The enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1804-1815, 1808-01-09


time for laying this embargo II is becaiise
we hove our produce in our ozvn ports. tl,at
| an embargo will do most injury to the com
mon enemy. If Jamaica, Martinique. sc
had been supplied already if they had boon
iiiied with our provisions previously exported
to them, where would have been the necessi
ty. where the propricty of an embargos 1t
would have been then better to have waited.
until their stock was consumed and until they
wanted another supply.
Eut it is said that this EMBARGO cannot iast
long. 1t will do much injury for n t;,ne IN
ourselves, and be productive of 10 lasting
benefit answerthat this is mere conjecture,
without any proof to support i. If the cir
cumstances OF our country continue the same.
1t is fair to infer, the embargo will continue.
III they alter, we shall have either peace, on,
war. II peace, is it not probable the embar-
go will have Lead to1t? VIII not foreign ma
tons rather acquiesce in our rights. than
provoke all the consequences of a continued
embargo' 1t war, foreign nations will be in
q worse situation at the commence ment of ii
than If no embargo had been laid. for they
or their dependencies will want provisions
and we shall be in better, because orr Dro-
duce Will be here, for our own consumption.
must again, sir, lament that the gentle
man nom Frederick had not Until tomorrow
to deliberate upon this subject could have
wished that he might have had every advan
tage III this argument, to have been derived
from reflection, or the information of others.
that he might have had time to marshal his
objections and shape his course. Perhaps he
would then have been able to have urged oh
lectons TO the embargo, more solid, & more
ingenious tran those he has Just brought for
ward And If this had >bcen the case. if he
mad convinced my mind on the subject. or
had even produced doubt which could not
satisfy, would have voted against that part
| OF the preamble as it stands, if every mem
BERN this house had denounced me for it.
| before SIT down, Sir, cannot help ex-
| pressing my appreciation Of these sentiments
! OF generosity and forbcarance towards each
ether, which gentlemen have lust expressed
| on !, is occasion, in explanation of their pre-
| vlous remarks. So far am from denonncine
my worthy friend from Frederick for ba
wing differed with me on this occasion. thar
am willing to believe him actuated nv the
most conscientious motives. The purity Of
ms heart will always render his vote CON
sclentlous one-and it will induce him to re-
| turn TO US on other questions, which do not
ike the present meet the dissent of his iudp-
ment. 80
Mr.. Pore observed, that it would seem
from the course of this discussion. that the
house were now celebrating on the prop,.i-
| Guy OF laying an embargo. But this measure
was already taken. He had seen but few If
the farmers since it was PISSED. Those few
had told him that their -four was low in va
Tue but he had told them that this measure
was calculated to bring our enemy 70 orr
leet' They declared that they were willing
20 make any sacrlhces for their country: TO
haf starve themselves, if they could bnt
Starve thcm.-The President had bee, for
merry accused OF want of spirit but now
ms enemies complain that he has too rn,,cb
OF It. 1t is impossible for him to do any thino,
90 please them. Ii he declares in favor Of
! war, they are for peace If he advocates
war, 1t IS then that they raise the war-whoop
congress have now taken most dignifed and
energetic measures; these may reduce the
p[lce Oh our wheat, tobacco and bacon but
what OF that? We shall reduce onl nroud
enemy to a state of starvation. to tbe sanoe
state to which they few years ago ATTEMPT
Gu to reduce great nation. If a robber
threatened your property, would Won send it
on the highway to become the prey of all the
/ VoraclouS band Are we not afraid that If
we venture upon the ocean, our proboscis NAV
De bitten Oil There is tide in the affairs
Oh men, which taken at the food leads on
10 hchor neglected, consigns us to mi
sery and disgrace. The war is inst the
cause is popular, and under the assistance
OF divine providence, it will be sure to ter
inmate as successfully as the last one Mr.
Jefferson had formerly predicted, that the
time would come when we should be all Fee
deralists, all Republicans. That time has
/ already arrived That party have felt for
the lndignities of their country, and have
joined us-But what should he saw of that
third party; that little minority: little in
deed that little Spartan Band /? They have
interrupted upon us they are the whipDcys
IN the Republican party and never had he
biushed for the name of Virginia, before last
/ winter, when the resolutions of that house
had been voted out of the Scnatc-Was r
TOO much, however, to expect that even this
! party would join the Republicans on this great
question
Mr.. FoHshee (Henrico) asked, what had
been stated as a sufficient ground for striking.
out this part of the preamble? TWAS be-
cause some OF the members of Congress had
voted against the embargo. But this was
4 ore OF the grounds on which he peculiarly
/ wished to vocc for it. 1t was because q mi
nority i'll Congress had opposed it, and that
( minority was large that nc considered it as
necessary, that this house should declare
! thclr opinions.
ne question was then taken ON strikinq ont
the last sentence. .4yeS 10. Mus 1913.
.16.eHfees from the House o.
The question was then taken On the whole
preamble and CARRIED. .4vcs 157, Noes 5
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