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\ jtarprtjifd, sir, tope* yrtor^eddrilidnif
**>rj>y me, with whom you have had so litttf
?%Wbdrti«»' ofScquamtsnre. Tin important it#
'Itoirymi hold tti tbeopiaiwi'oftbe writer, require*
that be akeaM remind yrtfi of sonic thing* and ioj
florm yod on other*. He baa in this address, other
■■waftnetaiiMlei eolintidj^ywn Vote for tfieapproacbf
*“* *»eaney in the’totjvteiifihe United States.—I
^•’’Wlltho' sir. i am an inhabitant of tbesouth part ojf
^■^X'Wtdeky; and the oldest member of tbe House of
-'Representatives of the Ui 8. from this state, as welt
ngfc, of the oldest Antericao politicians. One
- -b#fa,Jied tfy> honor and good lurk to aid in, or
^kit#Wnintehiince to all these salutary measure*
Which has led to the unexampled, early ixilution
fe# this nation.—My hopes are not somuch excited
.00 this occasion as even to awakenlii* smallest feat;
; 1m»—Although 1 know that tbe love of harmony, tiid
’fraSiAtiw and tbe suppression of local jes lousy.
•; points out the propriety of at'least looking through
'Hhe ana litem part of the State of Kentucky, to see
^ if a man of equal patriotism, experience, talents
<«od other requisite qualifications, ran there be found
to fill the pli.fe of Senator in Congress, after the
thirdltf March "next—Although this should be.done
, *§tr, I cannot flatter myself that I snail be tbe suc
cessful Candidate, whatever my pretensions may he,
'"the chances lire against me, the people of Kentucky
**re in the habits of Saying they must see and know
, njafijthey vote lor; they mean .they must be
'rnfirted p this habit is no doubt more or less preva-'
" .lent with their representative*.—Yet on the subjert
; of locality, permit me.to remind you sir, that Sena
tors besides their legislative powers, have a great
influence in appointments to office, that as equal
■ distribution of executive favors us can with com
’fp'vebience he made, it most rondiicive to that cor
.diality which ought to subsist mall pans of a com*
thunity. permit me alto to remind you air, that
Within the last seven years, there has been appoint
ed by the authority of the Uuited States fiom
‘ ‘ Kentucky,^>ne Judge of the Supreme Court, three
^Territorial Governors, two Secretaries, three Ter
? rimrial Judges, beside several commissioners for ex* i
anting and reporting on tbe dorms fur lands in J
> the United Slate* territories, as well as registers,
'.or receivers of the land offices—and not one of those
dffirer* has been appointed front flic lower half of
the elate—*1 do not mention this sir, from an aver
i eion to eny of the persons eppointed—Kentucky
. it Ji'a» been uncommonly lucky in the propriety of the
* ^ 4p|%3ntmenta made itum the state. ftjy concur !
•>.-< tfntp one pay or other Hm been called for and oh j
tainedio most of those appointments, but it has
vbe«n for tbe ttfost purl, at times when a remon-1
?r strancein favour Of a petion more southerly, ami |
/ ' kquall/qualid-d to serve the public, would be uu- j
aeasimable—Ng do I mention this circumstance
from any, even the least dislike to either of the gen- !
„,|Iem«n wbp have Served this stats fu the Senate
" dating the time I had the honor of serving as a
, s representative from Kentucky—the good under
; standing which, has subsisted between ell those
Senllyttgli and myself, the resperiful attention 1
aye Wp«-rienred,‘ as wall as the aid and conrur
^ripfce I ha»S met with from them in my pub
''■►He matters, will ever be remembeied by me with
* Complacency, as well as the most grateful and
| r||p*ctfi^*fling towards them. 1 will close, ibis
• part of t^piv>ject by remarking that it is in the oa
'• tara of things that naan should know a share
those best, and esteem them most who have lived
s sear to him, and with whom he has bean most con
" jversant—When f observed sir, in the commence
- ‘ meat of this address, that I stood the oldest repre
sentative m congress from this state, it was with a
^ ■ Piew to draw your attention to a circumstance
* which has been hitherto overlooked in Keutucky,
** namely, that it is the practice of the states geue
. tally to appamt some one of their old representa
tivee in congress to the senate—The reason is ob
vioua, thirty foor members in that bouse, have
; equall-gisUtive power, with 142 in theother bouse,
"iifyxempt in the introduction of-bills for raising re
vauue.) and.they are vested with a share ofthe exe
'W'*.cuiive,pnjv*f—- they are the constitutional council ot
, v the Prraiueot in appointments, and in treaty niak
’ Wg.—They are also the high court of impeachment
4m, State criminals. It therefore seems like begin
ning to build at the upper end ofthe pyramid, to
send an unexperienced youth to coniraeuce bis po
-- iitical career in a station where common sense must
• pky, that. all. the political knowledge of human na
, jtnre, of rain and things, all the 4h|uaint&nce with
Sj thg characters, temper, disposition, and even the
hia'ises/and prejudices of those with whom be is
«£t, which is attainable by the soundest head
mdgf*active mind in the course of mauy
rs is absolutely necessary.—Although Kentucky
been very unfortunate in the choice of unex
'/>P?l’ieDrMr^llM*or*>10 mr ofthe gentlemen have not
' Speen ahnve acknowledging the awkwardness of the
they haye hen placed in. Prom the old
y tjtlfyi can rSchlUct but eight- Senators who have
■ If P^nticeship in the house of repre
j^^wf®Wt^i|pw1(d,ttit«®n* • any pretensions sir,
r* ra»y ,W.i to the Station of Senator on the
|V SK^S oflong audfirthfol services, at political know*
’ experience,. there .are many, very many
t'ihjeciioits Jo me. sv«h 4s wonld dele*, a man less
, ' duxtfiw on account of the political sittfation of our
>?«ounyi| a »rfa WsseapabU of bearing a repulse or
slighted—My offer in this case and
ririomeUnc*s, in^' be thought by
^-^|tc^4i«lfpnrdifiaryt.jalt;vlam under no apprehen
.«ftS|*f ftilMK*0* epnetdtfed like that of the noble
- Kneipan, who offered to Dr. Franklin to come to
Jk««ic»pnd> * king foros—In noticing the
imesiprominesa of those objections,, I shall sum to
:\f4nwrf*» fUeutiop to. our national concerns
inrn oi'jaettanlartaubitnntmlly as follow*:
' V' lit. Lyonia aot an Anteriran burn. -
f&Mn **• l* too mats h' stronger 10 Kentucky.
;,.V : fd.v H#Vs opjwted to the present adrmui*lr«tio*.
- 4 4lb. He baa apostatized «od turned federalist. |
■ SHvJk'» » frirtd to tbo British. X
» "> C\yMM«ct»on tha^ h# was opposed to the
'W^m*** U»* fwtncuoo* of oar government on
own cownurrco. ’ , .
i - tli* 6r«ioUj»rtum it made only by those who *,
i but Ataneen years and &vc
jf■oouotka old when I ran* to Ainrrira, that I bad
> to wfeaj l* ho w tbo United Stout bi
'' Tore ttfo rttrolodonaty' war, that' tbr)a*h the reW*
liauitf wbreb tpiye to* tbit country, liberty, ind#
peodvort, etad ail that ia dear to patriots, I acini’
inm tiuMrrt to. the kit ia the c’ouncik ^^ adop;. [
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«ndmilitia, commencing m • prmtfYoMieiy nodcl’
tb« famous Etbsn Allan, m lhe redaction of the
fori Tirnnderoga, and cloaiogthe war ja tbe ebm,
maoil of • regiment af militia, with tberank of
chief,«ol«tteL^.y.A \ '-A
Tba wcoa<fobjMtioa it made bj those who do
not consider that. Kenlacky is a new stale, that half
it* present inbabiunt* have been bbm or emigrate
<d hara tgince raj making fay bora* in tbe state.
Kievan year* residence, one yea#* service in tbe
state legislature, and seven years Service in congress
ought to wear out any noviciate and sump me a
Kentuckian. To those who bave bean my culteagaes
.ind the senators, I have no reluctanae in submit
ting the question—‘Whether I am behind any of
them in knowledge of tbe interest of the western
country, and whether I have been behind any of
thrin in zeal or activity for tbe promotion of that
interest. -
To the thiidobjection, I answer for myself, that
wherever the view# and rpnduct of the executive
braoch of government comports with my ideas ot
■ be good of the nation let the President be the man
of my choice, or otherwise.
Thaf executive shall have my most zealous sup
port. Mr. Jefferson was my choice as President in
the room of Adams, and for eight years afterwards.
Vet believing that in the latter part of bis adminis
tiHiion his judgment led him to pursue a course
which must end in its own rejection, or the humi
liation, distraction and belitthment of the nation,
1 was constrained irom duty to withhold my as
sent from some of his measures. The venerable
Clinton was my last choice as President; l.e was
| the nation's choice hut one grade lower. Vet as
soon as tha choice of Mr. Madison was announced
1 1 called on him to assure lum I was neither disap.
pointed, vexed nor mortified, that I had no anyuo
I tity, that I should feel myself bound by' every tie
| ot duty to support his measures, when, to me, they
! appeared to he calculated for the good of the nation,
| 1 should do it with the same zeal as if I had advo
cated bit election. I have done so.—Wlun the
1 arrangement was mad* by him with Mr. Erskine,
1 rejoired at it; I gave him evey credit, aid, and
support, and altho’ he had issued his proclamation
permitting intercourse with tlie British dominions,
under circumstances which by no means corrobora
ted with those contemplated by the law under
which he presumed to art, yet looking at the puri
ty and patriotism of his intention, 1 defended him,
and was ready to give legislative'sanction to what
he had done. At this present time when he is at
tacked, abused and insulted, by many of those who
suppoited his election, because he has not urged the
legislature on to war, I am disposed to give him *-’
very support in my power, particularly as I have
reason to believe him inclined to treat with the Bri
tish government on reasonable terms respecting the
subject* of dispute between the nations.
With Tegard to the 4th objection, formidable at
it is, l will combat it. If you will have patience
and candour, you will see satisfactory explanation
and refutation overthrow those foul charges.—
Wherein have I apostatized} What and where is
the evidence of my apostacy? The whole of the e
vidence alledged consists in my voting frequently
with the federalists, and that I have written letters i
to my eastern acquaintance who are wondering at
the difference of opinion between some leading cha
racters who {with them) retaiu the name of repub
licans, after they have turned their barks on the
principles they and myself advocated ten, twelve,
and fourteen'years ago. The soundness, or un
soundness, the republicanism, or anti-republican
ism, of my vote, it seems is nut the question.—
That is groand that does not suit my accusers :—
No, it ts the company I sometimes vote with, as
if a politician must abaudon propositions of. his,
own making, or advising, matured, and brought
forward, with the greatest deliberation, and highest
prospect of national advantage because he can
not select the prisons who me to vote with him,
or because his propositions are like to meet a Una
nimous vote. If I vote with the federalists, it is
because they choose to vote with me, and 1 have
no other rule in my votes than my endeavour ta
piomote the national good, and the interest of the
western country. As to my federalism, it is no
more or less than it was twenty years ago, I
was always a friend to the federal government in
opposition to a consolidated government. Tbe
happy mode fell upon under our constitution of for-j
tning states which shall have the power of govern
ment tor ail civil, internal, and domestic purposes,
will extend and perpetrate our civil liberty, while
by wise management of the national federal gov
ernment leaving all they can leave to the states to
do, they will be able with very little exertion to
manage our national concerns. On the subject
•f republicanism I aver that on every principle
which regards our political rights, 1 have remained
unchanged these SO years. ,
I defy even the most censorious to shew a vote of
(bine given the last seven years which stands in
contradiction of those votes 1 gave about the time
I suffered persecution for my opinions. Opinions
then by republicans thought orthodox. 1 ruuured
four months imprisonment and a fine of one thou
sand dollars for publishing in a defensive letter writ
ten to tny correspondents that “ as to the executive,
when I shall see the efforts of that power bent on
the promotion of the comfort, the happiness and
accommodation of tbe people, that executive shall
have my zealous and uniform aupport. But when
ever t shall on the pait of the executive see every
consideration of ft he public welfare swallowed up
in a continual grasp lor power, in an . unbounded
thiiit for ridiculous pomp,, foolish adulation, ana
selfish avarice—when 1 shall behold men of real
merit duly turned out of office for no other cause
bat indlpendence of sentiment, when I shall see
then of firmness; merit, years, abilities and expe
rience, discarded in' their application* for office
for fear they possess that independence, and mm
of hieaaness prefered for the ease with which (bey
take up'and advocate opinions, the consequence ot
which they know hot little of,' when 1 shall see the
Sacred uamVofrelightn employed 'is a 'state engine
to (pake mankind hate and persecute one another,
T »huM not be their hmoble advocate.** . There is not
aniota, not a tittle of that creed bat what, ] now
eubscri.be to, pot a sentiment but what I have abi
ded by, and would suffer, even greater penalties ra
th**1 than rvuoHhfe. ■ rY*t 1 am called an apostate
by those who have taken John Adams and bis too
Quincy to their bosom with all their monarchical
federalism, with alUbeir aristocratic projects, with
ill Utir ideas of separating thegeatUmen from ^><r
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r-..v,.w A.v;. #•• ,. ;'!**»•> ,*»/. ' • *.
’.smptinn, tbeir Lord* a*J tbeir cotmnmn. Mi
a great deal in accusation of
Hatniitoawltois dead nod bis secretary of state
wbon ha kept in employ for hit own pleasure and
J convenieocei Bat K have seen nothing in bis late
works like recanting any of his old pernicious sen*
tiwents. This same John Adams held th* prison*
judoor fastopon me four months, regardless of the
petitions of several thousand republicans. Tfel he
| and his son are in favor (with many of tln^Jpwhn ,
would brand me with apostary) merely because he"'
has lately recommenced preaching up bis old doc
trine of passive obedience to the power t that bt.~
Let those who charge me with apostary and those
that worship acquit themselves. 1 wish them no
longer to disregard professions we made when out of
power. Let them renovate, and come back to their
old principles, or the charge of apostacy will ere
long he applied by the American peuple to those to
whom it most piopeily belongs. It may be well
here to observe there are some, honest mild repuhli*
cans who know and acknowledge the rotrectness
of the charges contained in my letters, yet tell me
that it looks bad to see republicans saying such bard
things agaiost republicans, they would rather I
' would let things pass along easy. To them I an
J swer, that I have been forced to make those cxpla
nations to persons who are disposed to blame me
lor not humbly following certain characters in all
their turnings and windings, th« having defended
the sacred principles of republicanism against one
set of men, 1 am measurably bound whet. I see them
trampled on by another set to sound the alarm, that
however near and dear my friends may be to me,
truth, the principles of republicanism, and the good
of the nation are nearer and dearer to me, that 1 do
not consider those men who have deserved those
[ exposures beyond correction, and the surest cor
rective for ermr in public conduct is public repie
henstun. John Adams said that republicanism meant
any thing or imtbing. Thomas Jetferson said we are
all federalists, all republicans. For ray part I think
American republicanism consists in a desire to keep
the government us near as may be under the con
troul of *he people who are to be governed and are
disposed to yielu obedience and support to that go
vernment. That charge couched under the 5th ob
jection, that 1 am a friend to the British, romes un
epprupos to a person like me, who was born in the
oppressed kingdom of Ireland, of parents whose pro
genitors for a long succession had felt the heavy
iron hand of the Bntish government, whose hatred
| to that government was such that I may be said to
! have puilicipated in it with the milk I sucked from
J my mother. To one who (from the time the British
parliament declared they had a right to bind Ameri
cans in all rases whatsoever) never ceased nor hesi
tated to act iu opposition to that government until
' (,ur independence was secured by the treaty of peace,
th« charge seems preposterous. I have never in
my Iona life ceased to wish for the emancipation of
the Insh. nor shall I ever fail in my duty to that
oppressed people. Bat as an American politician 1
am hound to be acquainted with her interests, and
to devote my undivided labours for the promotion of
that interest. In doing this, 1 have aided in provi
ding a comfortable assyluin far millions of the de
pressed Irish and English republicans. Many, too
too many of whom, regardless of the benefit design- j
ed them by this assylurn, are abusing it by tbeir en
deavors to plunge the nation to whose hospitality
they are beholden into a useless hopeless war, mere
ly to avenge the wnmgs of the country they have
left. Tbeir eagerness or revenge leads them under
the polluted name of lepublicamsin to make use otj
two thirds of tiie principal priming presses in this'
nation of which they ’nave got contrnul, to provoke
the people into war on the side of the Corsican, who
is too fast approaching towards universal despot
ism. I o this war I .have been opposed for many
reasons, some of which I will hereafter mention ;
and for this I have been stigmatised by the sort of
people I have been speaking of. The stigma has
been echoed and reiterated by many from the desire
of promoting their friends, or alienating the affecti
ons of my constituents from me- From the time
the British government disavowed that outrage and
proposed reparation, I consigned war inevitable
and acted accordingly in urging preparation and
precaution. From the time of that disavowal
which 1 prized the higher as it appeared to me a de
viati.m from truth on the part of the British go
vernment and a sacrifice of a system they had prevu
ously adopted with respect to this nation, 1 felt
proud of the obtainment of that disavowal, and con
sidered its obtainment a matter of exultation on
the part of our government. 1 thought I saw in the
disavow#! and the sending a special mission to this
country to make atonement, a disposition to recon
cile and accommodate on the part oi that govern
ment the difiermees existing between the nations,
and! have been desirous to see a corresponding dis
position on the part of the people and the govern
ment of ibis couatry, not out of favour to Britain,
but tonur own country. With Britain old in wealth
in cotruption, and every tbinp, war is an every day
business by which they can live. But to this coun
try war would be ruinous in many tesprcls, parti
cularly it would put a stop to that growth on which
I build all my bopas for this nation’s ability effica
ciously to deb’odour rights on the ocean, sn ele
meut on which anglo Americans are one day destin
ed to govern, nod 1 hope they will govern with a
milder sway than its present masters, the British,
nr its former mothers, the Dutch, the Vendeans, the
Carthagenians &r. who have gone before them. As
In niy opposition to the embargo and our cotmfier
cial restrictions, that opposition could have * re
gard to the interest of the British, as I had on alt
occasions been desirous of checking the profits
drawn from this country by the British, by increas
ing the duties on British manufacture, so much as
to many case* to amount to a prohibition of the ar-'
kick, in order that the people of America would be
necessitated to laarn to furnish themselves or forego
the use of aucharticles, I was always witling to pro
hibit the importation of any article the growth or
manufacture of England, my votes hate been given 1
that way. Bub when the proposition was made to!
Stop the exportation to foreign qptuitries for iitnr
lets of the'value of forty milliotb'of dolflts, the an
poet product of the sail, and the labour of the A me
rtran people, l was thunder-strock, and appalled,
although I bod. beard soma batr-lrained poluiciMis
ddclare we ought to quit the ocean entirely and haul I
up aud hum all our ships though we should pay for
the private property out of the publick treasury,—
Allbo'bythat roeaos we should double |hpt nation*!
d*bt, | listened to the effusions of these madmen wit!- j
contsmpt, ns.vsr disunion that th« viui Jefferson
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head iW'»d'V»mM^'a^
Proj*?<r N#JP?00» the sime uf hi* recommend. ~
•og the •mbtrgs'De b«1d a conversation with at un
Iofthe charge* iifout W be exhibited*. *
S*™« snipe high charac let! in Kentucky fur their
|oBc«fn in lb» Spanish business, («* ftwas culled)
fee noth expressed an aversion' to raking op old 1
things that were passed by, we egreed that the Iron,
ble* of the present day were sufficient we entered
.into the subject of the provocation of iW’pople of
Kentucky bad when there was danger of Ibegoverlfi.
went of the United Slates embargoing them by
yielding up the navigation of the-Mississippi^ w«
on the ruinoua situation of the western coufi*
try in case they should bftdjprivcd of the use of
that river, 1 remember he exclaimed “ ftho would
blame the western people for being e*Mp£ratihf V* *
the highest pitch under such ciicumsiahcvsi1” How
: could I anticipate, sir, the man who felt so much
the oecesstty of the western people’s having .Un »
pen road to the ocean to export to market the pro,
duce of their labour would tlnrit ofn..t only block
ing up the Missisippi hut the mouth of e'&ry rivet,
every harbor in the nation for an uncertain time!
li in his opfnioo the one was more than the western
people ought to bear patiently, how could he expect
that the nation could bear ttie other* These we're ■
my reflections when I beard his recommendations
of an embargo read, 1 could not fail recollecting tba
alarm, the anxiety, the perturbation in the western
country occasioned by the Spanish government in.
New Oileans merely refusing us the right of depoa
sit, although the river was left open to us and New '
Orleans had not refused to $>0y of us. Tbe.t‘
things were fieshonniy mind, [know that the in
jury to be done to the people in sacrificing their
property ami checking their industry was none tba
less because it was to be done hy a friend dr by our -
own government. I ton well understand the re-^
sources of Great Britain to believe she would sniffer
most hy the measure, when the sol- use of the oceea
was given up to her with the power of bringing hdr
manufacture* here for sale. I knew loo well the a
varire, cupidity and eutejjprize, of the American
people to believe that Britain would suffer so great
inconvenience whil* toe embargo laflM as we ’’
should. ™
Und»r these circumstances can I be blamed
opposing the embargo as a publiclc measure d | ata '
boond to act, my own judgment formed on the bes(V
infoiniation in my power, drawing my deduction* '
and conclusions from my own information and un
derstanding. My ideas of republican government
are that the business of the government is to rego
late the publick concerns so as the least possible in
jury shall be suffered by the individuals of the coot-,
munity, and to provide as far as possible that evejy
man in the community shall be protected not only *
in his person and property but in his lawful pursuit*.
It has been customary in all maritime nations on >
extraordinary occasions to luy embargoes fora few
days either to prevent intelligence or succour gfifog
to an enemy, and those injured aie not in the halil
of making heavy complaints, but can it be said to
be consistent with republican justice to detain ,in
one day twenty or thirty thousand men from their
daily labour, and deprive them for au uncertain
time of tbeir daily bread without providing meeos
tor their subsistence ? If the object was a national
one, the loss and the suffering ought to be national
also, before the legislature determined tu|Kt lha
ports of the nation until the French decree aud Bri
tish orders were withdrawn they ought to have
counted the cost—surely the support of .those de
prived of their daily bread by the measure well de
served lobe prominent item in that cost, but ths
legislature was in too big a hurry to mate c«UuU-vi
HOns. It was with gseat difficulty I could get timtH
and opportunity to pburtray the hopelessness nftby
project, and the injury it would inevitably do to^our
own people, and it is Ah great grief I see all my
predictions fulfilled. A^great proportion of su
seamen are fled into foreign service, thousands,of
I bankruptcies, failures and disappointments have
happened, while unprincipled adventurers have
made fortunes. A vast number of American Ship*
I ping have runaway with cargoes during the embargo
iinii dare not return, others which might have run
for years were they kept in employ, kava by lying •$
up out of use like bait wot^waggoni been ruined,
siap building has been discouraged. To those <k»- *
asters the western people may attribute the want of
market to New-Orleans the past s-asoa. Thou- .
sands of barrels of western pork and lard, as'wel^
as hogsheads of western tobacco’were lying in New '
Orleans unsold the last time ss^fcard from there,
not lor waut of foreign market hlnfor want of yW'
sets to carry them to that market. In New Oileai.*
there never has been but a few sea vessels owned,
and they are become so scarce in the eastern,sea
ports that they could not be spaied from their; or'di
nary employment to carry out produce from Orleans
to where it inight fi^d a market. To esublish tlii*
important fact so interesting to the western agricul
turalist, no more examination is necessary • than It
look into the pt ires current at Boston, New-York.
Philadelphia, and Baltimore, during the monthior11*
May and June last, when oiu pork could noH^hre
sold in New Orleans at nipe dollars • baml wjlh-'l
out repacking and inspection, or for triulollart
it, will be found that the average prirere those.eijiet
lor the cargo, Orordinary pork was six teen dollar tcr~
When shipping is plenty the freight from Orleans
io one of those ports would be little more t humane
dollar a barrel. Indian corn from the' weftrrn
country was sold for want of shipping to rsrry ft
ft way, at Orleans last winter for 25 rentes bushef;
this was also as fiiusf he seen at once wholly owing
to this scarcity of shipping, Thus it sppjypy. sbai
the late losses of western yd ventured have been
chiefly brought about by the »ame favourite mea.
•»w, the embargo which hasso derenfftand redo
red the rational finances, that in fifteen months *£>
ter we were culled on by Mr.' .Jefferson to provide
the manner of disposing of our surplus revenue m »
have been obliged to have recourse to borrowing^ W '
order to make godd the ordioary^and anouai rttat- :
bursemeots of the principal ^od interest of the qa*
lional dsbt.This embargo so extolledfor its sris
dc.ni and efflrarj, besides cresting an incalculable
m iss of individual distress, general national impoe. '
crishment, and defalcation in the revfpoe, served
as a pretext for the most nn\i repoblirsn dereliction
'(on the part of the two bouses of congress): legisla*
tiva powers that ever disgraced tb*: represent*. ’
Hires, of a free people. They >«t only resigned '
their legislative powers into the' bands of tb#
PrrsidenHor the purpose of enforcing the embargo,
but these gavelbe force of law to repuUtions made "*■
jiy other msij of hts appointujtiK. Thwfor m*r»
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