Alexandria daily advertiser. [volume] (Alexandria [Va.]) 1803-1808, 1806-03-19

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1.-THE count de Grasse TO relieve them OF
shall we apply to admiral Graylna or aa,
! miral Yilleueuye to raise the blockade
But you have now no. only aprosPect
of gathering glory, and what seems 70 the
gentleman from Massachusetts much deaf-
Ter, profit, by prisateerlng, but you VIII De 4,
1 bic to make a conquest OF Canada and
1 Nova Scotia. Indeed e. Then sir we shall
catch a. Tartar. l confess however l
have no desire to see the Senators o-anc
Representatives of the Canadian French,
or the tories and refugees of Nova Scotia
sitting on this floor or thas OF the other
house. To see them becoming members
/ of the union and participating equally In
our political rights. And upon ~nat o.hel
principle would the gentleman from Mas
sachusetts be tor Incorporating those pro-
yinces with as? Or en- what other prn'
ciple conld it be done under the constltu'
ton? If the gentleman has no Other
bounty to offer us,for going to war, than
the incorporation of Canada and Nova
Scotia with the United States am torre'
manning at peace.
What is the question in dispute Ihs
carrying trade What part Of II? The tar
the honest, and the useful trade that IS en-
gagged in carrying our own productions to
foreign markets, and bringing back their
productions in exchange. No sir. II IS
tina, carrying trade which covers enemy s
property, and carries the coffee, the sugar
and the other West lndia products TO che
mother country. No sir, if this great as.
ricutural nation is to be governed by Sa'
lem and Boston, New York and Phiiadei-
phla, and Baltimore, and Norfolk, ard
Charleston, let gentlemen come out and
| say so; and let committee OF pubac
safety be appointed from those town to
carry on the government. |, for one Will
not mortgage my property and my liberty
TO carry on this trade. Ths nation said SO
seven years ago. said so then, and say
so now. 1t is not for the honest carrying
trade of America, but for this mushroom
this fungus of war, for trade which as
soon as the nations of Europe are at peace
will no longer exist, it is for this that the
spirit OF avaricious traffic would plunge us
into war.
l am forcibIy struek on this occasion
by the recollection of remark made by
one OF the ablest, IF no. the honestes,]
minister that ever England produced.-
mean Sir Robert Walpole, who said that
the country gentlemen, (poor weak souls
came up every year to be SHARED, that ,hey
laid mute and patient whilst their aeeces
were taking oR--but that if he touched a
single brisfle of the commercial interest
the whole s,ys was 10 an uproar. 1t was
indeed sheariug the hog" great cry and
little wool"
But We are asked ARE we willing to bend
the neck 10 England 20 submit TO ner out.
RACES /? No sir, answer that it will be tame
enough forus to tell gentlemen what wewi.l
do to vlndicase the violation Of oar flag
on the ocean, when they shall have told us
what they have done, In resentment Of the
violation Of the actual territory of the II,
States BY Spain the true territory OF the
United States, not our new tangled coun.
try over the Mississippi, but the good old
United States, part of Georgia, of the old
thirteen States, where citizens have been
taken not from our ships, bu. from our &C.
tual territory. When gentlemen have TAX
en- the paddock from our mouths. shall
be ready to tell them what will do, rela
tive to our dispute with G sPritain, on the
law Of nations, on contraband, and such
stuff.
have another objection to this course
of proceeding. Great Britain whea she
sees it, will say the American people havs
great cause of dissatisfaction with Spain
She will see BY the documents furnished
by the president, that .Spaiu has outraged
our territory, pirated upon eur com"lefe'
and imprisoned our citizens and she vii
! -auuire what we have done 1t Is true