The Alexandria herald. [volume] (Alexandria [Va.]) 1811-1826, 1813-07-02


its great efforts to preserve peace and neu-
trallty, enGeavored to get one of the belli-
gercnts to repeal its offensive edicts, in or
der to induce the other TO do the same.
Our government (said Mr.. c. did descend
one step In Passing the act OF 1910, under
which France did Cor, as the gentlemen
over the way would say, pretended toy re-
peal her DEGREES of Berlin and Milan. Bril-
tain did refuse to proceed hari hassu with
France in this repeal. will now place
this question at rest for ever; this fact
shall hereafter for ever be without contra
diction. England did say to this country,
even If France did repeal her DEGREES in
relation TO us she would not repeal her or
ders IN council. This she did say by the
solemn declaration of the prince regent,
dated 2lst April, 1912. No gentleman
dare hereafter rciterate the statement that
1T France had bona-6d repealed her de-
crees, as regards America, England would
have followed her example. Most ntiubi-
tahiy gentlemen who so highly appreciate
British faith will not discredit the evidence
produce. by some unaccountable means
they have hcrctofo-. contrived TO throw
cloud ovcrit, to keep it out Of sight A
further evidence in proof Of nay assertion
is, that when there was no longer shade
OF doubt hanging over the repeal of the
French dccrees-that is to say, for thirty
live days after the official communication
to the British government of the French
decree bearing date the 2Sth April, 1911,
no repeal Of the orders in council took
place. What process was going on in Bri-
tain In that interval? During these DAYS
most laborious enquiry was in progress in
the house oi commons, into the effects be.
neheIai or otherwise, produced on the con-
mercIai interest of Britain by her orders in
council OF 1907 & 1909; during all which
time the British ministry not only appro-
bated and supported them, bur took higher
ground III relation TO them than they had
ever done before. They entirely gaze uh
the pretended retaliatory character of the
orders III council, they were bound to give
1t up. Eden OF common sense could no
| longer have defended them on that ground
The Question was in terms, whether or
not our commerce, that is neutral com.
mcrce, should be made subservient to Bri-
'ish monopoly. And how, finally, were the
| orders IN council! repealed After it had
been made clear as the light Of the sun in
Heaven, that they were injurious TO Bri-
tish commerce. Will the gentleman from
Virginia now say that England would have
repealed her orders ill council, as 20 us, if
she had been convinced that France had IT.
the same manner revoked or modified her
DEGREES! The gentleman dare not saw it
NO, sir, he dare not, because | shall prove
him guilty OF faisity il he does. His known
integrity and candor are too great to per-
NIT him 70 say it, He dare not say, then,
that if the French decree of repeal had
been known, the British orders would
have been repealed, and the war thus pre-
vented
Mr. Stockton here spoke to order. He
wished 10 know whether personal threats
were admissible Oh the foor-whether any
gentleman could be permitted TO say that
another dare not say any particular thing.
The Sneaker said he did not understand
the gentleman as having used a personal
threat.
Mr.. Calhoun continued. He wished il
to be distinctly understood that he had no
personal meaning in what he said. He
merely had said that the gentleman dare
not, as man OF veracity, assert a fact other
wise than that fact is. He was sorry the
gentleman from New Jersey, much more
that the gentleman from Virginia himself
should misunderstood him. will be more
particular, said Mr. G.. | assert that two
and two make four and say no gentle
man dare to contradict it. say so on con-
viction OF the certainty of the fact. Sir, al
thong warm in my country's cause, moth
ing shall ever induce me unneces sarily to
wound the feelings of any gentleman in
this house, more especially of the gentle
man from Virginia, with whom have ne.
yer been so unfortunate as to come in COLI |
sion. l may be warm, sir l have right
to be so. L was one Of the advocates of the |