Alexandria daily gazette, commercial & political. [volume] (Alexandria [Va.]) 1808-1812, 1808-11-26

flour. The moment peo,,!e unders,o,,, d' y
they could not get their necessary snan sr;s''
from customary source they would I Ioal
out tor it IN another quarter, and am
Pie time had been given to them TO mol.
arrangement for this purpose. A mss
OF the first responsibility in the town u
which Mr.. II. lived had been there dur;aa
this embargo. under the Presidents ner
mission. What accounts did he brinoa
that the trade in corn meal and live cattle
articles Of great export from Connecticnt
and comprising not only the product Of thu,
state, but Of parts Of the neighboring states
would be entirely defeated that where
they had formerly sent an hundred hbas
of meal they would not now find vent for
ten and that from South America, where
cattle had in times past been killed merely
for their hides and tallow, cattle in apun.
dance could be procured. Were these pco.
pie to be starved out, when they could &C.
tually purchase cheaper now from Other
places than they had formerly done from
us? No. The only consequence would b.
and that too severely felt, that we should
lose our markets the embargo thus pro.
duci;lg not only present privation and inu-
ry, but permanent mischief. The United
S. would have lost the chance Of obtaining
future supplies, they wolld nave lest their
market, aud tennor twenty years would
place them on the same footing as before.
Mr.. Fl. said the West Indians would have
learnt that tiacy can do without US that
they can raise provisions cheaper on their
own plantations than we can sell taem
and knowing this they would never resort
to us. Though we might retain part Of
this commerce, the best part would be lost
forever. Th- trade would not be worth
pursuing; though this might answer one
purpose intended by tie embargo, and which
was NOT expressed.
Having considered the article Of provi-
s;ons as important to various parts Of the
union, NIr. Fl. said he would now turn to
another article, cotton. Il had been very
triumphantly said that the want OF this al
tcle would distress the manufacturers OF
Great Britain, produce a clamor amongst
them, and consequently accelerate the re-
peal Of the orders in council. Mr.. Il. said
he would examine this little, and see ii
all the evil consequences which opened on
him at the passage o. the embargo AN were
not likely to be realised. he had hlntsd at
some OF them at that tlmc, bat the bill had
gone through the senate ike flash o! light
ning,oiiving no time for examination; once
twice, and third time III one day, adori'
ms. no sine Tor the develonernent OF al Its
consequences. This article OF cotton VIZ:
used not ONLY by Britain bat by France and
other nations ca TIE continent Cotton, nor
being grown in Es.opc, must be transport
ed by water carriage. This bang the case
who would now be most likely 70 be sup
D,iei with il? lvot the continental powers
who have 50 little commerce adoat nor any
neptra!s to convey It to them; for tae T.
STATES were the only neutral which OF late
trafissl with France, aad nov the embargo
v,s lad. che had ne chance OF getting 1t
EXCEPT BIZ tse precarious captures made "
t,er ,,rivatrers. e Great Britain then wac
left tie Whole cOinii1CltC "a E.'S "oi'N' "''N
her merchants were the only carrlers'-
Wonla not these can Els supply their own
tnsr,, ,sactursr5? Would they suffer cotton
TO go elsewhere II. they themselves were
s,u,,Iiei America WIS not the only conn-
t-y where cotton WAS raised; tor ne FAD
seen an accoant Of whole cargo brought
into Salem from the East Indies and thence
exported to Holland, with good profit
Cotton was also raised IN Africa, as well as
elsewhere ;aad this wary nation, q. Britain
conssiving that the U. States might be 50
in,politic as to keep on the embargo, had
carried whole cargoes OF the best cotton
seed there for the purpose OF raising cotton
for her use. Great Britain had possessions
in every climate on the globe, and cotton