Alexandria advertiser and commercial intelligencer. [volume] (Alexandria [Va.]) 1800-1803, 1803-03-01
Senate Of the United States.

ra,lcns upoa.h- legiilatsve bpaae!s cetere
If. Mr.. RS rots and laid
TIA. al,hoagh he came from a part Of
.hs county where tie late eyenis UPON
the MiaiHppi had excited great sla'm
and ioliclruoc !; he had hishssto torbo;ns
the expreiiion Of his lsnfialsnfs, CT 10
bring forward any me4iare, relative 10
the unlualhablc, oyprellive coodua OF
The officers Of The Sp4bith government at
New Orleans. He had walted thus long
ia the hepe that fon,e ferfon more likely
than hlmieIf, 10 concilia1e AMI unto the
opinions Of majority OF the isnate,
would have offered eiicacious meaiares
for their confederation. But feeling the.
felton, now drawing 10 clofe, without
any fuch prcpoG:iop, he could not recon
Gle longer flence, either TO his own
ienfe of propriety, Or 10 the duty he owed
10 his conGitoenis. He would not cen
TENT TO go home wishou; making one et-
fort, however feeble or unincceistni, 70
avert the calamity which threatened the
Weifcrp Country. Prefent Appearances
he confefed, bat lissle juaided the hope,
that any thing he might propofe would
lie adopted; YET il would az lsait afford
him fone conioIa,ion hereafter, that he
haddsne his duty when the form was ap-
proachieg, by warning thofe who had
power in their hands OF the means which
ouahS to be employed to refit 1t.
He was fally aware that the executive
of the United States had acted. That
he had tent an Envoy Extraordinary TO
Europe. This was the peculiar province,
and perhaps the duty Of the PRECEDENT,
He would net fay that Il was nawiis N
this fate OF our affairs 70 prepare tor re-
monarsnce and negotiations, much leis
was he then aboug 10 Propose any meaiule
thar would thwart negociatlon, or ernbar
RATS the PreGdent. On the ether hand he
was convinced that more than negotiation
was obfoluteIy necefary, that more pow
err and more. means ought to he given to
the pfeiident, in o,der &c render his ncgo-
Citations efieatious. Gould the PRECEDENT
proceed further, even if he thought more
vigorous meafores proper and exPedientf
WAS it in his power to rcpel ard Punlih
the iadign;ty PIT upon the nation? Could
he ule the public force 10 redreis COR
wroness Certainly nor. This mua be
the aess OF CongFets. They are now
20 Judge cf ulterior meaiufes. They
NUT give the power ard vote The meaos
TO vindicate 10 becoming msnner the
wounded honour and the bea in;ereas OF
the country.
Mr.. r. faid be held in his hands GER
tain rsioiutions for that purpoie, and be-
fore he offered them TO the fenate be would
very fully explain lis realons for Bringing
them forward and Freaing them With ear
nelnefs, as the bet fy!fem' the United
States could nov perfue.
Il was certainly .unnceeaary to waite
the time of that body in Eating that we
had a folemn explicit Treaty with Spain:
that this Treaty had been wantonly ard
unproyokedly violated, not only I'D "ha'
related to The M;diairpi, but by the
mott fragrant, defrucsiye fpoliations ct
our commerce on every part Of the ocean,
where Spaniih armed yefeis met tie
American flag. Theie ipol.asions were
OF immenfe magnitude, and denan>,ed che
mot ferrous notice of cur government.
They had been followed By an indigni'y
and direct infrat9ion Of our treaty Tela-
tive 70 the M;aaPpi which bore an al
Ietf not to be didsmbled or niit2Seu.
To TIE Tree navigation OF thar river we
had an undcohsed rigN, from nature, and
from the poGtion Of our Weaern country.
,rhis risht and the right OF dePoht lnthe
iaand Of New Orleans, lad been lAemn-
II acknowledged and hxed by srea'y IN
,7os. TAss treaty had b,en in actual
o.,.;,, ao3, execo-i0n fox many Yeats.