The enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1804-1815, 1810-01-09

and particular purpose, and to returD imme
diately aftec he had completed he business,
and so With our ministers. Ihad rather give
one so. coo dollars for a trip ofthis kind, than
5000 dollars year to reside at a foreign
court. IfMr Jackson was authorized to do
any thing, it was to reiterate proposals
which had been rejected, and which. he
must have known before lie left England
would be gain rejected, However. it seems
instead of making proposals to satisfy us flor
the wrongs and injuries done to us, he po /
itely waited for the administration to make
proposals to him. The case of the Execu-
tive and Jackson has been compared to COM
mon life--an unfortunate comparison. i ann
sure no case in private life can be found.
where the injured party was told-give me.
your terms, after you have done this am
willing to talk to you about them. The Uni
ted States are the injured party. and Great
Britain ought in Justice to make the propo
sitIons for accommodation. However, I
would not myself stand On this, so that we
could any how have cur differences fairly
settled. Carry this individual comparison
to single case. that one man should with
out provocation give another blow in the
face-ought the man who received the blow
to ask pardon! il ne did, every man in the
world would think him very great fool or
something verse. The British have attack
ed your unprepared frigate. killed and inn
pressed your seamen. when there was no war
between you, and they have issued against
you the most abominable proclamation that
ever disgraced civilized government; and
now they tell you for all these injuries and
wrongs, we are ready to hear all you have to
say, but will not promise to Go any thing
The letters of Mr. Smith and Mr.. jackson
are before the nation. and the nation will
pass Judgment upon them, and that judg
ment will be, in my opinion, that the admi-
nistration has been moderate CROUCH. Many
will no doubt, wonder that MIR. Jackson's
first letter was passed over in silence. 1t
surely is the most insulting-the other only
repeats the insult OF the first; it would seem
as fthc administration hsd not read the FIRST.
There is no danger that Great Britain will
take the dismissal Of jackson in tudgeon -
She well knows that neither the present nor
the past administration has the smallest in
clInation to go to war with her--ifthe had,
they have had hundred times the cause to
do it that another administration had for the
quasi war with France, and which war be-
lieve was first regularly declared by the fe-
deral court l ask gentlemen to say whe-
Their this is not so?
When speaking of the embargo little
while past, l forgot to notice that the EN-
barge prices had been complained Of Thew
were one third better than those of the quasi
war, and the quasi war was not given I'D
on account OF the low price of our produce.
The embargo began to pinch Europe so
hard, and the prices of our produce had got
so high. that more than S $4,000 was made
on some OF the first cargoes Of tobacco, which
went out after it was repealed. The COM
mittee will, hope; pardon me Tor so often
touching OH the embargo. I believe l am
the only man on the foor, who has ALWAYS
been willing to defend it and to stick to it
through good and through evil report; and
SO tar am now from giving up. that am
willing again to try it, provided the House
would adhere to it. until we had fair ex.
pertinent OF its effects. If the late admins
tratlon were DESTROYS of war, why try the
embargo. If the present are desirous of it.
how does it happen the message has not "A
word about war i'm it! The real truth is.
that Great Britain does not want to treat
with US. 1t she did, she might at any time.
by doing justice, settle every dispute be
tween us. What motive can an honest and
upright chief magistrate have in this free
country to wish for war, (,nd God forbid
that we should have one of any other cha
racter)-his fame must be linked to his adj
ministration if the country be prosperous
and happy, his fame will be great and last
Ing; what at this moment would give the
President the greatest fames and he, like
all other men must value it. Need look
back to the arrangement made last spring
to discover, when all parties. from the most
red hot democrat to the maddest federalist.
were CRYING cut to him-well done Settling
all our disputes with the European bellige-
rents. would give him fame that would
last as long AS freedom should be respect
ed.
Sir. the people in the southern states have
often been charged with a wish to ge war
with England. The charge has always been
confounded. That they have felt great
resentment at the vile treatment we have
received from both France and England. is
undoubtedly true. How any man could think
they wanted war, only for the sake of war.
is uDaccountable to me. They are an arri-
cultural people, and if you please, a slave
holding people; agriculture and domestic
manufactures are their pursuits, and they
want TO protecting duties to encourage or
aid them to make their homespun. If these
people really want war only for the sake of
war, they must be either mad or FOOLS
Every man in the House does know that
they are not in situation to catch by priva-
teering;be fat London ships or the rich In
dia ships. But if they actually wanted war,
now happens it. that in The year 1905, when
the table was overloaded with petitions from
the people OF the large towns in the middle
and the eastern states, declaring that they
could not live under the British orders i'm
council then in force, and which were not
half equal to what we have since felt, that
they withstOod torrent which would have
drove the nation into war with this very
Erglandf How an opinion 80 entirely with
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