Alexandria daily gazette, commercial & political. [volume] (Alexandria [Va.]) 1808-1812, 1812-04-23
EMBARGO LAW.
READING, penn April Ia.

of Wheat, and other Citizens, met at the
house of Valentine Brobst, mnkeeper, IN
the Borough of Reading, Berks county, Tor
the purpose of taking into consideration the
late measures of Congress, the perilous ST.
tuation of our common country, and OF con-
sulting and deyising such means and mea-
sures, as may tend to relieve from the dis
tress which impends over us.--After orga-
nising the meeting, by choosing Adam
Leiss, as chairman, and David HemInlg,
Secretary, the following Resolutions were
unanimously agreed to -
Il. Resolved, That we disapprove OF the
late measures of congress, particularly the act
establishing an Embargo, which will induce
great hardships and oppression to the miilers
and farmers of the state OF Pennsylvania In
particular, and to the citizens generally.
9. Resolved, That committee be appoint
ed to draft memorial to congress, praying
for repeal of the act establishing the Embar-
go.
8. Resolved, That the friends to the peace
and prosperity of our country, be,requestedto
assemble generally throughout the union, and
to express their disapprobation, by remon-
STRANGE or otherwise, of the said act OF con-
gress, and to solicit its repeal, to save our
country from the evil with which it threatens
to overwhelm her.
4. Resolved, That remonstrance be pre-
pared, and transmitted to the representatives
in congress, from this district, disapprovlng
of their conduct in supporting, by their votes,
the late obnoxious law, establishing an En-
barge in the ports of the United States, with
instructions, calling on them to use their en-
deavors to have the same repealed at the ex-
piration of sixty days or sooner.
S. Resolved, That committees be appointed
in the different townships, in the county OF
Berks, to obtain the signatures OF such OF our
citizens, to the memorial, as are untrlendly
to the continuance of the Embargo.
6. Resolved, That the proceedings of this
meeting be signed by the Chairman and Sc
cretary, and published in all the German and
English newspapers In Reading
(SigneD
ADAM LESS, Chairman.
DAVID HEMMIe, Secretary.
To the Senate and House Of Representatives
of the United States in Congress met.
The Memorial Of the subscribers, inhabitants
of the county Of Berks, In the State OF
Pennsylvania,
HUMBLY REPRESENTS,
That although they repose great confidence
in the general disposition OF your honorable
body to forward the real interests OF our COM
mon couMtry /; and are fully persuaded that
the wisdom which has hitherto marked your
deliberations, affords ample assurances that
there is in your body adequate talent to accom-
pish the great object-the permanent estab-
lishment of our national prosperity amid the
conflicts that Cypress the continent OF Europe;
yet, they cannot avoid expressing their sor-
row at, and disapprobatien of certain measures
of your body, that have become part of the
law of the land which, if persisted in, they
conceive may ultimately become ruinous to
the common welfare. They have addressed
most respectfully tins their memorial to your
consideration, not out of a spirit of dictation,
but from dread of suffering in common with
MANY of their fellow-citizcns by the evil con-
sequences with which the embargo system
threatens to oyerwhelm our suffering country
The motives of your honorable body which
led to the enaction of the law establish
ing or laying the embargo, they do not pre-
sumo to question. They believe them pure.
But pure and well intended, however, the
motives may be that called into existence the
much dreaded embargo; if its consequences
are likely to prove injurious to our general IN
terest. those motives however Justlhabie,
ought not to be applauded, nor persisted IN !;
but disapproved, renouaeed, and the law, the
effect oftheir operation, should be abolished.
The surest Guide to lead US to correct specu-
lations on the probable result the operations
Of law lust going into force, is analogy and
exner;ence In the present instance we are
sortnnate that to assist us in our conjectures
On tbe probable result of the operation OF the
nresent law that the wished for analogy is
eomnlete. Past experience teaches us that
at no time is the embargo system calculated
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