Alexandria daily gazette, commercial & political. [volume] (Alexandria [Va.]) 1808-1812, 1808-12-15
Senate Of the United States.
EMBARGO.
DEBATE on llfr. Hil.7souse's moticn for Q
rsbeaa.
IcosTISUED.l

>sition, We are told in the most positive
terms BY. the gentlemen from Delaware and
Connecticut, that this measure has proeli-
ced no effect ON foreign nations. The gen
tleman from Massachusetts, barely admits,
that at first ii had excited some sinall de-
cree of alarm in Great Britain for a short
t;rac. cannot believe That gentlemen wish
: 10 be understood literally when they tell Us
this. Il can be nothing more than a figure
otrhstoric. 1t cannot really be meant that
the embargo has produced no effect. The
gentleman from Massachusetts gets oyer 1t
BIZ saying that Instructions among her ma
nafaSsurers, familiar TO him he had
always heard of them. But, sir, do not
recoilsct to have heard Of any insurrection
Of the kind to which allude, having taken
place. They have at times heretofore been
tIisorderly indeed, but in tae late case it
was pcaceable -assemblage Of laborers, not
intending TO overthrow the government or
Ito resist the laws, but to sfaew the absolute
state of ssarsatiol with which they were
threatened. There has been nothing Of this
kind within my recoueetion before. We
have heard OF NOES and riotous tumults
but the present case no movement was
s's INA a ass { s. elssorD
g,rb;eh excited my astoFlshment, the gen
.,a,ren falls ,3s that if 100 principal manu-
factursrs Should be reduces e hankruPtcy'
sofsmploy, this would but strengthen the ar
ny and raw Of the British nation that,
when ycG ,itHisct Great Britain most serious
81, YOU Go ner a benefit. Pagsuing this
arsunens a little father, suppose 10000
shonld be unemployed, tie ann Of the natl
OH would beso much the more strengthen
ed, and The more it would enable her TO en-
force her arbitrary maritime regulations. ]
see no conclusion to which ti,s argument
would lead Us, but to this: that as you de-
etroy her manufacturers yoa make her more
powerful. If the effect Of DESTROYING her
manufactures was 10 be Simply that which
the gentlemen conceivss Of at-:ning her yes
sslssa filing the ranks OF her armies, ii
5 possibly might promote her strength. But
these people nasst be clothed and fed, whe-
ther in the land or sea service, and must al
SO havesa little pay. II all her manufacturers
are destroyed, where is she to obtain the
sum of money necessaryt to pay, cioshe, and
feed these people. Sir, we affect them VI
tally by affecting their manufactures for,
blythe export duty on these and imports on.
Their returns, they obtain great part of their
revenues. Iftlley export nothing they can.
import nothing. This conclusion of the gen
tleman from Massachusetts Cannot there-
fore be correct.
The gentleman from Massachusetts SAYS
it is true that considerable alarm was ex-
cited in England when the news Of the en-
barge arrived there that they had been
led to believe from their writer's and speak
crs that a discontinance OF their intercourse
with this country would be productive of
most injurious consequences !; but that they.
were now convinced. that all their writers
and statesmen were mistaken, and that she.
can suffer a discontinuance of intercourse
without being convulsed or suffering at all.
To believe this requires considerable por-.
ton ofcredulity, especially when the most
Intelligent men affirm to the contrary.s In
B the last Of March or the first of April last,
We find on an examination of merchants at
the bar Of the British House of Commons,
that the most positive injury must result
from arontinnsncc of non-irltercourse. 1t
10 not possible that our merchants on this.
side OF the water, however intelligent they
may be, can be a. we'll acquainted with the
interests OF Great Britain as her most intel
hgent merchants. This alarm however, the
gentleman has told US continued through
e the spring and dissipased in the summer.--