Alexandria daily advertiser. [volume] (Alexandria [Va.]) 1803-1808, 1806-03-21

-os the resolution ofqs,ed6y Nh. Gregg.
f11r. =. Raadolphs speech continued
But the gentleman has told you that we
ough. TO go TO war. if for nothing else, for
The fur trade. Now sir, the people on
whose support he seems to calculate, fol.
! low (let me tell him) better business, and
let me add that whilst men are happy at
home reapiog their own fields, the fruits OF
their labor and industry, there's little
danger of their being induced togo is or
400 miles in pursuit of beavers, racoons,
or opos.ums rnuch less of going to war
for the privilege. They are better employ.
ed where they are. This trade, sir, may
be important 60 Britain, to nations who
have exhaustedsevery resourceSof industry
at home; bowed down by taxation and
wretchedness. Letthem. in Gods name; if
they please. follow thefur trade. They may,
tol me, catchevery beaver IN u. America.
Yes, sir, our people have better occupa.
ton; safe, profitable, honorable employ
ment. Whilst they should be engaged in
distant regions in hunting the beaver, they
dread Lest those whose natural prey they
are should begin to hunt them; should
pillagestheir property, and assassinate their
onstitution.--IRstead of these wild
schemes pay off your debt, instead Of
prating about its con6scasion. DO not, T
beseech you, expose at once your knavery
and your folly, You have morela lands than
you kaowwhas TO do with; you have lately
paid Is millions<for yet more. Go aud
work them and cease TO alarm the people
with the. cry of wolf, until they become
deaf TO your voice, or at least laugh at
: you.
Mr.. Chairman, if felt less regard. for
what deem the best Interests of this ma.
aion than for my own reputation, should
not, on this day, have offered to address
you; but would have waited to come out,
bedecked with flowers and bouquets of
rhetorick, in set speech. But, sir, l
dreaded less tone might be given to the
committee; they will pardon me, but
didlfear from all that ! could see, or hear,
that they might be prsjudiced by its advo.
GATES, under pretence protecting our COM
,mercs, in favor of this ridiculous& preposser.
Gus project. Irose sir for one to plead guilty.
To declare in the face of day that I will
not 60 to war for this carving trade.
will agree TO pass for an ideot if this is not
the public sentiment, and you will find it
TO your cost begin the war when you
will.
Gentlemen talk of 1898. They might as
well go back to the Trojan war. What
wa. Your situation then? Then everywhere
beat high with sympathy fer France, for
Republican France | am not prepared to
say, with my friend, from Pennsylvania,
that we were all ready to draw our swords
in her cause, but affirm that we were.
prepared TO have gone greatlengths. / am
not ashamed to pay this compliment to the
hearts of the American people, even if at
the expence of their understandings. 1t
was noble and generous sentiment which
nations like individuals are never the worse
for having felt. They were, repeat it,
ready to make great sacrifices tor France.
And why ready? Because she was fghting
the battles of the human race against the
combined enemies. of their liberty ;,because
~she was performing the part which Great
Britain now, in fact, sustaius; forming
the only bulwark against universal domi-
MON. Knock away her navy, and where
are you? Under the naval despotism of
France, unchecked and unqualified by any
antagonizing military power, at best but a
change of masters. Tbs tyrant of the
ocean, and the tvrant of the land is one
and the%same, lord of all, and who shall
say him nay, or wherefore doess thou this
thing? Give TO the Tiger the properties of
fhe shark, aud there is no longer safety for
( the beasts of the forest or the fishes of the
sea. Where was this high anti Britasnic
spirit of the gentlemanfrsm Pennsylvania