The enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1804-1815, 1809-05-30

hands Of every man in the nation. IF it be
said-why do you not force them. rs they
do in the Eastern States, to arm the msefves 2
My answer is this: If money can be wasted
on standing armies, let us even admitting
1t to be'a waste,) vase some on the owners
OF the soil. the real sovereigns of this coun-
try. We have been guilty, l repeat, of SUI
pineness disgraceful to free people and
l say 1t without imputation on this man or
that man. this administration or that. The
people. who will consent to remain unarm-
cd, whist arms are put into the hands of a
standing army governed by martial law,
and commanded wiif~not say by whom, are
ripe for master. But our people are not
ripe tor lit is their contempt for military
force, aud that only, which has rendered
them quiet. They feel the security of
strength, not always the best reliance. -
But will never rest as a member Of this
House, and when cease to be member as
freeholder, till see the object accomplish
ed. or in fair way Of being accomplished,
OF putting musket into the hands of every
man capable OF bearing it. And then, sir,
there Will be no more alarms OF invasions
from Canada, of COL Burr OH the southern
frontier. Ror any alarm. unless indeed the
people are their own worst enemies; nor
any more of the use made of Col. Burr and
that party. We shall no longer have Gen.
Williamson and Col. Burr, like the Pope and
the Pretender. alarming us out of our best
rights. We shall have no more enforcing
embargo laws, or suspending habeas corpus
acts-homore alarms of treason, and no more
terrors of rebellion. The house of Hanover
were called into Britain-for WHAT To make
the nation tree, to guard against popery.
TOR that was the religious age as this is the
political and no sooner was the House Of
Hanover placed on the throne, than by means
OF the Pope and the Pretender, the nation
was bullied into acts which we all know led
to the prostration of their liberties. In short
sir, hope hereafter TO see questions tried on
their own merit, and that like naughty BOYS
In nursery, we shall not be frightened into
measures by tales of the ascendancy of this
or that party, or this or that man. For. in the
course OF my political experience, l have
found but two parties in all states-the ms
and the ouTs-the ms DESTROYS so to conStrue
the charter of the government as to give
themselves the greatest possible degree of
Patronage9and wealth and the ours striving
50 to construe it as to circumscribe-wha
l. heir own power: No, sir-their ADVERSE
ries power. But let the outs get in, and lay
hold of the artillery of government, and you
VIII find their constitutional scruples and ar
guments vanish like dew before the morning
sun. No. sir II have no faith in the declara.
tons OF parties-and, if we mean to guard
the liberties OF this state, we must watch the
rms, be they whom they may, be they fede-
ralists or be they republicans. When say
We sir, speak of us The heohie. who cannot
be the ms, and thus are fair umpires both
between the ms and the o1rs.
Mr.. Lyon did not b eve that this first reso-
luton would ultimately have any effect but ii
would RAISE expectations IN the naton that the
army WAS 30 be disbinled. Mr. j. said, we
were not, upon few favorable sooras coming
from Great Britain, without any other atom raent
Tor tie affair ot the Chesapeake, To throw down
our arms He hoped The House would no, agree
Y" IT. he was willing To agree 10 some mott-
cation ct the ARMY, to max, removals of such
"n'cers as had lost the confluence of the nation
lie would make reduction, i.l. not in this way.
Mr. W. 6kston said, the resolution respecting.
thc army certain.y could not he acted upon until
TIC report could be received which was menti-
"hed III the message ofthe President of the u. -
The mode proposed for The disposition of the
motion vas irregular. He said it would be more
IKE the House OF Representatives. to lay it on
the tabie till the message Lad been taken up and
then to havrrefeired il to the committee raised
on that Particular subject.
The question WAS ts;icn OH referring MIR. Ran
PoIphs hist resolution to committee of the
who'e OH the state OF the union, and carried,
aye. 81.
The question now being OH concurrence in the
second resoiuton-
Mr Eppes moved so ta amend 1T as to enquire
INTO the application of ali monies under the late
administration. When up before, he had done
what he conceived to be his duty the House
Iad assigned certain duties TO committees, to
winch he Thought it propcrto adhere but when
he heard the gentleman from North Carolina
suggest that this was motion to pass III revie w
all transactions of the former administration, it
impressed him very differently from what it had
before done. II the gentleman was disposed to
make such motion, lie should not take the very
words OF the rule establishing the committee of
ways and Means more especially there was no
occasion Tor the latter part Of the motion, which
goes TO the directing the committee to propose
plan whic!ljt WAS the express duty Of the con-
n'ttee OF 0ys and Means to enquire into. MIR.
cEpes moved so to vary the motion as To make
II a motion Tor the appointment Ola committee to
enquire how tar monies appropriated since the
an OF March, 1901, have been faithfully aI-
piled
MIR. Randolth consented To the modification,
though it had not been his intention 10 have gone
SO far back
Mr.. hrcon made a few remarks in addition
TO those which lie had before made. He said
hat he differed totally from The gentleman from
Virginia MIR. Randolph) OH the subject of the
embargo: and if thi. we're the proper time to go
into IT, he thought he could convince even linn of
its wisdom.
MIR. =. e. jackson expressed his coincidence
IN the opinion that it was the duty OF the House
Of Representatives to enquire vigorously into the
disbursement OF public monies. He Thought it
was the duty of the House Of Representatives
To raise committee every year To- enquire into
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