The enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1804-1815, 1812-05-19
Mr.. RANDOLPH rose to explain.

NIihsih iIoiu Neht y. Wncn ne supposed nm &c
have expressed an unwillingness to see q
change effected in the administration of the
govesnment. He certainly had not express
sed limselfto that effect /; he had no suck
feeling. On the contrary (for he was not
IN the habit OF making a secret of his politi-
Cal opinions)he could scarcely conceive of any
change which would not be for the better
since IN his judgement the affairs of this
country, Whatever be the object of our po-
licy,-whether war or peace, could not have
been more miserably Conducted than they
had been since the 4th of Nov. last. 1t was
not to the change, but to the means by which
1T seemed likely to be brought about, that Mr.
IL. mad expressed any thing like repugnance
IL was to the particular means and not the
object chat he had expressed dislike. He
oid not wish to see change effected by the
expressions and eXactions of the govern
ment itself, which should embody and bring
into powera long depressed party with all
ITS ieeiings OF resentment or of another des-
eruption IN iufi viSor Oh operation. He had
no wish to see q change brought about By
means like this He deprecated whatever
might contribute to nourish a narrow and
rancorouS party spirit, which had been toe
long the curse of THE country And whene-
yer 1t should be found, to use the language
OF the gentleman from Kentucky, (Mr.
Iohnson,) that he was acting with this or
thet harfy, unfortunately justifying their
tollies and their crimes, he should feel him
SELF obnoxious to the observations made by
tne gentleman from Kentucky and not un-
I'll then. No, sir (said Mr. RI can in
form that gentleman that there is not a
greater moral impossibiity conceivable by
the mind OF man, than that should stand in
such relation to any party Whatsoever
woe De unto that man, who consigns HIM
sell over to so slavish bondage
mere was one remark made by tie gen
tieman from Kentucky which he would not
AFFECT to misunderstan6. The gentleman
had e;kultingly said, that ere the 30 DAYS
should elapse, those in opposition to the mea-
sures OF government would be taught to be
more silent that once fairly entered on the
war,-lMr. Johnson said the gentleman
would understand him rightly-it was to the
SORT OF opposition made to the loan, which
IN his mind was little less than treason, that
he had applied his remarks. He had No
aiiuslon to the proceedings of that House. I
Mr.. Randolph in continuation said he did not
very well understand the gentlcmen's cx-
PLANTATION, because he was ignorant of the
species OF opposition to whichth gentleman
referred. He had always considered a loan
to be voluntary thing. He had heard in
deed OF forced loans, but if by a loan was
meant voluntary act on the part of the
lender, he could not comprehend the nature
OF an opposition to public loan. True he
had seen it more than limited by some of
those who will be hereafter patriots of
the revolution, by some of those who had
escaped from the justice of their own coun-
try In Europe-that after war declar-
ed, all the tories should be tarred and
teathsred. For it had been pronounced
that tins was to be second war for in
dependence--in order (he supposedly to ena
bic the patriots aforesaid to enrol their IL
lustrlous names among those of the heroes
OF the Revolution No. 2. As long as he re.
tanned a.seat on that foor--Ss Heaven knows
how long that will be--he should hesitate To
express himself with the utmost freedom
Notwithstanding any invidious personalities
to which it might subject him. He disclaim-
ed any allusion i'll this remark to the gentle
man from Kentucky.
That gentleman had endeayored to con.
vet him OF the charge of inconsistency or
the subject of Embargo; Quoting a passage
IN speech of his as far back as Marcel
1906, when the ground was first broken
which has since produced so many success.
sive crops OF restrictive measures. To such
charge OF inconsistency asthat, he should
hardly take the trouble to make a defence
But surely the gentleman would recollect
that since that period we had Been unde,
the discipline of an Embargo for almost is
months. II that be not sufficient to cure the
Embargo Mania, if that dose has failed in
us effect ON any man, he would only saw he
was an incorrigible subject and ought to be
dealt with accordingly, by being dismissed tc
the hospital of incurables. But for the lac,
Embargo, an Embargo for so DAYS prenara.
tory to war would have had the effect Of
which Mr. X. had spoken six years ago * for
which this was ostensbly laid. But the dole.
ful experience Of the Embargo of 1908 9
drove the people one and all-whig and to-
ry, monarchist and Observation-Disclosures &
republican, to escape as from house on fire
suppose IN certain stage of disease a regu.
lar physician to prescribe the Warm Bath
and his sturdy nurses should persist in plung-
ms the unhappy patient iato cauldron and
parboilirg him for % hours /? Do Won think
you could ever prevail upon the sick man
(supposlng him 20 survive the operation) or
the physician to agree to another exhibition
OF the remedy' No, sir; burnt child
breads the fire. The wore. Embargo has
become more ominous than the croskiic of a
raven. 1T affects all classes and descTipti.
ons OF people, and all the fruit7 Of the earth
perish before it--lke tie dosolstion of those
Locusts we hear of in Teneriffe. It is tho
most compendious system of devastation and
sell destruction! ever invented--a master.
piece OF human ingenuity. AT the time re-
ferred to by the gentleman from Kentucky
this famous experiment had never been made
or, (be beileved) thought of by any human
being in the world
The remarks made or the subject of ma
Jortty and minority were in theft charactc;
mn \ bet A.