Alexandria daily advertiser. [volume] (Alexandria [Va.]) 1803-1808, 1808-05-24
LETTER
- Yxs gov HARRISON c. osIS, EsQUiRS, ~
goHs QUINrr ADAMS.
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che smba,go mast 10 it's ns,urs Dc scmps'
,.,y rxprdiens, and that preparations ma.
uifs stiog q determination OF resistance a.
ra,s.t these Courageous violations. OF cur
ususraI rights, ought q, least TO nave osen
shade aubisct Of serious coasideratios Ia
congress. have believed, and DO stiil
believe, ihM eur internal resources are
xosnpesent TO the establishment and msia'
.snanee Of 4 nayal force, if not fully ades
soats 20 the protection and defense OF our
sommsrce, at least sufkcient to indoes
re,res, from these hos.iiit'ss aud 30 deter
from . renrwal Of them by either OF the
wariipg parties sad thasa system 20 iaas
effect might De formed, ultimately tar more
econsmicsl, aud eer,a;oly more energetic
than three years' embsrgc. Yery aoon
after The closure of Cur porgs, dad sus-
nit ia the consideration of the ssnats, a
proposition for the appointments OF "a COM
sn,,srs to ins,;u,s az enquiry to this and
Attempts Of similar, Uasore had been
made 10 she house o: representatives, bus
have been equally dissonnsensnrsd, end
from these determinations. by decided ma.
i.r,,iss of DO b honscs, | soa DOT sufficient.
~ con6deat ia the supeflority VI ray own
wi.dam 20 appeal. BY = topical application,
TO the cengenia! feelings of any eoe-Dol
eyeu Of nsy Own nslivs section st the uni.
90.
The embargo, however, is . restriction
always uoJer o0S control. Il was mss
sure altogether of defence, aua OF expert
msas lit was iojudiciously or oset-hss.
ily laid il has been every day, since ITS
adopNos, open TO repeal; It II shauld
prove iseffeciual for the purpose. it wsa
meant 10 secure, q single day would sefhcs
TO unbar The doors. Sill believing 1t
measure Testified by the cirfums,saoss OF
lhe time, I am ready TO admit thas these
Who ,hought otherwise. may have had
wiser foresight of esea;s, epd s9undcr
iudgmen., of The thea ezsssiag s'sss OF
sh,ags, ,hao the. majority Of tbs saiioual
legislature aud the presiaeas. Il has oeec
approved by severas of sAe state lesisla
snrss, and among the res, by oos oSs -
Yet, Of all its Effects we are skill unable 20
iadge with cetsinty. Il rsas. ss'u sssde
,ne test OF fusurl,y. shsil add. cha, sherc
were Other motives which had their opera.
sieD is consr busipg 20 their pssssgs ofshe
act, upnuticed by afr. Pickering. and
which haxieg now ceased. will also Be lcf,
nnpo,iced by me- The orasrs of council
Of the l1sh of November ssiil subsiss in ali
sheir force; and are oow confirmed, with
the addition of taxation, by ass Of pssl,a.
ucnf.
AS they stand ip front of the real causes
for the embargo, SO they are entislrd 10 he
same pre-eminence in enumcra,ing the
causes Of hostility, which the Bri.i,h mi
nistcrs are accumuiasing upon our tos5esr
ance. They assume the principle that we
shalt have 10 commercs 10 time Of wsr bus
with her dominions and a. tributaries to
her. The exclusive confinement of com.
mercs TO the aaother country, is the great
principle of the modern coloulal sysses !;
and should we, by q direlIction, OF our
tights at this momen!ous stride OF en-
Sroachmen,, surrender >oor Commercial
freedom wi,hou, struggle, Britain has but
n siogte ssep more TO take, and she brings
as back TO ,he.ssamp sci and the tes tax.
Yet these orders, thus fssaite the hber.
ties for which the herossof Our reyoIu'ian
20 LED add bfed, thus studiously concealed
until the moment when hey burss upoo our
head-shus issued sr the very insfsuy when
q mission of ateoement was professsdly
sent-in thess orders we arc to see oothing
husa "retalissing order upon Franco"
10 ,hsss orders We must no. fad SO much
az cause, nay, notso much as Prstence,
for complaint az aius, Great Britain
To my mind, sir, 10 comparisons With
shose orders, the .hTee eauses TO which Mr..
Pickering { xplici:ly limits cur ground for
q 4 &.