The enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1804-1815, 1812-02-08

rous precedent, that might hereafter be re
sorted to. as a pretcXt for augrnenting from
! time to time, without sufficient cause, or be
: You'd the nature of the eNigcncy, your stan
ding army until the people might. perhaps
be awakened from their secu,ity,a as has been
the case on many occasions in other countries
~ feeling the pressure of the chains of mill
, tary despotisrn. He was also unwilling to
charge the nation with expenditures whis:,
ITS finances wee not prepared to mce+, and
which, in his opinion, II t occasion did not
I require. He ti'Isted it was not the intention
OF any one,by raising solarge regular force,
g thereby mourning SO great an cxpendi-
ture beyond what, it is believed, was neccs-
1, sary, to drain your treasury, e!nbarrass YOUR
hscal concerns, and paralize the best con-
tcerted measures of yWr. government. If
however such were the objects intended. a
more eHectual mode to accomplish them.
could not be adopted.
/ If war becomes indispensable, YOU ought
not to calculate that it will be of short dura-
ton. You can make war; but it does no,
rest with you alone to make peace. Every
effort ought to be made Co bring it to a spec
4 dy termination, and all the nears that could
be usefully employed, afforded for that pur-
pose. But you ought not in the beginning, to
| waste unnecessarily your treasures, which
| are the snews of war; your cxcrtions
should be proportional to the Resistance to
be overcome and no more Of your energies
and resources exhausted than the occasion
required always rcserving the residue to
inject more urgent emergency War once
commenced, yon ought to calculate on sup
porting, on at least the same, ifnot a more
extended scale, not only for one, but for ma
ny years. as it cannot be known how long it
NAV be continued
\ The American people, said Mr.. e. will.
without murmur, support anv expendi-
lures, they believe necessary to maintain
the rights and avenge the wrongs of their
| country. But they will EXPECT you to res
| t1ct those expenditures to such only as the
! emergency shall require ; and that before
You call on tnem for nsw contributions, YOU
| will be prepared tc shewvou have disposed
o. the means already in your hands to the
| best advantage.
| Your government has,n0 doubt, estimated
the probable amount of force that would be
required to-accrmplish the objects Of view ;
they have probahli made ARRANGEMENTS, so
Far as rested with chem, to meet the eyDen-
ses OF such force they would also he con-
cel'ed' be in great degree, responsible that
TWAS coTnretent for tie purposes for which
1t was raised, shond be employed to effect
those purposes, ard that your finances could
be rendered adequate to its support But
what are Won about to 90 by this bill? De-
rance all those plans and change tie res
I ponsibillty. Instead of 90 or e5 900 the NUM-
Der deemed sufficient, yom force unon the go
Ivernment 35,CC0 regular troops Ym there
BY take upon yourselves the responsibility of
raising a force much larger than was re-
qu'rt:d, or can be usefully employed Of &C
lcasioning great unnecessary expenditure,
which Will Grain vonr treasury, embarrass
vour finances, and probably compel you to
impose new burdens on the people. WI!
I they not inquire into the causes of those eX-
| traordInary measures, and ask wherefore
were those new taxes imposed, those eypcn-
dtures incurred> What occasion was there
for so large n regular army On what great
emergency were they to he emDloyetl, and
| what numerous force was t. be resisted or
subduedf Those will be natural enquir;es-
and the answers will 40 doubt suggest them
sclves---that great portion of these ex-
| renditures was incurred contrary to the
| views OF the executive, and for which he
| would IN no respect be respOnsb that lit
tie more than half the regular force raised
was deemed competent to effect all the prac
tlcab'c objects within your reach that the
force 70 be resisted or subdued was not known
| or believed to be considerable, nor such as
20 REQUIRE the number Of troops ordered to
I've raised but that majority of Congress
took upon themselves. without sufficient
cause, tn raise this large army, incur this
immense expense, and consequently require
those new burdens to be imposed. For all
this, therefore, and the consequences that
may flow therefrom, such majority, and not
the executive, must and will be responsible
to the people.
| Mr.. CawhheN said, he would now notice
more particularly some of the arguments adj
duced by the hon. member from Va, Nv
Giles. lie did not propose following him
HI through thc various course of his rea7onircr
! much Of which. however ing. Gus. did not
IarrHar 70 him relevant tn this subject, and
| a''bo on that account, not now to he answer
81, he did not subscribeto. The hon gen
tIenan said, in case Of war, your prescv;
military f'"re Of 10000 men would he re
CURED - project your. western frontiers. an(
prevent Ncw-Crlcars and Florida being n
zen b" the British. SC. and, therefore. tfa'
5000 additional regulars would Sc necessa.
ry, and 'it.'e enough 70 eject your purpose,
IN the rti,, &c.
!. Mr. e. said no o',iect could he move in te~
esting TO thewestcrn country than the Sc
curity OF ". Orleans; no orc could feel more
sensib'v than he did, the Importance oe af
fordiag cGectunl protection to that place, n
veil as 70 Florida and The western frontiers
and hc believed no ore was more anxiou,
than himself or would 20 further 20 procid
the most ample means, and such as coul,
be most uscfuly employed for those rnrDc
scs. he trusted the ecnt'ern"n's hroCssc,
: rcr ri fcr the protection % that quarter q
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