Richmond enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1815-1867, 1827-03-15

the preceding year Soo.SII DushcIs tnuiah mesis
value S225. 696. Biscuit and ship bread, $780,
u6l Tobacco, SIS, s84. Leather, boots and
shoes. $l29.029. Snuff and manufactured tobsc-
co, $73 .648. Tallow candles and soap, SAG.
62l. Butter and cheese, s40 654 pounds
will not fatigue the Senate with he going over Of
all the various articles which are exported TO those
colonies; but will content myself with asking
where Is the new market, or any market, for
great variety of those articles! and others contain
ed in the schedule have in my hand, which
mean 10 have printed for the information of the
| farmers, that they may know how far their inter
es, the great interest of the nation, has been
| tended to.
Mr.. President will now speak OF the substi-
,ute have offered to this bill on the table, and hen
conclude. 1t is precisely such bill as ought to
have passed the last session. II would have saved
much trouble, and relieved the administration from
he necessity OF negotiation. We then stood on
high ground that of accepting proposition made
to US by England On what ground do now
| stand! VIII not give it name We are now Of
ieripg to England exactly that which was offered
| to us by her the last year. My substitute makes
the offer in mild terms. II she accepts all will be
well. No asPerty in 1t; nothing al which she
| can take offence. We leave her pre,ext, ex
cep that we had not Immediately accepted the OF
fer when rendered. If she should refuse. we
| shall then understand her views completely. She
will show, by refusal, that she does not m can
that we shall have fair participation in the trade
Congress will be in session on tbs Bis, Jay of
December next. when we act as the case shall
| require l would not be willing to shorten the
| time, lest that should be an obstacle. The min-
listers are dispersed during the summer months: of
course Mr.. Gallatin can have 10 intercourse with
Them. They generally return in albOctober; and
should hope that our proposition would be met
In the same spirit of cancellation that the subsitu
tu'e will manifest Mr.. Canning has said .' That
the British government canno, hold itself bound
o remOte the nterdict, as matter of course wbe
ever II may suit the convenience of the foreign 90
vernmen, TO RECONSIDER the measures by which the
| application was occ,.ioned." The fair inference
is, that it does rot follow, of course, that our
overture will be rejected. I am justified in
| this inference, by what he had said in the para
graph Immediately preceding, to wits The Bri.
fish government cannot consen, to enter into any
ed negotiated upon this Intercourse between
the United States and the British colonies so long
| as the pretension recorded in the act of 1928,
and there applied to British colonies alone, remains
par, at rhe law OF the United States" Well, Sir,
| the substitute have offered. not only .uspends
| the ac, of 1928, but those of 1918 and 1920. II
| removc- The true reasons the great and only OBJ
lection made by Mr.. Canning to negotiation He
| tells Mr. Gailatin until that act be removed he
will not negotiate. The fair inference is, that il
the &C, be removed he will negotiate. The subs,i-
| 'u'e uocs IT. duu VIII nope tDat neRO-
| tation will take place and that i, will terminate
| in understanding that will be mutually useful to
both nations. Such is the mutual interest of the
Colonies and the United States, that free trade
ought TO be permitted II is true, that the balance
is in our favor, owing, in some measure, to the
| export duty of per cent levied their sugar in
| Windward Islands. If the trade be opened, they
will soon see the policy OF repeating that duty
| a marker is wanted Tor their sugar. We should
be customer if that export duty be removed.
| have. said that acting by law was preferable &c
| acting by negotiation in this particular case. A
| simple proportion was made by Great Britain
after negotiation had proved aborfire, and al
| that was 'Tantng was our consent, which cou!t
have been given by an act of Congress- or In ano
| her way. We did not give consent becau-,
| the mode al nego; lation preferred nave sale
that had lost something by every treaty or con
| vention made with Great Britain since the first
treaty of peace. In jays treaty we gave up the
carrying trade oil India, and consented to her retail
atory duties, which gave her the Carrying of all
the gross articles OF our couairy to her domnions
| That act of 1915 aud the convention Of Lon
don cured that great mistake. But that that con-
ventIon haa relnQuished what had been secured "a
rs by Jays treaty, In our trade 10 India. jays
treaty had secured to the trade of all the Bri-
tish ports in India, all Of which, except four had
been relinquished by the convention, which also
| prohibited our vessels in addition, from all the
| British islands in the Indian seas, the Cane oil
Cool Hope, ST Helena, and the coast of A frca
a commerce which we had always he right TO.
| That those errors and losses induced me- together
| with my own opinion that negotiation was unne-
cessary. to believe that acting by law was prefera
bic. 1t was simple and easy Negotiation has
| failed; and what are we now doing? Are we not
now driven to act by law? Are not now en-
deavoring to ge' back to the situation in which
we were last year? We cannot, MIR. President
now place ourselves on such high ground as that
| we then occupied.
Mr.. President Il have spoken much longer
than had supposed should; and feel greatly
indebted TO the Senate for their patient and kind
| at ention.