Virginia Argus. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1796-1816, 1813-07-15

ttoase anu the nation. as far as my know. |
ledge extends. .Audi aiteran, har.em. l |
wouid hear both sides before l would decide. |
ohali the proposed committee sit during
the recess! Sir, il would be better at once
to disband the army. The gentleman, re
solution ought TO embrace yet another pro
posi;ion-alid that is, to substitute other of
hcers Tor those IL be recalled to attend the
committee. When the Campaign shall have
ended, l will concur hear lily in the exps-
d,ency OF such an enquiry and the very a
CITATION OF this proposition will prove suf-
ncient stimulus To our army. We have been
informed OF the intli,potion of The comman
der in chief Of the Northern army, & in con-
sequence OF this and other causes, lie is to
| biz stationed az Albany. Sir, have we no gem
| erai competent to command that army p
One OF the failures at least, embraced in the
proposed enquiry, has been or is a subject
OF military enquiry. Does the gentleman
wish To take 1t out of such hands? Will the
Hpuse throw its weight into the scale against
/ an individual i'm relation to whom there has
existed for several months so general a pre-
judice and disgust? | know not, sir, what
would be the situation of Fort Meigs, If the
| gentleman would withdraw the officers from
that post and bring them before the House
--ior 1t our accounts are Correct, that place
is again besiegcd
fear, sir, this resolution at the present
moInen, will be traugkt with great evil, and
| will produce no goud whatever; for the
| terms OF the resolution forbid the idea of an
| ex parte enquiry, and it would be destruc
| ton TO the army at this moment to withdraw
1 the officers whose presence would be neces-
sary to due examination OF the NATTER
his resolution is moved, too, in the face of
he fact that the Members are daily obtains
ing leave of absence. We have already pro
Ionged the session beyond the period which
public opinion had assigned for its duration;
we nave consumed time, no one can tell how
or wherefore, ard the important bushes.
which we were called here to act upon is
| not yet transacted In such a,stat of Things.
how could we act correctly OH d proposition
like this, during the session. And. sir,
have no idea of clothing committee of the
House during the recess with the powers
with which this resolut on proposes to invest
them. ii the motion be pressed, ] must
vote against it, though ! had rather it should
De postponed.
Mr.. TAYLOR remarked that the resolu-
ton embraced a matter of much Importance
on which the House ought not to act with
due REJECTION and mature consideration
he was fully persuaded that il had been SUBJ
mitted from pure and patriotic motives, and
there were many considerations in favor of
it; but for himself, he was not now prepa-
red tn act on it and therefore moved that
L. lie on the table.
Mr.. FINDLEY made some remarks, not
very distinctly heard by the reporter, going
TO shew the dissimilarity between the prope-
sed enquiry and that into St. Clair's defeat,
on account of the difference of the circum>
stances under which they were proposed.
Mr.. GHoLsoN said, it would be difficult
for him to express the emotions he felt at the
introduction of this resolution by the gentle
man from Vermont, (Mr. Bradley The
gentleman, so anxious ~ day fer the prose
cution of the war, yesterday voted against
the dire ct tax which was in ended t. support
the war-IHere MIR Taylor of N. Y called
Mr.. 6. to On3er, & it was alleged by him &
decided by the Speaker that the motives of
he gentleman from Vermont (Nir. Bradley
could not be called into question. Mr. G.
said he did notintend to question the motives
OF the gentleman from Vermont but he pre-
sumed, without saying how the gentleman
voted ON the direct tax, he might be per-
nit ed to say, that that tax was designed
as the basis of the public credit which Gre
dit was the support OF the war for the sue
sess of which the gentleman from Vermont
no7V appears so solicitous. Mr.. G.. however
waved this view OF the subject, and observ-
ed that he considered it his boundcn duty to
repe an insinuation which the gentleman
from Vermont had.made against the Execu
tive. Ana III repe ling such insinuation sir,
(said Mr.. G. am influenced altogether by
a sense of justice; for neither myself or any
of my kindred have the least interest what
ever in "the loavcs and fishes" that are dis |
rri5uted by the Pres ut. The gentleman
from Vermont has said ,rIatimated that the |
cause of the failure OF our armies on the N. |
aud North western frontier, lies higher than !
in the armies themselves: leaving us to in |
fer that the cause lies with the Executive. !
Sir, most pointedly deny this charge, thus |
indirectly made, and ] appeal to the facts. |
hazard nothing, sir, in affirming, and VIXEN |
ever the investigation thail be made, it will |
manifestly appear, that in every instance of
failure, The means provided by the govern |
ment have been ample and abundant. That |
they have been fully and more than suiIici. |
ent for the accomplishment of the object in /
view. a recurrence, for one moment to the !
history of the several Campaigns will show |
that the EEecutfOe have not been neClectful |
OF their duty. That they have always pro-
vided sufficient force and competent means |
to insure success TO their enterprises, If mat !
force and those means had been properly |
combined and dircc:cd by the officers to |
whose management they had been confded.
III we analize the progress of the war and
examine into the disasters that have occur
red, the results will be Obvious. Beginning
with l1uli's surrender, will any gentleman
say that the Executive sin any wise charge
able with that most disgraceful transaction!
ThatGeEeral was provided with every thing
necessary tor his defence. OF this no one
can doubt. Will the President be charged
with the dpfpat IS Van ReneccIacr ,,t,o L.d |