Martinsburgh gazette. [volume] (Martinsburgh, Va. [W. Va.]) 1810-1825, 1812-05-29

swear well, got fortunes-wiile the honest ]
unsuspeeting merchant. coniding in the cor
rectness OF his claim, and the integrity of his 4
own conduct, got nothing and very proba- Z
bly, some of the latter may now be seen wan 4
dering as beggars thro' the streets of Your i
populous cities, the pavement OF which il 4
made to echo, by the rafting of the chariot =
wheels of those who have deirauded them. 1
After this, you had the Berlin. decrec-the !
Orders in Couneil--the Milan decree-the {
Rambouillet decree-the depredationss OF I
Spain-thc robberes even OF the renegade \
black chief of st, Domingo-and the unpro-
voked and still continued plumber of Denmark ]
IA nation of pirates from theirorigin. What
cause of complaint has Denmark. or everhad
Denmark, against us ? Her most fond aud
speculative maritime pretensions we have will
lingly espoused-and yet she continues daily
to capture and condemn our vessels and car
goes, and CONTEMPORARY tells us, that the
government ofthe u. States is too wise to 20
to war for a few merchant ships. And this
we bear from a people as inferior to the U.
States in all the attributes of national power
or greatness, as | am inferior TO Hercules
Yes, sir, has been abandoned. else
why prohibit your merchants from bringing
the property to a large amount, which they
have fairly purchased and paid for, into tho
ports of our countryside why by this exclu-
sion perform the double operation of adding
to the resources OF the enemy you are going
to war with and impoveri.hing your w citi-
zens.
Yes, sir, the gentleman from Maryland i.
right-but he has no especial reason OF com
plaint-from his situation and standing, he
should naturally have been the guardian and
protector of m in this house-he
should have raised his powerful voice in her
fayor-he should have opened his arms for
her protection. lie did raise his voice, but
for merely her extinction, not for her encour-
agement-he did open his arms, hut he gave
her the clasp Of death, not that OF protection.
The embargo, the enforcing act, the non.in-
tercourse act, the non importation act, and all
that i'll omened brood of measures, number
that gentleman among their patrons ana sup
porters.
Yes. sir, has been abandoned,
g deserted in her utmost need by those l4er
former bounty fed" Yes, sir, she has been
abandoned. She has been left n wreck upon
the strand, or as a derelict upon the waters of
the ocean to be burnt, sunk, or plundered ;
bv any great or puny assailant who could
| man an oar, or load a swivel for her annoy
ance.
What was the leading object Of the adop-
ton of the federal constitution in the northern
parts of the union ? Most empiatically it
was for the protection OF commerce. What
was the situation of some branches OF our
then ? And what is 1T now ? Look
at the statement which was laid upon our Ia
bles about a fortnight past, and taken from
the returns of the treasury. What effect has
it had upon our fisheries which were so nobly
and successfully contended for, by the Ameri-
can commissioners who settled the treaty Of
~l783.-which for a time suspended that treaty
and which both the d~uplicity and intrigue
of France and the interest of England stIovo
to deprive us of-of our fisheries which were
then considered, and ought to be considered
as a main sinew four strength, and a nurse
nv for our seamsn
In the year 1891, when we were
just emerging from a chaos of
confusion, the export of dried
fish--was of the value then es-
timated of 100000
In the year l8ll-it had diminish
ed nearly one half, & was only $1,000
The whale fishery in oil and bone
in l79l-gave le6,46o
In 1871 it had fallen off nearly two
thirds, and was only $4,000
This is the state of our fisheries, which APP
ply to the northern states, after twenty years
operation of the government.
Let US observe now the export OF vegetable
food in which other parts of the union are
more deeply interested. 1t is worthy of at
~tention, and | shall notice a series of years:
In l79l-the export of vegetable
food amounted to $4,6f0,OO0
lso3 l4,08o,gOo
1901 iZ,Ooo,Uo
lso5 1880 600
1906 100000
IA 400 lx1rk-