The enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1804-1815, 1808-05-03
ENQUIRER OFFICE.


.fnother hoop to the barrei, and ii is gyate,
tight.
Congress have passed a supplementary
law, which will prevent most of the rascal
tiles practised under the original Embargo
No vessel having a cargo on board is, with
out a special permission of the President of
the y. States, allowed to depart for any port
or district adjacent to the territories of a To-
reign nation: by which provision, it is ex-
pressly intended to prevent any vessel clear
ing for, or going to, either the district of Pas
samaquoddya [including EastporD in Maine,
or that of St. Mary's in Georgia.
NO foreign vessel is permitted to go from
one port OF the u. S. to another port in the
same.
The lading of every vessel, other than
those whose employment is confined to the
navigation OF bays, sounds, rivers and lakes,
must hereafter be made under the insDeCti-
of the revenue officers
- Every vessel, whose employment is conf
ned to bays, sounds, rivers and lakes. and
bound from one district to another district
must previous to her departure, deliver q
manifest OF her cargo & obtain a clearance
Bonds are then to be given for double the
value OF the vessel and cargo which bonds
are to be cancelledin month.
The act also authorises the collectors TO
a
cargo to some other port of the u. States
whenever in their opinion, the intention is to
violate or evade any of the provisions of the
act laying an embargo, until the decision of
the President of the u. ). be had thereupon.
The frequent and gross violations of the en-
barge had rendered that provision necessa-
ry.
IT there is to be an embargo at all, let it
be an effectual one.
The people of this country 7viH bear with
chearfulness any sacrifices or Inconvenience,
which these embargo laws will impose upon
them They know, that this is the great
Crisis, when the leading policy of the IT, S.
is brought to decisive experiment. This
is the first and great epoch in our history.
when this experiment is about to be made.
Our great means of defence against the
encroachments of European powers, is not
Tudr, nor force, but restrictions ON their COM
MERGE and navy. This is the great native
| armour of the us. Great Britain contends
with her navy France with her armies and
fortified frontier: the U. S. by commercial
restrictions. 1T is q commercial warfare.
which is the most suitable to our interest and
| to our powcr.-It is the cheapest, because it
| saves the eXpence of fleets and armies 1t
is equally effectual, lift be rigidly enforced.
" the first great experiment, which is made
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belligerent powers of Europe may hereafter
laugh at the mighty ascendancy of our com
mercial restrictions and amidst all the
great usurpations of those powers, we
| shall have no other alternative than War;
This idea, though not the original cause o
the embargo, may prove the ultimate issue
| Of the experiment
| And if such be the consequences, what o.
pinion shall be formed of those despicable
merchants, who have violated the Embargo
law by smuggling trade to the w. Indies
Rogues, who are getting rich at the expenco
or honest men, These men are as bad or C.
ven worse than the Tories were during the
revolution. Then we were contending with
Great-Britain for our national Independence
and now we are contending with the same
power for our independence on the ocean,
We have heard of an instance of this VIC
lation Of law, in the case of mer
chant in fredericksburg woulc
advise our young friends in that town to alb
stain from the threatened coat of tar ant
feathers, and to adopt a mode of punishment
more public and equally severe: TO send II
well authenticated account Of that trans
action, and we will hand that gentleman t
the world in his proper colours.