The enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1804-1815, 1812-05-19
I Vol. 9-.--.---No. 8.

privy to the act; and believe those zen
| tlemen who will take the trouble to read
the debate, 6 sec the miserable FIGURE which
the few remarks | made cut there. would
nave aosoived me from having any hand in
making these proceedings public. As far
as 1hey nave gone to the public, have felt
myself individually injured and aggrieyed
but have no hesitation in repeating. when
the doors are open. the observation to which
presume the gentleman from South Caro-
INA referred. | shall not stop TO enquire
how tar such an alluson was i'm order
cld say, when the doors were closed. and
from the source of my information | have
no more doubt of the fact thsn l have that
WI. barlow mas gone orr minister to France
10Y Toy aid not see him go, and it may be a
false report-that had the best reasons ia
oeheve that, from his first coming 70 this
country, the French minister had pressed
tne American government to cut off all sup.
piies to the Spanish peninsula, and thar ou,.
government had resisted that pressure.
why, SIR, is there any man who knows anv
tInlhS OF the designs or policy of the French
i>hperorthat thinks he is so little sensible OF
ms own Interest as not to have desired If (,
Can it be believed that Monsr. Serrnr;e,.
was sent here without powers and without.
INSTRUCTIONS to press our government TO Dus
an enu 10 tsade between Us and the Spanish,
ano portuguese ? Is the French Cabinet 90
little enlightened as not 10 endeayor tn ar
tam that object SO desirable to France. when
that endeavor could cost them nothing :
What did say That these attempts had
pee'' maze, and believe the precise ex-
preston was, " hitherto eluded." or Darried
oy an argument that might satisfy even a
rrenchman that if the Emperor wished
not TO excite the universal execration of the.
people against France, he must not touch
our trade to Spain and Portugal; that the
people OF this country would send their ves-
sells whereSoever they could get a market,
stated these facts, andI stated them on nv
own responsibility. The gentleman from
ooueh tarchna has different impressions. I
presume the gentleman has had an opnor
tunity OF investigating the subject and as.
certarilng whether such proposition was
ever made The gentleman bows assent.
w thont trenchins on his privileges would
oe giad TO know whether the gentleman qua.
lines that denial by the term official 80
"Because, sir, know rather too much
OF diplomacy to believe that there is black
ana White for it, that there is any corresDon-'
uehCe on me on the subject. do not be-
lieve 1t but Il have no more doubt of the
fact than l should have if YOU (NIr. Snea-
korl or the gentleman from South Carolina
iihselt were to tell me he had receiv-
Gu IL from the President or from a Ca
oShet Minister. l can have no more i.
ana II the information of the gentleman
from south Carolina came froIn the same
source as that which possess, all have to
Say 49, lhat one story has been told to the
soh'ieihah from South Carolina s, Ciferent
story TO myself. But presume that that
cannot have been the fact. AS the old ,,eo.
PIE say, stands TO reason that such q prrpo.
Siuoh should have been made by Mr.. Serr,,-
rler. 1t was too desirstie an object tn ba
overlooked Why not ask. lie could but
meet WIN refusal, and then he would ba
as well of as before. Why not as well press
our government on that point as to put an
ehd to the trade of St. Domingo We
INV , 'idI our government was so pressed
ana acceded to the requisitinn. 7 was ono
VINO joined in so doing, not because France
wished y, but because | thought all tbs
siaVe-holding states were deeply Interested
III cutting CIT All sort of communication with
that devoted island. 1t was upos thar
ground and no other that l voted for that,
law. '' '4A"'
with respect TO submission, know of ma
species OF submission to the pretensions of
I I DeiiSerents more complete than TIL.
Embargo 1t is direct and uheouivocal snb-
mission to the i1terests and wisbas Of 49,.
tndt all trade between us and Spain, and
Portugal, should be at an ebd. II is direct
ana unequivocal submission to the Orders i'm
council, because they tell us we shall not
go 10 race. and we will therefore go no
"here' we nave received notice from an enc
envy not to travel particular road to avoid
submitting to the requisition, we keep close
house-for all nations know how to compro-
mise what are called their rights. We
nave practised it on more occasions than
one, and shall again when the occasion &c
ours. There is but one nation at Dre-.
sent III the world that does it not fro.
quentl%, and there never did exist in nv
| recoleCton but oi Other-the ancient Ro-
mans were the one 4; and the modern Ro-
mans, as they call themselves, the other,
and yet the Caesar Of Crsars knows weir
row to compromise his rights. 1t is very
me talking about rights, but the question
Is remedy, and you must at last be govern.
ca by circumstances. Will you pronounce
that all no have gone before vou havr
been dastards VIII you ray that Wash.
ington submitted That Adams submitted
that JeterSon's administration was long
continded Course of the basest submission
hat the best act Of the administrator of A :
dams, his accommodation with Franc 90,
Submission have bcenfor a specific roIicv
but It we are to go to war. take off the em.
barge DO. not, in the site oe Sanqrado
deplete us " way of preparation for battle
STlVe us Deef-steaks and porter, if we are 70
hght' and not water Cruel and the lancet
1t IS well known fact that five out of civ
OF the men who persisted during the revolu-
tionary struggle, persisted from the conee..
quences OF our refusal 70 receive foreic,,
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