Portland gazette and Maine advertiser., 1814-12-05

out Oy the facts appearing on the lace OF +.
the documents, when he repeated that
the avowed objects of the war were un
attanable by it; or. if at,ainable, too
unimportaEt to jultify either its com
mencement or continuance--and that
they were now implicitly admitted to be
70 by the Administration itfelt. Would
it be faid, asked Mr.. o. that the uncx-
pected peace in Europe had defeated the
hopes which the government had enter
tanned of bringing the contef to luc
ceisful ifIue lie had believed that to the
rafhnels Of plugging the country inte1the
war, the authors had added the folly OF
relying for its fuccets, more on favour
able course of events il Europe, than on
the itrensth and refources of their own
country. tie did not by this with to be
undertood as entertaining belief that
the war had originated in any con-
cert with France, or with view to pro
mote her in,erefs. He knew of no fat
isfactory evidence to rapport fuch a be-
lief, though it had certainly been enter
tanned by many in this country-and 70
itriking had been the circumstances un-
der which the war had been declared, 70
well timed in point of fact, had been the
blow aimed at England, and which
through her reached her allies, that he
had authority for iaying that in Europe
the impreilion was general, however un
ljuit, that the war had originated in a
coincidence of views and objects between
our government aud the French empe-
ror - that now we had no friend on that
continent, and that the ear of every Eu-
ropean court was closed aganit US. He
meant merely to fate his owf conviction,
Mr. o. faid, that the authors OF the wal
had reited chiefly on the fuccehes of
France for favourable in'ue of the Con.
teit that they had done 10 in tome de-
gree, did not now feem to be denied.
1t was evident 10 HIM: from the conGd-
Grafton that they had begun the war with
out preparation, had conducted 1t With
out vigor, and had determined to give it
up as foon as they knew thas the fate Of
France was decided. He did no. men,
ton this, Mr. .. said, as an impeachment
of the motives Of the naturalization.
Deeming the war jul and expeciens, they
might have thought that prudence and
found policy required them to take the
opportunity afforded by the fate OF things
in Europe, to attack the enemy 10 advans
tage in the hope Of thus compelling him
to make conceilions which they could not
expect to obtain by an exertlon of their
own means How far the friends of the
adminittration might ciicern, in his con
liberation, an execute for the evident raih
nefs of the attempt, he coa.d not conjcc
ture. He could fay, however, that he
never expected to fee any honeR itatef-
man, who was at the fame time wife
one, compelled lay before his country
iuch an apology for the failure Of the war.
He was aware, MIR. y. said, that it
had been attempted to avoid the coDclu.
lion that our government had abandoned
the grounds on which the war was COZ.
menced by reforting to train of reaion-
ing, in his judgment entirely deceptive
il had been laid, that, as exemption from
the practice of impeachment was the OBJ.
ject of the war, and as it had been con.
tinued until the practice had in fact. ceaf-
ed by the peace in Europe, that object had
been 4" eDsntiaiy obtainsaJar THE P,s'fnt.
II, indeed, the practice of impeachment
had ceased in conlequence OF the peace
in Europe, it had done 70 because Great
Britain had cholen to difcontinue 1t foi
conGderations growing out Of her own
convenience and depending entirely on
her own wil.-The war had, in no de-
gree, contributed to produce that effect.
10 fay that the cIje7 q the war had been
enen,ially Obtained, becaule the practice
OF impeachment had ceated when it had
not ceaied in conjequence # the 1Var, ap.
peared to him courie of argument en-
tirely uniupported. In no ienie, then,
could the war be conlidered as having
lucceeded. If peace were made to.mor-
row, it would have produced no tate of
things advantageous to the United States
which would not exit without it, and
the country would be placed in no refpect
in more eligible Gtuaion than it would
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