Virginia Argus. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1796-1816, 1812-11-30


per cent. loan bill fra m the latter we h ad
only been saved by he infraction of the nom
intercourse which the House refused to re-
peal at the last session. NJ. r. is happy to
see there were illustri us seceders from the |
principles w ich the Federalists had former |
~ adopted; aud which proved that ne, Mr.. |
X. was still faithful centinel TO his post
The widow had property in a minor Ion
from which he could not be dissolved the
maternal throes that brought him into exis
tence, and nourished him could not be abso-
we'd The principles of the bill were ex nost
facto-congress had not the power to annul
Obligations already contracted, &c. He was
not SO much alarmed about apprentices as
| o,hergentlemen were; he fancieil they would
generally be of a description .uch as we
sometimes see in the papers, {" tic cents re-
| Tcard and all persons forwarded from har.
boring &c" But il was setting up firipi
iedgcd order
Mr.. Widgery thought it was a reproach
upon the house for any man to say the ex
ecutive will was the law of the land, ant!
make insnuation of French influence. He
knew that the temper and disposition of the
speaker had ed him to give great latitude
IN debate TO the opposition, because they
were the minority. The gentleman had told
! the house of caricature he would tell him
| ot another "A shop keeper had piece Of
his goods stolen; he immediately cried, init
the thief finding he was in danger bawi-
ed thief! Micf! so got clear. "By gar no
Frenchman here" This was an artiiice to
raise the cry of French influence to prevent
being seen. He had heard this cry uften in
| Massachusetts,, but he never heard of the
French minister of state applauding the ar
| guments Of their friends i'm congress-
Il 10 ,cE n. st...
carried % many English iguhieas through
the country! This gentleman might blus
ter about his friends in Boston, but they
would not Commit the overt ACT There
were honest yeomanry enough in Massachu
| sets to put them down if they did. The
house had gone too far to retract. Gentle
| men could not so home as formerly aud
laugh and say ~ scared them out of it,"
as in the case of the embargo
Mr.. Pitkin commended that the practice of
the revolution was to have the consent of the
| parent: He cited case which took place
IN his state under the law of '99 when the
politics went with the general government
as staunchly as any other in the union: A
recruiting officer had enlisted an apprentice
who was taken out of his hands by habeas
corpus and the case went up to the highest
court in the state; the enlistment was deem
| ed invalid and the officer sued for damages.
This cancelled the contract of enlistment
The constitution of the state declaree that
TO law should be made to impair obligations,
&c. &C.
Mr.. Troup asked if were possible for a
ny gentleman or stranger to be in the gale
ry (unless he had previously been made &C
| quainted with the subject) and not suppose
from the arguments of the gentleman from
| Massachusetts that the bill authorised the
| recruiting sergeant to go ard drag the APP
prentice from his master or farther? He
could not suppose it was merely to accent the
offer of a voluntary service. In the days of
Greece and Rome twas accounted honor
able to be in the service of your country;
What would have been said to the man who
would have dared to have raised his voice a.
gainst it, He would have been hurled from
| the Iarpieah rock or consigned to the cave
OIL irophoneous. In cases of public necess-
/ ~ and danger, the eXigencies of the coun-
try should be paramount to everyother claim,
| and who could be better spared to take the
held than the youth who had neither wife nor
| children In arbitrary governments like
France they were dragged in chains In o.
Tiers more moderate it were done by fraud
and trick, and we must resort to an increase
Of pay &c. The responsibility of the milf
| tary establishments depended upon the pro-
portion OF ths wages You may increase
| the wages till you wonld he able To fill the
ranks with silk stocking gentry, or members
| OF congress--lt was the wages that made
the respectabiiity. MIR. I. was proceeding
| to animad'ert upon the conduct of two states
IN withholding their quota of militia, but sat
down without bringing his remarks to a con
ciusion.
Mr.. Bigelow considered it prevalent TO
| the question to bring into view the conduct
o. the executive Of Massachusetts. IF the
question was before the house, the gentle.
man from South Carolina would find the
gentleman from Massachusetts ready to sup
port it.
The question TO recommit was lost, % to
ID.
The question was then taken on the final
passage of the bill and carried, 81 to 81, as
follows:
YEAS--MssssA Aston, Anderson. paco,.
basset, BlackleAge, Brown, Butler. Cal
houn, Carr, Chesvcs, Clay, Cochran, Con
dit, Crawford, Cntts, Davis, Dawson, Desh-
a. Dlnsmoor, Earle, Fiudley, Fisk, Frank
IN. Gholson, Goodwin, B. Hall, o. Hall.
Harper. Halves, Hyneman, Johnson, Kent,
Lacock, Lowndes, Lyle, Maxwell, M'Coy,
M'b'm, Metcalf, Mitchill, Morgan, Nor.
row, Nelson, Newton, Peasants, Pond.
Richardson, Rhea. Roane, Roberts, Sage.
sawyer, Seybert. Shaw, Smile, c. Smith, J.
smith, Strong, Taliaferro, Troup. Turner,
Williams, Wdgery, Winn--64.
NAfS-Messrs. Bgelow, Boyd, Brcck-
enridge, Brigham, Champion. Chittenden,
loo&e, Davenport, Ely, Enot, Fitch, Gold,
flutty, Jackson. Law, Lewis, Macon,
! M bryde, Milnor, Mossley. Newbold, Pear
son, Pitkin. Potter, Quincy. Randolph Reed.
Ridgeiys ROdman, Summons, Stanford, Stur-
IS, Taggart, Tallmadge, Wheaton, White.