The enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1804-1815, 1808-05-21

cd his foot at Norfolk, who was tctl.ered iu-
ring his short stay to the precincts of Wash
ington, whose constant associates were Til
timothy Pickering and other envenomed en-
e';sies or their country-what cal, such a
minister know of the spirit and resolution
of the Yeomanry of American
= Ills tales may operate for n moment, and
their force will be spent for ever.-Tte adj
lJ6urnment of Congress to next November,
without any repeal of the Embargo Act--the
new restrictions which they enactetl--the
specific purposes for which they transferred
the power of suspending it TO the President
OF the United States-thc known opposition
of that great man to British encroachments
|-anrt the necessary and eficctual recon-
mendations which have issued from the
treasury deparimcnt--are public acts which
cannot be conccaled-and they are acts,
which display the spirit of this eople and
the spirit of their. government, in charac-
tiers too strong to be distorted by all the So
phistresof the ministry or their min:ons.
The British nation will discover the mpo-
sitions that have been PLAYED off upon them
1t the people of this country are resolute and
wise in theircarccr, if the citizens of the north
will as cheerfully bear the evils of the en-
barge as those of the south-the eyes of the
British people must be completely opened.
Their manufacturers will want employ
ment, because their work wants market.
The West-India colonists will want Bread
and Lumber; because even if there be any
country, except the u. 5. which may be made
capable of supplying them, that country had
not vet been prepared for that purpose.-In
the language of the West-India Evidence
presented to the House of Commons, i'm 1775,
on nearly similar occasion to the present !;
&C 1t is inconsistent w,hHthe nature of com.
merce, to furnish an adequate supply to a
vast, an immediate, and an unexpected de
mand; the demand and the supply must
grow up together, mutually supporting and
supported by each other" "
Moreof these effects would perhaps have
been felt at this moment, if the Embargohad
been originally placed On the present foot
ing. Had congress reversed their measures
I-had they originally laid a more rigid En-
barge, and gradually relaxed according as
the convenience of our country would have
admitted it; instead of relaxing at first & sue
cesslvely tightening afterwards, its opera
tion would have probably been more effectu-
al. ltwould not perhaps have impressed the
nations OF Europe with such'a strong 'convic-
ton of our resolution, but itwould cer-
tainly have more distinctly impressed them
with sense of their own injustice and the
value of our trade. 80
| No words of reprohch can be too severe
for those unprincipled atverturers, who have
violated the Embargo law By a smuggling
trade to the West-Indies. 1t is not enough
to say of those men, that they have enric h
ed themselves at the expencc of the inter-
ests of their country. If commercial res
trict!cm be the native armour OF the United
States~-it we can wage no war against the
injustice OF Europe, more congenial to our
interests, than commercial hostility or COM
mercial suspension--that man who defeats
those exer lions by violating or evadng our
laws, is to be considered in no more favora-
| bic light, than he who in the midst of war,
| would maintain traitorOus correspondence
with the enemy's camp. ~.
Why then do some of cur merchants muir
muir at the late accommodating from the
Treasury Department That it cuts off some
mercantile speculation that it increases the
restrictions on their trade, cannot be dispu-
| ted but are not the British orders in Coun-
Gil produ tive of the same effect & would
not war Those who express such unboun-
'ied indignation at the iangua re or the presi-
dent, should observe d little more caution
They should recollect the good old maxim,
ne Jacit, qni catik those will wear the cap,
whom 1t fits. They should recollect, if they
are not tifose unprinciped advcnturcrs
whom the President specifies, that they are
no more interested in the case than mer-
chant in Canton and if they az innocent.
II the Hour, which they export, is not des-
tined Intentionally or directly to prohibited
market, that it may only be exported to some
other port of the U. S. to multiply the means
OF 'smusgling in the hands of some unprinci
pied adventures
One word more. Should this humble pa
per accidentally stray into the hands of Lord
iawkesbury or Mr.. Canning, they are So
lemnly assured that after all the anxious
enquiries which wejhave made into the feel
ings OF this populous state---thiS has been the
uniform result: that the people of Virginia
are not insensible of the pressure of the en-
barge, but that they will most cheerfully sub
init to any sacrifices, which may preserve
the rights and honor of their country
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