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Ii m I Tp T i jin i cILEIGeNCsiK. 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 [Whole No. iU9 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 ■* 1 . - 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 -