The enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1804-1815, 1808-12-06
HOUSE OF REPRESE .W7ITyYEs.
TUESDAY, Nov. %. 1902.

II II
TUESDAY, Nov. 80, 1909.
Mr.. Holmes, from, the committee of claim.
reported bill providing for the payment az
pensions at the City ofWashington. Read a
nrst and second time, made he order cs
ted. -.
The reading of the petition for the repealo Of
the embargo laws presented by Mr. Garde-
nier) the completion of which was yester-
day postponed by an Adjournment OF the house
was finished; and tie said petition was re-
ferred to the committee of the whole house 10
whom was referred Mr.. Chittenden's resol,,-
ton Tor peaiing the embargo
On motion Of Mr.. Sloan the house we,t
into committee OF the whole on the report i,
part OF the committee to whom was refer
req tnat part or the presidents message, OF
&c oth November, 1903, which resi,s,fx
our foreign relations Mr. Storer III i've
chair. - inc
lr; J''liS .7Hston, Jr. said the gentleman
IRON massachusetts (Mr. Quincy had veste,,-
DAY taken so wide range that he shcu,d nor
pretend TO follow, nor did he believe that anv
one Could follow him through all the uazes OF
ms eccentric course. 1t would be impossible
tor that gentleman, or for any other person "a
reconcile the Inconsistencies he had uttered:
nor was 1T necessary to attempt formal OK
posure OF them for the strange contradicti+
ons which his speech invoked, were quite
sufficient to destroy the weight of his argu-
lnents. He would take the gentleman no at
The point al which he had left off. The gen.
ueman had said it was not for him to des-
cribe the path which al this period was pro-
per to be pursued but it was clear and ID
ni,n0ns: lie IS certainly singular fsaid Mr..
Alston) that if the course be 50 extremely
pam, such variety Of opinions should ex
Isl concerningi IL. Has any individual, any SET
o' men precisely asccrtai.ed il. Yes. in
deed few (and he hoped they were but
iew) persons In the state of niassa husetts
had found cut way: they bad found cur a.
way "hicn was submission to Great-8ri-
IAN and war with France. The gentleman
mad to be sure, said he would resist: but
no" WGuid he resist; Resist Grtat-Brit4in
On the ocean! Resist her on an ele.uent
where she was onnipotent! This was ex-
"cty similar TO the doctrine Of certain indi-
VidualS III massachusetts, and sufficiently
developed the views OF those who advocated
1t, 1t was id'e~to suppose we could Contend
win Gre"t-britain on the seas, and the true
Interpretation was TO resist France 6 coa-
e3Cc with the British: such is the only in
!,Iments
The gentleman had told us IT his DISPOSE
ton to resist and spoke Of the payment OF
tribute as thing not likely to haspcn.-
Merchants viii not 50 TO France, because
they VIII So TO con!iscation, ard therefore,
WI not pay the duties imposedbv the.
british. Merchants (said Mr.. Al will
not be controlled by their interests and
whilst they can find their way to the con,f.
nent OF Europe, which, liz defence of the de-
crees OF France, they had been enabled to
Go, they viii pursue the trade if it be lucra-
tive, let 1t be subjected TO nhat tribute il
may. kalse the embargo, and II there is
no other chan.el for trade than through
british ports, merchants would pursue that.
Mr.. Alston had hoped, as tho gentleman
70 wgom he advcrted was the representa-
tive OF commercial state, he would have
given Commercial view of the subject
that he would have pointed cut some ports.
70 which III case OF raising the embargo. we
might trade bat this he had not done pre-
ferrihg TO dwell upon vague and indelinate
views OF the SUBJECT, telling US Of some SUI
periOr, confronting power. Of Il voice louder
than that Of CoHgress> HID - nd Il. 49,,
90 mat! Alter having opposed the eubar-
go in ia origin, and endeavorel to arrest it.
at every turn, members now rise and saw
that it cannot be enforced that the peoplc
will scet their customary trade moi WIN
standing the prohibitions of the law What
a pc,ure was this to hold out to foreign ma.
| tons
The gentleman (s,id Mr.. Az has called
upon colleague ot mine, and cautioned him
against invoking the spirit Of TO. and had
read passages from the declara ION of indie
! pcrdence explanatory OF the easons for our
| resisting Great Britain at that period. --
| What were we TO infer from the introduced
OH OF slch illusions at this time T. appear
/ cd IKE an intiuatiOu that as we had resis-
ted Lritish aggression then, that we would
own 'uccun'6. 1t couidhardiy be viewed in
any other light
! We had been told ihat the voice oethe conn
/ tiy was against Tic embargo This was a
singular assertion. The result cf the meerinac
at salem & place in trc gent!cmaa's vlcinitvJ
ard tue speech OF Mr. Gray, a merchant Of
in:e,usehcc, and OF great eD,inencc, had ex-
-fpfcssed dii|rcnt sentiment; ANA Mr. A.
waSSstonished that thc gentleman should sa v
tha- fhc whole Country was iii favor OF re-
peat
Mr. Alston called the attention Of rentle
} men to the priE:cd memorials which had
been just laid on their desks, ard which huy
been presented az y former session. they
! were from the leading III cTchants of the co,,n-
Try and what dc. rins did they advocate
r They complained Of ine Interruption OF or,
: carrying trade and the violations pYicti,o /
= upon our leu.ral commerce.. IN c0nforirits
q TO tbo'r soleisatit1s, GOV eiDLIeut bad Yu.sr,