Alexandria daily gazette, commercial & political. [volume] (Alexandria [Va.]) 1808-1812, 1809-06-30

@Cii only became uHl&WluA H1ieA VIZ III
fish government refused the order Of
the American minister. Is it fair to
bring the arguments OF the British minority
to prove that the American majority are
right 1T might be right if it would not
cut both ways. How would it operate i
ar. a representative of $4,000 souls, a stu
alton which | feel as honorable as to be a
British peer, and therefore am on an equa-
litv with member OF the British house of
lords. j have said that the orders in coun-
Gil were. perfectly Justlflable. Now, sup
pose that a British subject were to quote
my argument as evidence that they were
lawful have no doubt that Lord Gren-
vile would make apre,ty speech on the oc-
casion. And this sheWs the absnrdlty OF
quoting arguments used BY the minority
there as decisive on the subject OF measures
which it is a part OF their plan to decry
/ think after this very fair exposition,
there can be no doubt In this house that
there is great merit which must attach
somewhere or to some body, in bringing us
to this blaze Of light from that scene OF ut
ter darkness, in, which we CROPPED SO long.
| cannot reconcile it to my mind to give
credit forit to any but the president OF the
United States. Itis not thu embargo which
has done it, or the embargo might have
sort Of posthumous merit, the metlt OF 90
ing that when dead which 1t could not &C
complish whist living. AS to the non-ln-
tercourse, nobody ever dieamt that the
non intercourse would have more power
than the embargo, which think ! have
shewn to have had none. 1t is therefore
owing and solely due TO the proper temper
with which the oSerlures were received
And il IS now IN proof before US, as have
always said and commended, that nothing
was wanting but proper spirit OF concliia-
ton and fair and honorable dealing on the
part OF this country, 70 BRING to happy IS
sue all the fictitious differences between this
country and Great Britain and that is now
acknowledged to be true, Tor saying when
| was SO much censured---ccnsured because,
in saying it WAS supposed that had an OPP
Mon Of The British government when u'd
not become an American citizen Let me
be understood that | have not that CONN
eence, that am 10 advocate CT &. Is. RI
neutrality-suspicious. OF interests one upon the
other rendered it a point of interest Tor ".
Britain 10 be III state Of amity with us
when it could be done consistently win
d sense Of her own right. But praise not
Great Britain, nor give her any eulogy tor
it. 1t is her interest which actuated her
and on this account alone should this coun-
try have produced this state OF things long
ago. Ii long ago might have been produc-
ed, It we had hot made fictitious quarrel
with Great Britain, which gave much room
ior political dispute. and has been The means
of dreadful destruction to the i. S. wish
not 10 discuss the POM whether this or that
party is entitled to the credit of the present
state of things. do not see the necessity
vi It. But ii II were necessary, might ask
at the last session who was ii III their speech
es that endeavored to soften the public tenn
per, TO bring it down to medium which
was necessary to induce the British govern
ment to meet us!
You rem smber, sir, that there WIS in this
house party, who, revslving round the
executive, derived light from him, who
cried out I" War! Give US war;" Who
when they found they could not get us into
war, begged for letters of maroue and re-
prisal; and who, when they could get rei-
Their, wished for a continuance of the en-
largo. No, said others-(and | believe,
sir, that you yourself had some share in it)
the people began to open their eyes, and
some gentlemen became convinced that if
they did not stop their course the people
would stop them from coming here again.
There were protesters, republicans, and a
little handful of we poor federalists, few in
number at that time, who formed class