The enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1804-1815, 1808-12-08

ree manner OF the report, but it appears t
me. sir, that the house has asked for bread
ana the committee has given them stone
naked these resolutions came into tie house
and naked they will go out. They are to be
cioathed with No measures: no measures are
1 10 DC saken In consequence of one Of them.
nave gone on, sir, in this desultory way,
ana Know not how much ] may have been
out OF order. it will, perhaps. be Thought
nave discussed the question in this manner in
or"er to redeem the pledge which by some
one has been thrown out to the public in a
newspaper, and certainly without my know
iedge. But, sir, nothing ut that time was
iarther from my mind: had no Intention of
the kind.
Before dismiss the report, will ask the
committee to reconcile some things which it
contains that are nCs to me altogether salts :
factory. (Mr. Randolph then quoted from
the 5th page OF the report as follows:)
lie Milan decree of 1907, can still less
rest Tor rs deicncc on the supposed acqui-
escence of the u. States in the British or
ders ct the preceding month, since those
orders which have not certainly been &C
qnlesced Ill, were NOT EVEN KNOWN in A
Inerica at the date of the decree And it
! - p'viivr mere 70 aad mat the french have
particularly by the seGuestration of Certain
vessels IN their ports, and by burning cur
shiPs On the high seas, gone even beyond
the tenor OF their extraordinary ct!icts''
Inc MILAN decree, sir, was pasted onthe
lfh December, 1907 and find i'm the 9th
and 9Th pages ofthe report the following pas
sage:
" lie had in the meanwhile transmitted to
America the instruction to the council of
prizes OF the 18th OF September. This was
received on the ofDecem-
| her and N ro,,, &c, IL
oil the Horizon, having at the same time
reached government, the president. aware
OF the consequences which would follow
that new stateof things, communicated i'm
rneuiatsiY to congress the alteration of the
French decree, and recommended the en-
oaEgo, which was accordingly laid on the
22d OF December, 1907, at which tine u.
was well understood in this country. that
the British orders of council of November
preceding, had issued, although they were
not o!hcialiy communicated to our povevn-
! ment''
This anachronism-tlis inconsistency. 7
cannot reconcile, although will not say il is
not reconcilcahle.
It is very FAR from my wish, sir, ifthe
United 5 ates be determined to resist. % de-
stroy the unity Of that resistance. / wish to
see in what that unity is to consist. am a..
hrmiy convinced, as AIN that am now adj
dressing YOU, sir, that cur present difficulties
took their origin from 1905 from thar peri
OF at which, instead of resisting, we began
to brook foreign wrongs. Much has been said
OF the spirit OF '76--the spirit OF 70 was a.
sleep IN 1905. At that period our terrific
ries were violated By hostile steps, which
tramPied our rights.--By our conduct on that
occasion, we lost our character in Europe,
and we must redeem it by something better
tnan TINS report. | have seen nothing of an
leihclent nature hitherto, unless the first re-
solution be declaration of war against both
'6elhserents, and the second the mode OF wa
g!ng 1t against one.
FROM 1905 our difficulties have been thick
eenIing and our reputation declining abroad.
mere must be different policy pursued.
and the character Of the country from that
penod retrieved What have we done p
we had been trampled on INTERESTINGLY bY
SPAN, and when cur minister had, (as it aD-
pears from documents communicated to the
houSe) taken All imposing position, his etfor $
were pAraiyzed by means Of special nssi-
on IN tue person Of Mr.. Bowloin. (who if q.
speciai minister must be sent, was as well
quaI!hed IN every respect as any man.) But
special minister was sent when we had nj =
ready two in Spain Indeed it apDeareI as if
there had Been fear that cur differences
should be adjusted with foreign powers for,
whenever they were upon the poiAt OF settle
ment, special mission WAS Tesorted to, and
the whole affair suspended, as it were, in a
Kind OK diplomatic chancery court When
the aon-impnrtation law passed, prophecied
that It would destroy your commerce. And
did not very respectable commercial cha
racter on this floor (Mr. Crowningshie!d)
whom death has since snstched from us, frlt
the idea! The non importation law was to
sweep the commerce OF our adversary from
the ocean, but it has swept our own and it
Will sweep our agriculture from the land
! One false step led on to another Non -rcsis.
. lance to weak power (Spain) had led to
inon-rcsstance to those which were STRONGER.
| his hesitatlng, this temporising this extra
! ordinary mission-9endng policy will do NO
( longer. The hon-importation and embargo
laws were to be our sword and She cid. There
was to be action and reaction. and much cf.
feet was to be produced not only upon France
and Great Britain, but upon Eufope in gen.
eral Sir, We have been too long waiting ion
the downfall OF Great Britain we have wait
ed till our own approaches. Ii IS time 70 cal.
cuiate less on her weakness, and more on ON
own strength. We are forever kept in =
state Of expectation. The Grcnyilles make
a treaty, which is rejected they 20 out, and
the Cannings and the Pcgtlands come in
then you rely on the Barings, aud the Brough-
ans and others. Sir, it is all TIE same. 4
is time 10 give over orr calculations ri the in.
from ore Of the bclligerents we have re.