The enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1804-1815, 1811-12-24
CONGRESS.
REPORTED FOR TIE Observation-Disclosures.
House @ Observation-Disclosures 10.
PEECK OF .SG. RANDOLPH

s.fCEg w.
aPEECR OF .ST. RANDOLPH.
MIR. K. felt himself quite unprepared to
speak on this question, a question Of peace
or war. for in that light he considered It
mat part OF the Presidents message, which
related to the increase of our regular forces.
mad been referred to a select committee .
the committee OF Foreign Relations were
out OF oIaer In reporting on this subject so
too IS the house in delibcratin&. The COM
mittee of Foreign Relations had decided that
1t was not within the scope &C their power TO
consider the subject Of volunteers, it did moi.
selong to them what right then had thew tn
report on the increase ofour regular feress.
when that subject was expressly referred to
another committee ?---This IS not to- )
war OF defence, but a war Of CONQUEST. of
ACKNOWLEDGEMENT, of ambition a war foreion
to the best interests Of this country He
knew not how gentlemen protesting them
selves republicans could advocate such a.
war-what was the doctrine Of republicans
when the father OF his country was az the
head OF his army, in $500 ?-Repubrcaps
were then unwilling to trust an army even
In his hands-where now is the revoiutiona-
ny nero that is willing to conduct our youth
TO the heights OF A~STahamH-will you place
them under the direction Of an ACQUITTED fe-
Ion, OF of a debauchee of exhausted fortnne>
What, when you were unwilling to grant
an army, tho commanded by such men as q
iiamlltcH, a Pinkney and a Younger Wash
ington when w ashington himself wa az
the head, did you show such reluctance. feel
sucli rear, yet now are without reluctance..
OF tear -Were not the provocations to wal-
as great then as now s-Thuse who then OBJ
posed such an army were held the advocates
OF france as they now are the advocates Of
England those firm undertaking republic
cans that then chose and now chusc IT, cI;no
10 the constitution rather than to expedienCv.
mere is a fatality attending the plenitude
on power by some mania on other they lcse
1t IN process oftime as an immense estat..
heaped up by the labor and industry of ,ne
man, seldom is held in one family beyond the
third generation-By the abuse of powe, the
1ederal party tell, and will not the use Of the
same means that overthrow that party. bayf.
the same effect on the present dominant DarL
" !-fou will never live to enjoy the suc-
cession. '
MI Il. here adverted to the provocations
OF war from the shutting up of n Jew. Orleans.
out more fully to the conduct Of the HOUSE
III ioOo-o, when notwithstanding the Spanish
xxPSressiois Oh the territory of the good old
United States" and the multiplied i1srits e.
injuries we had received when those IL
res ware detained TO the house bv the PR
Sident, and the Committee (Uf which Nh. r.
was chalrman) reported in favor of raising 3.
small force to dtftnd our territory vet did
d gentleman, who II seems has since taken
a Fancy to Ca1ada (Mr. BidwelD come forth
WITH a proposition to appropriate money to
purchase Florida. Mr.. X. read much az the
proceedings OF the house at that time f M
the Journal.-Thcn against the powe, ,bat
Injured and insulted us, weo opposed not bril-
lets' but dollars. But Spain was then shield.
co by a greater power hence the respect
20 her' Had we opposed then as we ought
I'D dcIehcc OF our rights and our UotqL. n
H", we should have avoided the trorbles
that now surround us. We would not tben
raise a small force to defend our own terri
tory and now We arc willing to ra;se a
great one, Tor 1t must be great before the
%ohectIs accomplished for q war of ~ccnouest
and ambition. "1"''e
ne gentleman from Tennessee, has insi-
nuatcd' thai the Indians were iGNtipated to
massacre cur Citizens in the indiana Te,r;,
tory by the British. Has the prcs;d.,t O.
ven in any such information ! Has thE g.
tlcmaD received any informal infnrm5,i -
from any British officer that the Br;,isb ~;
mister has doue this Is it so believed e.
the administrator ? He had heard that tb1S
contrary was the opinion of the admin;e,ra-
ton There is c natural and easy resoInt-