The enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1804-1815, 1806-01-11

thOte faves, auu give oHcnCc 10 NfanCe. Anu
that when peace fhall take place in Europe. tn:
French will trasfport thoienegroes by thoufands
to the flores of South Carolina and Georgia,
to the endangering TIE lives of the citizens of
thofe Rates This Mr.. II. confderrd as a bug
bear with which we ought to be frightened, for,
rs to the warfare in St. Domingo being mere
confiSf between mailer and lave, it will be
we'll remembered that the French Republic long
ago liberated all the flaves in that iflaDd, and
declared them free. As to tho citizens of the
u. S. carrying arms and military torres to the
enemies of France, the law of nations has de-
Glared the penalty, which is a forfeiture of the
property, and the u. S. can i'm no way be inn
plicated thereby. And az to France landing
thofe negroes on our fhores, he fad there was
power, and he believed there would be found
tiifpoii,iop in the people of the U. S. to repel
fnch an infslt-for if we cannot prevent France
or any other power from invading our territory
and infhlting our national honour, by landing
their outcafts upon our flores, we fhall no long.
cr deferve the name of an Independent Natl
on.
Gen. Jackfon, in reply to Gen. Smith and
DR.. Mitchell, confeifed he had fcen no official
document, other than what the houourahe mo-
yer had read, but he had feen at New-CaRe on
Delaware, a whole Feet bound to st. Domingo,
to force trade which even captains of veIlcls,
true Americans, cried fhamc on--That the ho-
nourabIc gentleman had called ont, why had
not fhc mover brought forward refoluton a.
gainG Britain or Tome other power who had
committed depredatons on our commerce.
The General faid he wihed to begin here by
preventing our own merchants from doing in
jury tn other nations, and then TO ftrke at thofe
who ipfulted us. He for hinifclf was prepared
and wiiliog u attack the frit power who had
infulted us with far more hyperion weapons than
-arming our fhips. Hewas anasricutural man.,
and would fuffer with the -four makers; but he
would cali on the honorable gentlemen either
from Maryland, from New York, from MaGa-
cbgft.tts or Connecticut, to frikc at Great-Bri-
tain or any other nation who had injured us, by
refolution of prohibition, of trade or inter-
courfe, and he was the man who would fccond
it and keepit on till the niarins nation fhould
cry 5eeeapi-kecp it on one twelve month, and
you would fee them all at your feet. Look at
the Legislature of Jamaica petitioning their go
vernon from time to time for American inter-
coufe. Look at Trinidad, the fame in fate
of famine. Sir, we have no favours to ak the
nations of the Garth, they mutt ak them of US,
or their Wet-India colonies nun farve.
That, however, with refpc6t to documents,
he would inform the gentleman from Maryland,
that he had feen, though not official, letter
from Gen. Ferrand, governor of ST. Domingo,
and which was publiihed in all the principal
newspapers of the u. States, complaining to
ing all the blame to the American government,
if not indirect, in the mott fsvere indirect terms.
That as to the total eparation of the felf-creat-
ed emperor and nation of Hayti, and its indie
pc1deDce on the parent country, and under
which gentlemen declared rights of trade
founded os the laws of nations-the late attack
on that general by the emperor proved it did
not cxif-he was defeated, his army fcattered
and driven to the mountans--that Ferraud held
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nation, and the feparation was not fuch "a to
warrant the arguments ufed for a right to trade
lit would be a fatal argument uf-d agant US
rs respected oar feuthern ftates by other DOW
ers. On the fame gre 9nds, parcel of runaways
ard 0utcatts from South Carolina and Georgia,
to- the amount of fome hundreds now collected
on or near the Okafaunucau fwampin Georgia,
might be termed an independent fociety or If
an infurrection took place in thofe fates, the
rebcllious horde on creating an emperor. be
fupplied with arms and ammunition as fepa-
rate and independent nation-this, as the ho-
nourable gentleman from Connecticut had been
plcaied to term his fears bugbears, insight be no
bugbear to him, fate and remote from the fcene
of action near New-Haven; but it was feri-
ous hugbear to him, and would he to the whole
fouthers country, where the horrid fc cnes of
that ifland would be re-aeted, their property
defreyed, and their families maTacred The
% Hououi aDic RcuticUfdU ITOIn New ok 100 mad
been peafed to term them bugbears, but had
RATED up number of his own TO prevent the
pafiing Of the bill-he had drawn mott Ia
mentable picture of the fate of this country ;
IT this diibonourable trade to this fmall part of
the commercial world was interditfed-C
merce was to languiih and agriculture to be an
nhilated--our fields were to grow up in brers
and thorns, and even verdure TO difappear.
Gen. ]. faid he did not believe this-,he United
States, if all the powers on earth were oppofed
TO us, had within herfelf enough to eat, to drink,
and to clothe her citizens; this was not the
cafe with other powers. Not nation exifted,
which had Wet-India colonics, but was more
or lcfs dependent on ms, and could not do with
ont us--they nun come to orr terms or itarve
On with your embargo and in nine months
they mutt lay at your feet. 1t was certain that
we fhouId fufer for that time, but he was will
ling, and he knew the fouthern country willing
to fubmit to it, and at The end of it our fields
would refume their ufual verdure, and the
thorns ard brers be rooted out.
The honourable gentleman from MARYLAND,
had told MS of the blockade of Cadz, and that
HHpaniola was the only vent now for our -four ;
but he believed even the blockade Of Cadiz was
not fe fritt IN that refpe6t, az the honoursble
gentleman had mentioned; he would read a
line from lord Muigrave to Mr.. Monroe ON that