 7" T" r.l" -ZZ JArJ- the government and the interests of the nation "P01 "J have not been vindicated by repelling tbe msult, j d'sasters which hadfaUcn fwy u ion 6f the compli. fs"" " u u"-l'"lvu -"vy conviction of his understanding, and with the most upright motives who will not readily fjreet the impression which the firs comnjuni- cation of this decree made ort A mind. As soon as it met his view on his way home from the very congress in which war was declared, not in anfr in.mv nntion hilt from the snontaneous ' - r " " . . , Af .u I mDulae of honest emotion, he exclaimed i nn nor Dy acmanaing n F..uum, VIi ic iDDe'ara was not known to the government before the eatea pernay ot r ranee, it irom acauuous, um Btt.r nf rWlaratiftn war." Ts not the influence irrc id policy, or from any other cause, tins course w. . ---- . - , ' .... J .L l: . f 1... June Hth, in which he says, that a full and un- sistible, that had tt bet n known, in nis opinion, V1 ut8rcvicu,'""1 V : f ' j!-. '.1 ..ir.ui?,.n,i, r,. 'm.UrfeMt.war wonh hot and oneht not to have resoiuuon 10 ascertain me laci, mis nouse, 1 iruai, .. Ai ? nt. hein ffeefered. Sir.couW it Aaw ee fwVAouf springing immediately from the people, and an. .1 Kf. met with a revocation of the Ur tVamv. ? We had taken our stand to treat imated by the feelings which pervade the nation, ohlerV in council. An absolute withdrawal of b th beUigerents alike, until one' should first cease will not hesitate to evince their sensibility to its rr,vM the United States, would from injustice and on that event only had wrongs and indignities their scorns of calumny, u.l K..a itfn, ..nnnd;. nledo-fl nnrselvea tonunish the other. Under a and detestation oftfeachery, even though they 5 H . .Mi..; ..u-v :n hvw h Prnr. hd nlimn1v rptrsir.tp her nroceed from an imperial source, or are allied ni ria'.rt iniauitous decrees, and that we were bound by the with hypocritical professions of love for Am '' ,. iv. nl.tnni1.n nf Mr. nhtivsttinns nf ftOnrtr In redeem our Dlichted faith, ricans. . piiixi k s r. un uiC'ijUiiLuuiiubuvv v . - - i - - i -ct - ' "Mnnrni. and Mr. Foster, outrht not be omitted, we waged a commercial warfare with England v n,Snr.n p.ln it. without beinc sensible which we afterwards , chanced for actual war. of lhesuperiorill with rtvhich it was-conducted VVhat does this decree tell ou ? Every word ot on the part of the American secretary ; ana intti aeserves nonce. oecmg uy a w. pasacu u.i ,Hthing is tbat superiority more manifest than jn ' the 8d March, 181 1, the,' congress of the United the ma iagement. with .which the British mims icr ; drWn in tn irivft an answer to the abstract biv s ion of a supposed repeal by France of thejuhibits the vessels and merchandixe of G Britain, Ue-ree. so far as thev affected America. Tho'l' her, colonies and dependencies, from entering ft.h - - ' mm was reaa through, ana amended, as also, was ih bill for taxing7saleslat auction, &c. Aiu the commuiee rose ana repot leametr, agreement the bills they had gone through, and their progrrs -in the remainder, and had no leave to sit again. 1 ThuttiayJxtly 8.J . i Mr. Fisk, of Vermont, called up the Massachu. setts remonstrance, and moved to refer it to a se lect committee, for the purpose of giving an answer. Mr. King, (N. C.) moved fo refer it 10 th 1st Monday in December. Mr. Rheaoppos: ed the. motion. JMr. Calhoun supported the mr- tion. A debate arose Upon the motiod to pone, in the following order, ' Mr. Hanson, Mr. Orpsvenor, Mr. Bigeloiw, Mr. Baylies, Mr. VU kering and Mr, Gaston. On the other side X the House, the speakers were, Mr. Fisk, Wr. Rhea, Mr. Calhoun, Vr. Gholson and Mr. Viir. free, The debate was very warm end interci'4' ing, and eventuated in a post ponemcnt . I land tax. ; ""';; -f ' When the land tax bill came to its third real, ing, and the question upon its passage was abojt i to beput, Mr. Brigtram, of Massaclnisetts, ros & in a speech of some length, attacked the bill, dettiel the propriety of taxing the people tosuppott the. Congress of thUnitti States. ' IN SENATE. ' T" On Friday Mr. Anderson reported a bill provid ing for the further defence of the ports and har bors of the United'Stites. This bill provides That the President be, inr" h ti hrhv Aiithnnn. uhfnvt th Mm aeemiuffly consciousof the snare1 that was set for into the ports ot the U. btatcs t considering 8hall be kerned necessary for the defence and ,Kr. nnr hvVidm . it. vet is hM" that the said law is an act of resistance to the wt b.ntTh i-ftmnlfffilv caupht. A bov never twirL " arbitrary pretensions consecratea oy the mi ed his ton with more entire controul than the sec u tish Orders in council, and a formal refusal to tnrv turned Mr. Foster round his fineer. While " adhere to a system invading the independence the contest aslotbeact of a repeal of the French " of neutral powers, and of their flag, we iave il.fr. w.t onin it &n kptwpn them, and everv I" decreed and do decree aa follows : v waftddtn"nw argument to establishl the I " The decrees of Berlin and Milan are defe Xa;, reUhnteA renort of - the French!" niiively, and to date from the 1st of Novem. minister of foreignfelatidns, to the Conservative ber last, considering as not having Senate, ox thtlQth 01 Marcn.iuiz, maae usap - icgaiu-wi-rtiucuwii C8sci. pearance."; This report so unequivocally contra dicted the supposition, that there Jiad been any ft peal of the decrees, that it was f carcely ppasi bje to carry on the argument longer. What was to be done ? The war.whoop Vad been sounded ; tire war passions had been roused the war em- . bareo had been imposed, and the war message existed in The very issuing of this decree proclaims that the Berlin and Milan decrees had not been there tofore repealed. It tells you and it tells the world, that it is not a fact, as you have declared, that France has done the act which lustifiei you . on your own firincifilet in making a distinction be tween her and G. Britain.. It contemptuously into, a security of any of the ports and harbours of the United States, to cause to be hired or purchased, hulks or other means of impediment to the en. trance of the ships or vessels of the enemy, to be sunk with the consent of the proper authority of the state in which such port or harbor may be, and the Same to be removed whenever in hi opinion it may be done with safety to such ports or har. bors. . . The bill was read. HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES. Monday July . The House resolved itself into a' committee of the vtfrore, Mr. JVclton in the chair, on the tax bills. The bill to lay and collect a . Direct Tax Wmnnieated. To use thewretched culinary noius youionn as naying. oeen . cneaiea imo. a vvnhm the United States, was then taken un.dis metaphor , of, the committee of foreign gelations, course of conduct which agreeably to your own cussed, amended and reported to the House, and the 'tab?e had: been spreao, ana me gu uwwunh w juuhhjjiuh , n . '"uiii ana me commiucc opiainea icare iosu again were all invited to the feast' of blood. I herel wiin scorn your pretension, maT r ranee naa ae- on the remalnjngibills. was imminent danger of.disappointment. With parted trom her system towards you. u announ- yhe House then proceeded to consider the re atv art and an address worthy of a, better causei ces inai you nave aoamionea your scnerac n cu- port pt the committee ot the whole on the Ui better cause than the orl Vrality. U declares that you-shall be relieved fect Tax bill : but ad iourned before havin? rone "J1?"'?' wrJ., v, ----- -7 - . , ' .1. r- '.t. '..-a. h- r..- 1.. . . foldrcof Executive consistency, r conceaimem i irom meoppreaivc wtrvzayn iuncyucni? ui .juuiitnrougn tne same. rih. rntni doinenni t everv nrancn ot iw k. i uiituiiii wwuw uh nr....., r.,r.. h- ''". . j;nnM.t'ir k!tr nf vmir fnt dio-n tn vipva that a A - Snffi. I ' . .r . nt- nn adversarv.V it is contrived cient act of resistance against his enemy m WA" AJNU "LANo, b . t ' tt . . . . .. I .. - i . nr., J L!I1 . . ! ... tn hiTt the proucd of controversy." Actually con-1 otner woras, as a sumcient manuesxaiion 01 your inc engrossea qui 10 tay a amy on ucenses to v o- ... ... u . i . t? :.: f . j o: frt,md no-nT nretmd ntr to confound, a mere ex- accession iu ..his uwrivirac cuiucucratj. on, .mnt1nn from the operation of e decrees, so long, (said Mr. G.) my face burns when I venture e as we brought ourselves wit um the benefit of ven to ask, if this, decreeehad been before -ou, read a if: distillers of spirituous liquors, was time. (This -bill proposes a duty on licences to third dis- tbeir provis'ionsrwith ah unequivocal repeal of could you have insisted on ihe policy ota war tillers, as touows : 7 or. the employment of. a the decrees themstlve s, so far as afifected us, the with Britain ? In May 1810, you; could not se- still or stills employed in distilling spirits from secretary easily perplexes the British negotiator, lect between the rival belligerents. In May J81I, domestic materials, for two- weeks ; nine cents Contriving to draw-from him what may be con the only change in the account of your wrongs for each gallon of the capacity: thereof includ. trued it)iVj a declaration that 'such a repealjvould is an act of the ' meanest deception, and most ing the head t for one month, eighteen cents ; not be followed t y any revocation of the orders, outrageous insult on the part of France. ' WouldT for 4wo months, thirty .two" cents ; for three, he n joice v to be relieved 'from the now urineces. this have so changed the political, balance as to months, forty-two cents s for four months, fifty, sary ttquiry, whether such f a repeal had in fact hay.e 'made, you direct your hostility against her two cents ; for six monihs, seventy cents t for cccuricd 1'hefe is now nn furth,er delay er im- enem T It would hot it could not have been one year, one hundred and eight cents for each pe'cibient, Grace U invoked in due formand the so. However firmly I believe that it has pleas, gallon of its capacity as aforesaid. For a - licence' homed banquet commences. . .''.,'.: ' ! ?d a chastening God to punish our sins by dark- for the employment of a still or stills in the dis- ' The gentleman from Tennessee cannot 'h.elp ening" the inder standings of those who have go- filiation of spirits, from foreign materials for ;hfr arfrnrnent hy"hy expresaioria'' inthe order bf verned in ourcouncils, yet I know there was yet one month, 25 cents for eachgallon of its capaci- Ihe Prince Regent, of :23d June, repealing the an American spirit among them, which . would ty ; for1 three months, sixty , cents for six obnoxious Orders in Council.' It ia very true, that have been called forth had-this decree been pre- months, ope hundred and five cents'; for one trtronouttces that the tenor of the, decree of the sentedto their View. Its proraulgavon would year, one hundred and thiry.five cents for reach ipla Appit lo 1 1 uqes Dirt, aousijr vnc ,itvui.iviii us uiai-iwtu mi juipn ttmiuii was jawuuig 10 Upon which he had pronounced in his declaration devour us. Instinctive Nature would have , recoil ,f the 2Utof Aptii;t8l4, that tbe orders should ed from destruction. W ,. .. oese ud deterrcirwnordoes it. A revocation Yet, sir, this decree, the suppression of which, of life orders as to all the world, was only to be has involved my country in war -this decree, of cyrstqwem on a repeal of ihe decrees .as to all which our first knowle dge is its communication the world.' The decbrstlon of April had been to Barbw in- May 12 Um very decree tha Sijuit aa tatbe effect f repeal if (he d cents, French goycfDicet tleclaret wasuf laid before - --.v. ' . : 'V:'' '' - " " :- " . "' ' ': i;uiuu ui to tapacuy. nnu lor every oouer, however constructed, employed in distilleries by steam, double the amount on eaqh gallon of its capacity, which viould be payable for said licence, if granted for the same terms artd to employ the same materials far a still. f The bill was passed without dcTJi-Vcas 05 a 4 "..'". lanruaere the conseouences which - must restttt V..O- o .. ' .....'.... . ji from us continuance. Mr. u. said, tne diooc. of the first man murdered, cried from the eanh- cried for vengeance on the head of the mordettt. And who Be asked were responsioie ior ine mt rents of blood, which were now flowing in tlvb fields of Canada ? They, and they only, who. have declared and who prosecute this unneessary, this unnatural and bloody war the wicked atk thor of the war was responsible.. In a plainvpt;fk picuous and manly manner, Mr- B. stated t(u powerful and unanswerable reasons," which incW ed him and his friends to refuse further means, tj. support and prosecute the war--. -... . When Mr. B. Bat down, no one rose to justify the bill or in support of the war, - ' Mr- Culpepper then rose, and in a distinct an! forcible manner reviewed the cause upon which, the war is founded shewed the utter impractical bilitjr bf obtaining from England our demands by means of this war ; entered at large into the sub., ject of impressment, for remedying which, he de monstrated, war was neither the necessary oretJK cacious means and concluded with declBrioR, he would not incur any share of the responsibility d( the wari by voting for war taxes. - Br fore the question was final!; taken, Mr. NeLt son of VTirg'mia, moved a recommitment of the bill. He declared that as the bill came" from the. committee to the house,' hii constituents wera taxed a certain sum ; that iri the house that sun had been nearly doubled. Mr. Itf. said that this proceeding was unconstitutional. He proved,ihat, by the rule of the house, founded on tbe con stitution, -no burthen could be laid on the people but in committee of the whole house -A w" 5trAe, -rjouble the amopnt of the tax originally fixed in the committee, had been laid on his coot stituents in the house. Thepro visions adopted in the house, laying this new burthen, was clearly unconstitutional ; and in behalf of his constituents he-therefore demanded that the bill be recom mitted, that this unconstitutional provision miRi be removed, and his constituents relieved. Mf N. said he and his constituents were ready to pay all taxes in support of the war legally imposed apon them ; but he protested trgainst this uocon stitutiohal manner of taxinglhem -Mt, Nelson's motion was-negatived. The effect of calfihg the previous quests being to preclude all amendments, and debater placed Mr.Nelson's district in the situation o which he complained so grievously ' The bill laying a Dibict L Awn Tax then pass ed 70 to 96. It contain two clauses, which make the whole system a fraud, and imposition upon the public creditors. The one porrtpomrtf its operation until January the other, discon. tinuing the system the year after peace ;othal no permanent revenue is ; provided to support the, public credit,. and secute the public debt. : " ' Fridays Juh) 9. 1 :. . ; ; THE WAYS AND MEANS. , w Tht engrossed bill imposing a ; dtity;tof cent. ;per. Ib.1 on ugar, rtfiiicd witfiin theTJnr ed States, was read a , third time and without debate, by the folio wing Vote " Tor the bill . ' . , -';9. ' i ' . . -V' At . The enerossed bill to establish the Omc?6' ; Commissioner of the Reveuuewas read a thirc time, and passed without, a division- The engrossed bill imposing a duty on sales w auction of merchandize, and of ships and vess-i Was read. ''.., X,- - .- r ' ' . XThts bHl imposes, aftet the 1st day of Januarr 'next, upon all sales by way o,f -auction. anejJo1' far Jbr every hundred dollars of he puixius m v
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