The enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1804-1815, 1809-12-26

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room. tits not enough for US to fold up eur
arms and consider. because we are just and
honest, that we are the peculiar favoritcs of
Heaven, ana are tn be entirely exempt froW
the calamities that are now ovcrwhclminy
the civilized world. We must prepare for
the worst. would make q firm and tenn
peratc declaration of our neutral rights, and
would demand Oft France aud England a
recognition of them. In the mean time !
would permit the merchants to arm in de-
fence OF those rights, acting only in the de
fensive, instructing them in such manner as
that no act of theirs should commit the peace
of the country. This. sir, would replenish
yomr treasury and prevent the necessitv Of
rcsorting to loans and direct taxes. The
merchants have already become very rich
by the commerce of the country. and they
know how best To manage their own affairs
If they shsuld lose few vessels carrying to
market the surplus produce of this country.
it would be no loss to the country. What the
merchant lost, the farmer would gain; the
property would all be in the country.
Euge-IYrH done There is some spi-
rit in this MIR. Potter will, not have the
thanks of his party, for this zvar tone -
Eng.
As to this resolution, I am against i. on gene
raj principles. l never did vote for resolve Of
nstration, nor will. II We can have reso.
buttons to approve, VIC can have them to disap-
prove and it ought to be n sufficient consulate.
oh to the President, and presume it is, to be
,eve that he squares his conduct by the constitu
ton, aAd that it meets the appreciation of hi.
conscience. But this / presume, i. To be held
up to convince foreign nations thst are not
divided and will stand by our government. At
the last session this business Of approving was
considered anti-repubcan, and the IT. norty
could not then be permitted to approve the Pre-
sidents conduct. 1t was then OF no importance
TO be unanimous but row it seems as though
every thing that was AMI dear to us Deepen
tled on the passage Of this joint resolution. l
have known one President ruined nv addresses
and votes for appreciation it was then held up
that minority WAS opposed to the admipist al
on, and that we were abroad considered: :, divided
people and he President was addressed rom
states, corpoi atoms, and societies, from a parts
OF the United States, approving every thing he
had done, and piedging their lives and fortunes
to support him in any thing he might do. In
stead OF his taking this as mere compliment
that cost nothing, he took it all in earnest but
! soon as his constitutional period OF reelection
| Came round, i:,e people soon convinced him of
his error, and dismissed him from offics-which
gave him sues offence that he has declared war
gainst himself, his own conduct and admins
traton, and has oven extended his resentment
beyond the srsye, and charged alnost all the un-
popular acts of his administration upon one Of
the greatest men the world ever knew. and who
is not i'll existence TO answer for himself, wien
there was not one Of those acts during his admi-
nistraticn but what, If lie had refused his sig Ia
ture and appreciation, could have been nesatived
is there wa. not constitutional ma oiiiy TO
ry one Of them without his APPRECIATION Per
haps The same thing IS to bs urged nav as
was then--a division among the people and the
Enecessity uniting, There is no dwsisn among
the people now there was mons than /; the di
| vision is between the irs and oKts. Tke ms want
to keep in, and the outs want to get in, and the
division is not so much aInong the people as 1t is
among those who want the peoples money-and
they now understand this timing very we'll, and
have found that the question never has been in
| reality, how much OF their money should be
spent, but who should have it-not how the go
vernment should be administered, but who should
administer it and not how many officers should
be created, but who should fill them. That there
are parties in the u State, cannet be denied,
and that il is for the interest OF the people that
t should be SO, is equally true and 1 could
wish, lei whatever party may have the ascendan-
cy in the u States, that they may have but
small majority, which will make them mare at
tentive TO business and more circumspect i'll
their conduct, knowing that few changes may
place them i'll mnority-but consider 1t o.
therwise whenever ] party GENE into power
with overwhelming majority
This resolution has for its object not only the
approaching sf tho Presidents conduct, but the
ieproba'ing that of foreign minister and coa-
victng him of gross picmeditated insiit. Dir.
Jackson only persists in asserting what lac Knew
himself, and that was, that MIR ErsSine haa no
other instructions than those OF the 23rd OF ia
nusry, and that the settlement made was not on
y without authority but in violation OF those in
structions he does not say that our government
knew or did not know he had no either, but mere
ly states what he knew himself. For my ewn
part, consider his dismissal AS hasty, impru-
dent measure, aithough l could have seen no
great good 10 be derived by his staying, as the
terms held out in the de patch to Mr.. Erskine
could never have been submitted to {; but as his
stay in this country could have done posi-.
bic injury and his dismissed, and in the manner it
as taken place, and the way we are now follow
ng it up, may have a tendency to precipitate us
into war unprepared, which consider one of
the greatest evils that can sf!iict any nation,
think it would have been we'll ts have extended
our patience & forbearance in this respect little
farther.
(De5ate to be CoxriHael.
WEDNEsDdY Dee. 20.
Mr.. JOHNSON from the committee ofei0ims
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