The Rhode-Island Republican. [volume] (Newport, R.I.) 1809-1841, 1813-07-22
Our Relations vita France.

crossing six columns and half without the
Documents. 1t shall be given entire next
veek.--The following Report of the Commit
tee from the House OF Representatives, We
copy from the National Intelligencer OF the
| 3lh instant:
INTERESTING REPORT.
On Thursday last, Mr.. Calhorn. from the Committee
on Foreign Relations, made the following Re-
port
The Committee of Foreign Relations, to whom
referred the Presidents Message Of the 18th inst.
and accompanying Documents, Report
That they have examined the Message and
Documents with all the attention their impor-
tance demands. Your Committee will not
indulge themselves in making the various OBJ
servations which the interesting subjects
brought under their consideration naturally
suggest. The delay incident to such course,
connected with the latcness of The session
and the advanced season of the year, forbid so
wide range but they cannot abstain from
remarkiDg, that, while the message aud do.
cuments furnish additional proof Of the JUS
ticc and necessity Of the war, they also pre-
sent powerful motives for the steady and vig-
orous prosecution Of it, as the surest means
OF safe and honourable peace. 1t can now
no longer be doubted, that il was the pressure
OF our measures, combined with the determi.
nation OF Congress to redress our wrongs by
arms, and not the repeal of the French de-
crees, that broke down the Orders in Council
OF 1907 and 1908 that dangerous system OF
monopoly by which we were, as TO our COM
mercc, In fact recoloDised. Let US then per-
severe, and under just Providence we doubt
not OF final success. The reward is worthy
OF the cost and privation 1t Is no less than
the lasting peace and independence Of our.
selves and our posterity.
Ibcrc is another view of the subject
which your Committee are compelled 10
present to the House. 1t is due to justice TO
consider the message and documents in reIa-
tion to the conduct of the Executive. They
are aware that on ordinary occasions it is not
proper for this House TO express sentiments
OF appreciation or ccnsure on the conduct Of
the President, but submit with Difference that
as through this body he is responsible to the
people for the faithful discharge of his duties,
there are cases in which il is not only the
right but the duty of this House to express
lis opinion. Such, in the judgement OF your
Coamttee, is the present. The language
OF the resolutisns. and the motives avowcd by
their supporters, leave no other alternative.
10 be silent, would be to condemn. Upon
full investigation of the conduct of the E3e-
cutive in relation to Great Britain and France,
as disclosed in the message and documents,
your Committee are Of opinion, that Just
course has been pursued towards both ma
tions, and in no instance has the dignity, hon.
or, or interests Of the United States been COM
promitted.
Your Committee, therefore, recommend
the adoption ofthe following resolution:
Resolved, That the conduct OF the Exccu-
tive In relation to the various subjects refer.
ed TO in the resolutions of the 2lst day of
June, 1918, meets the appreciation Of this
House"
STRANGE SYMPATHIES.
lis difficult to reconcile the sympathies of
certain men, still calling themselves Ameri.
cans.
A private expedition was undertaken, for
the purpose of destroying the Families, off
New-London. This failed in its original Oh.
Ject but blew up barge containing few
seameB. While some have called this plan
an "infernat machine," others nave contend.
ed themselves with modestly EXPIRE ssing their
doubts OF the correctness of such mol.s of
warfare. DO they forget that it was by the
springing of an "infcrnaP' mine at Fort
George, that the brave Pike los, life so USE
fuI to his country! Do they forget, that it
was the explosion Of an "internal" hand.gre-
nade,which swept the deck ofthc Chesapeake?
Or does this I" oifer the case ?'
But when did the hearts of these men first
feel The yearnings of humanity (! When do
they deprecate the horrors of war, and weep
at human destruction Not when rejoicing
at Calmuc fessts, singing Te Deums over three
hundred thousand Frcnchme which fhey say
have fallen in the wilds of Russia Not while
they witness the massacres of their own coun-
trymsn, on the frontiers, by the Indian allies
Of England Not at the burnines Of Fredcr-
icks,own, Hayre-de.G Grace, Frenchtown and
Sodus. No at none of these have they ex-
pressedsympathy or horror but have endeav-
ored to palia,e them upon principles Of {" re-
talia,ion," 1t is when Britain and her allies
meet With losses and defea,s--when justice