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

and / think il probable that those two gen
,lenaen do not think of this proclamation and
the construction given to the nonsinter-
law as I think. And why should
make a sort Of hotch-potch Of two sub
iects on which we do not think alike, tor
the purpose Of getting US all united agaiDst
both? 1t is an old agage and a very home
II one, perhaps too much 50 for the deli
cate ears of this assembly, that IS you pot
one added egg into a pudding you may add
fresh ones adj IN fnitaas, but you can never
sweeten it. And, sir, | DEFY the gentleman
from Massachusetts, with all his political
cookery, by pouring cut OF the Jar Of U
present situation into the old mess to sweet
en- it. / am here prepared to prove, as I CON-
ceive that gentleman deny it, that tie con-
duct of two administrations has been radl-
cally, essentially and vitality different that
owine to this difference is the change which
we now experience in the state OF our To-
reign affairs ; that there is no sort of analo-
gy between the offer to suspend the embargo
as it respected Great Britain, and the sitna-
ton in which we put ourselves IN relation to
France and Great Britain by the suspension
of the non-in1ercourse act towards Tie lat
| ter. And to the promptitude and irankness
| with which the president met the overtures
of the British ministry do we chiefly owe
! the difference in the situation OF the colh-
try. For, might not the presldento OF the U
| States, instead OF proclajnalng that the or
dels in council will haze teen Withdrawn,
have proclaimed that when they shat be
Withdrawn, a renewal Of intercourse shall
take place: And here too comes the con-
struction given to the noE-interconTs act.
On the question whether the renewal OF m
~tercourse on the 10th day of June applied
to a vessel, clearing out hence or to her ar
rival in England, our government (and 1
am obliged to them for it, decided that 1t
! applied to the time when the vessel should
arrive in England. Then, sir, if we take
the time which will be required for voyage
hence to Europe, it is luce clarius that tie
non-intercourse will never have been in force
4 at all as t o1rade ~ofexport. Is that nothing !
And, lest the gentleman from Pennsylvania
or any other gentleman in this house may
get alarmed at my appreciation OF the adml-
nlstration OF the government OF the Us
I will state to them-I do not wish 20 terri
q fly them out of their opinions-l wish them
without reference to persons as P I HIVE
, Judged OF the proclamation without refer
) ence to the pasties concerned in tie manu-
acture OF lt-Lest they should be toe much
: alarmed at that appreciation, / will state that
lmy idea is that the president Of the u. S.
has but done his duty and that the minis
ter OF Great Britain has no cause to put on
sack cloth and ashes for any concessions
which he may have unwar;ly made to our
government. II my strength viii hold NE
out, sir, | will state why.
In. the year 1906 we passed that misera-
Die old non-importation act which last ses-
sion we repealed-and really, sir, we got
rid of it with an adroitness which pleased
me exceedingly. Never was an obnoxious
measure more handsomely smothered by it's
avowed friends. Gentlemen said it was
merged in the non-intercourse act, and
therefore as q matter of indifference they
would repeal 1t and when the non-inter-
course act shall expire by its own limitation
at the end OF this session or be suspended by
the presidents proclamation, as it is in re-
! lation to Great Britain, there is an end of
both and thus the old measure, the old
original sin to which we owed our first diff
%culties, was as mush gotten rid of as if a
majority of this house had declared it an
unwise measure and therefore repealed it.
| do r~ecollect to have heard one gentleman
(Mr. Eppes) say that unless the section re-
pealing this law were stricken out he should
be compelled TO vote against the non-inter-
course bill: He c%onjured the house to cling
to the old observation-disclosures t as the last