Virginia Argus. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1796-1816, 1810-01-02

this; & thos wao spprove his orpo-
sei that. rne completes desPeiisea,
however, could not deprive \ man of
the right rs change hia oalaion- Bat
If it be correct in priaciple TO pass tn
present re solution, it would be correct,
in gentlemen who think Mr. Jackson
did not 10 wrong, TO bring Forward a
resolution to rec,i him TO his station.
What woold then become 81 your ga-
verament? When both branche, OF
the legislature begia toresoive against
the executives, however powerful his
patronage and influence may be, he
Will not be worth a straw. Ii the
grounds assumed by the gentleman
fsom Connecticut Mr.. Dana) be cor
rect, in relation to the powers OF Mr.
! Erskine, his arguments are. unanswer.
able; but this was not the case. me
arrangement of April was not trea-
| tv: it did not go before the senate !:
it required no fullpower: the sanction
of The executive, in conformity to law,
| was sufficient. Where was the saga
city of the gentleman at the last SEES
sion. that he did not discover this
thing to be treaty? Why was not
something then said about powers !!
The face was, thatif Mr.. Madison had
not made the arrangement, the whole
country, federalists and republicans.
could have blamed him. One party
would have said, eve have always
had little doubt )" the other, &C we
have always had little expectation.
but the arrange neut having been made
there WAS struggle to which party
he should belong; who should claim
hi,n as their. President. Gentlemen
who think the executive had been hos
tile to negotiation, surely could not
have read Mr.. Jackson's first letter.
It was itself sufficient to convince G..
livery man, that he was seat here TO IN
suit us. The other letters were no.
thing to compare with this. Such
high toned language had never been
used towards the executive by TO"
reign minister, except perhaps D'Yru-
10. But this debate has an u,lfavorable
eject il tends TO draw the public at
tention to this insult entirely, from
! the greater enormities and wrongs.
The two parties In the house wsr- like
two men near house on IRE; ore
would say to the other, /" Yonder goes
"a Iack-o.lantern p the Other; :. Yon-
der is shooting stars" Ga general
burst of laughter j aud ti.cy would
look at every thing but the right OBJ
Iiect. Was this petty quarrel equal to
the attack upon the Chesape4k? The
lgentleman from nhode-Islaad (Mr.
Potter) had said that, the parties il
this country were only ms aud outs
only tryingwho should get the ''loaves
and fsfles." lie was thea the moss
unfortunate man in the world for as
long as he had been In the house he
had never got any of them. But he
did not believe this doctrine. The
gentleman knew his own party; bu;
| for the old republican party, who as
sisted TO pull down Adams's admins
tration, they were actuated by no such
motives they had destroyed FIVE OF
six hundred fat places, and reduced
many other sources of official emolu-
menr. He did not know whether the
present majority were the same OF
not. Ifthe gentleman had laid wal
motion on the table, he had wound
me up to such apitch, that l really be-
lieve should have voted for it. He
wished, however, to struggle on a
little while logger without war. Cen
tlemen had last winter pledged them
sslves to have &C embargo, war, or sub
mission; but they had unpledg~d
themselves; he alluded particularly
to the gentleman from the east. He
said, that the embargo, with the non
intercourse, would have been as strong
against England as Sampson with his
hair; the non.intercourse itself was
weakerthan Sampson without his hair,
Mr.. VI. wished another embargo
but he could get no support. En-
barge had been in every word from
Mr.. Canning's mouth. 1t would have
brought him to terms ia three months
longer. He disapproved the indeli-
cate and abusive language ofthe reso-
luton, and hoped that the state pa
| Ders Of this country would continue as