The enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1804-1815, 1806-03-21

No, Sir, anfwer, that il will be time enough
for us to tell gentlemen what We will do to
vindicate the violation of our flag on the ocean,
when they ihalf have told us what they have
done, in Recruitment Of the violation Of the &C
tual territory Of the United States by Spain
the true territory of the United States, not
your new fauglsd country over the Mififlippi,
but the good did United States-part of Geor-
gia, of the old thirteen Rates-where citizens
have been taken, not from our ihips, but from
snr actual territory. When gentlemen have
taken the paddock FROM our mouths, ihall be
ready to tell them what will do, relative to-
our difpute with Britain. on the law of nations.
on contrabsnd, and fuch Ruff
have another objection to- this courfe Of pro-
cecding. G. Britain, when ihe fees'it, wilifsy
the American people have great carfe Of dfIa-
-tisiattion with Spain. She will fee by the do
cuments furnifhed by the PRECEDENT, that Spain
has outraged eur Territory, tirated upon Our
commerce and impt;toned or citizens; and
The will enquire what we have done! 1t
is true, me will receive no anfwcr, but fhe
niue know what we have rot done. She will
lee that we have not repealed thcfe outrages, nor
even claffed the militia. No, fir---not one of
your militia generals in politics has marlhaled
Jingle brigade.
Although have faid it would be time enough
to aniwer the queftien which gentlemen have
put to me when they ila,I have anfwered mine,
yetas / do not like long proroeations, will give
them an aniwsr now. will never content To
70 TO war for that which cannot protea.
deem 1t no facrifce Of dignity to fay to the lie.
viathaH of the deep" we are Unable to con-
tend with yoa in Your own element, but il you
come within our actual limits we will fled our
aft drop of blood in their defence" In fuch
feel NOT NJ, 4 ~.
impulfe which never has---which never can de-
ceive me.
France is at war with England--fuppofe her
power on the continent of Europe no greater
than 1t ia OH the ocean. How would fhe make
her enemy feel it There would be aperfstt
non-conduttor between them. So with the U.
). and England---ihe fcarcely pr.fents to us
Vulnerable point. Her commerce is now carri-
ed on for the moi part in f1ects---vhere in Jingle
Hips, they are ftout & we'll armed.--very differ
ent from the fate Of her trade during the Anne
rican war, when her merchantmen became the
prey Of paftry privatecrs. G. b: has been too
long at war with the three mott powerful mari
time NATIONS OF Europe not to have learnt how
to protect her trade. She can afford convoy To
II aIi--.the has 500 fhips in -commifEon, the ma.
vles or her enemies are annihilated. Thus this
war has prefented the new and curious political
iipeetacle of regular annual increafe land TO an
inmenfe amount) of her imports and exports,
ana tonnage and revenue, and all the iniiynia
OF accommodating wealth, Whit ia every former
war, without exception, thefe have fuffered a
greater or ieis dimnution. And wherefore |.
becaute The has driven France, Spain, and
Holland from the Ocean, Their marine
IS no more. IveriIy believe that ten Englih
ih,pa OF the line would not decline meeting
with the combined fleets of thofe nations. /
forewarn the gentleman from Maffachsfetts and
his cenftituents ofSalem, that all their golden
hopes are vain. forewarn them of the expo.
i!lre OF their trade beyond the Cape of Good
hope Tor now doubling itJ to capture and con-
hscation-ot their unpro teeted fea- port towns,
eXpoied to contribution or bombardment. Are
we 10 DC Ieg'liated into war by a 1et of men,
who INK weeksafter its commencement may
DC compelled to- take refuge with US up in the
county! And for what ! A mere fungus-a
"'nihrooW production Of war in Europe. which
VIII ditappear with the firft return of peace
an unfair trade. For is there man 70 credu.
ious as to believe that we pofefs a capital not
ohly equa: to what may be called our own pro.
per trade, but large enough ALTO to tranfinit TO
me respective parent fates the vaft and veal
my prodnctsott the French, Spaniih and Dutch
COLONIES lis beyond the belief of any ra.
flonal beine.-But this is not my only obietti.
on TO entering upon this naval warfare. / am
averie to naval war with any natian whatever.
was oPpofed TO the naval war of the laft ad.
m,nitratioh, and am as ready 20 oppofe ma.
val war OF the prefent administration, fboula
they mediate fitch a nicafiire. What ftsiI
tins great Mammoth of the American forea
leave his native element and plunge into IN.
water In mad CONTEXT with the mark Let
MN beware that his probofcis is not bitten off
IN the engagement. Let him fay on fhore and
not be excited by the mufcIes aud periwinkIes
on the itrand, or political bears, in a boat ia
venture on the peris of the deep. Gentlemen
lay" VIII you not protect yoarvioiated rights !D
ana lay why take to water, where YOU can
neither fight nor twin. Look at France-feei
her vei'els ftealing from port to port ON her
own coaft-and remember that fle ;s the fri
military power of the earth, and as a naval peo.
PIE iecond only to England Take away the
brltIih navy, and France tomorrow is the ty1
rant of the ocean.
This brings me to the fecoDd point. How
tar IS It polite inthe U. S.to throw their weight
INTO the fcale of France at this moment from
Whatever motive to aid the views other pigan.
tic ambltion-to make her rniftrefs of the fea
and land--to jeopardize the liberties of man.
KIND. Sir, you may help to cruih G.. Britain,
you may aiift in breaking down her naval do
inin'ons but you cannot fucceed to it. The
IRON iceptre of the ocean will pafs into his hands
VINO wears the iron crown of the land. You
may nay tnep expect new code of maritime law.