The Alexandria herald. [volume] (Alexandria [Va.]) 1811-1826, 1814-02-14
MONDAY, EEBAu4RYl4, 1914.

the the opinion of our opponents NAV be arraved
against themselves. What have they advised The
mode OF carrying the war Withdraw your troops
from canada, reduce your army, limit your opera
lions TO the ocean What to the ocean Carry the war
Deyond our own territory make it offensive The gen.
lleneh surely do not intend support an offensive war
10 use their own language, it immoral for yrtu
Gus and religious people 1t is then admitted that it
goes not cease DE offensive, by its being waged sea-
character! Mr. c. again observed, that il was mere
question OF expediency where how the war ought to
DC prosecuted For his part, long continued,
no effort ought to be wanting reduce Canada.
ohouid success accompany arms, we would be in.
tor the privations and eSpences of the war; by
tue acquisition OF an extensive and valuable territory
anu .he permanent peace and security which il would at
ord large portion of country and even in the
worst event. should fail of conquest the attempt will
not DC without great advantages The in Canada is
inc pest security to every part of country We have
very extended and from the hnness of the population
IN many places, weak lie did not believe thai
II hao oeen neglected represented by the gentleman
rom N Hampshire but he did believe, that many points
are, and must from necessity be without efficient pro,ec
non lie would, however, ask that gentleman, how did
happen that this easily assaed hy maritime
power, has sustained little damage In war that
mas continued upwards Of eighteen months II be is at
loss Tor an answer, the scheme of his political friend
rom Virginia. Mr. Shelley corSne our troops TO The
defensive, should 1t susceed, would the next sumuey
amply explain the fact. The truth il, that the war il,
Canada, is the security of the coast 1t con,pes the
enemy to concentrate the whole Of his dsposabic force
there ior the defence of his territory Were the
ABSURD policy to be adopted confne operation of
our troops within limits, the whole of the enc
force In Canada would be liberated from its defence
ana the entire line Of sea-coast menaced with des
uuGuon. ne enemy masters the ocean, could act
with such celebrity, that would be either impossle 70
e'eno ourselves, Grit must be done expense great
er 'hsn ncsd be necessary re. s.t his
nus even under the limited view Of defence the most
eectual mode is that which has been adopted to carry
the war INTO the enemy's and opponents
ought according to their distinctions grant every
aid in and money -
Mr. T. SAID that although not imme diaely in point, he
ecud not refrain from observing, that of the areu
nents he had heard he has had the honor of
seat in this house. those by far the most
which have been urged against the conquest of Canada
ne has heard characterised by every epihet which in
dlcated vice weakness. The advances of such arqu
ments surely did not reflect that in their assail
he majority, they utterng ibels on the founders
OF our liberty and empire. This scheme of conquest,
his project of ambition, this product of folly and vice
1t has been literally called with those
to whom America owes much and whose wisdom ard
virtue is acknowledged by the world 1t was by them
thought object worthy of the treasures and the best
blood OF the country and finally elinquished by them
WIN reluctance, and from necessity only.
Mr. {. said, it now remained To considar the defence
winch gentlemen have made for their opposition 10 the
war and the policy of their country subject which he
Gonceives is OF the greatest Importance, only as
ecng the result OF the present contest but the lasting
peace and prosperity of country They assume as
Iact that opposition is in its harmless and that
the caames which have afflicted free states have orig-
the plumbers and folly OF the government; and
from the perverseness of opposition Dispositions saw
administration fail attribute all of their iscar-
rages to iand in confirm alton of this doctrine, they
appeal to Lord Norh's administration He did not pre-
tend to examine the particular case to which gentlemen
have with so much parade referred as did fall in
the course of his arguments but he thought that could
be easily proved to be essentially different character
and consequence from the opposition in this county,
he conceived, however, that il would be proper before
ne examined the general position taken over the way to
make single remark 1t related to he British gov
ernmen. on this subject. 1t struck him that all argu-
ments drawn from it this point must be essentially
erroneous A more determined and vehement oppos-
lion there is not only Justifabe, but in
required The difference in the two governments in this
respect results from difference in The organization of
their respective executives In England such is its
power, patronage, and consequent inhuencesuch the
veneraOn which its hereditary qualify and long descent
possess over the subjects of that empire that her
enlightened statesmen have ever thought that endaB
gered the other branches Of her governments and
with much wsdom since the dawn Of liberty in that
country strenuously opposed its encrossbmepts Very
different Is the case here under government purely
publican 1t presents neither the cause to Justify such
yebemence OF opposition, the means of ressrainns