Alexandria daily advertiser. [volume] (Alexandria [Va.]) 1803-1808, 1806-03-15
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MR.. {. CLAY. hau entcftaiAOS .
hope shat the cali Of my colleague. wauld
have been detained fora few days longer,
"a the documents we-have received IRON
the treasury department. have beenseut TWO
DAYS on our table, at least 10 printed
form, and as they are calculated 10 throw
much light on the subjectN before US. an
The few remarks,which am about TO oiier,
i shall not follow nv colleague through tue
detail he has made OF the Injuries and IN.
suhs of Grea, Britain. We all of US well
know thas the nationalRag sheen gross.
" outraged and the national honor violated
by her. But do not conceive'that the best
mode OF obtaining redress for these wrongs
is to do that which will be more Injurious
70 ourselves than TO her. My obltct1eas
TO this resolution are two fold. e.Ihe first
is that, if carried into effect, it places
greater means of iniuripg US in the hands
Of our enemy than she already possesses;
and the second, that we shall noe be able
10 maintain the course j. points tor any
length OF time.
BY the resolution before Us we are pro.
hibited from importing from Great Britain,
any articles, however necessary or conve.
MEAT they NAV be while at the same time
we are permitted 60 carry any articles to
her market. The effect will be that while
our productions are accumulatlng in the
hands of the British manufacturers and
merchants theywill have no means OF pay.
inc for them. AND of consequence debts
te a very large amount will become due
from British merchants 10 American citi-
zens. Even at the present cay have
great douo,s whether there are not greater
sums due by the merchants of~G. Britain
20 the citizens of the United States than
there are recoverable debts due by Amerl.
can scni2ens toStaem. If SO, what viii
become Of the second expedient proposed
TO be resorted to by my colleague, that OF
sequesua,ion? The balance Of injury, 10
stead of being in our favor, viii be against
us. If my colleague had looked over the
report of the secretary Of the treasury, and
had attended TO the amount Of American
property aHoat, he would have seen that
there is not less than one hundred'miliion
of dollars worth of American property at
the mercy of she cruizeys of Britain. !
believe thar the naked vessels, independents
of the products they carry, amount IN va
lue to more than thirty millions OF dollars.
1t will be seen that the commerce OF the
Omitted States in exports and imports a.
mounts 10 $50 millions, of which it is fair
TO calculate that one third is constantly ex-
possd on the ocean. Of this amount about
forty millions is carried on between the u.
States and the power with whom IT is pro-
posed to cut off intercourse. Wnh this
fact staring US in the face, would II be Po-
laic to expose so much property TO the re-
taliatiou of the British ministry. When
the, gentleman spoke of the amount OF Bril-
fish depreda.ions, he ought to have stated
'sshe amount of these recently@con,mi tted.-
/ believe am not very vroag in stating
the whole amount of A American properly
detained bv British cruisers as not exceed
ing six millions Of dollars. On balancing,
therefore, their interests, ough, the United
States TO resort 20 measures which, IN tue
opiaion oe every mao. viii. justify retslta.
@tion.
Besides. would wish my colieague-te
shew us how we are to be supplied with ar
ticles heretofore derived from G. Britain.
All articles of iron manufacture, hard
ware, of cotton, add coarse woolens, we
are obliged "a rapport from that island -
From her East India dosainions We like
wise import great variety Of usefularti-
5 clss; .while from her West India islands
we impor, aeGFeas portion Of one article,
spirits, which pays one sixth Of our whole
amountsof duties the amount which We.
get from her colonies will be- found to be
two and half millions of dollars, From
the samedocument it appearsihat the whole.
of this article imported from the British
deminions is consumed in the u, States
But is said the, we may find substitute
ixa.;t acknowledge il. We may 6nd