Alexandria daily advertiser. [volume] (Alexandria [Va.]) 1803-1808, 1808-02-29


tilted, without knowing what is the object o.
all this unnecessary Legislation on the SUBJECT
1t is time to stop; We have embargo enough
already. Leave a little circulation IN the po-
Iitical body; do not stagnate every thing; AZ
least leave sufficient to enable the country to
support the shock. Ifitbctrue, that we must
make all suffer as much as we can from this
embargo there may be some consistency IN
this bill. wish gentlemen would tell me IN.
stead of bursting out this way, instead o.
boiling out upon me while am speaking
impore gentlemen to enlightcn my under.
standing. Do tell me how this measure is to
|. make us better prepared for war--how this
aistress on every creeping thing IN the coun-
trygis to enable tie country to make grea1
effort in the day of tlial. II gentlemen can DO
this might yield my assent to what con-
ceiye to be most pernicioas measure. More
than thisJ protest against 1t, because there IS
no end to it No sooner Is little hole, no
larger than wheat straw, discovered, than
the whole energies Of the government are rea-
dy to stop it up, while the produce OF the
farmer is retting on their hands. We tell
them you shall not travel with it at all !; you
shall hot enrich your individuals. ! cannot
understand it. know it is wrong, substan-
tially pernicious but y! am at loss, asto-
nished and amazed atths object of all this. I
am afraid there is something in this which will
not bear the light--some- unscen hand in it,
unseen, because it would be dangerous to dis
cover it. The representatives of the people
alone can snatch the nation from the course
which it is made to march. We have gone
on in this way too long. Not only in this
measure, but in every measure, darkess, SC.
crecy, and impenetrable mystery ovcrsha-.
dow us. We are mere autolna:ons--nere
moving figures, hot set in motion BY an i'm
pulse of our own, but by an extraneous mott
on. We are not permitted to know what is
the. state OF the nation. We know nothing a.
bout 1t; but we are told what we are to do,
anet the council Of five hundred vote it. !
want to know why we are forced along
want to be relieved from this cloud of politi-
Cal darkness, to know how We are set liz mo.
t5oa and We're We are going. | wish to be dealt
fairly With; and when the time comes at
which We shall be permitted to know why we
are called upon to act, we will then support
the government ami interests of this country
with zeal and feryor not to be exceeded by
any. We.love our country, and who'd sup
port 1t with the last drop Of our blood. And a
bused as we have been by our country 10 her
we would cling to the last mement but we
have noidea OF being kept in the dark & then
Vllhcd because we oppose measures, the OBJ
slect Ct which We do not know, but are called
upon to submit, to believe. These things
wort dom this country every portion OF it
should be enlightened. The people ought to
be permitted to knowsSyhat is the state of pub
lie affairs, and from what impulse we act.
MIR. Bacon. / hope the house will Go me
the justice TO believe that there was no concur
renee o! views or unity Of design in the SIM
pile emotion which had the honor to submit
to the house for the commitment of the pre-
sent bill, and the most extraordinary Ehapso.
dy of melancholy Madness for car call
itby 10 other name) which we nave Just heard
from the gentleman frcm n. York. In order
however to prevent any more Of those undue
advantages being taken to insult the house by
the means OF that motion, and in order that
may not be deemed accessory to any more of
those illusions of the pride, which,the gentIe-
man says hescherishes in relation to his pub
lie character and his conduct ON this occasion,
land for when if he does in reality entertain
them most sincerely pity him, ! rise to
withdraw the motion which had submitted
for very different purpose than that forwhich
it has been improved. lftbat gentleman or
his friends are DESTROYS that he should have
any further opportunity for displaying him
self in that way befor thu public either lie or
they are welcome 10 renew it. II wash my
hands of any future participation in it,
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