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Vol. 11. No. 73.]
TH £ IN i’ELLIGENC ER,
jj j, VSLISH'ES #N TWESDAYS AND FE I BAY
By NORMAN M‘LEAN
THE BAY,
4 T SIX DOLLARS PER ANNUM, PAYABLE ®M n
HAL” IN ADVANCE.
Congress of the Uniicd States.
SENATE,
embargo.
MONO A Y, :: member, 21.
This being the day fixed for the dis
cuffion of the following ipfolutfbn ot
ic : cd by Hillhouie,
Revolv'd, That it is expedient, ihat
th* afctnt filed “An aft iaviog an <m
Uty.o on all (hip# and vc-fifei* in the
ports & barb-.ns of the IJ. States j and
the fbveral acts fuppkmcniaiy ih reto,
betepedled, and that a comma tee be
appointed ;<> pi-pare and report a bill
(or tljsu purpose.
The Senate took up die fubje£l.
Mr. 1111.5. nous z opened the de
bite. — When the reporter tutr.cd the
,Senate chamber, ivir. Htilfiousr h*d
fcrn (peaking i-ir a few minutes, and
wa* then dtscuffing the effect which
the embargo had had upon France,
and the li-ht in which it was viewed
by her rulers. He alluded to the de
claration of {itUL&lion at this mea,
fme, contained in a late French ex
poise, and made nuny obfervauohs
t. oding to {hew that st v’ - j not a .tnea
fute sA itdfhluy or coercion, as appli
ed to France.
On England it bad little or no ef
feet Her tef-ounces’ were immense. It
hcj u-. est of s fuoply of gr*m frre she
could obtain it e-ffewhere. The- Bar
bary powers were at war v;i;b France,
and at peace with England, wh > might
thence obtain who. t in any quantity (h
----pleafrd. G. Britain, !n fait:,was a ca
tion with the whole wor.W before her ;
her cc vnmiercc spread over every fes -!
u (he h.l accels a!molt to every p
nd ehroe. C mid America cx-pefcl to
fiarve (his nation ? St. was a farce an
idle ‘farce. As to her Wc'i-In ia i
1.1 ;s, they raffed Indian corn ; ail
their sugar pkmations could be con
v ried into corn fields; and would
any man Gy that they wpul-1 starve
hecauie they could tun get fuperfinc
fi ui ? Was this a necetfasy of li'-r
without which they coul i not Fubfift ?
On the contrary a great proper-ion of
the American people fubfftted without
it, and enj >ycd as good health as if
they eat nothing bat the fin est of wheat
fi >ur. The tn m nt pople under flood
that they could not get th ir necessary
fapplies from a cuft o rotary ftuircc
they would look out for it in another
quarter; and ample time had beers 53i
Cos to them to make arrangements for
this purpose. A,man of the firit re
fpetLhility in tire town in which Mr-
H. hved had been there duri-og this
embargo, under the Prefidtnt's per
aaiffion. What accounts did he
bring-? Why, that the trade in corn
Weal and live cattle, articles of great
export from Connecticut, and com
P* ifing not only the product of thst
iutf, but 0} pans of the neighboring
firftes, would be entirely defeated;
that where, they had formerly lent an
hundred hog fit ads of meal thev would
>Ol ru;w find v nt for ten ; and that
from South America, where cattle
bacPin times past been killed merely
for their Hides and tall r.v, catdr to
abundance coul *be pr rcured. Were
the Id people to he starved out, when
they coul 1 actually purchase cheaper
from other places than, they had form
erly done from us? No, Ans ynfy
S.'A AftNAF, iuESDAV, I'ecembu 13, 1303.
consequence would hr a , ul / Ihr to ,
cv rly fclr, that w, (houid 1 f-o’r
tUr * \* ‘* !ht ’ ctnbart? ( 6 th ux produH •-
,‘ 0t on, y P rc ‘' n{ privation and injury!
mt permanent The United
v.ci'cs would have loft f ; e c t v . c .
of obtaining future fitpfftics. h.y
would ha e loft their mark-t. ar.d mn
nor twenty years-would place th-non
tie fame footing *$ before. f,f r . |j
Hio that the *v it-India ns would have
iea.tu that they can do without u,-
thai they can r rf i: = provi-fion* cheape?
on to.c.r an a plantation.* than we cm
tv ’ ! j ‘' knowing this they
would never resort to Us . Thou-h
we might retain a part of th s coo
m rcr, the heft part w vdd he i-.-ft for
.ever. . Bhe trade woul i not be worth
| pmfuing; iltougr, this might anfwtr
one p-urpofc imen led by the embar
go, wh,ieh was not exprciFed.
Having con fide red the article of
provi(ion;; as important to various
pans of the union, Mr. H. (aid |, e
would now turn to another article,
cotton, it mad been very triumohant
!y fa id, that the want of this 2rtic I e
would diftiffi, the manufactures of
Gre,t Britan., prddme a clamor a
mongit them,and conf&quently accele
rate the repeat of Ihe orders in c un
u!, Mr. H. faith* would exatn.ne
; tuts 2 hole, and fev if ali t'.e evil con
ft-quences which opened on him at th
'tine oi the- paftage of the embo-o
law, were not likely to be reaiifed.
He had hinted .it fome of th. m ai thn
sirnr, but tiv bill had gone tftio’ the
fciiiite like a fifth of lightning, giving
no time fur examination ; once, twice,
and a third time in one day, atTwdmg
no time for the developcmciu ot !i ns
: confVquence*. This article of cot
ton was ujed. not only Irs !',r *io. H,#t
by France atid o her na ions <;n ;;v*
Ctm tiient. CJottnn not being gr ovn
in Europe, nauil be aran[ported by
water carriage. This being the case,
who would now be tuoft bkedy to be
lupplied with r. ? Not tl)c continental
powers, who have i\> iutle commerce
at! >at, nor *f*.y neiuials to convey ji
to th *m ; for the United States were
the onlv neutial wh-.ch of fate traded
wait France, and now the cm >argo
was Lid, file had tt 5 ctfauce of gt tttn.
it, except by the precarious capnres
‘made by her privateers. To Grcat-
ihcti YJ4t left the whole com
merce of the world, and her in •: chains
Were the only Carriers. Would run
j theft- carriers (apply their own tnanu
j fadurers? vVo-ld they fuffe-r cm ton
i to go ellewhe-e, till they them Elves
were fupplieu ? America was not fit
only country where cotton was raft and ,
for he had iecn an account <■- 1 whole
cargo brouglu into Ab'em from tiir
Era ft Indies, and thence exported tn
j Holland, with a good, profit. C ition
’ was s*!fo railed 10 ifrica, as well a>
diewhere; and this warv nation,
Great Britain, conceiving that the
United 6’tatcs might be lo impolitic,
as to keep on the embargo, had can i
cd whole cargoes of the heft cotton
feed there, for the purpose of railing
of cotton for her u!e. Great Britain
[ hid po fief ft on:.; in every quarter of the
globe, and cotton did not like the
fturdv oak, require forty or fifty years
to arrive at maturity ; but ii planted
1 would produce a plentiful fiipply in a
I year, i h is, then, when this power-
Giil nation fauna America rdftnng to
: fucb mean* to coerce her, she had tak-
I eil Cli re to look out for {applies in
| oth. r quarters, and with the command
! of all Ihe cotton on the globe fe*:i to
Imaike* cC ‘j!d we expect to coerce
by withholding odtrs ? Mr. H. fa'3
no; all the inconvenience v-hich lhe
could feci from our m-,i'ire, had id*
ready been borne; and Great Bryan)
was turning h *uaiwa
1 f)J the glob to obtain those st>p
: “ s which she was wont to get from
■ os, r-i. 4 (he .might ntt be reduced to
j the niVri!,m’mg condition of making
j co ace hi an to induce us to repeal our
| !<iw, and purchase an accommodation,
|bv _ teSluig us that we had a weapon
led ich we could wield to herannoy.
ance. Mr. H. wished to know of
I gcndemeti, ifwc had not experience’
: enough to. know, that Gie*X Britain
not tube threat'-ned inu> com
i pi'-ance by a rrd nf coercion ? Let us
; “it*mine ourselves, (laid he) (or if we
j irate mr genralopy, we (h®il find that
‘we defeended lifOGi them; were they
jfotft us in 1 his manner, is here an
j A-uerican that would ft op to ik m ?
I . -p? is-of ; and neither wii! that na
tion, horn whu’h we are defeended,
be driven from their position, however
erroneous, by threats.
il'he'cmbargo, therefore, instead of
operating on th d'e 11a ions which
had beru violating our rights, was
frau-du wi:h evils ami privations to
the people of ihe-United Mates. They
were the luiferer?. And h.ve wc
(fdfthr) adopted the monkiffi plan
of scourging ourselves for tits fins of
o.ht-ri “He hoped ’not; and that,
havng made the ex port mem, and,
four.d that ii had not produced us
expected effect, they would abandon
u as a meal-arc wholly inefficient as to
the obj As intend :d by it, and as hav
log v/r.ikened the great hold which we
had on G. Britain from her fupppftd
dependence on us fui ra v. inatt-nals.
ficiue ‘c-non ..ppeared to build
up cxpectutioiis cf the eScacy of this
ysivniby an addition to it of a non
mtercourue ia Me. IL treated thia
•isv. : ai iie ide:;. They should howe*
VIJI /A /tt I;. -i. ■ i_! C. a .ct i.o. i,.*e
children shut their eyes to danger.
Great Britain was not the only manu
facturing ration it- Europe. Germa
ny, [iolhnd, France, Spain, Foitugal,
and Italy, manufactured more or less,
md most of them bad ccicmes, the
uxc'u- ive supply of whose manuftc
turcs they hadl'leretofore reserved to
4..rosHves. Vviiilst we hud enjoyed
ho carrying trade we had supplied
-deficiency in navigation of those
- ideas ; and ail the i 1 iconvenidicy
Alt for the -.y.\nt of it ceased, because
”c stepped in and aided them, i his
rule h and been cut up, and perhaps it.
/ not a u'aife ‘.vi'iic.i the energies ct
i .. 44'uoii should be embarked m clc
,ug. Who was 11... re r.ovr to
•; - ply all these vari; us colonies that
ts'-ft. to lie sti] 1 lied by us? None
v,it England, the sole mistress of the
>-.'c.in. Whose produces then would
’ >reat BFftain curry ? Would she cm -
vnroducts of oilier nations and let
i.-r o v'h manufacturers starve ? No;
..•id thin cxclurion from the colonies
>f other munuiacturcs, and leaving iter
I'r.'ch ?ics the cols curriers of the
world produced a greater vent for her
nwniuhctm-es than the whole quantity
cons-1 mod in the United States.
This, however, was arguing upc.n
the ground that the Unr.ut btr.tes
vculd cor iume notie of her, manufac
tures, in case of a nomintercourst.
Mr. H. said, he was young when the
old non intercourse took place, Ivjt he
remembered it well, and had ft.ien his
ideas on the subject. ILe British
army was then at their door, burning
their towns and ravaging their coun
try, and at least as mwch patriotism
! existed then as now \ but British fa
! lyrics was received and consumed to
almost as great an extent as before the
prohibition. The armies could not
tet fresh provisions from Europe, but
they got"them Imre by paying higher
prices in guineas for them than was
j )a id by our government in ragged con
tinental paper money. Vv hen the
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lountry was in want oi cioatiung, J
couid ge* it for one fourth price from
the firms!', what was the conse
quence ? vv hy ail the* zealous pati lots
—ior this work of” tarring and kather
ing, and meeting in mobs to destroy
t! eir neighbor’s property because fio
could not think quite as fact as they
dm, vvoich seen, cd to be coining m
Lshion now, had been Ciur.ied on
then with great zeal—these patriots,
althouga ml intercourse was penal,
earned on don-me; ce notwithstanding.
Bui'.fties went he.ice, and rvanuEc
ti'ies were received from Europe.
Now, wii.it reliance couid be placed
on this [Xitnotism ? A gentleman from
Vermont had told the senate at the last
ses :i, that the- pati ’otism of Ver
mont would stop all exportation by
land, without die assistance of the law.
How had it iurped. out ? Why patriot
ism, cannons, rmii.ua, and all had not
stopped it ; and ait.so’ the field pieces
might have stopped it on the lakes,
they weie absolutely cutting new
roads to cany it on by land. And yet
the gentleman had supposed their pa
(riptrsm would’ effectually stop it!
Now, Mr. H. wanted to know how a
non-intercourse law was 10 be execu
ted by us with a course oi 1500 miles
open to Great Britain by sea, and
joining her by land ? Her goods wornd
come o,rough our courts of admiralty
by die me...ns of friendly captors ;
they would be brought in, condemned,
and then naturalized, as Irishmen use
now naturalized, before thev have been
u month in the country.
ME IL went on at some length to
shew the impracticability of enforcing
a non intercourse law, and its demo
ralizing consequences on our citizens.
It hud been said 1 that the embargo
snoL*’d i'O- iy’c nnsC'.u
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was no commerce tnat coma now be
sufelv pursued. He was astonished
that gentlemen should introduce thin
argument; as it w ent upon the ground
ft-.M France end England couid mutu
ally arrest our commerce with each
other. Ai this were ; cully the fact,
merchants, who were so nice in their
calculations, wpuid not risk their pro
perty. The insurance offices were
pel icet theifnemeters by which to cal
culate the’ dvgi ces. of risk in any com
ma cc. They always made their cal
culations on the sale side ; and it
would be found that no‘property was
more sought- alter than insurance
•stock, a id tins was because the insti
tutions were gate’, ally conducted by
• cautious raerelur.U'. A lew harum
scarum individual merchants, might
engige in 1 aadcus ‘enterprises, and
loose all., hueh men would never be
controlled by law Or piuder.t consider
; auons. But the ore at body cfnter-
O
cl;auts would i.lwuvs regulate the
course of trade, and Mere was no need
: of n embargo to save them running
too great a ml.
Alow I ;d they done in times past ?
E?.\vs ..jad been in force muaing it un
, rawi'ul to trade rridv the Spanish pos
sessions in Eoiuh-Arnencit; but we
had, nevertheless, carried on a prefi.
tabic trade there, and net all the \ igi
laiiccdf bpian could prevent ft. Now
and then a few of *ur eitizc ns had been
caught and imprisoned, but that had
not stopped our trade ; nor was ft in
the power of France and England com
bined to doit. Ou tins subject Mr.
h. said gentlemen took for granted
what was not true. France had issued
her decree saying, that no vessel should
navigate to England or her dependen
i Cies.” What had been the constquemc
! of this decree ? It had not raised in
: suranee five per centum. Had theic
1 been no good reason icr this? Yes
it was Wtil ki.ovvn that the whole com
j bined navy of France vvas not able to
i meet H Butich fleet ou the ocean, i li r -