Portland gazette and Maine advertiser., 1808-12-19

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clared TO the governments Of Europe
that it was no such thing, but merely
an internal regulation. If not re6ist-
ance it must be slbmission.--Mr. k.
then went into an examination of some
OF Mr.. Qulncy's arguments, to prove
that the pressure of the embargo is
much greater in the eastern than In
the southern states--he compared the
distress occasioned by the embargo,
with that produced by the excise law,
when the father Of bis country was O.
bhged to raise his arm to chastise his
undutiful children, and concluded that
the former is much more severe than
the latter was, and consequently that
the virtue and patriotism Of the country
are much greater at this time, than they
were at that periods .
he next took view of the origin Of
the present consttution-proved that 1t
had its rise in wish to make some
general provision for the protection Of
Commerce-that under it commerce
rose and fourished beyond every thing
that had been anticipated--and now to
the establishment Of eveIy body, with
out any warning, she mitigating sec
ton OF the union, and that section
which produces most Of the articles of
expectation, have united in destroying
BOTH
He then adverted to the Sd resolu-
ton, 10 make immediate provision for
the more effectual defence of the coun-
try, and asked what.was the plan of de-
fence, He asked whether man who
felt himself insulted beyond all power
of forbearance usually resolved upon
providing more efectually for his de-
fence by adding another bolt to his
street-door, another nail to the embar-
go. To increase the standing army he
supposed would not be urged. The
proposition to arm the militia, the APP
propriate means of defending such a
country as this, had in the slang of the
day, received the 80 by. Nothing then
remains but to build more gun boats,
and the President had informed the
House that be had not found it neces-
sary to equip those which had been
built. We had tried every cord, and
not one Of them would vibrate. lie
was sorry 10 be under the necessity Of
speaking with freedom of the report,
but was compelled to il from the disap-
pointment which he had experienced.
The house had asked of that commit
tee bread and received a stone. AS
one of the gentlemen had said much of
combining himself to the named report
he would adopt the language-naked
came this report into the house, and
naked must it 60 out of the house,
clothed with no measures, followed by
no consequences. Mr.. r. did not wish
TO destroy unanimity of resistance ; but
he wished TO know IN what that resis-
lance was TO consist. He saw nothing
proposed that looked like resistance.
He proce eded to account for the degra-
dation Of our national character from
cur tame submission to an invasion of
our territory by Spain in 1905, and to
every other az 5ression from that peri
Cd TO the present, when we are despi-
sed and trampled on by all nations, and
concluded that this temporising, spe-
cial-mission policy will no longer do.
Still we hare nothing presented to us
but embargo. The embargo is 20 be
our sword and shield-war in disguise
"a measure which would bring all
Europe in general and England in par
ticular, to onr feet. We had been
watching forthe downfall Of England
till our own was near. After il had
been urged in the house as a reason for
adopting the embargo that it would
coerce England, and in Europe that it
was intended merely as an internal re-
gulation, which government had offer
ed to rescind, we are answered with
contempt by one nation and insult by
the other. We have offered to take
off the embargo in respect to each,
provided they viii revoke their edicts /;
and both have refused. Our present
situation, Mr.. r. said, reminded him
Of the story Of Jack in the Tale Of the
Tub. We had hanged ourselves for
spite, in hopes that they would cut us
down-but to our utter disappointment
they preferred letting US dangIe in our
carriers.
Mr.. r. concluded his speech by say
ing, that it was perfectly well known 10
him and other members of the house,
that the embargo was not laid in conse-
quence of the British orders in Coun-
cli-they were not known at that time,
and not a word was said of them in de-
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