The enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1804-1815, 1810-02-01

the operation that is intended by this act
witaout retaliating fully; for if they shall
leave the port of Halifax open for our vessels
to carry our produce, and no other, wba,
viii be the consequence? All their ports
wiIl be open TO our vessels to take away
their produce and manufactures and only
one Tor us 70 carry our produce to.--Jf we
! want their manufactures, we must send a
snip with cash to purchase; or If we want
10 pay IN produce we must then return and
send another ship to Halifax with the pro
duce OF this country, to dispose OF to English
agents at a very low price TO be taken to
Great Britain III their own vessels: so that
she will be the carrier of our produce in the
same manner that she now is under the ope
ration OF the present on-interCourse. When
that bill passed, every thing was predicted
that has happened, and although it PASSED
by majority of this H.. Use, it appears now
to- nave no advocates, and the same thug
viii. lpresumc, happen to this. The same
gentleman observes. that if Great Brtnin
should shut her ports against us. it would be
an outrage, rs though it was not as great
an outrage for US to shut our ports against
her. For my own part, am tired of this
unequal commercial warfare, operating only
on ourselves. The gentlemen from Pennsyl-
wanna (Mr Smilie) says there are three
parties in this House: one for war, one for
peace. and one for something else. do not
believe that there is any party in this House
for declaring war. / wish that gentlemen
that find fault would devise some system that
they would be satisfied with for my part
would retain the first section until the attack
on the Chesapeake should be atoned for and
the section repeating the non intercourse
leaving our trade TO be carried on in the
same manner as before our restrictions.
Mr.. LiUermere said when he heard gen
inn
merce, he could not but view them as
friends. 1T seemed that they were both
pursuing the same object. though one or the
other must have mistaken the road. Both
had in view to promote the commerce of the
United States, but both could not be right in
the course they took. The gentleman from
Maryland (Mr. Montgomery had expires
sed great anxiety lest the carrying trade
of this country should dcvove into the hands
of the subjects of Great Britain 7, said
Mr.. l.. certainly feel as great an anxiety as
that gentleman that this should not be the
case | think have motives more urgent
tar than any the gentleman can have
have to be sure only the same motives as
an American, but also the additional reason
that the people whom l represent are a
commercial people, and more immediately
interested in this business than many whom
that gentleman represents. MY constitu-
ents have an interest in it. 1t is to some of
them their delight. Their all depends up
on commerce. They have been great deal
injured by what has taken place. Ma
ny of them have been driven to begga-
ry. j have witnessed this at home in every
walk take. / know that people have been
ruined by the embargo, thcsrgh previous to
it in good business. hear their complaints
and can enter into their feelings. not on
Nv hear their observations brt can draw con.
clusions myself. l have therefore a better
opportunity of knowing what will rebound to
their interests.
According to the opinion Of the gentleman
from Pennsylvania there are three classes
IN the House one for war. one for CONNER
ciai regulations, and another which certain
ily viii not join the class in favor Of war
Ot that class am ], and can assure the gen
tieman that he is correct in that opinion.
There seems TO be an apprehension on all
sides that Great Britain may attempt to
mcnopolIze the trade OF this country. We
appear also to agree in the position that it
is the non-intercourse which now operates
SO severely on the people of tho u. States.
and bids fair to deprive them of the whole
OF the carrying trade. 1t has been well OBJ
served that there are now great number of
vessels at Amelia island ready to take in
our produce and export it to Great Britain,
and that the non intercourse law is the oc-
casion of it, Here then is disease afiiict
ing the people of this country. What is the
remedy forit9 Surely there cannot be a
better one than to remove the cause. Re
peal the non intercourse and bring it back
TO where it was. in the political as in the
natural body, the radical cure of q com
plant can only be effected by removing the
cause o. it. Ii was toretold that this ohnox
Ious non intercourse law would not operate
to do any good, but precisely in the way in
which 1t has operated. Now, sir, what do
gentlemen propose as cure for the evil
They revive the idea, so fashionable twelve
months ago, that we must have q substitute
tor IL. What was said then will equally ap.
ply now, that the only substitute or bad
measure is a repeal Of the measure ITSELF
1t does not by any means follow that we
ought to have any substitute. IF gentlemen
Will sheW the necessity Of regulation to
make people 6cHer than 7ocN. there might
be some occasion for a substitute. From
the natural situation of the United States
they possess advantages over the old world,
which would ensue to their commerce, when
not i~pairedby empyriCs, decided supe
riority. IL IS cheaper to carry our produce
in our own vessels than in those Of the sub
Ijects of Great Britain. This gives pre-
ference TO the people of the United States
that will secure to them the CARRYING trade.
! rs 10 tue returns. goods can be imported in
to this country from Great Britain and her
colonies to more advantage in our own YES
sells than in the vessels of foreigners. be.
Sss, Il.