The enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1804-1815, 1808-09-02


Council. The embargo prevents vast mum
Der of these licenses But as there arc ,et
corrupt and mercenary merchants who thu.
diaiionoI- their country, would prevent this
dishonor by depriving them of their couutry
Men, who disgrace their birth-right, should
no longer enjoy it. ! would Immediately "a
| dept the proposition made i'm a report of a
committee of the Senate of the United States,
during the last winter; report, which re-
commend to your attention OH account of the
retrospective as well as PROSPECTIVE views
which it embraces. This proposition is in
the following words:
ReSoiUed, that the committee be further
instructed to report a bill. erhatriafing all
citizens of the United States. who shall be
convicted ofvoluntarily accepting anv license,
or paying any tax. in conformity to the Bri-
fish orders Of Council, of the lth of Noven,-
Der last
17er But is our condition never to be i'm
proved! Why not reap all the trade we can
Is 1t not Infinitely better to suspend our en-
barge as to the ports of Portugal and Spain ?
Fdr l will not go into the iapumerablc
objections, which may be made to that mea-
sure.-One particularly strikes me at this
moment, because it is in unison with our past
conversation. Do you not see, that ii we
take off the embargo to them, we ma, as
well remove it as to Great Britain? What
should prevent vessel, that has cleared out
FOR Cadiz, from going to London, You say
perhaps, that she has no regular clearance.
But this is no obstacle. Look at the British
order, which permits vessels to go to b. is
lands, without papers at all Look at the ac-
counts just received from England, that
:" orders had been given by that government
! to the different collectors ofcustoms, to give
every facility to vessels of the United States,
that may arrive zvithout having regular ia
hers. What would be the effect. Almost
al our trade thus passing thro' England,
would come completely under British license.
Would you submit'to this Would our fore
fathers have Submitted>
h7er. But is the present state of things for
ever to continues Are we to be eternally de-
barred from the use of the high seas, and
the benefits of trades How long are we thus
to be cooped up within our shelf
Far. The wisdom of Congress must an
swer that question.-But am confident, that
| they will not decide in favor OF submission.
Sooner than submit to the insoent encroach-
| ments OF the British orders, would declare
war and encounter all its periis and pr a
tions 1T congress rescinds the Embargo,
am confident they will adopt other restrict
i've regulations III its place. Call to mind
two other resolutions, which were proposed
| .
mittee of the Senate. Our means of COM
mercial restriction are not vet exhausted.
L wo OF them are alluded to in the two fol-
lowing resolutions, which have not vet been
carried into execution: &
| "ReSotUed, that the committee be instruct
ed to report a bill, prohibiting after the
| day OF all commercial intercourse with
such of the belligercnt nations, whose edcts
| against the neutral commerce of the United
States may render such prohibition expcdi-
ent.
RESOLVED, That the committee be further
10 Tepsrt bill, imposing on the
navigation and commerce of foreign nations
restrictions corresponding with the restric-
tons, imposed by them respectively, on the
commerce and navigation CT the United
StateS'
III circumstances should imperiously call
upon us to revoke the embargo, then. sir, let
| US adopt these and such other restrictions
as can be carried into execution. Let us
arm our merchantmen let us enable them
10 force a trade 10 those ports and seas, which
we nave right to enter. Should this sys-
tenn lead to war, it is a war which we have
incurred in the defence of our national right:
ana honor And it the virtue and greatness
10 the cause be any guarantee of military
| success, we need not despair Iii q couse
1 AA~' - SiiS al III vi every real Clti-
zen IN this country with irresistible might
In the mean time, let us wait with patience
ana perseverance. Let us not mar orr owl
cause by such miserable and abcrtive Efforts
as nave escaped from the Essex Junto lie
us stick fast to the embargo, until the ihtet
ests Oh our country shall require its rsyoa,
tIou.--lhe British Ministry are adxiopsl,
attempting to coutfoui or hsts Prssj5s,;
nal efectton. They wish to put In ,erhs man
who is more favorable IT, their views and on
croachments, than Iahas Msdsof il, 'j'he,
nope to raise instructions, OF az least diS
i contents, and scfisms anobtst ne, J7his i
one grand reasoi' OF their continuing the or
ders in eohncil, They hope 10 wsan RI,
people from Jefferson and k,adjson. ~ az i,
disappont all their calculations. the fede
raists need net SUPPORT e., G.. Pinkpey y!
iTeSfdeht, nor Timothy Pickering as Yice =,
AS to the real Republicans, they will cDpsnl
the unanmity and energy of t1ieir party n
this trying crisis. They will disappoirt Can
mig x Hawkesbury. they will rally sro,,n.
that man, who unites in himself the ma
lority OF the voices of the people. and vii,
has 80 ably withstood the encroachments n
Great Britain =
.dler. On that subject, sir. fd,.,a z,,,lt ri
UfSa1i. 80
The Federalists have raised tnuch yJi
cIdm2' about Mr.. Canning's Speech in tn,
House OF Commons. Inthis speech. the 81,
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