The enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1804-1815, 1813-02-12

ties Of the people, and talk OF the danger'oi
standing armies. and the burGsn o: taxes.
But it is evideat to you. MIR. Chairman, that
they speak in a foreign idiSm. Their hrogue
betrays that it is not their vernacuiar
tongue. What the opposition, who IN 1898
and 1899, could raise AN useless army to
fight an enemy 5000 miles distant from US.
alarmed 1T the existence OF one raised for a
known specified object-the attack of the
adjoining provinces of the enemy The gen
tleman from Massachusetts, who assisted
by his vote to raise the army of 25, 900,
y alarmed at the DANCE: of our liberties from
this very army
mean to speak of another subject, which
never think os but with most awful, con-
sidarations. The gentleman from Massa-
Chusetts, in imitation of some of his prede-
cessors of 1899, has entertained us with
cabinet plots, presidential plots, which are
conjured up III the gentleman's own pertur-
bed imagination. wish, sir. that another
plot OF much more serious kinda plot
that aims at the ACKNOWLEDGMENT of our
Union, had only the same i'll aginary eXis-
tence. But no man. who had paid any at
tention to The tone of certain prints, and to
transactions IN particular quarter OF the
Union Tor several years past, can doubt the
cHistence OF such plot. 1t was far, very
far from my Intention to charge the oppo-
them generally incapable of it. He could
no. say as much for some who were unwor-
thily associated with them in the quarter
OF the Union to which he referred. The
gentlman cannot have forgotten his own
sentiment, uttered even on the floor of this
House, " peaceably if we can, FORCIBLY
lf we must" In and about the same time
Henry's mission to Boston was undertaken.
The Righteousness of that embassy had been
"a tp no lf.I h,rL tha
public attention to the price which the gen
tleman says was given for the disclosure.
As it any price could change the atrocious-
ness oil the astempt on the part of Great
Britain, or could eXtenuate in the slightest
degree the offence of those citizens, who en-
tertained and delIberated upon the Infamous
proposition There was a most remarkable
coincidence between soRe of the things
which that man states, and certain events
IN the quarter alluded to. In the contn-
gency OF war with Great Britain, it will be
recollected that the neutrality and eventual
separation of thar section of the Union was
70 be brought about. How, sir, has it hap
pened, since the declaration of war, thar
British officers in Canada have asserted co
american officers thar this very neutrality
would take place That they have SO as
serted. can be established beyond contro-
yersy. The project is not brought forward
openly, With direct avowal of the in,en-
t on
No. the stock Of good sense and patrio-
tism in that portion Of the country is too
great To be undisguiseolY encountered. Ii
is assailed from TIC masked batteries of
friendship tn peace and commerce ON the
one SIDE, and by. the grouotiless impntati-
on OF opposite propcnSities en- the uther.-
1 he affections Of The people there are to be
gradually undermined The project is
tod yf;t al. h. ';at,o
parties, in this criminal tragedy, make their
appearance or their exit, rs the audience
to whom they address themselves, are ST.
lent, applaud, or hiss. | was astonishcd,
sir, TO have lately read a letter, or preteu-
ded letter, published in a prominent print
in that quarter. written not in the fervor
of party zeal, but cody and deliberately, in
which the writer effects to reason about a
separation, and attempts TO demonstrate
its advantages to different sections Of the u
Mon, deploring the existence now of what
he terms prejudices against it, but hoping
for the arrival of the period when they
shall be eradicated. But, sir, will quit
this unpleasant subject l will turn from
one. whom no SENSE OF tieCenCy or propriety
could restrain from soiling the carpet on
which he treads,* to gentlemen who have
not forgotten what is due TO themselves, the
place in which we are assembled, nor to
tbpSC " WHohi lucy are Oli)bSStIs lC
gentlemen from North Carolina, (Mr.
Pearson from Connecticut, (Mr. Pitkin, J
and from NewYork, (Mr. Bleecker.) have,
with their usual decorum, commended that
the war would not have been declared, bur
for the duplicty OF France, in withholding
an authen'ic instrument of repeal Of the de-
cTcos OF Berlin and Milan {: that upon the
exhibition pi such an instrument the revo-
cation OF the orders in Council took place
that this main cause Of the war, but for
which it would not have been declared, be-
ing removed, the administration ought to
secs for the restoration Of peace; & that IN
OF lis sincerely doing so, terms compatible
with the honor and interest of this country
may be obtained. II is my purpose, said
Mr.. G. to examine, first into the circum-
stances under which the war was declar-
ed secondly, into the causes for CONTINUE
ing it and lastly, into the means which
have been taken or ought to be taken to
procure peace. But, sir, I really am 50
exhausted that. little rs ] am in the habit
OF asking OF the House an Indulgence of this
kind, feel that must trespass On their
goodness Here Mr.. c. SGt dosvn. Mr.
.Neevfon marcel that The committee rise, re-
hor hrogrcss, and ask icupe 10 sit again,
qohich ryas done. On tie nert day he fro
ceedcd.
''''o Ia. =. q, v;svr,v, I'm; pm5 of ;;i.S
most Offensive expressions useh by SIr O. an cx
preston which produced disgust on all sides oC tho
House, iSs been omitted in that gendeman's re