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that although to enforce ihe'ff execu
tion v:e have blockad-ed our own ports,
pad Luarour own citizens, (hey ere
f: <U open?;) force, Hid fe
riosisly cnrJeriger -t-he don?efi;'c tran
quility cf the country. But..fir, it is
to beobferved, that the actual loss
A Ha:ued during the embargo,-is not
the only cvh! avifing from it; another j
.‘jre permanent is so be apprehended. I
Jt will have't'ne effeCt of throwing the
cotrifiicrcc of the world into other and;
dtfibrect channels.;-of inducing so-j
reign n,:;i :ns tp feck in other coun
tries v-h-st they have heretofore been
iff the mbit of purcbafmg'-from vs,
•rod'what wc now deny them. In the
i, sops article of cott'Q'O, for inftsr.ee,
we now, or did, export more than
irnmecn ndlHon ofdoihrs worth an.
i'-r.-tiv, and principally supplied the
An Ah manufafilortcs-withthis article :
hut st is well known that. the foil snd
climate oi the Brazils is equally con-
to the growth of this crop with
vr own, and with due attention to
she c “.id veil or. of it, u capable cf fop
.plring abundantly a!! the manofacto
lies of England. .S'urcl y then, I fit ah
1-2 covret. in dating, that the embar-:
ro is a premium fuilkient to ftimu
i itc tbvsi to this exertion, and to cn
jibli'tbem ultimately to fu polar, t us
in the f.'r of this very v:! ruble ftapic
ci ipmc cf our foutbern Hates. Ami
the intimate cor.nci'iion known, at
present, to cxdl between the BritiHij
government and the regency oi that
countvv, will greatly aid m p.oducing
thu rcf'uit,
Now, s;r let me eoacme, cn’ficg tlie
e'idicnce oi the prelem flute o! things,
when re ato we to and stive our revenuer
A cotvh.leratkn certainly of no ‘mall im
p tri-ance to a government depending cn
(irt'ly ior her revenue upon
Our cotnr'iisroe i- now completely at an |
end-, and of course our revenue ; by the
•vay. another lots to the nation <>s at icalt
filter?** roiilfficsof dollars annually by the
c. This 1 know cannot be left
during the pTefent year, because our trea
sury is now oveillowtng with tt*er proceeds
of haft But irons what fonree* aie
you to obtain money next year, ior the
hip-port oi government, and tbe payment
■ut.Vc- n- tionai debt ? Are gentlemen re*,
fry to rebut to a cirett tax ? No sir, they
}.. Vf , r.j IC e and petver too well, That was
one done for the put pose cl raising mo
ney.’ 1 believe to detsnd cotnmerc®, and
she people of this founts y, on that occ*-i
lion, taqght their fervar.ts a ierffn that 1
prefmme will not be ihonly lorgutten.
The proficient I know in his jate racHhgf,
Ass given a favorable account of the prc.
font (fate of the trsalury ; and ivoft kind,
jy indeed exprelfes much concern a® to’
the bed use to be made of the surplus re
venue of the next year, 3m, among all
the cares and troubles of hi* fucceiior, I
venture to pre'din this will not be one of
them ; he will net bo plagued with fur.
plus revenue next year, Mr. Jefferlon’s
.over-weening anxiety tor the public good
ju!t have blinded him to the obvious fail,
that before he cars be well warm in hu
i Et at Monncello, the revenue now bond,
odder will be colletied, and as in confe
ffueocs of tl w present abandonment cl
Commerce, there will certainly he no oth
fvr bonds to become due, U follows neces
sarify, to the course cf your annua! ex.
penditcres, that by the next meeting o!
yeur trealury mu ft be empty • ,so
that instead o’ being u*ubled with surplus
revenue, it will require all tbs fiscal ulent*
cf the next incumbent of tbs palace, h.
fim whom h- may, to provide the iums
for the lupport of govemment.
i'hs g-nt’nnira who advocate this 1 don's
hum whet to call i, invariably tatrapin
>ltcv -I bey, pardon, *,-—*>—when
driven ffotr* every other hold in othei
words launch into futurity, and tell ui
hat if sve dare to put cm head* ir.| any
pan of'.this wide woild, v/e {hall get them
v.rSfce, or if we take off the embargo we
3s H biv*| ‘.'.'ar. Laying out of view at y
com parr item between the probable er
j, of war and the afifeat ids annually
ftjfhiocd by the embargo, the forme,
ke-irihv. no cornparsfon with the Utter,
jet oi examine fur a moment what
frouri/Lf ibh there'is for this ali’ertion, and
vsrhcrl ws might not s; this.time, even
admitting nhc iiriti'h order* of council to
have their full operation, carry on fafelj
a snofi c .ter.fivn and valuable commtrc*
with at Ic'zii three fourth* of the cummer.
/.El wo, !■!. ] J !4 j>o ( eforc rmrthose order
■ council 1 ; The.only rUri£fing claaie i
In t’de fnildtvi:ig words ;• •—•>“ H s ajei
v is skew fare plm-:!, by arul with the
id vice o: ids r.'ivy comic.], to order, and!
t: is hereby ordered, that all ths ports *n-i’
plscej of Trance, arc f .tt allies, or of eny
atlicr country at war With hi* msjefty, and
ell other ports or places in Europe, from
.which, although not at v/ar with his roa
jciiy. the ifritifh flag is excluded, and all
the ports or places in the coiontes belong-:
ihg to Ids majefly’* enemies, final! from;
henceforth be fubjcFt to the fame refine- :
tions in point of “trade and navigation,}
i with the.exceptions hereafter mentioned,
[si it the fame were aQnally hlockided by
hi* majefly’e naval,forces in the niofl ftrift
and rigorous manner.” Ai much as 1
i condemn a.id feel disposed to refill these
I arbitrary regulations, they certainly do ripi
interßre with, or in any respcil embar.’
rail our trade to Indofian,‘China, Java, ’
Sweden, Gibraltar, England, Scotland, 1
lidand, Spain, Portugal, Sicily, the whole [
extent ol tiis Mediterranean and A laatic'■
coast of Africa, Arabia, ths Wefivm Ides ’
and Madeira, Nova Scotia,-Canada, the i
Spanilhj Swedifii and British Weil indies, i
the Florida*, the Biaxils, and ail the red
of South America, except Cayenne, sis
likewise the north well cuafit oi America.
Those countries too, as will Appear t y the
left report of the secretary ol the trealury,
receive annually nearly fout.fifths of the
whole native exfOfti a! the U. Stat**,- ind
are certainly none ol them, notwitMland
mg ivhat has been fuel by tbe gentleman
Iron Maryland (general Smith) within,
the run view cf the Brutfii orders <>l coun
cil. That gentleman, wtien on this pari
and t! a fnbjeil, I will do him the juPtiee to’
acknowledge, told ujJic bad risen m great
licilc and was unprepared ; and indeed,
!r. it would require great ha fie, and great
want oi preparation, to juiiify fume oi the
Ibr.omenis mad* by the gentleman t* th
j fenatc. Aniong.other things cqu-dy eip- j
Itravactirt, he told us, in the lace of the !
Britilh orders of ‘council l have just read,
that we werre now intcrdiblrd by those ot
ders !rcm any.trade with Spain ur i’ortu- >
.a! j and after releiring to Mr. C<::n?n}*’ j
•evh’ to the committee of merchants, viz. I
nW neutrals were not now excluded t rou!
the por‘s ot Portugal and Spam by thost
order* tnanipluntly a(ked us to tell
him, a* lawyers, whether, if a vcflel e-nqa
i ged in that trade was carried into a Bruiih j
court of admiralty, she would he tried by j
M Canning’s conversation with the nci. |
chan:*, or according to the law oi the
‘land ? I auiwer the gentleman not as a [
lawyer, buts c man of coinmen lease,
that file would fc* tried according to the !
law of the la id. And I wonder u had not j
occurred to that geatlernan, as a man of j
comin n feose that according to the law oi
the land Ihe mull be acqutttad. Sir, the j
cxpreii language of these *rde:s is, “ that j
all the purl* and plac<* ol France and hi j
allies, of of any other country v. war with
hi* majefly, and all other poits or places
iiu Europe, fiora which, ahi.ough r.ut at i
wai with his majefiy, the Bmill flag is
excluded, ff’e.” An* will the gentleman
undertake to lay here, that Spain and For.
tugs! are now the allies ol France, or that
the Briufil flag is now excluded Irons their
poits F No sir. The gentleman knvwa
they are, at this moment, waging a mult
i exterminating war with France, in d-;
•ence of their very cx!f*er.cc { and that
they derive their principal lupport and
fiibfiftcnce under the Bruiih flag. There
is no man who can read and underfland
piain English, and fliall examiot these ol
der*, but will teli you in a moment that
the none of Spain and Portugal so far
iron being within their tpuit, are not now
even within the letter oi them. Bui in.
dependent of this, there was a Ipecial pro
clamation of the king, dated on the ah of
July fail, noti!yi*g to the world, that the
blockade cu longcs cxifted as the poits
oi Spam. The advices, the gentleman
has been pleased to detail toffs, a; received
in private letter* irem Europe, 1 ihall take
no notice of ; they are entitled to none,
unlera hs will fiifi lubmit those leu era to
the senate, and tnen ’we IhatS give to th*
•information they contain, that weight r<>
which the charaflers of hi* orrespondenu
ami their means •! acquiring corrctl in
fcrm2tiGn, nray entitle it,
Genjlsir.enj by turning to tbe tost,
report of the secretary, to wh’h I have
before referred, and 1 wish them to ex
amine for themselves, vqill find, that ol
the 43,699,592 dollars worth of pro
duce and other merchandise, the ac
tual growth and manufacture of our
own country, exported from lire Uni
ted States in 1807, we Sent
To England and her dependen
cies in Europe, Afin, Africa
and America—Dollars. fi7,917,017
To Spai* and her dependencies
in Europe End Ameiica, 5,993,575
To Portugal and tier depeneen.
cie* in Europe and America, 1,399,316
To Sweden ani Swedifii Wall-
Indies, 47?/5€3
To China, the East and Weft-In.
die* generally (not included
S -Ahisa aci aafth rest
Flaking in the whole, dolls. 35,707,542
Almost four-fifths of the whole na
tive exports cf” She United States for
that year, which we might export near
ly as safe now as then, but for the
embargo, for it cannot, it certainly will
not be ne w contended, that any parts
of this commerce is embraced by the
British orders of council, and the
French decrees in reiati*n to it* from a
total inability to execute them, are a
■mere nullity. It is not, therefore, as
has been said, the decrees and . orders
of foreign powers, that have reduced
our country to its present distressed
c.ud embarrassed condition. It is our
own folly, the eiftbargo that now pal
sies the labor, the energies and cuter
prise of our citizens, and leeks i p
more than thirty five millions’ of dol
lars, the native produce of our coun
try, to perish and sink upon our hands,
i wait to hear sir, for'l have hot heard !
i yet, how this” enoniiovis, tiffs unnecco
sary and ruinous sacrifice of national j
and individual wealth, can be justified)
t3 tiic public. i.-.-.i£rc no man uiio i
holds mere indignantly than I do, these
French decrees and British orders;
but before my God, Ido most reli
giously believe, that the embargo is a
1 thousand times more injurions to your
country than they both could be ren
[ dered.
. Instead of availing ourselves of the
immensely extensive and valuable
commerce now open to us, with at
leae. three fourths of the commercial
world, U has now become a erreat fa
j vor if we can be permitted by the pre
! side lit and his gun beats, to sneak
along shore, from one of our own ports
to another, with as much flour and
per k ns we can cat on die passage. Sir,
j this is the next commercial country in
| the world to England : wc are in tact,
! in this respect, their only competitors,
| and whilst, as at present, they have an
! opportunity of monopolizing ail the
J commerce of die world, do you believe
i they will ever ask you to take off the
iembargo? No sir, this would be an
| act of madness in them, equal almost
|to our continuing it. They do not
1 wish to meet upon the ocean rguin
their industrious and enterprising ri
vals. They-arc no doubt pleased to
i us shackling and crippling ourselves;
Much has been said by the gentle
man from Maryland (gen. Smith) cn
the subject of tribute, end in ti manner
1 do not well understand, unless it uc,
to retort upon the gentleman his own
language, ad caniandum, 1 wish it,
j however, to be distinctly understood,
i that no part of the commerce I have
j undertaken to shew the United States
’ might carry on, would be subject to
i any tribute, 1 wish it to be wither
j understood, sir, that I would not only
’ sec this country dad u: homespun, b ut
• * • ,
1 covered m sackcloth and ashes, rattier
.than that she should consent to pay
tribute. 1 would see every commer
cial city upon our shores, and every
rag of canvass we !.c! i, in flames, i
! would sec our soil smocking with the
best blood of its inhabitants, and the
bones of our citizens mingled with
the ashes ol their dwellings, rather
than see the people submit to pay tri
bute to any nation on earth. 1 trust
there is not in cither house a member,
who would not risk his hfe, and spilt
his blood, than give a vote that should’
reduce his country to a condition so
slavish and degrading. And I hope,
Mr. president, that no insinuation has,
or w ill be made here, calculated even
to intimate an idea, that the gentlemen
of this body who may vote for the rc
| p eal of the embargo laws, would sub
ject this nation to tribute. Such an
insinuation would not only be unfoun
ded, illiberal, and derogatory of this
floor, hue in other respects highly un
l *1 et-Jp
. Vt vKJ Uu uiv •
If has been asked by the gentleman
from Kentucky, why do not those who
oppose the embargo propose some
substitute ? Certainly it cannot be ex
pected u i a to offer ourselves as tht
pioneers ut tuis aclmifiistration j bat?
jlb reply _ to ike: question I-will rch
jgtaiiCiUcu to a confidential Istur gul-
TfaUidW.it K....L, ,■ I
gentlemen need not be alarmed, I ani
hot going to tell what that letter con
tains. if any substitute be necessary,
in that is pointed out the one I would
adopt: there is marked a safer, a Ifforf
and an honorable course, thafr if pyd
sued, without I beiieve ehdangerins--
our peace, would add alike to our r,;C
tionai character and our national
wealth.
It has been well observed by the
gentleman from ‘Virginia before rue
(Mr. Giles) that it was time we had
become a nation, that we were nation
alized. The sentiment was worthy
of that gentleman, and one to which £
entirely subscribed. But is the sys
tem of which this measure is appre
hended by many to be but the com
mencement, calculated to nationalist ?
No, tir: much better calculated, I fear,
to estrange the extremes cf the union
from each other, and to familiarise out
ideas to an event, that I deem it aims ;t
treason to think of; and that erery
| honorable snd patriotic American
! must view as the most calamitous curse
; that could be forced upon this cotin.
try. i beseech gentlemen, therefore,
to beware ,ho w they press this systt m
too far. There is a section, a very
respectable and powerful ■■'section of
this country, that with commerce is
rich and happy: deprived of that com
merce a large portion of its pepff..
tion must starve. That ‘.population
expect, and as n portion of the com
munity .have a right to expect, that
their only means of subsistence will
be fostered and defended,, sad not sa
crificed to manufacturing whims, <:;•
local prejudices. Ido net mean to
intimate, that the embargo grew out
of either cf these causes ; tut the con
-1 tinuar.ee pf it at present, under exis
ting circumstances, after the gal.ing
experience xrc have had, and when it
can cbvieusly produce nothing but
distress and embart-assment to our
-selves, may engender and nurture j-a
----i Icusies that perhaps time will not !-
! lay. -I believe the people of this cr i;n
----t try would submit to any privati >i s for
| the public good, but they must first,
|be convinced that the public good rw
quires the sacrifice, ft must, it vil
astonish every unprejudiced and ie
flect lng man in the community, if tins
ruinous measure is persisted in, after
the experience we have received, .-A
when we have before us the most con
clusive and irresistible evidence to
shew, that it is ut erly inadequate to
| the accomplishment of any of the ob
jects for which it was said to be inten
ded. And conduct that cannot be ac
} counted for on any reasonable ground
jis apt, however unjustly, to fcr aftri-
I bated to unworthy motives. I tru>',
therefore, that gentlemen on their on n
accounts will not reject this resolu
tion ; that they will, at least, first c;w
, liberate and look to consequence,'!;
that they will feel well the public pulse
before, by this rash proscription, they
stagnate the national blood.
Mr. Moore. Mr. president, it aj>
; pears to rue extremely improper that
; ; in the discussion -cf the important and
. j interesting question now before us.
gentlemen should suggest even a n;o
----bahihty that opposition to the law, m
: surrection and rebellion might be the
i consequence of our refusal to adopt the
. |measure proposed. If such surges
-1 tions, or rather menaces, are to i :!•>
,'cnce our deliberations, we might as
well resign the right of deliberating.
It will only be necessary to ascertain
what it is gentlemen wish and to grati
fy them. Such suggestions have bust
circulated throughout the Unit'd
States. I had regarded them onb .m.
electioneering tricks, and car /
never expected to hear them me : • •
,ed on thiyfioor. I .cannot belie : >>
I possible that the cilinens of tliose
stater,, who were foremost ir. their rp
position to British usurpation at t.'-*
commencement of the revolution:;?
war, would notv oppose measures a’>
solutdy i: ecessary for the preses v:.ia t
of that independence. That they v..!;
totv abandon the blesshtg<i ftHreeJoA
’ so zealously contifiU.tcd
ito theatt.diirmpA of, ■ / “ .