Martinsburgh gazette. [volume] (Martinsburgh, Va. [W. Va.]) 1810-1825, 1812-01-03

ask Nun tor tP-Or would You compound
with your ex-secretary mir. NJ and your Sc
cretary in fact2 How would you settle the
matter between them? Your treaty of 1906
was rejected for purposes too visible to need
repetition.
We have been told by men of honor, that
we stand pledged to France. i was not sur
prised to hear this asserted by factious jour-
nalists but | confess my astonishment, nay
my indignation, when heard it advanced on
this floor, by men whom | honor, whom
love. whom revere. Yes, sir, we are bound
20 France, as Sinbad the sailor was bound to
the corpse, the purifying corpse of his wife
IF so then have we sealed our perdition: then
are we doomed to suffer the hell of this earth.
No, sir, / deny it: we are not bound to France,
and so help me God, with my consent, we
never shall be so bound Will any man con
tend that we have the right to transfer to TO
reign despot, the power of making war for US,
upon whom and when he pleases And what
would your constituents say to thisP Suppose
they croud YOUR tables with memorials and
circumstances against it: would you reply to
them with all the GOODNESS of a modern duel
list" am bound in honor; | can't help 1t p
The people would not endure it. You are told
that YOU are bound to France--by what by
a contrivance by an artifice the most bung-
ling by bubble to which the most petty
Newgate solicitor would not put In bar, even
on an indictment for felony. But If you have
sold yourselves into foreign bondage, | pray
you, sir, shew me tie equivalent, the qua
pro quo? What have you got in exchange
from the tyrai,t Of the earth? 4 miserable
equivalent dish OF French broth Shall
we look into our statute book, or into the cor
Tespondence of our late secretary OF state, for
this equivalent? We have the testimony of
our own government, that the mode only, not
the measure, OF French wrongs. has been
changed. France has done by municipal laws
what her edicts had before done France,
like true cheyalier, tells you she has repeal
ed her DEGREES, and the next moment re enacts
them To be pledged TO her, we must have
T. bona fde revocation, carried into lasting et-
feet not an oracular, doubtful, Delphic re-
Spouse to the question-Have you revoked
Not a response which gives promise to the ear,
but death to- our hopes, Can you sell your
tobacco in France, or your bread stuffs, and
your cotton ?-fhere is but one buyer, and of
course but one seller TO be sure, you have
the privilege Of Transporting your tobacco by
land from Bordeaux to Germany! But you
dare not supply her eneIny with articles with
which she herselfsecretly supplies him. Vine
Their the orders in council are repealed, know
not care not. They do not prevent US from
trading to France France herself prevents
IS. But reverse the cese suppose your ships
were daily condo mned in English ports, for
touching at a French port, or beirg visited by
French cruizer, and the proceeds put into
the Golfers of the British exchequer !; your di-
plomatic pupPet asks, what is to be done ? He
IS told in true French style, "why that a flair
is to be settled by the law of reprisalsp p What
would you say then, you would be laughed at,
you would be thought ideots and boobies, if
you expected the restoration of thirty millions
from the grasp of any power, especially of
France, would as soon 60 to Algiers for it
would sooner
The hon member then adverted to the va
nous violations by Bonaparse of the treaty
with US, which he himself had signed. Even
n state of .fagrante bello, of open war, by
that treaty the merchants of the respective
powers were to have sly months time to re
move their property and themselves home
Yet in the face of this treaty, in time of
profound peace, when even the imperial ruler
himself had not insnuated that we had in
fringed one iota of it, had our merchants been
decoyed into his ports, robbed, incarcerated,
treated with every species Of contunely and
disgrace. Their property had been actually
stolen in Antwerp, Amsterdam, Bordeaux
not forgetting Naples, the kingdom of Joachim
Allrat, itself. In private life, there are GER
tain men privileged, wnom we are willing to
allow may disregard every principle of decen-
cy and morality but it bias never yet been
eontended that the ruler of nation was alb
solved from those principles But your minis
ter has told you, That to appeal to your solemn
treaty with the ruler of France, to appeal to
his sense of honor and of justice, was to APP
peal to the deadl
With all this testimony of French aggres-
Sons, we hear men talk of our right to select
and designate our enemy; ofpledges to France
and war with Britain Sir, if you go to war,