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'...s- :-:&'''-'H Vol. 19. '. RALEIGH (N.C.) PRINTED, WEEKLY, BY ALEX. LUCAS, Termt of Uibicrljdion r Three dollais per'yeai, one half to be paid in advance.. .No payer tube contin ed longer than thco' months alter a y ea.'i. subscription become &um, and notice thereof ihall have been given. -, ldvrrtisemtn.lt, not exceeding are inserted thuce to one dollar and for twenty-five ccnW each tubiequent inser tion ; Snd ialike proportion where there i 1 a grca.er nuhibe ' of l;rtei than Cmitee . . ' v ' .. Congress. MR. HAVSON'S SPEECH, OS THE LOAN BILL. x Continued, '' v . The -question of impressment was jtfanfrf geoatfy and honor ably arranged, in the opinion of bur ministers.' Tot a doubt is now entertain ed that administration would Jbail wtiti joy a treatV similar to that rejected. T , The reeowd Teasorvassjgfied y Mt JfetT tsou for rejecting .the treaty" was? that the English minister reserved the right of retaliating the' merchants and deluded people were left to grope in the dark j without a faint glimrrfering of light to guide them. It is enough to add, " Napoleon the Great" applauded the; embaf go as a generous renunciation of comjnereeira ther than submit to the shackles imposed on ii V The'neit important event, which forms one of the links in the chain whichonneets us with France, ; is the grand congress atErfurth in Nov. 1808. There the .system of commercial annihilation-, st?pulated at Tilsit was to be mbrecompretelj organ izerj and tendered uni versal, 1 do not say, sir, we were avowedly, and in due form represented at that eongress.. But one fact is established beyond contradiction. A Mr. Short, whose name had not been heard before by one man "in teri"thouanJ, "was secret ly despatched, via France, in good season to arrivo at tnat congress. Altnoncn -1 nave ai- ways understood he travelled quite as rapijajy ty of (the hon. gentleman, that this little biU JVo. i projects, I , ell oorf gentlemen ti lay their - ; innocehs vM, IuirmIes8 as it appeared, eon-' hands upon iheir hearts &. sav, whether they hava -"J ! tained-tlie seeds .? of Jthki wftk It was. Intended j performed mepr6mise, rcdeejned one pledei f to layjr Aml'ilid ;1a4he-. sVu!tdatioti.W the fa. . from their accession lb" tlJs day. What goodli' " mousil should 'ai infamous iiieslS 4t the eele ! have thev done for the eouiitrvP. f VIi .mi DrateuAaore ietter..,?iro.enable the President chief-, have thev not attenmtefi or PtUnt. to negotiate with fcffeet,;it conferee 'I tipon him They came, into pover Milh tbeirtnouths full legislative pdtwsthapovrerio annul andfe e- of ifTonnsos. andJire likely Wo-w outi-covererl nact A law of congress. Kven in the gripiiig with the eursesof an abused and hftrayed peo- ' I reignf Henry theSlh of England, when a com- pie. To acknowledge error, and retract, is of plyin - r. VV1 ;;i i 4 i as MrBarlow, who lost his life by dancing at tendance m Bnparte, I cannot .say that he Wived itt:m&take-hiS"!,sea hrfhegeaeral congress. One thing is certain, if he went up on any other errandjt never has been stated, Berlin decree, if it was not resisted by this gci-!yhilo the appointment of the man, and his mis- vernment. I say, without any such reservation, sion, was Uien, as .anknown to the people as ghe would have been perfectly justifiable in the " secret of the prison house." It is epually adopting a system of retaliation, after a rea- certain, when he was afterwards nominated to souable time allowed the gflVernuifut to resist the senatehe was unanimously rejected. His that edict. Put she was so anxious to leave appointment was contrary to law, because there this government without a pretext for discon- was no vacancy to fill daring the recess of the tent, that she would not resorf to the laWs of senativ But Mr. Jefferson had done Avhat he self defence without due notice to us collateral- wanted, and was not to be put off from his pur l.r iAvnlvixl hv tl; ftmmri'l wurfitpo. Tn. nose. Disannoint cd in his man. he was not to tend of jwaeiviiw this avowal of the nceessitvihe frustrated, in his ultimate desien. Mr. A- judgmentand dupe tuteir understandings. And, to which EnsUnd inieht be' reduced, of infliet- dams ws, therefore nominated minister to St. I if Me may judge from their edicts, arrests and j variety of other expedients, all eventuating if iug upon. Prance the evils of her o n injustice, Petersburg. -This son of the father had said, j acts, all the world over for regulating com- like tailure and disgrace. Laughed at" arid ri in the spirit in which it-was made, it was ario-wbin.. the emlmrgrt was recommended upon the 'merce, an assembly of great men, s the '.greatest j diculed at-liomemade'-trbve Hrd''io-ropeV- ther reason with Mr. Jefferson for rejzotiligfiiv : responsibiliti of the president,-' the Senate -foot on earth.9 . you were jeered and -goaded into war Tes, treaty. TAnd here permit me to sav, that no should not doubt or hesitate." Forsonoblea Mr. Chairman, as early as 1791, Mr. Madi-I you went to war, say some, because the miiiori man of an independent diseriminatiug mind, and" of souud judgment, can doubt the' justice of the j British retaliation of the Berlin decree, as far as any neutral was concerned, who hid actiu. only jjre -taste o? the ethcacy of this mode ot resiricuve energies, ivver since he has Uen is esi'i.1 .in that decree. Otherwise tha contest vurchasinz supporters for the administration, power, he, has continued to test his mvo rite th'k'trifclative powers, by aivinstlo his procla mations the binding force of law, the people re sisled the encroachment. The cry -was, Mag na Chartais invaded 1 and he voice of tho peo le 'pmajled. The King sii omitted nbt-?o ere. Henry the 8th was a erripina: tyrant, but not quite so stubborn -as our master.! Mr. Madison clurife to his frreroeative as Lecisla- turl'as well ai Executive, and he succeeded in Iegisliti8g .tho coontry into a war. From the date- tf the Uodore lettctha Government tra velled "an step by stepv utttilhe country was completely enmeshed in the toils of the Usur per. We passed fioni non-intercourse 'to em bargrrj and to non-importation upon non-importation, fully perr stiaded that G. Britain had but a few short months to survive, and hoping for the glory of sharing the Spoils with Napoleon. Dr. Franklin -somewhere remarks, that "pwre assemble parliaments and councils to have the " benefit of their collected wisdom, but at the same time have the inconyenienceof their col lected passions. Prejudices and self-interest, by the aid of these artful men, overpower their me uigiu.i umn vi virtue, oat ot an altitude a! hove the reach of common minds We have then nothing to hope-front acknowledgment arid re traction. What I say, were the leading pro fessed principles of these men when they eame into power? Love of peaee, aversion' to con Jjuest, rivetted attachment to liber l, regard or ceconoray? and respect for thetights of other nations. Ye ir e were l have a tnilleninm under democratie rule Federal sins ami abo niHiations were: to be atoned or hv tlm and goodly works of deinbcracy. This was all ' very finSiwhil?tne: word bf fciWiia to the pr was kept but for the performance feif the tondi- ' tion of thefeaqmt7.tesfy't-T''deseribe it would sicken the patriot heart.' " f Sir, as to your.restrictive warfare once more " let me ask, what has t done for yon ? You pledged all your pol itical character, you staked all your pretensions as statesmen to brine the proud monarch of the detested isle to your feet if the restrictive system were fairly tried. Did you not try it to your heart's content f for one. long and unbroken period of 18 months ? arid were you not glad to get rid of it by a diplomo tic manoeuvre ? From time to time, vou ti ied & -...4 v1 sentiment he must be rewarded, upon the prrn- son began to impregnate the minds of those who ty laughed at you, and it was sain, you could ciple of buying off inpatient and hungry office have since supported him, with all the absurd not be " kicked into wan" The same mea seekers. And I do fear, we have as Vet had notions which now prevail of the efficacy of our now say, they will makepeace if the aiiuoritY a . I with France would have been most unequal. i On, Mr. Adams' subject, 1 have only to add, Allies iu the diseuise of neutrals could shield there is a feKion in Russia that would be a ht France, while the breast of Britain was bared 'clime for a nian of such pliable patriotism and to the sworj of her enemy. But it was not for convenient principles to spend the remainder of Mr. Jeff'rsoii to beco ne a party by implication,, his days. ) as he feared it would be. deeawd in France, to The embargo, Mr. Chairman, came exactly anv olan of resistine the great system ot com : in aid or the invasion olopain. As the lesions m 'rcial annihilation commenced at Berlin. No, B ci-inartes attitude at that period wis too im posing to allow of such rash councils as implied A t attachment to commerce, and a determina .tion to oppose a barrier to French encroach ments. "The 'great and renerous NapoVjon'' I of thfeonrjuerocwere descendinsr into her fer tad just broken iHtofrngments the jtrifple Coalition. Prussia struck down,'.1 aud her pow er broken to pieces ; Russia driven to her fron tier, and converted to an ally from an enemy, the ' supereminent Napoleon," seated on the throne of the Great Frederick, was dictating law lb the commercial world. The Berlin decree was, the commencement of the very system to which we are one of the very few parties left. It w;as intended to incorporate into the new commercial code the very principles which have been contended for on this floor ; nothing there tilp nlair:- lilrp a ntmintu tnrrptir. up ilirl nur uiinosi i' 'iiu&e iiicni iiie prey ui uieir iiivauci VVe could do no more than was done, to say no thing of the attempt to steal from her, provin ces, white she was struggling for self-preserv ation. Yet frentlemen aru restless,' and be'eomr angry whenever the ,fct of the eopperation against thejry by laceratiug the nation with a self tor turing suicidal system, which even to this day, against all experience, is persisted an with an obstinacy proportioned to the greater impor tanceof preserving Mi. Mtdtssn's reputation for consistency, to relieving the people and pre serving the onion. Sir, I am tired, tired, sick of this perpetual, never-ending, still-beginning recurrence,- to your restrictive .energies, or in more appropriate language, your anticommer-j cial loolenes. What enect have they had up on England ? no more than children's pop-guns would have upon the walls of Quebec. Gen tlemen nbwJtnow", that a non-imuprtation law of administration with Franee is alluded to. Sir, I will consent to abandon my whole cours of political thinking, and to be ranged under the court colors, on the treasury bench, if it can . i ' i . . .i ! f oe suown in wnai respect me poucy oi admin istration has been at variance with the policy of Franee, for 'sir successive years. If is a melancholy, degrading: truth, that ws have fol lowed her track as taithtiilly, as fleetly, ant as tlamorouslu too, as the kern-scented, well trained hound' pursues the fox. Ifoccasiona Enslandf is mere brtitem Fulmeri. will let them, that is, if they wont laugh at them for giving up all they have been contend ing for. Yon nave tried war just as long as vou hfl vp fried pmharOn. nrl iimtpait of hum hi in er England, as you promised you have not .'ieen ableeven so much as to-eonquer her pitiful lit tie province hext door to yon. '-She barely 'afc lowclyou to cross hfer threshhold, when you were driven back, covered, riot with laurels and glory, but with shame and dishonor the com- . mon fate of boasters. But how much blood and treasure this conquest of Canada hasccrstj' the people wilt never be permitted to know. It rA 1 fore eould have been morcVemote from Mr. Jef ferson's wishes or intentions, than any stipula- devialTbn, ? have occured, it was only because tion whiehlooked like resistance to the Berlin the trail ..was lost through the' intricacy -of th decree. Under such circumstances, aud at such path but the leader of the pack sown got upon a time was it, that the treaty was rejected. At . the right .scent again. His impe rial majesty a time when the prophets ana wise men herf -talked familiarly of a national bankruptcy in England, or of her speedy overthrow by iiona parte, if a civil war was not produced by our restrictive energies, ; which has no 'other crfutl,! of eomylaint against as, except that we have sometimes been thrown out in the1 chase. I mean not to be understood, sir, as disputing the right .f the majririty to pass what laws tliey please, ke piig within tho pale ot the consti t(it(on--to form what I aarnes or alliances they see fit. Bat while I admit that it is the " pre- rosative.ot the maion v to act, I maintain the Drivilesre of the' minority-to protest.'"' I shall ever claim and exereise the risrht o bv fair and manly- arffiCTcntthe fact of the co oueratiou of ttiijiisters with France, and the were driving the manufacturers to madness and ... desperation. From ( this time we were gradually drawn into the great continental confederacy, the priucinles 1 of, which, were sarctijied by the decree of Ber lin. Now. came the vaunted treaty of Tilsit. It- was the corner stone of the immense fabric " built upon the Berlin decree. At Tilsit was dieesf ed- and methodized the grand scheme, of. commercial annihilation commenced at the I baleful eflVet of such co-operation. ...-When, sir. Prussian v capital, not many months previous. ! your journals show it ; when your annals teem By enticing orioremg all the states ol the eonti-! with evidence ot a systematic co-operation itli nenf mtathisieague, their ports were tope shut FranceV in all her views, why are gentlemen against Britisli. commerce. How.far the crnti.i startled by- a rcferrence to the fact? Why do nental system succeeded amone the States of I their Cheeks mantle at the charge of I at ingEn- ; Europe the world well knows. How far, thence- jgland, when t hey do burn' with rage against forward; Mr Jefferson evinced his steady pur-! her, and admiring France, when they once ex- . pose of uniting irf; the war upon commerce, is to pressed that admiration as ardently as ever be collected from the acts of administration, lover wootd his paramour or Cleopatra sighed Tedious as I may be, yet if is necessary, to ar- ' for the embraces of her Roman Antony. - - rive at thet results I propose,' to take a rapid j You relieved yourselves from the embargo, view ot some of the ts of on..nneratinn wifli sir, by the arttul arrangement ot April tsoy, France, which sfain -our statute Hook. TrlieTmade in bad faith and never intended here fo be Embargo stands first and pre-eminent in this j carried into effect, even if ratified by England. black catalogue, It is notorious, it was faini-1 Its ratification in Lolwlon was securely guarded liarv talked of itrthe Paris rorTvn-Hrluseji. It : against bv the laiisuaee in which ' was made. was a topic nf tetS, a tete in the coteries of the Imperial metropolis. Our minister in France gave w arning of (he measure. Merchants on t hecontM ejitioiejLoih to prepare for an embargo unon all our ports. At length despatches arrived from Genl Arm strong, and as-quick as the thunder succeeds ,the flash that announces, it, our ports ivere seal 'r td. An embargo unlimited as to duration, and iiuiversaLin-extentsat like Inctibus upon the laud, blasting its Lest fruits mope than all the congregated fluids"ofthe heavens; poured down at once upon our crops. - How are" we fo account for this forcknowledge in France of measures to be adopted here ? How for the decree pro mulgatedhy Bonaparte avowedly to enforce the embargo' ?' There is biit one explanation. Bttt , it is notihe least mortifying eireumsfanee, tTiat while the rays of the great political sun 6( Eu rape illumined the track of .merchants" and spe-( Clator on the continent, our poor -out cast' But to make the matter sure, as if adouble bond of fate were taken, the spirit and letter of the convention were formally contravened by a le- gMalivajitdmktingJe4uaJUy How has she regarded your tremendous starv ing nou-consnming system, that was to drive her manufacturers to rebellion ? Yon have not so much as checked or. dpterred her one moment in the gigantic noble effort to liberate the eh slaved nations-of Europe. Her means of sub. sidizing tlie nations, nnitcd in resisting usurpa tion and tyranny, have not been in the smallest degree diminished. The work of emancipation ha progressed with a steady and a quickened pace. The glorious,4work of deliverance has now arrived at .its proud point of consummation, in spiteTra1I tife laborious nrtifices here, to en sure success to tyrannv and. usurpation. Fee wpald not be republican4ike to tell them. ' TheyrC. might abuse the confidence so ''reposed in them, ? in a manner not precisely according" with the view s, and pleasing tb the nice sensibilities of their rulers ""One .tbTng-'W terfarri-yotf eom' ;; s menced with your tremendous wonder voj king, starving system six yeafs ago, yon tried ft inal its various and multifarious forms and with what effect? well nieh to destrov vnnrsplirr. Yoii then declared wah This was- to strike England senseless to the ground, ,1'ake it al together, sir, most curiously, indeed, , have our affairs been conducted. You have pursued the true circular policy Like a certain, erauiinr animal, called the caterpillar, or like the dotf trying to cuteh his own tail, yon have gono round and round in a circle without arriving an . men uuarer your point i aestinaiiou. xou 56- ..V war of France and England into our waters Under that act, too, the secretary of the trea sury issued a circular opening a trade with France through Holland, her dependency, so pronounced subsequently by. Bonaparte himself, when he chose to chastise us for that arrange nient. Th is waidojag ini he-amfr viritrud with the same view, that Mr. Madison inter wove his invectives against the British nionorch into Mr. Smith's letter, before it was known whether the arrangement. would bcj,avowetl or disavowed England. ' The embargo being " hissed off the stage," in the course of tinus as the able gentleman from Virginia (Mr. heffey) told vou the nation a? i -.i " a- - Lilt li., was amirsea wiin, -xjacons juiw uw, x,i and Dump dispelling lotion, down to me nen ointment, will "never stand in need of a certifier to vouch ior us uiidiiiuuiiy. i)ut., $ir, iuis na tion will not be forever'the dupe of quackery and imposture. The signs if the times warrant ff'beliefliiaHhepeopIfrinhiihearta-loath- these restrictive nostrums. The time is not dis tant wh?n 'the' grand inventor will not .only cheerfully dispose of .his patent right, but will strive hard: to cast the credit and gMry-nf his invention upon his adversaries. , : Sir, when we look, back upon the past, and forward to the future, can see no claim that adtntfiistrjttiQH have upon a single honest man in tho country to support them one. hour longer . and " little bill Vo..;' It escaped the sagaei- in their visionary schemes and impracticable ble, feeble indeed have been our measures a-San ,n 1807 w,t aft embargo, 5,nd here you arej gainst England and the Allies formidable and j in 181 w ith embargo again. Sir, it is I imo 1 afflicting to ourselves ! But evennow,sir, that; BI5U time, fur rulers thus proved to be imbecila oar Cabinet has been dragged bu the collar- o iand incompeterit-totaIly unfit to manage: the , Gottenbufa, to sue for peace,, if they have the ftttd, 0 lllI8;PfoPW either in peace or in warf"v good luck to get a treaty, which happens not to to abandon the elevated stations-which they have submission written in rimtals on the fi. cannot fill, and to make way for abler and bet- tie paSe, t have not a doubt, it will be ascribed ter men. J Upon this subject tbeg not to be mis to the magical efficacy of your restrictive ener-: not oe supposea x would nave tna rvioe Wrt dAit in nva nitl thic STCtum is it a im'uuiucuu ui IWwCl lucito v tt v iu uur llLVUr. authsrs, that even now, when the deliverance of I k,10w any thing of the views and feeling the continent has opened so many markets to ef the honorable and virtuous men who compose the Britsh manufacturer, that the supply is too the Pai 'y to hie, De,OB5 they want no small for the demand, yet no doubt, the system powerinow; hor would they accept it under, will be continued. Yes, enlarged, ?h another , existing circumstances, unless to pave the town non-importation law ! And for what ? , If for l! , "0 8UC" me-wiae waste oc uesoia no other reason, to holdout the appearance 4,011 visiblo every where, that no" man or set of flm liavp nnt antlnn. jnnprt wltli'men, who would undertake to repair these ra- France heretofore, because we continiie'the sys- vaSC8 couW preserve the peojdes favor longer tern even after it is broken up on the European a single term. -Your government is made tineot. This sort of management is very j a perfect wreek, itis scarcely worth .bringing in- well understood at the palace. ... It is' to behop- to port, such deep root has corruption takeft ed, however, that 'gentlemen will state the rea-intttl country, that; he who attempts to restorer aons and Ejects at large for iiaasinar the non-1 the fonslitsrtion to its original purity and force mnriVtation law. which haa come down from W" engage in a protiUes pursuit his. labor the Senate. That law, loo like the bounty bill joropeii8ating his pains. I repeat, no, sir. maybe carriedto Gnttenhurg in the pockets of peieci irom yoyr own.pa.riy, ii to De iouna, a osr mmistprs, oy wav ot coercing cngiano . "ai.iiiy5&,.,,jL nu:i";u' And when the treaty comes, "I told you so !",dent spirit. Such a. man-who would be the will exclaim centlemen : " see what our res- chief magistrate of this lUniter Empire, and not trictive energies have done at last !" - No doubt,- the chief ol a faction,:wouIduniteJheJMtMI sir, all the credit will he given to embargo and ifaU honest men. Call him by w hat political , non-importationTand not tQ the defeat of Bona- "me you please, he would receive the support parte : so have gentlemen succeeded in puffing of all good citizens, Such a man, so suppor- I'ph i;Itp nit nf tiPr! ted, niisht be able to re-construct the dilanda- nostrums from the worrn festniyinTbe 4 stitutions of freedom that have been so long" decaying and tumbling in ruins about us. We will take power, sir when the people fly to us for salvation when they seek shelter from mi sery and-oppression in the wisdom and virtue of federal counsels,' they will not find ns shrink il. ' lT: . 1. I l' .. .1. il ' f ' i' ing in the hour of peril when they fly from'de- mocracy as from pestilence, famine and nuk- d ness, we will give them food and raiment, and" healing medicines. Thus much, sir, in an.Wer to -thecharge of opposing government from iv desire to ojitain power1 . , ,., ' -. ,'. ' Next) in the long list of measures of co-operation with France, comes the-declaration of war Couched almost in the precise terms ' that Bonaparte had declared war for us pot
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