Martinsburgh gazette. [volume] (Martinsburgh, Va. [W. Va.]) 1810-1825, 1812-07-17

articles contaband OF which liable TO be taken,
bockade and except the direct colonial trade OF
the eTemy which Great Britain denied to be free the law
of Why the order thus extended in its form,
while in effect added nothing to orders and regulations
already existing win be known by advertng to papers,
which before the world la 1902 France, had yet colo
MES and the wound inflicted feelings by the interior
the British government in our trade with those colo
had been the OF remonsrance ana negotiation
At the when the order of May 1906 made Mr..
Monroe the present Secretary of State, then minister
penpotenary the Court Great Britain treaty
the subject Of the carrying trade, and Judging the
spot and the me he uihesitatngy, gave his opinion,
the order made favor American views and ine
rests This idea uneqnyocay expressed in Mr. bonroes
letters hr Madison of the 7th and Goth of May, ard
Of the 9th Of June, 1906
And as late as October l8ll the Gentleman writ
ing Secretary of State the British minister, speaking
order of blockade of May 1906 says strictly
tle than blockade of the coast from Seine to
Ostend" "The object afford to the United States
g an accommodation respecting the colonial trade"
appears, then, that this order in point OF fact,
made favor trade and understood and admit
ted BY the government of this country, that time and
that instead of extending prior boekades it essened
them that the country from Seine to Brest, and from Os-
tend to Ebe inserted them colonial trade
and for accommodation, and that it made the
subject of complaint by the American government during
practical that is until the first order in
council and indeed until acrthe st of May 1910 and
until after the American government apprized of the
ground which it the will of Francs should be taken up
on the subject.
OF this we have the decisive proof the OFFERS made
under the administration of Mr. jefferson discontinue
of the Embargo it related to Great Britan
of which required the repeal of the blockade of May 1906
and Also the made during the adminstra
of Mr. Madison and under his eye with MIR Erskne The
nonncrcourse of March 1909 and the concerning
commercial intercourse" Of May 1910, vest the President
ofthe United states with the very power in the
Both authorize him in either Great Bri-
tain France shall revoke modify her edcs that
they shall to violate the neutral commerce of the u
nited States" to declare the by proclamation And
by the provisions Of law in such case
by those of the other be revived In
consequence of power vested by the FIRST act the arrange
ment with Erskne made and the revocation of the
ders in council of January and November 1907 was cosi
dered full compliance with the law and removing all
the anti neutral edcs The blockade of May 1906 not
included in the and does appear that
deemed OF sufficient importance engage thought
Yet under the act of May 1870 which the very
power revocation of this blockade of May, 1906 made
by cabinet sine qua indispensable requisite
And now, after the British minister ha directly avowed that
this order of blockade would continue after revocation
of the orders in council without due application of
deouate force the existence of this blockade
ustiiiabe cause of war notwithstanding that
government admits blockade IS legal to the maintenance
of which adequate force is applied
The undersigned aware, that in justification of this
ground 1t is said that the extension paper for
whatever purpose intended favor the principle of paper
blockades This however, hardly be urged since the
British formally dsavow the principle; and since they
acknowledge the very doctrine OF the law of nations for
which the American administration contend henceforth the
existence of blockade becomes question OF fact must
depend upon the evidence adduced support Of the ade
quacy of the bleckadng force.
From the preceding statement is apparent that what
ever there s Objectionable the principle ofhe order
May 1906, in the practice under it, ground merely
American, 1t cannot be set up sufficient Of
for until France, pointed 1t out ofconroversy it
was so far from being regarded any new or
grevous complaint that actually considered by our
government, in favorable light.
The British Orders in Council remaining source
OF discomfort and avoyyed of These have
totore, been considered, by government connexon
with the French DEGREES Certainly the British Orders
ct
neutral rights and constitute just grounds of complaint
viewed relatively the condition Of those powers
each other and othe United States towards both the
dersgned cannot persuade themselves that Orders in
Council they exist and with their present effect and
operation justify the selection of Great Britain
my; and render necessary declaration of unqualified
Every consideration of moral duty, and political expedi-
TO warning the United States not to
minge in this hopeless, and to human eye inermnabe
European contest Neither France England pretends