The enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1804-1815, 1809-03-07

at a loss 'nit,er il 10 know Mat were their
rigats, aud what. were not. that lac coiid not
vote t,r the bill. II. sentleE,eh would co.ae
forward and explain the bib, convince him
that the obnoxious parSs of tue embargolaws
were to be repeated by it, he might be in,
duced to vote for it. AS it was he must vote
against it.
Mr.. Daason said, that at the last session.
when he had given a vote in favor of the en-
barge law. he had been well aware that il
would subject our citiaeps to many and great
inconveniencies {; that al would be c'l ed on
to sacrifice to the public good Relying ON
the virtue and patriotism of this people, he
had believed it would be borne with pa
thence, from 4 conviction that It ras adopted
from necessity. produced by the injuries done
to us by other nations, and Calculated to Sc
cure the independence of the country. I'm
der this impression he said ne had voted for
the measure and at the same time thai. he
gave thlt vote he had made a solemn pledge
to himse;f, his country and his God, that he
never would revoke 1t till we took Some
measure to defend our rights. Such in his
opinion the bill before the House was not. He
considered it a weak, wretChed experiment,
and he could not bring himself to vote for
it, although in voting against it, he regretted
differing in opinion with many whom he es-
SNhtSNA tNtiNt "hS 80 soi'sS W ia ~
our citizens as any man could be
Mr.. Cook said in voting for the bill he
should merely take it as d choice of evils.
Mr.. Randothh spoke near an hour in op
position to the bill. He objected to the prin
ciple US well rs the details of the bin. His
remarks.Gn may hereafter be given.
Mr.. Sloan aeclared tiiat his friends from
PeunsYlvan,a and Virginia, (Messrs. Milno,
and Randolph) could not detest the-bill more
than no did .~au3 x,et he SiDnld vote for ii
for this reason that the people as we'll AS
himself were soheartily tired of the embar.
go, taar they would be glad 70 get any thing
else i'll place oft Another reason was, thar
it contained a Limitation to the embargoiaws
and he hoped mat the embargo would expire
at the time limited, never again to be resus
citated; that it would be dead, dead, dead
The QUESTION ON THE PASSAGE OF
THE BILL VAS THEN DECIDED AS FOL
Lows:
YEAs.-Messrs. Alexander. L ]. Aston
w. Aston, Bacon, Barker, Blake, Boyd
BOYLE, Brown, Burwell, Butler, Cuipepper
Cults, Deane, Desha, Durell, Eppes, Find
ley, Fisk. Franklin, Garnett, Gholson. Good
wyn, Green, Harris, Hester, Helms, Hol
land, Holmes. Howard, Humphreys, Ilsley
johnson, Jones, Kenan, Key, Lambert, Lew
is, Lloyd, Love, Lyon, Marion, Masters
M'Creery, ]. Montgomery, n. r. Moore
Moore, John Morrow, Niumford, Nelson
Newton. Nicholas Pugn. Rea (Penn.) Rhe;
(Tenn) ]. Richards, NJ. Richards, Riker
Rassel, Say, Seaver, Shaw, Sloan. SmeIt
Smile, ]. x. Smith, John Smith, S. Smith
Southard, Storer. Swart. Thompson, Va,
Allen, Van Cortlandt, Van Horn, Verplanck
Wharton, Wilbour, VI. Williams, ~ VIII
son. N. Wilson 81.
NAYS. -Messrs. Bard, Basset, Rib, Black
ledge. Blount, Calhoun,J Campbell, Cham
pion. Chittenden Clay. Dana, Davenport
Dawson, Elliot, Ely, GARDENER, Gardne,
Hoge, X. S. Jackson, Kelly, Kirkpatrick
Macon, Minor, Mosely. Newbold Porte
Quincy, Randolph, Rowan, Stanford, SEED
man, Sturges, Tallmadge, Taylor, Trigg
Troup, Upham, Van Dyke, Van Rensselaer,
Whitehili-40
Yeas s1-Nays 40 Absent from The CITY
Messrs. ID. Nor gomery, Carlton, Chand
Ter, Clinton. Cobb, Pitken, Story and d n
Wllians-8 In the CITY, but not presen
at The vote, being absent from illness or othe
causes Messrs. G w Cau,pbeli, Cloplor
Cook, Gray, + G.. Jackson, jenkins Liver
more, JCr' furo",Shwyer aSSart, WIN
Ill.
81