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

Ns ''N SIUSnCu me DCDffta
riey or any ministry of any other nation
than this, iii less than Six months, surprising
that nation TO have half the pretensions &c
freedom that we have. He remembered to
nave read a great while ago in an extremely
beautiful epic poem, that the natives of Chi
IL, when they threw of the Spanish woke
proposed to choose their captain by this test
a verv]ieavy beam OF wood Was Produced. &
he cau!d support it on his shoulder the longest
titre. was to be selected as their general
One OF the chiefs stcad under the burtheu
SUCH an amazing number of hours. that they
were ike neyert TO come to a conclusion. and
(it he remembered rightly they had 20 a.
oandon their experiment. Whatsoever
proof we had given of our wisdom, we had
individually horne away the palm of bodily
strength, any thing in the observations Of a
gentleman from New-York (Mr. Gardenierl
about our being puny and ricketty, to the
contrary Notwithstanding; and Mr. r. ho-
ped we should give perhaps not quite so
strong . proof of our wisdom, by throwing
the beam of rom our shoulders, now that
we had asceTtained Our strength by the ex-
pertinent.
But 1t was asked, what substitute would
he propose for the embargo. None. He
hoped he would nS he misapprehended.-
considering the embargo in its operation as
mischieyous and eytn ru:nous, it would be
Troll indeed 1t he sh9iid require a substitute
tor an evil that ne Proposed to get rid Of
Snail a man refuse t, he cured of a cancer
unless you will provide him with a substi-
tue? But if he we,e asked what the natl
ON rs to do after reIealing the embargo.
Iils answer was ready. Tobc sure, Sir,
(sald he) 1T is 4 very Fld one, and therefore
may not take with tho fashions of the dav-
but in matters Of polly, old systems which
have been sifted and tried by experience.
are not, in my judgment, the worst; and the
longer tried, PERHAPS, the better. So far,
therefore, from its icing an objection with
me. that a %propositi,n is old and trite. il &c
a recommendation as it is precisely the
'eVerSe VILE fe;pectto new projects, howe
yer ingenious, howeter calculated 20 catch
or dazzle the eye-tke the room in which
we SIT, where l at TIL moment discern the
assures which. perhaps, are to reduce MS to
tne situation of poor Lenthall. We had as
wen stuck to orr old apartment q don't mean
''ie l!orary) where We had every convent
ehCe ana coTntort-and saved our money.
The diseases of this state took their rise
l repeat 1t again and again in the wear 1905.
o. we were then a furnishing, united and
happy people. The government permitted
itSclf, a majority of this House permitted
thcTSelves-and Ibelieve they now sorclr
repent or 1t, sir, indeed some OF them have told
me Soto be urged by mercantile clamor
and cupidity into collision with powerful Fu.
ropean states. From that day we have been
gong on from bad to worse, until we have
arrived 1T this Superlative state, which can
no longer be borne, for which a remedy must
be totnd-gentle if you will. alternative If
you please-but at any rate a remedy, how.
ever desperate. That which I would now
propose, is what | had the honor of proposing
at the last session of Congress, and I think
Oh mentioning more than once, on Saturday
morning, The 18th of December last.-a -
mcay, which, without pledging the state.
without mortgaging every foot ofland in the
country for the protection of the mercantile
nag IN the most remote seas, would permit
oar merchants to protect themselves, if they
PieaseA andlf not, stay at home, at their
optloh. ms was my opinion as far back as
f@C3-o, and think It will be found, although
not ID uetal', III a report made during that
session OF Iongress, which proposed raising
a military force for the purpose of cor.
handing. within the United States, obedi-
ehce to the laws, not from ourselves. but y
foreign power. And here suffer,me 70 spy.
mat really think we are coming back a.
gam sio"iy-for large bodies (evcn such as
move IN elipsis) move slowly-after having
been long in aphelion, we are returning bact
TO the day light of those good old republican
principles, OF which (as j think, and rs
would endeavor to shew, if it could answer
any good Purpose) we have too long lost
sight. And after being for years, one Of the
prescribed and denounced. am not without
a saving hope, that | shall die in the GOOD
GA political church, az last-certain I'm
ST. that snail die in the Trim, whether |
orc In the church, or not. 1 am induced to
TINS belief, principally, from perceiyigg ,hat
scarcely sentimen; is contained--Ib beg par.
d'n OF the Committee f." this egDtism2 be-
never I II DE warranted in any human icing
l hignt f9irjy challenge a right TO it now
scarcely z sentiment is expressed in either
OF tnoSc speeches Of which I was the author
unfortunately as it would secm) that Ihsye
hoe heard, during .hc present session Of Com
gross, from lips the most ogtholox in hi.
tl'hsc' MY amoUnted to this" Before
You "'oih t'iis contest, count the cost: cal.
cilate your means Of ANNOYANCE nc VOL ne
Oh RESISTANCE: you" enemy Of she becomes
Sucl) IS oil powerful at sea if Size strikes
y"i WIZ feei: bFi1g- matters 70 cxtreuity
ana Won viii have TO recede nos from ,,,,r
clnim8, but III point Of fact. from the occ,n, >,
Gil this, and moro, ! have heard urged. MT
only by tile chairmanc, the committee E
'he whole Honse, but repeatedly Nv olbct.
gentlemen, nearly as orthodox as L:,.eclf
GU various q stionS ; the navy bill in parli.
cHidr, and hone 20 hear ecntineuts IS H..
same sort when the other biz rarpv hnI i
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