The enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1804-1815, 1812-02-06

5 So to 2. -Neufra(ity was then practicable
we were in fact rcaping the golden frui
OF neutral trade. While ali its rich stream
were pouring into our country from ever
part OF the world /; we were then y-owin
fich and great; 1t surety was incX,'euicnt t
go to war: we could gain no5inng by i,
1t was madness. DO these circumstance
lexlst now
but the people were jealous of the arm,
an 20. He wished he could speak of til,
transactions ct those days without aliud;ns
toiacts calculated to excite unpleasant feel.
ings i his was not his object: WHY were
they jealous They saw that the arm,
was palpably useless, or verse 1t wa.
impossible II employ it against France
not so against themselves. The alien and
sedicon laws tho doctrine of the nccessi-
ty OF humbhng III dust and ashes great
democratic state, flied them with alarms
tney reared their then rulers intended to
change the government, and that the army
was the instrument 70 effect tn at purpose
| ne volunteers too were opposed-their
ifretorian bands-hccause the power vested
IN the states, in relation to them, was con-
travencd. Ehe states were robbed OF the
absolute right to officer them he said rob-
bed. as that power which is wisely given
to the states, as a counterpoise to the ply
seal force of the general government, was
to the President alone.
He understood the gentleman from Vir-
gina (Mr. Shefey) to say, we were going
TO war fcr mere phantom for, if the or
ders were repealed to morrow, the trade
20 France was not worth having. What
are the orders worth said he. Nothing /:
they were only paper & ink. The deep
inroad that horrible system has made on
the character and interest Of his country,
ought not to be considered. Is it posi-
Die, there should be one man left in the
nation, who can think the revocation of a
principle which not only shuts the CONT
nent OF Europe against your commerce. but
warrants its eXtesnion through every spc-
cies and grade of injury and insuA only pa
per and ink 4! 1t may be easy for the gen
tieman who estimates national honor as a
hubble. to contemplate the orders in coun-
| Gil with perfect Indifference but for him
self, ne could not see in them any thing that
was not perfectly loathsome. Sir, we have
talked SO long about trade about what
ought, and what ought not to be regarded
I it seemed we had forgotten what it ever
had been. Let us look back a little per-
haps when we are sensible of what we
have lost, we may he willing to make the
greater efforts to regain it. ] am apprizet,
Sir, that the theory nf the balance of trade
between nations taken from custom house
Docks, Eve have no other authority has
constantly, and perhaps will continue to
deceive the wiscst statesman but, so far
IS ~ur reports from the Treasury go to
>hew the amount of actual imports & ex-
ports, they may be safely relied On. What,
", was tire state of our commerce in 1904 ;
| Upon an average of the years 1902, 5, q,
! NJ stood thus To the British, d,n,i,io,,s, ia
Europe. Gibraltar excepted) we annually
! exported, OF domestic produce, S13.43O,0O0
! OF foreign merchandise, 50. 100000 ma
| KING an aggregate of exports, SIS 100000
! butt the amount Of our imports, from the
same places, was S27 100000; leaving a
balance i'll favor of O.. B. of S11,71O, COO
| but notwithstanding the expectation of cot
ton had increased in 1904 to $500, COO,
the exports of that year were only S 8,
100000, while the importation had been
sweiied to the enormous amount CT S 81,
| 100000 leaving balance against us, for
| that year, S 14,200,000. The balan &c, in
favor of G.. Britain, i'll our trade to Eri
fish India, is stated at 8 3,53O,O0O, which
added to that of her European dominions
constitute a balance in her favor of 5 IS ,24O
OC0. 1t is to this point, he wished to call
the gentlcman's attention. How is that ba-
lance obtained If he will attempt to ac-
count for it indisputably, he must find the
orders in council are not merely paper and
ink. Again, sir, the importations from all
parts of the world, during the same period,
were from British dominions, S s. $4,000
0C0; from the Northern pc Fers, Prussia 8;
| Germany, 81 ,o94,OC0 from II ola nd
France, Spain & Italy, (now France) s 25
| 475,C00 from the dominions of Portugal
| S ,O83 600; from China and other native
powers of Asia, 4,S56,0O0 from all other
| places, 1855, 900, making an aggregate
of SIS $4,000. The exports, for the same
period, and to all parts Of tie world, were,
of domestic produce, 39,928,00 of for
eign merchandise, 1928, 533, 600 Of these
amounts, there were exported to the coun-
tries over which TIE French dominion is
now extended, OF domestic produce, ss12
$4,000, and of foreign merchandise, S18
49,, 000; making the aggregate exports,
to those places, S30.673 900 ; the aggregate
imports amounting to S25 MS, 900, leaves
"a balance in our favor Of IS, 200, coo; while
at the same time, the balance was on the
trade to British domnions, SIS 1900
! ag inst us.
| sir, what has become Of this commerce.
! lie entrcated the gentleman to INFORM us
I how this immense balance was to be settled
when all the commerce Of the country, t.
/ other places than British, was cut off ? Eve
| ry practical man knows, the gentleman
| himself must know that the profits of tht
trade now destroyed by the orders in coun.
Gil. arc necessary to make up the deficit o
our exports to G.. Britain. The gentleman
states the exports Of domestic produce e
France AZ G1,7O0.0 900 to Great Britain n
/ $50 .OOO. GOO . of course said hr 70 oo to wa