The enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1804-1815, 1807-01-27
@be Guqulrer.
RICHMOND, 27fk JANUARY.
A GLANCE AT CONGRESS.

n S'NSEhSSs
In the debate in Congrefs on MIR. Randolph:
reioiution, we obferve for the frft time point
ed aPpea! to the meafilres of lat winter. That
gentleman has once more affirmed a ground.
which we perfectly dfapprovc--We principal.
~ refer to his alertions the meafures of the re-
publican minority.
'' The famous non-ImpoFtatiou law Is so,, i,
abandoned, given up" lis this a candid po-
tision 2. Is the law repealed, becaufe it is GJ:
pendtds And eyk5 isit now -Elpended? Be-
caufe it has had the effect, which its advocates
predicted; becaufe it has contributed to make
Great-Britain more drfirous of complete ac-
commodation, and becaufc from the exhibition
or this fprit, we are difpofrd to grant her the
fame time for this accommodation, that we O.
riginally conceded. " With the one (Great.
Brittany friendly arrangement was then proeoE
ed, aud the iaaO deemed necenary on failure of
that. was Intbended TO give time for fair ;r-
al of the ifue. With the fame power, friend
iy arrangement is now proceeding, under good
expectations, and the fame law deemed necef-
fairy on failure Of that, is. RW JuJpendrd to give
time for a fair trial ofthe ifue." Such is Mr..
Jefferfon's language in his late communication
to Congrels and yet has Mr.. r. aficrtcd that
the " nonimportation law ia gone--abandoned,
given up."--It is an authenticated fact, that
not one of the effects predicted by the minority
have come opafs while the very effect pro-
mifed by the majority, is in the very att of ac.
compliment.
AS to our relations with Spain, Mr.. R. does
not go at large into the fubjeef. He fpeaks Of
the increafe of the public force; b" and bill
JUL paied by the Senate to that effect" As to
the other part of this Spanifh fyltem the pro-
petition to purchaie the Florida. he ftys nothing
about it. The advantages Of attaining this OBJ
je6t, if il does lie within our attainment are
IL III. a.
refpeH to the military t1abIill,ment will
Mr.. r. aiIert that any Disadvantages in regard
TO Spain have accrued TO us from reje cling the
proportion of the Committee! IL was not to
have been expected that the Spanifh troops
| suoNiG bape re.crof1cd the Sabine after the mea.
| fures of accommodation which Congress adopt
ed laft winter. This expectation was ono res
! foDabe argument agar 2 this propoiition
Another was, that had this proportion been
| adopted, il would perhaps have been one oil
the very means for producing the evils it was
int nded to remedy. Had We refolved to in.
create eur military force, Spain would have
| had fpecious pretext for increaing hers. Hel
troops would have fwelled on the Sabine and
mutual hoHilities might have been the confe
queuce Of meafilrc which was intended to pre-
vent them. We 20 here under the mott favour
able contribution Of this meafure that thelc
troops were intended to act only on the drfes
fVs.
" But the Spaniards ba1e cronsd the Sa.
bine." True. And what aan0i diJadUaniage
have arifen from rejecting the propoftion to in
create our BANDING force The Ian CongreGs AL
thorifed the PRECEDENT to call out 200 militia
This authority he has exercifed. He has dis
patched troops from the Mifiifipp aud Or
leans territories sand thefe troops in conjunction
with our BANDING force have been fufIicient t.
keep the Spaniards at bay, aud to fend them be
yond the Sabine.
On this fubjeet it is impoGibIc not to b
ftruck with the decided and energetic languag
of the Prelident, IN his late communication 4
Cougrefs. That luxurious fatefman gives fu
appreciation TO the mesfares purified by tn
majority Of the laft Congrefs. He Jays " tn
aojiaom Of the meafures fanctioned ny COngrei
at its lat felton, has placed US in the paths G
+ peace and juRiee with the only powers wit
whom we had any differences and nothin
has happened fnce, which makes it either the
interet or ows to purfue another courfe. N
1 change " aesfarss has taken place on gu