Alexandria daily gazette, commercial & political. [volume] (Alexandria [Va.]) 1808-1812, 1809-02-04

are nece ssary TO It's ultimate suce, = s"'a ,n
donot content themselves with eras ihs
words of passion. They look d A' a.
and devise and put in trial such NV @F gid
are suited toa safe and HONORABLE :.
This conduct speaks more terribly ~ sste>
words to the fears of foreign patton, e"a az
as to our citizens, they find in it an ASA on
which can be given them by no enum1'alq
ofwrongs, however accurate or eloi
But it is not, merely by what had
said, but BY what has been dons-thI. al
mind is satisfied that the administered
yer seriously contemplated war, Wib
nation, under heaven-That all this e,
SO ostentatiously raised and all this A.
of the horrors OF war are nothing eIse
the machinery, by which it is iiatendtd.s
keep this people quiet, through a7srsbe,s
ons of a worse state, under their moss
pressive evil, the embargo-Tge have NJ
told from divine authorize, "by their dssl
ye shall know them" The rule is ju,t,,
true, in relation to professors ia politics, /,
10 professors in religion. ask, sir, w. :
has this majority done, during the twoysr
past, in every moment Of which the peol
have been kept under almost daily ap5
patton Of war, towards an cffectua ms,
tainance Of their rights, should war. inf.
result. Why? We have built 70 pm
boats. We have in reouisiiion to0cn
militia. Are either OF these intended N
fight Great Britain, or competent to man.
tain our maritime rights. But we have q
army Of 5000 men. And how have Won
appointed officers TO that army? Have yu
done it in a manner to create that sentiment
of unanimity SO necessary to be inspired
your intention be 20 fight foreign enemy!
In the last sessions, Mnea the proposal
raise that army was before the House, 10
cry was SO universal as that Of union. VIII,
sir. And how cid those gentlemen, vias
sentiments usually coincide with miae &c!
upon that occasion. Did we make parry
question OF it :? No. It was supported vs
ry generally by us Now upon what Irn,
ciple nave rou conducted in your appoint
ment Of officers, to that army. As though
VOC wished to unite every heart and hand
in the nation, in opposition % a forsIgn:.
nelny? No. Bat as though you mad no
other project than to reward political adh'
rents, or to enforce the embargo laws
| mean not unjustly to charge any member
O. IA: ADMINISTRATION. But ain obliged
to state that have satisfactory evidence to
my mind, that it has been established asa
principle by the secretary at war, noslosp'
point any man 10 command IN that army
who was not al open parllzan OF the exist
ing administration. # ! ain in an errlt
appoint :, committee of enquiry, and WI
be the happiest, fit be proved to acsnoH'
edge it Mr. Love asked if 'lr. Qun3$
was in order. Mr.. Speaker concsV'
ed he was nos-Mr. @. continued an
performing what | deem great duty and
if the connection between this topic ana
the subject before the house be DENIED
am prepared to establish it. am coA'SDl,
ing that if the purpose, for which tins army
was raised, were to meet foreign ea;"E'
this principle would never have been aaoP'.
ed in the appointment Of officers 40 p'.
believe the fact state will be denied DI
if it should be, i, iteasilv 10 be ascertiln''
by comparing til: applications for appan "
mcnts to those Offices, with the ls' "
those appointments. Nov, sir, if the ILL.,, IT.,
ton were 70 unite the nation as one 'n l
against foreign enemy is not this fht .,
policy, which any administration ou9n's,.
to have adopted! Oh all engines IS . ~,
party army tn most dreadful and os'' ~,
bic? Is it nos the most likely to ava L~
SUSPICION, and to sow discomfort 'I b:.b
than concord. This is one reason, on s" .,.
l rest nay opinion, that it was not inc Nv ..
ton to 20 to war, or they would nav r..
dopted principle more harmonlzi05 u
lation to the organization OF that af'n''
GNh.ecb In 6s rouiiN,ted.