Portland gazette and Maine advertiser., 1808-01-11
FROM THE CENTTNEZ.
THE EMBARGO,
ON NEW PRINCIPLES.
Mr.. RUSSELL,

III I5ITD0TgD WilIIu tllO OOfOAA
ment has iut laid is Of new and a.
farming nature. War, great as the
evil is has lefs terror, AND will pro-
duce lels mifery, than an Embargo
on GIcb principles. Our Gtuatlon IS
not realized by one man in a million.
We are Intimately more heedlef5 than
the Grecians, to the progrcfs of
PHILLIP, or the inhabitants of Tore
deiGrcc2 to the eruptlons Of Ysft-
uiu5.
Some men fay. I" this is only an
embargo other nations often lay en-
bargoes ne have laid TWO embar-
goes, and We furvived them This
may be wife medture"
his meafure may be wife or fool
ifh, prudent or dangerous, as it, OBJ
jects, motives, principles, may be
either one or the o her.
No otber nation, 1--WE challenge con-
;radiction) ever laid a General En-
ba,go, except for one of three purpo-
ies 5 either to man their fleets 10
prevent information of an intended
expedition or to feize the fhips of
a power with whom war was expec-
ted
We 7vrre The .fyf people who ever
laid it with a view to prevent our
o7un people being "tfelone5 de yabfs :"
We are the tirt people who ever
thought, that brivate mteref is not
larp & fhrewd enough to be trufed
with its own affairs We have made
two experiments of this extraordina-
ry nature, and they both ended in the
modification of the protectors. I
haze it from Peyj6ns 7vbo 1vere members
Of CongreE in 1878 and in I7o4,that
in both infanees, they were obliged
to yield to popular connections.
Is not that a dreadful remedy which
provokes, nay, which neccfarily pro-
duces fuch connections
How are the Poor to be fed ? And
can you expect men to refpe6t the
Iaqv5 which 9bEge them to perish /?
MIR. JEFFER8oN may talk of our pa
thence and pride TO fubmit TO priva-
lions but what patience and what
Pride can withfand bungri The
fayes Of Vnginin are furniihed with
h0mony by their Matters but our
Poor thank heaven ! having no maj
tcrs, mutt ftarve, or apply 10 the
1900 dollars year men, the adUo-
cares of the Embargo, TO feed than.
1t cannot be expected, that the mer-
chants, and weathier mechanics, the
men who procured the adoption of
the Fedora! COafitntion, but whole
petitions are now treated with con-
tempt when they are themfelves de-
prived the means of gaining their
bread, fhould again come forward
and fuPPortIhc unhappy men whom
this, Embargo will 4arvt. Let the
holt Of Piaceulen and Penfoney5 who
fupport this ruinous meafure feed
the unhappy victims Of this extra9y-
binary act.
call it cxtra0rIiharay-becaufe it
will operate ony againf ouryeiUe5. 1t
has no fixed termination either in the
law or in the principles on which it
is supported.
1t is Totally different from our ozOn
former embargoeS. 1t is not tempo
rary meafure FOR treJ5nt fafety, but a
permanent regulation, intended as
the National Lteligencer avows, 10 CO.
cree the touer5 b Europe TO abandon
their principles BY the operation Of
7vant and dIfrgG. Six m2ntb5, yfqr,
t7v0 years, cannon effect this. 1t is
the beginning Of the experiment Of a
long, feady, uniform, old FIFTEEN of
doing without commerce, of retiring
7vitbin our5elvs5." Such is Mr.. JEFF
ferfon's own language in comment
ing upon it in the Nationa! LhteLEgcn-
Ger.
In our Free Cormtry, By 4l1v" eve
ry man has right to give his 2pini9n
even againit that Of the PRECEDENT.
The writer Of this article ventures
a prophecy, that if we perlevere we
fhail be ten times as great fufFcrers as
orr onD,nents That in at,emuting