Alexandria daily advertiser. [volume] (Alexandria [Va.]) 1803-1808, 1803-11-10

L cured TO Us ny CAiolAiiS tiSsesiSo' 49,
was no difference Of opinion but as to ths
/ mode ofasserting this right. On ali hands
It was agreed thar we would never rein
quish this great object. A certain portion
of the legislature were disposed to resor
Immediately to violent measures. Ano
tther portion was ofopinion that it was best
! to wave such measures, until amlcable means
taf setting this difference had proved met
iectual. Letu suppose this to have been
1.-The case-that our negotiation, instead Of
It's present happy issue, had terminated IN
arsflsal of Justice. II believe there would,
| in that event, have been but one sentiment
In this house and in this nation. We should
have appealed TO arms,sand it fortune had
ionly been as impartial as our cause Was3nst
we should have possessed ourselves, at
least, Of part ofthe territory in question.
Did any one dream Of denying our rightdo
the forclble possession of New-Orleans, if
necessary to secure the navigation OF the
Mississippi? Can anation acquire by force
that which she cannot acquire by treaty ]?
Mustnot the eventual right to the country,
possessed by conquest, be confirmed by
treaty? And is it not idle to contend that
so long as we employ force we may occupy
the country, but no longer--that we cannot
retain it by convention: Is not this to con-
vert the question, from question OF polls
teal right, 70 question ofphysical power?
Mr.. Randolph said he was now done with
the constitutional objections, and he would
finish by saying something OF the expedl-
ency of the measure
The gentleman from New-York seems
to dread this treaty as death-blow to our
commerce and carrying trade. What is
the state of that trade now, IN relation to
the coded country? But short time ago,
who would have asked more than to be put
on an equal footing with the possessors of
that country? We now have the sovereign
ty of and only stipulate that for 10 years.
France and Spain should be admitted. (not
on an equal footing with US but that their
vessels, laden with their own produce (not
otherwise shouldpay no higher duties than
our own. At the expiration of that.perlod
we can give decided preponderance to our
own trade by discriminating duties. VIII
the hardy and enterprizing New Highlander
shrink from competition with France and
Spain on these terms Cannot the discri-
minating duties be still enforcedby the ex-
listing regulations in respectto imports from
New-OrIeans to other parts OF the United
States? So far from a clog on our COM
merce, does not this treaty unfetter the
Mississippi trade and give us a preference
over all other nations, except in the case of
French and Spanish vessels laden with the
produce of their respective countries, and
there we are on footing with them?
Mr.. r. said that he would not dilate up
on the importance of the navigation of the
Mississippi which had been the theme Of
every tongue-which we now possessed I'M
fettered by the equal claim Of the nation
holding the west bank-a fruitful source OF
quarrel but he would call the attention OF
the committee to report which had been
made at the last session and to which pub
licity had lately been given.
| am not surprised, Mr.. Chairman, tina;
in a performance so replete with intorma-
ton, single error should be discovered
especially as it does not affect the soundness
Of its conclusion. AS long ago as the year
1913, the inhabitants of the French@provln.
ces of Canada explored the country on
the Mississippi. A few years afterwards
(1685) La Sale, with emigrants from old
France, made a settlement on the bay Of
St. Bernard, and at the close Of the 18th
century, previous to the existence of the
| Spanish colony of Pensacola, another
French settlement was made by the govern
or D'lbbervillc at Mobile, and on the Isle
| Dauphln, or Massacre, at the mouth Of
that bay--In II 4 short time previous
to tie peace-of Utrecht, Louis XIV des.
cribed the extent Of the colony of Loui.
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