The enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1804-1815, 1811-03-05

Ted without thSm, A law upon our statute
book, numbering i ike dead carcase, with.
out spirit or efficiency, unexecuted and des
lpised-a whole system WHICH we have a
dopted as 'emhorary refuge for our rights
set at nought-.or lawyers of eminence have
pronounced, that he law does not take eff
fect till D1ay aert and at all events, the
fangs OF the lawyers would have torn il to
pieces; its antiquities would have been used
TO destroy it, and the courts by pronouncing
different decisions. or no decisions ut all,
would once more have exposed US to the most
distressing situation i'm which any nation
can stand-a nation without the spirit to eX-
ecute its most reasonable laws THE
hnger OF scorn, would have been pointed
at US from all directions. From the weak
ness and the want of faith. VIII ich would have
grown out of this humiating situation the
republican party were anxious to rid u.s.
hey saw the necessity of acting-but they
were met in the teeth BY party, who read
IN this system, the means Of opposition to
British encroachment, and who, rather tn IN
put forth finger against her, would cancel
contracts and relax the majesty of the laws.
The icks and erhedientS to which they
nave resorted, to thwart the were not less
disgTaceful than the ends which they con-
templated.
ION Monday, when the House met, after
transacting some business of minor inpor-
lance, they took up this bill supplemental
TO the law of May, with those amendments
which had been reported from the Commit
tee of the whole. The 1.-TWO first sections pas
sed off without much debate some amend
ments were proposed, but miscarred-The
Sd section being then before the House, Mr..
Quincy rose to address the chair. 1t is an
unusual thing to speak to the merits of the
bill, on an insulated section--but the plan
OF the gentlemen was fixed. They were de
termined to opposeit at every step of the
progress; thatthey night spin out the time,
and finally delay the passage of che bill
Mr. Quincy is by no means an orator. He
is slow man. He COINS over his speeche.
with all the assiduity of a school boy-and
wnen the chain escapes him. he pauses and
repeats and labours to get hold again of the
thread he has lost. Hence he is very hesita-
ting speaker quality, bye the bye, which
Mr.. Fox thought is the very death of elo.
lquence. Even il such mancouid conceiue ca
silly enough he is always delivered, as witty
physician aid, OF Mr.. Q. with a f**@sps.-
The embargo is crushed in the very act of
producingi it into the world. Yet Mr. Q. must
play the orator, because it is his taste--but
in truth his founces and furbelous are so
much dressed up and s,arehed that they look
as stiff and formal as the ruffs that coilared
the necks in the good old days of Queen Bess.
And when the ;D1asination fabors, things
work backwards, and prodigy is produced
to exci'e OUT disgust. Yet it was in this
s'fain OF elaborate parturi;ion, hat the Hon.
Josiah Quincy addressed US for nsidera-
BILE time--the bufthen of his soug was, that
Napoleon Bonaparte was dishonest tyrant.
who had broken his faith with US that " e
were not bound by the eng cement, and that
the restrictive system was far NOR iniuri
Gus to ourselves than to G. b. AS to the
Proclamation of Nov sphy the President was
crcuSedbke merely for issuing i--rather
different language. from that strong sense
Iof appreciation and vote ofthanks which was
depressed by these Gentlemen, on the ar
rangement with Erskine
"Let Mr. q. however pass off the stage
lon the next day tuesday the pert. and
alppant Barent GARDENER comes before US.
he is an easy speak r---oie of those extem-
pore Gentle men. who can make you as good
a speech of hand, as if he we e to think a
week. tbs light and crude sort of sylla
bubbles md froth. He will sneak YOU a
whole day a. by the Shrewsbury clock"-he
lanches forth into every sort IF depression.
and puts the same empty idea ~ O every
variety OF form. Such man IS, therefore. of
great use to his party when hey wish to
play oil the temporisng game--he spins out
the time of the House whilst he is spinning,
his 'wn hreads.--After Mr. Q. had been
putting Il an hour or :wo. one IF his federal
friends arose and moved an adiournment.-
The motion was negatived.- few moments
alter, the motion was repeated. The whole
plah OF tactics was now fairly disclosed -.
The House was to adjouru-Mr O was to
continue. the next day--wasting the time
ofthe House Some of the other long wind
ed par'izans we're TO take up the Cudgeis--a
stand was to be made 1t every step--amend-
ment alter amendment was to be moved. and
speech after speech was to be uttured, IN
til The time of the Session was nearly ex-
hausted--When the bill should pass the II.
OF k. 1t was to go to the Senate and it is a
rule in tina. body, hat every bill is to be
read onfhree 6RccesSive days--unless this
rule should be suspended by an unanimous
vote.--The Republicans began to see the
plan of operations--they saw it still more
distinctly, when they found the motion for
adjournment continually pressed upon them,
when they saw the lamps of the house LIGHT,
ed up, and GARDENER at last concluding at
an advanced hour of the night with reading
a string ofamendEents, which he said it was
his resolution to move, in succession. The
republicans felt the necessity of frmness-
they saw, that the honor OF the nation and
the majesty of the law hung upon them
and that they could not be foiled, without in
hcing a vital wound on the prosperity
perhaps the faith of the nation--tbev
therefore resisted every motion for adj
tournament, though they continued TO sit in
silence, permitting the storm of debate tn
rape around them