Phenix gazette. [volume] (Alexandria [D.C.]) 1825-1833, 1833-09-11


10 enforce the embargo, was, to overcome anu
subdue all manner Of resistance, IN any form, OF
| by any authority.-1r These extracts are taken
from MIR Giles own reports Of his speech' ana
not from stenographer's sketch ] :,
Mr.. Macon said: 81 believe The embargo
was right; that it was right to pass laws 10 en-
force it.; and believing this, feel no hes'taoon
in avowngit. =,
Mr.. Campbell said: cit has been sa'd
BY the gentleman from Massachusetts lMr,
Quincy that the people oil Ne" Ehsahu W." WIN
descend upon the ocean-!hey VIII not oear '"'s
measure. If this be used as threat-lt the gen,
,Ieman meant that the people of New England
are Determined to resist the laws OF the Chioh' let
him saw so; let US know it. aud we will act accor'
DINGHY. On this subject concur perfectly WIN
the gentleman from Virginia Mr.. Rahdo'Ph)
that If any PORTION of the people oppose
public La,D, they must be reduced TO su0n''ss'on
Here is most explicit declaration, and not one OF
the advocates of the bill doubted It's correctness
but acted upon it unhestatIngly, many OF tne
leading members in both houses avowing the
same principle. might multiply extracts, but
will content myself with referring the reader
to Mr. Jcffersun's message, and the debate upon
the question, for the further proof OF the truth
of my position. The bill passed the Senate by
a vote uf 20 to 7, and the lower House by ANA
jori,y Of II TO o.
| think that these extracts, connected with the
facts existing at the time, ma'ntain the position
which [ have taken, that Mr.. Jefferson's bill was
intended to subdue all opposition or resistance
from states, mob, or insurrecuUns-and the very
fact that no exception as I" the action OF state
b, its legitimate authority, although threatened
is made, is conclusive proof Of the Tact. nave
spoken through those who had the whole subject
,f,I
most deliberate investigation. But TO shew that
this opinion prevailed subsequently, will make
two other quotations, one from federaIist. the
other from republican, now distinguished IN the
ranks Of nullifca,lon. In the debate on the bill
to admit the people Of the Territory OF Orleans
into the Union, JOSIAH Quincy. in his speech IN
] the House of Representatives, on the l4lh OF
February, 1911, said-"I am compelled to DE.
clare it. as my deliberate opinion, that u this Dill
passes, the bonds of this Union are virtually dis
solved: that the States which compose II are Tree
from their moral obligations; and that. as it will
be the right Of all, SO it will be the duty OF some
to prepare, definitely, for separation; AMIGA.
BLY, If they can. VIOLENTLY, if they must"
To this Mr.. Pondex,er, of Mississippi, lnow
nulhfier, replied: He who deliberately Yields
the s.mschef meditating" hand Of civil commo.
ton will seldom hesitate as to the means which
The mind which once resolves on political Parri'
eide can never be restored to a sense Of moral
Integrity" True, most true, On KDgJ-
Again, he said: "Did Aaron Burr in all the
mfca,ious Of his reasonable projects ever declare
to an assembly OF citizens that the States were
Tree from their moral obgatlons-and that as it
will be the right Of alT so 1t will be the duty OF
some to prepare definitely for separation, peace
ably if they can, violently if they must? No,
sir: Had such expressions been established, by
the evidence on his trial, hazard an opinion
that very different result would have been pro.
lduced. Perhaps, Sir, instead OF exile, he would
have been consigned to gib6et. For il cannot
be concealed that the language OF the gentleman
from Massachusetts, it accompanied by an overt
act, would amount to treason, according to ITS
literal and technical definition IN the constitution
of the United States" This same %1r. Poindex-
ter nov maintains the doctrine which Josiah
Quincy then maintained, and stigmatzes the doc
raj, despotic, &c.
| The bill Of 1909, too, was denounced by the
federalists a. the "bloodv bl," the "force
BILL" 1.-the Botany Bay BILL" Sc. just as the
| bill passed by the last Congress is Denounced by
the nuIIityers. The Editor of the Wing cannot
sustain himself, by reference to the condition Of
the country daring the embargo. Ii coercive
obedience to the laws Of the Union, when that
coercion is directed against State, be wrong,
then the force bill! of 1909 was wrong 1t was
wrong in principle, because the sovereignty of
the State and its legitimate powers are the same,
whether in peace or in war; and If the State may
nullify or secede at her will. it being her right,
no state of things can impair it, or take 1t away.
The eastern States, if they had seeded, would
have been out of the Union, and not parties to
| the war; and The government would have had
no moral right to have made them parties. if
the present doctrines Of the Wing be true But
the bill to enforce the embargo passed nearly four
years before the war, so that from this argument
the Wing can derive no aid. Ii the embargo
.cas oppressive to the New England people par
ticularly. as they asserted, then, according to the
principles Of the opposers of the Revenue Collec-
lion bill Of 1855. the bill to enforce the embargo
should not have been passed-because oppression
is the same, whatever may be the circumstances
Of the country. What is the evidence Of the EN-.
| no rim heiuu onprpssive upon the New ENGLAND