Alexandria daily gazette, commercial & political. [volume] (Alexandria [Va.]) 1808-1812, 1809-01-19

lz0LSE OF REPRESENT II z YES
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T1G.. Ebbes's SpeeeA contia,ssd. !

statement OF man atTiFeu a. sliH' i'ei .oN ~
|. life when he is not so much under the n'iiil-
! ence of passion. It IS statement OF facts,
which if made by myself, might be attrlbnt-
ed to party feeling. Improves tia: i never
has been the policy Of this nation lightly to
embark IN war. And however the gentle-
man from n, York and myself may differ in
other respects, we unite i'll this; thatno G.
| VII is so great as war, except surrender Oh
! our Independence nothing short Of an at
| tack on which should induce any nation TO
resort 10 this alternative, injurious to every
nation, but particularly 50 TO ours.
So far then as we have progressed in our
present situation, So fer as The course par
/ sued was calculated to preserve pcars, i WAS
a course which justice AMI humanity aIcta:-
| cd, and which has been approved By the ma
ton. But IS there never 10 be an end % tiae
suffcrance Of nation Is there no time
when we shall act The idea Of a permanent
emJays9---;eIltl yyhen on this pare Of The 5lb-
iect, shall perhaps be told, as another gen
tieman was Yesterday, that ny o5seryasions
resemble more the slang Of ~ alc-house,
than the debate OF a deliberate baay--his
idea, observe, is 10 be found IN the speech
es OF those who opposed the measure. Suca
an idea cannot be inferred from the conlatt
Of members Of this house, or from any
thing else which has occurred. & proceeds
only from men, who from the FIRST lnoment
Tie measure was laid on the table, enlea-
vored to place it il tie most 9dious colcrs.
Immediately after the measure was adopted
last winter, what takes place, sir? 4 nan.
distinguished By the favor Of the people, a
! man advanced in years, the very man WAC
In 'o8, kept back the dispatches from NJ.
Adams, and had almost plunged rs irto a
war with France by this act. What does he
do In 1903, he displays the same 5 2:rit Of
| hostility TO France, which he manifested ii
'98; writes letter, in which .se attributes
the emb:r.o 70 French influence, 70 he
mandates Of Bonaparse. ssr. GARDENER
requested the gentleman trotn Virginia 20
! name h;Na.l Mr. EPpas. '<.eneya!o PFC
Kealse. 1t appeared 70 b doubted wne-
Their Mr.. Eppes was IL or.leg. III. Smile
said, thai if the gentleman from Nesy Yoti;
was permitted 10 . lla:nate rs 0zg4 govern
nent, arepsy ought cer5asely 10 Re a,Iofycs,. ,
Mr. Eppes contained. wish it e be. ua-
derstood BY the speaker ard the ss9nse, ll?at
/ hold myself Responsible 70 ..7v man wf,o
{ is iujured hy my observations. ATocircata-
stance shall deter nc from expressing. IT,,
truth II relation to our affairs. 4 IS sine
that the nation should see tie strange uaio.l
OF sediment between senelenen IN opposi-
ton, and tlsat 5osEe1nment Which he's iaiu.-
ed Us most. AN responsible for n aaser-
tioas; have ! right to discharge nv sl,uy
in that way wii-n please, ana in that 'raY.
I viii. | then say this letter proceeds,
from the man who in 179a was willing WIS
anxious to involve the u. S. in a war with
France. There was a party il this countrv
in favor OF it; and if correctly infovine,l
the man who wrote ttlis famous letter, is tho
hl al OF that very party; aparty known ans,
connected under the name Of the Essex fun
to. Iill5 YVES the first stroke at the emba,-
GO: and what took place afterwards / rs-
gret that a gentleman from massachusetts
Mr.. Ilverinore)is not in his place, who's
speech as delivered to his constituents, WAS
sent here some weeks before oar last sad.
iournment, said 60 have been delivered to
the inhabitants OF his district, in which he
declared that southern members Of influence
in the republican parry here, had openly de
clared to him their hostility to.colnmerce
The gentleman has had thecaudar to declare
that he did net make to his constituents such
a statement; but, sir, it was circulated as
his speech, immediately previous to the e.
lection, and although the gentleman never
made such speech, many people n Massa-
chusetts believed that he had not only made
the speech, bat that it was deliberate ea-
preston OF his sentiments. These things
justify the statement of the gentleman from