Portland gazette and Maine advertiser., 1814-10-03

Bill, which was then under consideration.
Bos Psi.
Mr.. Randolph did not feel himself
bound to vote Tor this bill because
the expences, for the meeting of
which ii went to provide loan, had
been authorised. He held himsel.
perfectly absolved from these meas.
ures as he had constantly opposed
them in their progress through the
House.
But lido not rise (said Mr., R.)ei-
thcr to make an apology for my vote,
or with an expectation OF changing
the sentiments OF single Individual
in this House. 1t is for the purpose,
ii 1t were possible, OF being heard by
those to whom alone | feel myself a.
menable for my public conduct.
MIR. X. wished the American peo-
pie to know what new cause OF war
had accrued since the accession OF
the present President to the chair
since the return OF MIR. Monroe from
his mission to London. And he wish
cd them to know upon what princi.
pie this nation, which has hitherto
oeen preserved in peace-this nation,
which, with all the vexations and los
ses she has experienced, is still the
treest and happiest nation on earth !;
on what principles she shall be torn
from her fast moorings Of peace land
launched into the tempestuous sea OF
European poiitics--intoa sea Of blood
Mr.. Il. knew he asked in vain.
No answer could be given. Such
conduct, in his opinion, was in the
highest degree wanton, and was e.
nough to call down upon us the chas-
tening hand OF Him who rules the u
inverse. We have it in our. power
to remain free and at peace. Our
ports and harbors may be defended /;
out we have imbibed a portion o.
that spirit which lost the Angels their
seat in Heaven. We are about to
throw aside our peaceful state and
mingle in the dreadful conflict of Eu-
ropean ambition and disorder. His
heart was sick within him at the sight.
1t died at the very idea.
It is not in our power, said Mr.. Z.
to dive into futurity; but we Can
judge of the past. No man who
hears me will say that we have any
cause of war now, that we had not
eighteen months ago. And, let me
ask every planter and farmer in this
country, and believe might add
every manufacturer too, whether du-
ring the last year, in the course OF
which we have been able to sell our
bread stuff at vast profit, it would
have been better for us to have been
engaged i'll war than to have remain
ed ir,peace -? To have been cut off
from this market for our produce,
and to have had III its stead war, with
all its re,inue of land taxes, ex
cises, salt tax, stamp tax, &c. &c.
Were you to ask any yeoman OF
common sense III this country such
a question, he would laugh 1T you.
Whether, during the past year, he
would chuse to have had his sons
fighting on the plains OF Abraham, in
which he had no interest, with his
produce ro,ting in his barn, or let
the year pass away as it has done in
peace, attording an excellent price Ter
grain of every kind Z? This, sand he is
an unanswered and unanswerable ar
gument.
If our Treasury be empty, said
Mr., r. it is owing to our own acts.
Repeal your non-importation act.
Do away your whole restrictive sys-
tenn. Put the two countries, IN point
OF fact upon the same footing, and,
my life upon it, you will find no diih-
Gully in arranging all your present
differences. And, rather than do this,