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I I *5 9 s * tljrir | J 6|Kegs white Lead in oil ’ j jfpieces tow Cloth \ j M l^rew° AugerT^ 069 \ 1 Planes, &c* \ Iff for sale bvii voice * la 2 trunks great Coats - ‘ V ■ The above articles are of the first quality and are offer- I y I KBit BRIG IXTEIMGEHCE, FROM eiverfooe. I ‘ and, and I WBka PLAIN 3 J which they will sell by the piece or package on modcr- I nov JU si • I d ——— — ; ;- —i Just received * I * (eieu/wi j. OATS | jon 4——ll -’’ .'ivy’ t\ . H -4$ I Wnw <mlj> - 1 I JTUi e*t£eCs I .1 *>. J dec 28——10 I I . • | [ Concluded from our last. j • The constitution declares, article I, section 8, “Congress shall have power to declare war, grant letters of marque and reprisal, and to make rules concerning captures on land and water.” Supply it v/as never designed, by this provision, that a military officer should first make war, and leave it to congress afterwards to declare it; this would involve an absurdity, unnecessary to ex pose. It is that the executive authority of the and much less a subordinate officer, to change the pacific relations of the nation. The president of the United States is bound, constitutionally, to preserve the peace of the country, until congress declares it in a state of war; he can only, while thus in a state of peace, use the military forces of the nation, in three specified cases, that is, “to ex ecute the laws of the union; to suppress insurrec tion, and repel invasion.*'-—(see constitution, ar ticle 1, sec. 8; also the act for calling forth the militia, passed 28th Februarv, 1795.) ItMill not be pretended, that Spain had invaded the United States, or that congress had declared war against that nation, and of course the relations of peace did exist between the two countries, atthetime gen. Jackson took possession of the Spanish pos sessions in the these facts being admit ted, and they cannot be denied, the only question to decide is, whether the military conduct of gen. Jackson, was not war against Spain, and on this subject, there can be no room to doubt. The capital of a Spanish province is taken by the sword, a fortress is invested and bombarded, lives are lost, and. the place surrendered orr capitula tion,'the terms of which are declared, “more fa vorable than a conquered enemy merited;” mili tary officers and men, as well as those in the ci vil departments of government, are transported to the West-Indies, and anew governttient"es tablished for the conquered country. If all these , acts of hostility combined, do not constitute war, the committee confess themselves utterly at a loss for its definition; or if the fact be denied, the consequence of such denial will be a proof that no war was.made by the Semmolie Indians on the United States, and, of course, that the invasion of Florida was an unauthorized act of aggression on the part of the United States. But the commit- S;e will pursue this subject a little farther, and stamine the reasons offered by the officer cbm l * ■ rj , . * stipulations with tlie United States, as it related to the Florida Indians, and whose peaceable con duct she was bound to guarantee to the United States; that she had furnished those Indians, at war with the United States, with arms, ammuni tion, and supplies necessary to carry on the war. Here the committee,would observe, that they are there can be no doubt but she had, by the viola tion of her engagements, given the United States sufficient cause of war; but they defend the con stitution, by saying that gen. Jackson had no pow er to declare nor make the war; that neither he, nor the president of the United States, had any discretion or power to judge what was, or was not, cause of war; this, the constitution hadtw iss^ still existed; it was made by the constitution, id supreme law of the land, and had Spain violated on her part, every article of that treaty, still t4> executiv e of the United States, who is bound to see the laws “faithfully executed,” must, in good faith towards Spain, have observed on’ our part, jHH&eaty; and the obligation of preserving the peace of the nation, would have remained until No. 23.