The enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1804-1815, 1806-10-03
AN AMERICAN.
FOURTH ADDRESS
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" America will not 90 to war with u.s." fays your
min,iterial writer. Have you 70 osn forgotten the
origin of her laa with you 1t was not to vim
dieate wrongs and injuries which fhe had received
| 1t was iimply to ward off thofe with which ihe was
threatened 1t was not to get rid of obnoxious tax
es, which you had already repealed, but obge yom to
renounce forever your claim impofe them. lfthen
100000 poor, divided colonits, with unexampled
courage braved alone for fome years your rage for
the fake OF maintaining abfrae principle of right
when the remaining fentiments of loyalty and dread
oil your power, were in the icale aganft them, what
will 100000 of free citizens inHamed by the mott
atrocous violations Of their national rights decide
Will they tamely fubmit without fruggle to laws
as humilatng as if vanquiihed, the conqueror could
impofe
at the commencement Of the American war, we
fought you alone, ingle-handed when you had no
other enemy to contend with and it was not until
after we had vanquihed and captured one of your
armies, that France even promiied US tuccour. Yet
1t is pretended, that at moment when every mari
time nation OF Europe is agan you, we dare not en-
ter the held with you. No People of Great Br-
tam, your minilry themlelvcs do not believe this
/ ..ly Airvm ne the inevitable
consequence OF the propoed meaiures. IL is only to
alay the fears of your manufa eurers and your mer
chants interefted in the American commerce, that
thee pretenions of our timidity and fubmilion are
heldup
| Inc real queltion then, is reduced to this, is
war with the United States preferable to an honef
policy To an indulgence to this Neutral Nation, TO
exereile its lawful right, the rights which Cod and
Nature have afured to all nations What be-
neht could Great Britain derive from war which
tice
America is not the country moi congenal 70 Bri-
tiih AaHreLt. The climate is too warm, and howe
YER verdant they may be the moment of ,ran(plan
tatoii, they always fade. Scarcely hero in YOUR
armies, who gathered aures in our plains or on our
mountains who did not fee them wither at Saratoga,
or within the walls of Yorktown.
1t as to be prsfxnaed, therefore we halI hear ,
more of landed expeditions.
much doubt whether your maritime ADVANTAGES
for which alone you undertake the war will be much
greater. 1t isa fact, perhaps generally known
you, that the Staie Of l1a1lebHfH5 alone took
LOO ofyour iliips during the colonial war.
Maiachuietts then pofieiIed but 100000 inhabi-
tants and about 100000 tons of ihipping. She now
Poheles 100000 inhabitants, and 100000 tons OF
ihippiug.
The United States could then eouip dur;ne rho
whole war, but three four lrigates Their prefept
establishment conillts of ten fout frgates, and thew
nave me means OF equippng and manning in 4
months fifty more, if exigencies lould require il
The plan of blockading 1000 miles of lea coafl by
irrigateS, would become impoiTble, and the Ameri-
can commerce would ilil rival yours notwithhandinp
your hoitility.
But the lois lutained by your manufacturer enters
fsr nothing with you your Ultimate of the copfe
quences What then if all the ports Of Europe and
America are lhut to you, your productions will nill
INA thsIr way without injury TO you, into every
country OF the globe Admitting for a moment this
abiurd doctrine do you for nothing, the flock
which will be given to your manufacturing towns by
the flFit effects OF the aopPase3 Do you Ultimate
as OF no moment the bankruptcies Of capitalists, and
the groans OF the poor, deprived of their daily
bread do you conider of little importance the
uiPenson OF all remttances from the United States
WIN So,ooo,ooo OF dollars fuddenIy withdraw from
the uiual implies of your manufacturing fhops, pro-
ouce no ieniaton! If the Americans have not pa
triotn enough to forego wholly the uie of your ma
nuiacturers, which, inA, net neeegayy to them
IT'S to be hoped they have fufhcient to fulpend i'm
Portatlons, TIL the exiting two years flock which
they always keep be continued.
But you miitalculate grolsly the fpir Of the Anne
rican people in fuppoing they cannot forero the
Injuries you fend them.-There is not one aytieie
which America imports from you which fhe cannot
manufacture. Nay, there is not one which fhe
does not or has not at fome period or other, ma
nuiaeured. The two great ftaple articles neceHary
IN America are woollen and cotton goods PoGef-
ing theie, The can forego all others. America can
Tale wool enough Tor her coniumption any wear
80 f'N''S'' Nh"N you huOW, tndt her cotton has be-
come drug in your market. She has already ETA
bihed woollen and cotton manufactures, and Che is
IN poiieiion OF all your mechanifm necefary to rem.
der them profitable.
All your reaionng in favor of your manufactures
IS Predicated upon the idea that you can underle o .
thrr nations, aud therefore that they will buy of you
but you forget, that war, forcing eircuitous
trade, and ncreaied rifques, enhances the price of
your manufactures and offers premium to domehic
n q laF D.. n.
riea loid at three for one upon the co and are you
iooiilh enough to believe that we cannot manufacture
at a cheaper rate than that
We have now three times the number of inhabi-
tants and ye times the capital we had in that war
and how can theie objects be proftaby employ
ed than IN manufacturing woolen cloths, when yours
win eoft us three hundred per cent above the manu-
faciuring price
Beiides, do you reckon for nothing the fnpples
we can draw from Europe France now furni1es
us many articles, and among others no, few woollen
cloths Germany iupplies US with many linen goods
and Italy with flks The commerce Of thefe
Countries would fourth by the increafed demand
which we ihould make upon them, and, repeat
IT, 1t Is not in the power Of Great Britain though
ner ips cover the Ocean, to prevent the enterpri-
ling iaIor' OF America from navigating the Allan
tic.
II immenfe fleets have been able 70 slude the v;o;-
lance Of your fquadrons and travere the ocean for
months without eneoun,ering yonr feets how eafy
rs Il for fingle detached fan falling veffes N car
~ on . - and profitable commerce Reeollea