Richmond enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1815-1867, 1824-01-27

been constrained by that conviction To over
come the almost nsuprrabe repugnance he.
felt To throwing himself upon the notice of
the House, but he felt it his duty TO raise his
voice against both the propositions.
de would not at this time IN at length into
the subject his intention, IN rising, was
merely 10 move that the committee rise, and
that both of the resolutions might he printed
He wished to have some time 10 think of this
business-:o, deliberate, before we took this
leap In the dark into the Archipelago, or the
Black Sea, ar into the wide mouth or the La
Plata. He might be permitted to add one or
two other views. He knew, he said, that the
lposi of honor was on the other side of the
House, the post of toll and of disfic.lty on
this side, If, indeed, any body should be with
hun On this side. 1t was ii difficult and AN
inridious task TO stem the torrent of public
sentiment when ali the generous feelings o.
The human heart were appealed To. But. sir,
said Mr.. k. L. was delegated 10 this House Ia
guard the interests ofthe People of the United
States. not te guard the rights of other people
and IT II was doubted, even in the case of
England, that land fertile above all other lands
mot excepting Greece HERSELF i'm great men
lift was doubtful whether her interference
IN the politics of the continent thou gh
separated from II only by narrow firth, were
either Tor her honor or her advantage, If the
'hNSa VI tHdt sIttIleTtlCt has DPen mOuntnen-
tai debt that paralyZes the arm that might
now strike for Greece, the arm that certainly
would have struck for Spain, can i, he for us
TO seek IN the very bottom OF the Mrditerra
mean for a quarrel wlh.the Ottoman Port. (?
Anu inns while we have an ocean rolling be-
tween While we are in that sea without "A
single port in which To r.iit a shi;, And
while the powers of Barhary lie in succession
~ our path Shall we open this Pandora's
box of political evils !? Ii has been wisel,
and truly said, that it is possible the mere ru-
NOR oi our interference may produce at Com
stantinople or at Smyrna that which W i'll drive
us at once into war. We all know the CON
nection that subssts between the BArhary
states and what we may denoninate the ,.io-
ther power Are we prepared for war with
these pirates mat that we are not perfectly
competent to such "A war, butt does it suit our
finances Does II, Sir, suit oar magnificent
pre- jects ofroad, and canals Dues il snii Nm.
temper of oar people Dues il promote their
interests Will j, add TO their happiness (?
SIR, why did we remain supine rs hil. Pied
mont and Naples were crushed b, Austria
why did we stand aloof, while the SPANISH
peninsula was again reduced under legitimate
government If I'VE did not interfere Then,
why now? Sir, refer you {" The memorable
attempted interference of that greatest Of
ateS'nen, whPn he was in the zenith uf his
siory-Whe all his dazzling beams We're un-
shorn You know mean Mr.. Pitt; aud re-
Ter you, as commentary of that attempted
interference, to the speech of Mr.. Fox. a
speech fran hit with the wisdom of u real
statesman. Here MIR Randolph paused
when he resumed, he said.] perceive. sir.
nave osercalcuiated my strength. | feel
am not what was. The effort of speaking is
too much for me. The physical effort las s,,s
pended, las, when physical effort is violent, i,
always does,) the intellectual power. Wi:at |
wished tn say was, that this Quixotisin in re-
SArd either to Greece or To South America
or, VIII add, to North America, $50 much of
u as Hes without our own boundary, vuu know
mean Mexico,) that this 0uixolism is not
what the sober and rejecting minds of oar
people require at our hands. Sir, we are i'm
debt as individuals, and we are in debt IA a
nation; and never, since the days of Saul and
Dalu' or C@sar and Catalina, could a more
unpropi,lons period have been found fur such
an undertaking. The state of society is toe
much disturbed. There is always, ia a debt
or, tendency either To torpor or TO drspera-
tlon-nether is friendly TO such deliberations
But nc would suspend what he had further In
say on the sublrci. For himself. he saw AZ
much danger, and more. 10 the resolution
proposed by the gentleman from Kputucky.
as ~ that of the gentleman from Nassachn
sets The war that may follow on the one.
Is distant war; il lies on the other side oC the
ocean. The war that may he irduced by the
other, is II war at hand !; il is on the same CON
tinent. He was equally opposed To the a.
mendment as well as Ia that which had sinr,.
been offered TO the original resolutions. Let
us look little further at all Of them Lei MS
sleep upon them, before we pass resolutions
WhIch, VIII not say, are mere hooks to hang
speeches on, and thereby commit the nation
10 a war, the issues of which il is not given to
human sagacity 10 calculate.
Mr.. CUTHBERT Of Geo. hopcd that the mo-
ton to rise would prevail The resolutions nC
the Gentlemen on the Greek u,pstion cov.r-
ed, ut themselves very important ard ,ery
delicate ground, hut that which the Uononr-
able Speaker had siHce offered, added io the
others, threw open fDr discussion the entire
held OF our foreign relaijons and it was GER
taniy proper, that they shonId all he printed.
and submitted To the most deliberate rencc
ton.
Mr. CLAY then rose. and said he hoped The
Committee would not rise. He trusted that
gentlemen were now prepared to act on the
resolutions, with respect To Greece, and as 4,
ihat which he had himself submitted and
winch the gentlemen from Virginia had. Ia.
must say, sranitniIsly, and without lust crasop
alluded io ~ his observations, il was by nn
means his wish that il should be- now ,onsi
dered. He had distinctly stated. At the fine
he offered IL, that he wished merely I'm law il
90 the table that it might be- reflected on. All
a proper time he should call il up for discus
SION. lie would, however. Incidentally re-
mark, since 1T had bc8n made the subject nC
anImad'ersion, what he hoped incontr0vcr;i.
bly to prove, that that resolution, or something
IKE II, must be adopted, ~ we might preparr
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