The enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1804-1815, 1807-01-29


that he has not done what it was his duty to
do; that he has been guilty of delay and that
Congreis has been compelled to tell him he has
not done his duty Such considerations ought
TO induce us at leaf to he6tatc before we pats
Yuch obloquy on any branch of the government,
and more Especially upon the Preiident, as the
confidence we now ak for him is merely that
repoled in him by the contribution.
At the iaftancc of MIR. DANA, the clerk read
the following extracts from the Journals of the
Houie:
"MoNDAY, Cd January, 1907.
"RefoIye9, That the Prefdent of the Urited
States be requefed to caufe to be laid before
this Roufe information what meafnres have been
taken for carrying into effect, the treaty between
the United States and the Dey and Regency of
Agers; and ALTO, whether any, and what fur
ther Legislative aid may he neceGary for that
purpoie.'
"FRIDAY, 5oth March, 1898.
Son motion made and feconded, that the
Houfe do come to the following refoluton:
Refolr,e6, That the PreGdent of the United
States he requeRed TO communicate to this
Houie, the dispatches from the ENJOYS Extraor.
binary from the United States to the French Re-
public, mentioned in his meflage of the nine
teenih infant; or fuch parts thereof, as conf
derstions of public fafety and interea, in his
opinion, may permit
fOrde-ed, That the confederation of laid
motion be pcfponed until Monday next
MONDAY, Cd April 1898.
The Houfe proceeded to confider the mo-
ton of the thirtieth utimo, relative to the diff
patches of the ENJOYS Extraordinary, from the
United States to the French Republic: Where
upon,
"rhe faid motion being amended at the
Clerks table, to read as followeth;
"Rejolved, That the PRECEDENT of the United
States be requelted to communicate to this
Houie the inf uetions to, and difpatches from
the Enjoys Extraordinary from the u. States to
the French Republic, mentioned in his meffage
OF the nineteenth ultimo.
"The quefion was taken, that the Hoafe do
agree to the fame, as amended, and refolved in
the affirmative Yeas 65---Nays 27."
Mr.. Allen, from the committee appointed
to pretent TO the PRECEDENT of the United States
the refolution of this Houfe relative to the in
ffru6tions to, and dispatches from the Envoys
Extraordinary to the French Republic, report
ed, that the committee had, according to order,
performed that fervicc; and that the PRECEDENT
figaified TO them, that he would take the fub-
jed into his confederation, and do thereon,
what it ihou!d appear to him, the public fafety
required"
MIR. G. w. CAMPBELL. underfand the
quefion to be on pofponing the confederation
OF the refoIutou till Monday. I have never
oppofsd arefoution calling for information in
any cafe where believed the information could
be OF any pofiible ufe nor am | dfpofed to fay
that IT is at prefent necefiary to negative this
reio:ution, but do not fee any ufc in adopting
ii at this time. l ak what uie is to be made
of the information the refoluton propofes to
obtain? In introducing it, we were told that
the country was threatened with confpiracy
Will gentlemen fay their object is to raife A
ftanding army TO que it Are we TO do
nothing until we get a war efablifhment? If
10, the confprators will have time to accomplish
their object, or to fiy from iuitce, before they
are overtaken. Whatever may have been the
o',jett of the coRipracy, it is at this time either
ronfummated or exploded. 1t is either carried
into effect, or the probability of its being effect
I'd is detroyed. Ii has been faid, If the mea.
fJres propofed at the lat FELTON, had been a.
doptcd, the country would not now be menac-
cd from abroad, or confpiracics be engendered
within. / cannot conceive the ufe of introduce
ing, on this occaion fuch obfervations The
object recommended at the lat FELTON, was to
raifc war etabliihment, not merely to en-
create the exiting peace eltabliihment This
was declared the lait year, and it has been de-
cla-ed his year. Gentlemen have faid, thew
will not increaie the peace eftablifhment, but
will create war efablilhment. What were
The approximations entertained the Ian wear, on
which The proportion of thete meaiures was
founded! Has the danger from Spain, then
ninUeu upon, Dtcn reallleQ! NO, Hr, official
documents tell us the contrary. IF the reafons
brought forward aft year did not iuitify it.
nothing has iince interviewed to fanction it.
Will the gentleman, who fays if we had A.
dopted the meafures recommended the Taft fef
lion, they would have averted the dangers
which nov threaten US, tell us whether there
was then any reafon for apprehending them
will be FAY that he then expected this man
would Al this time have been carrying on this
confpracy? Iffo, he furely ought to have told
us of it. l am difpofed to believe, that 70 far
AS relates to this, or any other combination
within orr limits, no Handing army is necefary.
IF we muf have Handing army, to put down
our own citizens, whenever there is any ferrous
violation of the laws, it is high time to Law down
our liberties. If the militia are incompetent TO
MAINTAIN the peace, it is full time to acknow
ledge the fuiility of political principles
On this ground never will | agree to raife a re-
gulaf army, to meet our own citizens. AS far
as it depends upon me, it never fhalI be faid,
that we have RATED regular army TO turn their
bayonets aganR our citizens. If majority of
the people thali be embarked in an infurreGiion
they ought not TO be controlled, and if the
majority Gla'l be on the other fide, they will
have power 70 crufh II. r. has been 1ated, on
the introdufi'n OF this refolution, that mem
Der of the fc'ed committee who bro't in the
bill, authorizing the Prefdent 10 raife volun
teers, propofed an increafe of the regular army,