The enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1804-1815, 1807-12-01

hoies, IN competition with violation of the
lconfitu,ioA, IN point ton involving the dear
| eff privileges of shat Ioufe? Whit he held
this language, he was not infenhaie to the i'm.
pending dangers, uowiiling TO make efIici-
lent provihon TO meet il. Let us not Che faid)
deceive oarfelves with the idea that we are to
have war of military parade. Sacrifices they
would he called upon to make, and he was
prepared to meet them. He hoped they would
enter into 1t, il war we mUR have, with full
conviction of its jnftice and neceifi,y, and with
hearts reIolutey bent to endure all its prvations
and abide by all it's hariihips. He had on for
mrr occaion iaid, that il Great. Britain put
forth her hrengh we fhould feel it iic had
put forth her 0reDgth, aud they had felt it-you
feel it now, FIR, (faid he) in every fore of your
heart. Ii could not be expected that he fhould
aniwer n.inua,ions of BritiG, party in that
HOMIE, coming too from fuch perfons. Neither
could it be expected that he fhould fink into
that vile and iuppe thicg, an humble follower,
plant tool of a majority, and tacity difavow
the principles for which he contended two years
ago. He had then, as far as in him lay, en,iea-
vored 10 avert the ftuation of affairs which now
ex It's, and under the fame circumstances he
l,ould do e. again. 1t had been faid that it was
idle to retro!peet on the caufes which led to
that ituation, and he agreed that it was, 70 far
as related to the foreign power, but not as it re-
lated to the conduit of our own government
IL was totally imruaterial what where the ire
vious points in dfpute between US and Great.
Britain. Her conduct had put it out of our
power to look back upon them, to cxamine into
them, had picrludcd all deberation. We had
received blow, and il was out of the auction
to enter into the merits of the difpute which
had produced it. To Grcat-Brtaiu the door
OF difcuf!on was ibut, was barred, and me muft
knock with the light tap of iolicita.ion before
1t could be opened to her. But let not gentle.
men calculate upon throwing the difficulties in
to which the conutry was brought, upon thofc
who had oppoied the mcafures of imbecilty and
irritation which led to them. He could not
contest to take upon hflfef any part of the
credit which The non-importation law conferred
upon its iupporters however anxious they might
be to fhare il with him.
II the gentleman who had alluded 10 fone.
thing in Gsliatin on the Finances (dr. Lovr> &
who had begun very early to in.tru9 them i'm
the meaning of terms which, it feemed, thew
had been all their lives uiine without uuderRand.
ing "a fpecimen of his embarrailinept and mo
deity which Mr. Il. had not expe6ted) had read
a little farther, he would have found this Daf.
fagc.
:: ii was this tranfaaiaa WHICH gave rife ITO
the following motion made in the Houfe of Re-
prefentatves in February, 1893, viz. "Refolv
ed, that the Secretary of the Treafury has vic.
lated the law pafed the Ssh of Auguit, 1900.
making appropriations of certain monies author
lied TO be borrowed by the fame law, i'm the fol- |
lowing particulars, TO wit 1T, by APPLYING !
certain portion of the principal borrowed, to |
the payment OF the interea falling due upon
that principal, which was not authorized bv |
that or any other law, &c. Although it is now |
demonstrated by the official fatements from |
which the itatemeDts Nos. ii and l2 are alb. |
ftraeed) that that refolution was ftrietly and IL |
yyaS a
large majority"
Now gentlemen would pardon him for not !
feeling that religious Difference for Che dicsa of |
a majority which fome of them entertained. |
when he faw that refoIution, Demonstrated BIZ
official ftatements to be Rri6ly and Ht<rnHy true,
might nevertheless be negatived by a large ma,
jority.
There was one thing which he begged leave
to notice in his defultory way, fort of politi- |
cal quibblng on the terma many drawn out se
tie treafu,y. The MATS of the good people of |
the u. Statcs did not know that in their plain, |
plantation fcnfe of the word, we had no treaG1. |
ry-tbat the banks were our treafuries and their
GATHERS our treafurcrs. Thus money may he
drawn out of the bank which is not drawn ont
of the freafury, becags at IS not iE4ed agreea5l,
to iazp. 1t is only when iiiued agreeaoly to law,
that it can be aid to be drawn out of the trea-
fury at all, and il may, in technical pirate be |
uEdIH out Ot tilC NICSluEy ilDSIG dol |
lar being removed. For inltance, one million |
is voted for the naval fervice. The head of the |
department applies to the Secretary of the Trca-
fury upon whole warrant 70 much money is pIa- |
ced to the credit of the navy department at the I
bank. AS foon as the money is made liable to |
the order of that department., it is out of the |
treafnry, although not dollar has changed it's |
place. On the contrary where a head of de- !
partrent wants money, purchaies may be made |
upon credit with an understanding at the banks |
and with the purchafer that the notes are ifIued
for tue fsrvice of government. Difcounts are !
obtained ADD the United States pay the differ |
erce, in the price of the commodity. here, al |
though the money has gone out of the bank, |
ii is in legal phrafe fill ia the tresfilry, until
Congrefs meet and pafs IN appropriation law, |
when having been paid to t2&e up the nOIes. it !
marches again out 10 o1Ic;al coltume and pa |
rade.
Gentlemen had INDUCED themfclves in the |
courfc of this extraordinary debate--extraordi-
nary be mutt call the had tumbled head long
into it, by e%prsliing the NOR rigid attachment
10 the trittcf principles of financial policy, .. |
in return all they ahsd was, thatin this, or any
other cafe, where it might fuit them, people |
would not DC UNREASONABLE. enough to expeA |
from them an adherence to thofe principles- |
like fome o,her fecretaries they made fort of
Communication between the rIgor Of their pub |
lie projections aud the laZity of their private |
morale. But Mr. K. would rot agree that the |
auaerity of their principles fhould cover the |
loofcnels OF their practices. II their former |