Martinsburgh gazette. [volume] (Martinsburgh, Va. [W. Va.]) 1810-1825, 1811-07-05

poEcy ofthe measure ;leaving out ''causes,"
and Introducing the unknown British orr
dets (unknown and unthought of when the
embargo was laid) as 'among the conside.
rations which enforcedit." He adds-"The
appearance of these DEGREES THE British
Orders in Council1 has had much effect in
reconciling all descriptions among us to the
embargo, and in fixing, in the friends of
that measure, their attachment to its pro-
vident guardianship of our maritime rights"
That all descriptions of our citizens were
ever reconciled to the embargo, is not true !:
a very large portion, from the beginning,
saw In it only folly and mischief; and that
it would be Gas the event has proved) utter
ly inefhcacious to procure the repeal of the
French DEGREES and British orders and
they also believed what to every candid
mind presume have demonstrated, that,
as was said by democratic member of
Congress, when the embargo was under
consideration s'the hand of Napoleon was
in it !" that it was an act of cooperation
with the French emperor in his system to
destroy British commerce, and with it
British power.
Mr.. JelTerson's arti6ce was manifested
In his answer of August 90, 1908, to the
petition of the town of Boston against the
embargo and its numerous additional laws.
His words are" The orders of England
and the DEGREES OF France and Spain eaiss-
ing at the date of these laws, are still unre-
pealed, as far as we know" Here indeed
is tissue of deceit-a want of truth mixed
with artifce. !, BY saying that those orders
and DEGREES existed at the date of the en-
barge laws, it is plain that Mr.. Jefferson
meant to convey to the inhabitants of Bos.
ton, and through them to all persons who
should net advert to the distinction between
the actual existence and the knozOleage in
the u. States of the existence, of those or
ders and DEGREES, the idea that they were
the causes of the embargo laws: and there
fore that these must be continued while
these causes remain. But Napoleon's Mi
Ian decree, reinforcing that of Berlin,
though more outrageous was issued in
Italy, four or five thousand miles from the
city OF Washington, on the fifth of Decem-
Der, 1907; and it was on the very next day
that Mr.. Jefferson recommended to Con-
gress to lay an embargo! And the second
decree of Spain, adopting the Milan de-
cree, was not issued until the Sd day of
January, 1908, twelve days after the en-
barge law had been passed!
Among the proofs of the embargo, being
acceptable to the French emperor as stat
ed in former number, Iomitted his Bay.
onne decree passed the 18th of April sos,
directing all American vessels then in the
ports of France, or which should thereafter
go into those ports, to be seized because
their navigating the seas was contrary to
the embargo laws of the United States
And thus while our own government pre-
tended that the embargo was imposed to
save our citizens and their property--not
from capture by the English only, but from
the clutches of the French Emperor--and
to force him to revoke his Berlin and Mi
Ian decrees-he himself, well pleased with
the embargo, passed another decree to en-.
force its execution Are the rulers of our
nation capable of blushing? Or are they a.
like dead to all sense of shame, of candor
an of truth!
The embargo having been for three years
and upwards subject of discussion, may
now be reviewed with the less interest; but
as it was the first signal cooperation Gas l
trust have shewn such cooperation to
have been the leading motive) Of our 60
vernment with the Emperor of France,
it merited fresh examination; and the
more, as it was the basis of that system of
our administration which has ever since
harrassed and now nearly ruined our COM
merce, and beggared the nation. The re-
view was also necessary to the display, in
one important instance of the real charac-
ter of Mr.. Jefferson, marked as had said
it was, with " systematic hypocrisy and du-
+plicity."-F Facts have also shown, that, as
nc gave assurance, Mr.. Jeferson's system
of measures and Mr., Madison's are the
same. Mr.. Jelferson's words, in answer