Alexandria daily gazette, commercial & political — Alexandria [Va.], 1810-03-28 00:00:00, page 2

. ged]; (z'gzem 6 Dollan per am: wit.
- _ Mcy smile, 8 Dollan- .
C_ ngrest of thc'Un-t'te'd State;. [
-' HOUSB or REPREssSBMTA TIVES. .
.sililr. Reuooua laid he-w'uhed to aub- .si
knit: motion to the hom-whioh- .tus of a i
15th thatjssvould require, perhsps, atleatt
juit'tsy come gentery! obsen'ltionl. During
hisunavoidable ablenoe- from his duty in
she him:. the 'present seuiositi, Mr. R. said
it had beeasome consolatiou to him to re
Ied that ifhe had been uha'ble to particippte
huy of the measures which the wisdom
ctolthe government m' ht have devised to _
meet the necctuity of t e stategat least those ss
'Meﬂnþewere— not retarded or impedcd by -
jay si tion of his. si True it is, (said he)
"shut at the'distancc at which ] was placed
from the Iclt-Cs government, and through
theuediumthrough which; ( viewed its
meuureqitsiwae impossible for me to dis
eet'tuny thing like a system pursuing or a
bout to be pursued by the government of
thilnnion- But this, sir, l attributed *
my wi-wantos information, not to'the
w-nfds decision or windom in the govern
me'ntssss I (fettered myaell that-when [should
have mdb't _ed the seat os government, when
! ehobid _ on the spot, that I should then
et suit he able to discern : degree of
something like a regular system of policy
penading the great councils of the nation.
But,:ir, using all the means ecccssible to
me,during the time that ! have been in
\Vaehingtun, I have been unnbl: to detect
any thing like duignany thinglik: concert
any thing like : plan about to be pursued by
this house 'in relation to our national con
cerus—l ought pethaps toct say, until this
moment. But I understand, sir, atiength
the budgct has been opened ; that a system
has been brought forward for niting sup
plies by ioam-and by additional taxee. lt
is in relation to this syetem that the mation
! am about to make will ttdnd-si' I had in
deed supposed. tir, that when the govern
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f'ssffifi' " _ si. si " .sisiihey— field"!!! Fill
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ment of the United States should get into 7
Operation at this session, the first act would
be (if indeed we could. not build up) to '
pull down that which every one seemed to
acknowied e was insufficient, ridiculous,
and hurtsu : I allude to the celebrated
qoo-intercourse law: & ( certainly should
have felt it my duty _to submit a motion on
that subject as soon as ! took my seat, is (
had n0t been informed that a- bin was in
transim between the two-houses to eﬀect
that object. Why indeed the nation should
have tolefated this acknowledged evil, I *
qever have been enabled to discover. ]. had
supposed that the first step would have been,
to doaway the conscesed evil, by way of
preparation for. some sobstsatttictl good-- .In
this, however.--I havebeeu tansortunatelvss
'mistakeb. Whether-the people of,thc'U.
Smes were ever to retrieve that ﬂourishing
sommrcc which had been so .childishly
spoilcd, Mr. R. said it was not for him to
undertake to determine. Commerce was
: delicate,} ticklish thing—qnd when it ,
had iormed sokssitsels-mw chahnels, like
the mighty water course, it was difficult in
deed to turnjt back into the old. But, if '
the eum'merce of thectsUnited States was.
e'er to- be—segainedsihe would venulre-to
say. that it was-sinot to .be brought back by
sdditiooal duties. ssTh} embssgo end non
intercoursc—he had dmost forgotten to
mation that the non-importation sct', had
changedjhe habito and feelings and prioci- A
ple": oslhe mercmtile clan-in this country
A! soreseeu and. predicced, asicynem of
gmugsigsing of ilkgal tude thcemon min
bupsi god). fair under, the mon injurioun'co -
"the asigticultunl internt, und'dutmccive to
th' revenue that could" be concsseived, had" ssss
W-organind. A muche: coming to do_
(did Mr. Randolph) buesi_to go imdctsithe
ss ned give remium !o hair'e-"ibio
canon 'or wbacco'prmd in'Lim-pdol or.
Lsindoogor w, has.- a .nz-oned mp'os
m.;udwct- plsslded_.ld any lum o!
lick or-Ph '
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COMMEKCLAL UFOLﬂ'lCAL.
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ﬂVitb rnþect'to- war—wc have, thank !
God ! in the .A'tlanxic, a sone wide and ?
deep enough to keep oﬀ any, immediate Jan- :
: room .cerricosiry. !ic sibelligerenu os
- urope know, none]! as we' feel, the: war i.
out of the— question. fNo,si.—lir---if our pre.
ration un for battle, the nate physiciam
m" mistaken tho luce of the patient ; we
hue been embngobd and noo-intcrcourscd
down into : communion, and thin si-sinoc
thesi'cime forbade. -' [! indeed thumc 'was
about t'd' unde: inoculation for abe small
Pox, ;hctur'educnon yould have_been accord- _
m; conne but msiedml nuþomiu. .
'Iut it may be said ths} the nation is ,in
thnt aitnation in which it is necessary t_a
net, to do somethtn . lszru. etsi—thdt it
in; dthough [hold it not to bothe, lentof .
the qunlifisientionn of . cteiatesmnnsi tozþt ap
peised when it in neeeuaryy not to neta 'A
'tion irnowimubstnnee ;nnd'l with
to btsi'ising it in form; 's'ttbmitted to this nzt
tlon-whethee they will eneounter : syetem
ol' ndditionsl tassxstion nnd'loans,nr whether
the will make needttction in: their unpro
iita le establiehmentt. ! think, it l have
not forgotten, that the secretsry of the tren
sury, in his nnnusl report,_;h_as stated, that
by an adequate'r'eduction in the army and
navy the neeessitous state of our finances
may be relieved. Bnt'perhapa,sisir, Yt may
be said, ehall we, in the present undeeidcd
state se respects the belligerents-os Europe,
make any movementssctwhich shall indicate
a disposition on our part to submit toaitose
belligerentsf Certainly not. 'But —Mr. R.
asked, was there any one who heard him
who setiuusl "thought of_ war, or believed
it a reiation to which we could be. piac'ed ?
He for one did not. \Var ctwith whom ?
W'ar with France ! Catried on where ? By
us here and by France. in old France! For
she had no possession in our neighbnrhood.
NVar with England ! Carried on where ? lo
.the bospitals at New Orleans? Granting
thntour situation with eithet of the beili
gerents were a hostile one, Mr. R. said he
for one would intbat case still be ready to
accede to his propositi'on; for he saw- no
use in keeping up an establishment, a cost
ly set of toblsfwhich we could not if we
knew how to use.
it ,is possible, however, said Mr. R.
that ail this time ! may be under a mistake;
that there is it it) stem, that there is a plan,
that there isa concert; and indeed it' the
bld'maxim be true, an est celare artcm, ss
ours must- be one of the most refined sys
toms; it eludes not only sight but touch, '
and would elude even a chemical analysis. 1
] would wish ctto ask this house,.nster all
that has been said or that can be said on the ss
subject, whether we must-not, we-ma)
make as many wry faces as we _please,-go
back to that ground (is it be possible to re
gain it) which we have so childishly and ss
wantonly abmdoned ? ,We must- -we may ;
begin upon the system of leans and tnxation, ?
but the people of the United States will tell
us to stop, and we must obey. VVili the
people oisithe United Statee cons'ent td-lteep i
up expensive miiitary and nuvai establiah
ments, ot'the very existence of which they
are ignorant until they' are made acquaint
ed with them by burthensome taxes and
: debt entniledon their ,posterity; and for
what ? To what earthly end ? if you cannot
keep your army aiive in .time at peace, I
ask in the name of common sense what-will
you do with them in time ofsiwar ? Is there
State;.are tooubm'tt to leans, and tuation.
With respect to' the havy'; I my nothing of
that. [to exploits are al'ready -regiotered
in our jottruale. And the fact of the fri
gate Phqladelphia having run aehore on the
toil yfthe'Hol-se ahoe, is the only onesi.in
osiur naval annak for several years past.
that expedition 'which even their - own mi
nistry dare not defend, but quarrcl amongst
each. other who shall have the blame of it,
was surpassed in disaster by the mortality
of the American army. 'And yet, sir, for
thie shadow, this ekeleton, it is indeed :
Nrssﬄ. paid he Lquld therefore submit
te ws qussuldcr these view, du be'n
urmy as well as climate to eontend against ; !
okeleton"o'f an army, the sspeople 'os the U. \
a man who hears me who feels one atom ot
additional security to hie person or proper
ty from the army of -the '- United
states ? Has it ever been emphryed to pro
tect the righte of person and property ?—
Hao it ever been employed but in viokation
of the writ of habeas corpus- and n-a new
modernimtrument of ejectment? Sir, go
through the country, and put to every free
holder in the land this questioh-Are you
willing to pay one third more of duty, and
an hundred per cent- -on that third, upon
sugar, coﬀee and so forth, for the lake of
the establishment at New Orleans? W'e
may say whatwe please, air, but that ex
pedit'ton which, until oure, surpassed in
folly every other eXpedition ever underta
armyagainst'Fluehing, where they had an !
ken—the famous exped'ttion of a British i
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: ineumbranees. it was he thought, a'oout
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\ man l'mm Virginia would not'ask of the."
.assairs of this country a sufficient ground
preeent moment, when perhaps the first
gale. may bring news which will enable us
to reduce them with honor—if it is the ine
tention of gentle men thus to-ntmnp them
eeh'es with the stamp of folly sor originally
increasing them, ] cannot coincide with
them; but is it was originailv proper to
raise this force, there are no circumstancet
which ought at preeent to induce congren
to reduce it. Butet the same time. sir, !
not far srOm saying that ! do not believe
that both the army and navy-may be re
duced before the end of the present aeesion.
lt in true that the de-sicit in the revenue may
be saved by a reduction of the army and
navy; but this is no reaeon why it lhould
be done when every other circumstance for
.bids it. . There is a hill before the house
-sor the increase of dutiu ; it is reportEd in
biank, znd-the ratio os addition willsibe-six
'ed at the pleasure of the house. ' lt is re
p'orted on the principle which is fair that
those who incur : debt should pay it. The
deficit of revenue should be-suppiied by
these Who incurred the expence which enu
es it. sil voted sorthe umy, and ahali not
be deterred from voting money for an ob
ject which-l believed necesmy and which
I still believe was necessary at the time it
was udopted. A_s to the present eituntion -
ofthe army of the U.'S.- ( am not acquaint- ;
ed with it. except from private" letter's. No =
it' has procec'sided, whoever is ta'blach
whoever is responsible for keeping the'
troops in a swamp, and tacrificing one half
of them, I hope will be exposed to the
public. Jt may be proper to observe that : si
hill puscd this house yesterday. for organ- '.
king : force more congenialsito the feeling
oi [seemed, which will perhapt much re-'
duce the necessity of keeping amilitarysi
force e modicd, _
Sir, I do not'for my part kmw--whnt
conne will be pursued by congrcn at the
the presentnniou.si The gentleunn from
Virginia seems ditpoud to repeal the noti-1
intercourse—and I consider it perfectly qsson- '
oistcnt- in him-to vote against it, because he '
did 'to when it was pmcdssiss siiyperfcctly
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ct the expence! of the government. The epi
' date against it. MrL'R. then moved * that
man more than myself deploree tile sttua-j
tion of that army; and from whateVercause ;
-submit to eneounter the European system
ritus resorm, he said, had long slept in
this house. He would go as far as any man
in retrenching-expences, but he sseopscssed
his object now was- to take the—bull by the
horns.-.He believed these two Objects to be
the great draine & sinks of public tleasure.
I do not (said he) prosess a better acquain
tance with the public sentiment than other.},
but ! belieVe ifyou were to propound the
question to every man in the United Statee"
capable ofjudging, that not merely nine
teen twentieths, but nine hundred- and
ninety—nine hundredthe osthem, always ex
cepting those whodraw emoluments from
these establishmente, and their immediate
connexions, whether in tbie house or out
of it—the good honest yeomanry of the
United States, who never saw these things,
whoseonly proofos their existcnce' is-inct
the money they call so', would say, in
Cod's name let us have none of them. - .ll'h
we are to have war, we know that we, the
people of the United States, and not the in
_valids from the hospitals on the Mississip
pi,.must sightthe battles.
T he houae agreed to consider the motion
of Mr Randolph; and the question being
stated on its passage in the sollowiug-wordu.
" Rrsoloesil, That the military and nawal
eatablishmcnta ouBht to be reduced."
M R. Eprzs preeumcd that the gersinle
cthe lind heettss able't'o (lb; "20 dinictnel pro
house to decide this question at a moment's
warning. [have, said he, no oljection to
refer the resolution to a committee of the
whole house and to discuss it. " gentles
men on thissa ﬂoor who t'oted in 1806 for an
increase of the army and naval eatablieh
ments, can find in the present potture of the
of loane and taxee, or whether they would
reduce establishmenta. which (to ny the
best of them that could be said) Were mere
to reduce three eatabliahments, and at the
position: in a eingle resolution, _ in order
that the house and the People of the United
State- might determine whether they would
nine years ago since he had the honor of
making actimilar motion in this house.
which was the precuram- ol the abolition of
the internal taxn. 'He hoped themotion
he was -now.ahout to make would be the
harbiriger of protection against 'the system
introduced into the house yesterday ; that.
at least, if it was not made the means of
taking'oﬀ'taxation, it might prove an anti
the military and nsiaval ettahiishments ought
to be reduced'—not that he was at all Op
posed to a reduction in any other article of
expence. He belieVed - that many other
and important reductione might be made in
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] thegzicicz-os the one and the incrigues of
the other,ho learned che den croua art of
uiﬂing the removstnncu o reason, ,rc
sitting the inmuctive impulse: 'o! duty,
and osimnking. under a fair exterior. : du
pnved heart gangrened to the m : wit
was. however, an art of prime 'im (man::
to him, as" he had begm to 'thinE o! ac
si niting some artificial means of buoyancy
For which she grnilau'ng 'h-ndcm'y of his
hyoic'al connitmion had ..uuerl' d'uqua
isiedsi him. From that cchool osydccp dis
-0imulnion and muml'dcbnumeut. -hc re
turned, an uncommon proﬂcienc, cp the bo
som of his nitivc country. There he be
gansito, d'uplny his new acqu'uieiom, in :
style of-polnical enquetry that would have
done honor te nsFuach courtico—sawning.
lutering, carening end mlucing, till the
dclmioo hid become -too general to admit
of : timely remedy. Thus, be, whom al.
ture had dniznqdsor : tosy—ohop. Was nio
od to che-prnidency osa see peoplesiwhieh
\ neat he obtained by two nveral electiong,
] and only rcsigncd It lntsiso'r prudclm'al na
ss-sms. . . . . .,
_ This shews demonstnþly the progressive
state os'thn party, of the origin of which
:.l spoke ip my lsstct-numbcr—shat 'pmy
which-is nill in power. .lnd which it is my
siob'ccs w pl'ove m devoted to the views
o the empsxor of France.
"'I b'hvc'sotbom'e to quose Mr. Madisnn's
person] character and public administra
tion, as continuing : separate proof of
this sm; since leonsidcrhim as virtually -
identified with hid predeccuor, and as re
ceiving his daily lessons in the art of go
vernmntfrom'him; ltiscrue he has not
been madoacteicizen 'ol the French republir;
but he cn'oys evesiry Woman}: of .sithas cili
zensbi - y-tifamminim. lie possesses all
th; bsfsslgusliciesaf him who went besun .
him ( to 'whom-hs' is indebted for m'szsstz '
of thy) wisdom bei- like . him, -depcl_
me on cmiog'donc ! ths success of lus
-uiisch'sse'vdndssigþ. - . "
", llfbe chidden! these two nen to did
nest Mdbfiffithﬂ rcsson or freedom
. From the Marylcnd Pcfoplcs' Aszti'itsr.
Mrss ]cﬂ'erson, who has been at the head
of this-nation for eight Yea", and might
have been there 'etill had not his fears driv—
en'him thence ; and who has had'the pow
er, aitie'd by the blind and almost mechani
cal instrumentaiit) of : party of his own
orgaaieatioo, to give us : successor of his
own etamp—cne guided by the same par
tial systemctof soreign policy, the siretcyear
ss of whose adminis tratiou has not been mark
ed-jby asingie measure appertaining to our
external relgtiom, in which we have not
clearly neo ized the hand of the :: office":
president ; t tl tame man, ( ny, it Will be
reeollected, received the polieh ,os- hie poli
tieel educetion at the court of anee. Nzt
ture had levic/cly given him a few Mrs;
but they teem to hnve been better a ted
to'the eahinet of : virtuoso than to that of
a great end eommercias 'natiom ! spent
word what—he tue before the intri uee et"
sncttoh-hod'brought him into do me, and
whet he woufd 'have been to thin day had
not wisdom and pntriotiem losiet the neeo
dcney,-andthereby left the door: ot office
open to unworthy. intruden. But 'the cour
tien of. Paris, and the anti-chambm ot'
Veneillee, served in come nunure to an )
piy the dx ticicncies of churlish nature. in
' e eminent in him to ny thlt' it in imsisisisi
[) e'el'ute he had nid. to besott—end th" ;,
? it perfectly eeoeietcm in him to "pr,
* et'esy mutttt'e'teken for four or. kite 7":
poet, because he did at the time telftobm
them. Ottr eituotien &: to ccmmute, .;r.
' doee' not proceed sum eur atte, but he":
the-injmtiee of- the beiligennu, tsho L
uhqþsideerete nnt] osdete at . eit-gle him ,ss
durtdwr expom from the hundred 'W
eight milliom to len than eet'co-si Duct,,
; the 'e2r18090ur revenue tue ahcut n.
( miilton ; during the year tetOtt will we.
1 bably not be more that .etght. ! have "(
s before said,- no os-jcetion tomect the qu",
tion,. but the reduc'tion of the atmy will no;.
-sido way the necessity osndditional revenue,
because our exportnre to much reduced
that we cannot avoid this year inercuing
the duties, or—pexhaps, sor some year'- to
conne. - One treason of the reduetion of tho:
revenue ie that our manusactpres have in.
creased so much he to exclvde mdny so
reign artielee ; nay, so far have thbse ma.
nut'aettme progrc seed, that camp]: e :tvs the
manusactusine have þezn sent .wss- Engiacu
to-he imititted and unite. thie countzy to
rivai our domestic manusccturre. With
this view of the decrene of our imports, au
additiooai-dsittty of-S per tent. on goode pay.
ing duty-advzierem, would produce . mil
lion ; end raiffiug the speciste dutiee 33 1-3
per ccm. wou produce two milliomssmak
ing three millions, the supposed amount of
thcssdeficit. .
[Debate to be continued],