Virginia Argus. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1796-1816, 1807-12-01

ices SO TuuouS! Wouiu any man put the
Traditional security which we derived from
"A few military stores, ncompetition with
a violation of the constitution, i'll a point too
Involving the dearest privileges OF that
House? Whilst he held sais language he
was not insensj5le to the Impending dan
ger, nor unwilling to make efficient pro
vision to meet il. Let US not, he said, de-
ceive ourselves With the idea that we are
to have war of military parade. Sacri-
ticcs they would be called upon to make,
and he was prepared To meet them. He
hoped they woald enter into it, if war we
must have, with full conviction Of its JUS
! tice and necessity, and with hearts reso-
lutely bent to endure allits privations and
abide by all its har dships. He had OH IA
former occasion said, that ifGreat-Britain
put forth her strength we should feel it;
she had put FORTH her strength and they
had felt it-yoa feel it now, sir, said he
in every fibre OF your hears. Il could no,
be expected that he shouia answer insinu-
atoms of British party in that House, CO.
ming too from such persons. Neither could
it be expected that he should sink into that
vile and subtle thing, as humble follower,
a pitiant tool of a majority, and tacitly dis
avow the principles for which he contend
ed, two years ago. He had then, as far as
in him lay, endeavored to avert the situa-
tioa OF affairs which now exists, and under
| the same circumstances he should do so a
gain. 1t had been said that it was idle to
| retrospect on the causes Which led to that
situation, and ne agreed that it was, So ia +
as related Co the foreign power, but not a S
1t related to the conduct Of cur own govern
ment. Ii was totally iInmaterial what
we're the previous points in dispute be-
tween us and Great-BritaiR. Her conduct
had put it out of our power to look back
upon them, TO examine INFO them, had pre-
cluded all de!iheration. We had received
blow, and twas out of the question to en-
ter into the merits of the dispute which had
Iproduced it. To Great Britain the door
lof discussion was shut, wasbarred, and she
must knock with the light tap of soiicita-
tlon before it could be opened to her. Bur
let not gentlemen calculate upon throwing
the difficulties into which the country was
brought, upon those who had opposed the
measures of imbeciIity AMI Irritation which
led to them He could ndt consent to take
upon himself any part of the credit which
the neutrality-suspicious. law conferred upon it's
supporters however anxious they might be
to share it with him.
II the gentleman who had alluded to
something IN Gallatin She iusuces (Mr
Lo'f) and who had begun very early to
, instruct them in the meaning Of the terms
, which, it seemed they had been all their
lives using without understanding IA spe-
cimen Of his em4sirs sa,nent aud &hodesty
which Mr. Z. had not ey?ected) had read a
little farther, he would have found this
passage:
! " il was this transaction which gave rise
! to the following motion narsin the House
! of Representatives in February, 1895, VIZ.
: " Resolved, that the Secretary Ofthe Trea-
, surY has violated the law passed the 9th
OF August, 1879. making appropriations ct
!, certain monies authorised to I've borrowed
,, by the same law, in the following particu-
> lars TO wit: 1st, by applying certain por-
:, ton of the principal Borrowed, To the p.y-
ment Of the intetest falling GdeUpon tia;
principal, which was not authorised by that
or my other law, SC. Although { is now
. demonstrated by the official statcme nts
! froD which the statements Nos. II and 1c
are ahstracted) that that resolution was
= lstrictly and literally true, it was at that
ttirne Regatived by a large majority"
. New gentlemen would pardon him 20,
mot feeling that religious difference for tn,
> ldicta of & majority which some OF them en-
- tertaincd, when he saw that a resolution
= demonstrated by Official statements to b,
= strictly aud literally true, might never
), itheless be negatived by large majority.
. There was one thing which he begge,
20 leave to notice IN his desultory wy, sor
Of political quibbling on the terms mone,
: dTG711 ont o. hfr treasury The mass O
II the good people Of the United States did no
- know that in their plain, plantation sens,
" of the word, we had no treo5,tyU--that tin
:, banks were our treasures and their cash
- liers cur treasurers. Thus money may ID
~ drawn out Of the hank which is not draw
- out of the treasury, 6ecause il is not issu
, ed aSreeGbiy 10 iqqO. IL is only when issu
y ed agreeaby to law that it can be said Z
be drawn out Of the treasury at all, and !
8 may in technical phrase be drawn out Q
the treasury without single dollar bcin
= removed. For instance, one million is Va
= ted for the naval service. The head OF tn
/, department applies to the Secretary Of tn
Treasury upon whose warrant so mucl
, moneyis placed to the credit Of the nav
: department at the bank. As soon az TN
=. money rs made liable to The order of tina
department, tits out Of the treasury, althC
-, not dollar has changed its place. On tn
49, contrary where head Of apartment want
money, puschases NAV be made upon Gre
. dit with al understanding AT the banks nm
:, with the purchaser that the mites are. iss,
n ed Tor the Nrvice Of government. Di
az counts arc obtained and the United Stat,
"a pay the difference, in the price of al
Ic commodity. Here althrugh the money "a,
NJ gone out OF the bank, it is in legal phra'