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THE INTELLIGENCES,
a PUBLISHED 911 Ta.KSD.AYS AND ? m Siys
By NORMAN M‘IEAN,
ON THE BAY,
T ?1Y T ANNUM, PAYAKtE ONE
HAL” IN ADVANCE.
Cbrgress cf the Urit ’d States,
SENATE.
debate
C.t -hT.a io"’.c s Phtiioft to rtiieai
the cm eavgo — continued.
sir. Craisfot d's Speech Curtdudcc!.
Mr. Pr iidcm, the gentleman from
Cormcdlctu hss declared, that at the!
time the embargo was laid, ho thought I
and still thinks that the feerd reasons j
for laying the embargo were at war
with the often Able and avowed rea
Tons. That the true and substantial
reason for adopting t Li<Z tneafure was!
to dehroy commerce and upon its ru
ins to build up manufactures. Ihe
idea is not openly comradittcd bv the
gentl.-man from Delaware, but it is m
direßly combined bv him. Thatgen
tlrman by a very elegant and (areas,
tic fpecch, asks by what means the
trod fury of the United States is to be
fiiied at the dole of the next year,
•and triumphantly declares that the
per font now in will not live
the courage to resort to h threH tax,
that their produce. {Tors in the govern
ircnthad made the dangorou, exp*-'--
rimentj and for that experiment had
been tii(miffed from the service of the
people, for if we dare not resort to a
direct fix, to 11amp Cls, to excite
Jaws, ho\y are the public coffers to be
Tfpl ntfhed ? If the gentleman (rout
l)cla‘y3f :is rfi. li, r v -r ri .lie Man iV-.m
tonnctdicbt mud admit that he is
wrong, or die he muff charge the ad
winiftration with being downright
lends; The government mud Have
money, it is i upoffihle to do without
it; aou there is no possibility >of ob
taming it by the cxifltng laws, but
from coromt rce,, far wc have been
informed v. nh a grave face, that feme
of the states feel disposed to make
the embargo a permanent mcaftire.
The flatc-s who se pleased to call
themselves commercial ilates, when
■compared with the fomhern (tales
May emphatically be called manufac
turing flares. The southern Hates are
flntUy agricultural ; they have no
manufacturers among them except in
private families. We, sir, want *
market for the surplus productions of
Our plantations, and that market can
• Rot be (obtained but by t ie aid of so
reign commerce. Any change o
system )ivbkh will depress ‘commerce,
will be 1 for the benefit of the roanub c
turing (fates, v/hat I before (aid w
•he cow umtrcul flutes, and w<U prove
to the southern Hates. An
other fojeret reason imputed to the go
‘’rrnmvlni in layua the embargo--
v.’Teh i\ at war v.’i . the avowed yen
fori, is filial it was adopted wi h a view
to pron;|otc the iructelt of- France a
fflitdlhctr adyerfary. Ii is true that
this mo\ve is not dhectly charged up
!he glmm-. but the p,*ntletnaiJ
from CcVmcDicut sass that the repeal
of the est bar go ought not to irivoA -
•he natiq n in war, urj'efs it be true, as
he fears i t is, that Napoleon (aid lafl
inter, ts at there fix uld be no nr n
•M?, and that the government adopt,
ed the m aafure to prevent the French
emperor from declaring wa r a ‘M ::,st c .
Rs; that this was the only point of
view in w hich it could reasonably 0-
said that war must neceffardv follow
•he rcpeal\of the embargo. f o prov e
that the gallic emperor u ‘.dciHood
the me,file as inu-ivdccl m PR™
his inicicfij. a "A l ° ‘"i are > lul °< <H*
PUBLIC INTELLIGENCER.
SA\ ANN AH, JUISDAT, December 27, 1808.
( fary-, the gentl -n*n resorts ( f !e
exp, f e of the French n iniftt r . ,f sip,
declaration imp,, e d to the GMi c err
peror bv the gentlemnd be true, coC 1
he puTuc a bet? r courie to aff-fl
TiCrC'-; r (hf ’ ,1,,n ‘<> pv.ii.fh
m 1 is official document , that the mea
sure was tfie result of hi; i fluenc
f nc: tended to promote his 5m rc-V: ?
HiH', if the Bruifh minifby '■ hav „
more political Capacity than ,hc a. ’
tlfman *• ’to h;?, • < /._ • ...
dafcr: 10 sup port his opit.io,,’
wouul have no hcfuati.ui m .. ei | jnn
j war again (t us. 1 would as soon be
! “fve the declaration m ye F Knc h t . x
i pole, as I would Mr Latum: \ s J c\a
j ration, that “his Brifaniiiv n-o gy
w,u,d n ° l NSitate to conninuir m
! an y mannt 'r in his power to reflore 10
’he commerce of rfk United States , ts
wonted aclivity, a., t -f it were p. .ft, b
to make any (acriJice for the repy.i of
the embargo, without appearing o, de
precate it as a nudfire of hofftli < , he
would gladly have facilitated its’it.
moval, a? a mcafure of inconvenient
reftrifction upon the Aixiertcan people
Sir, no man b'lteves that declaration
of Mr. Canning ; there is no man in
this nation filly enough to be culled
by this hypocritical letter of Mr. Can.
mug’s; and fir, l would charitably
hope that no Candid and i> pr. juuiccd
nun does believe m the truth of the
dtdudions attempted to be < ra wn fojin
the expose by the gentleman (torn
Connecticut.
[n the discufiion of ih ■ 2 ! nrooo
fition. the gentleman from u 1 r ,
as well as from Conueth.ut afi 1 u
that rhe tit:-Mure [ud produced . <: -f
fed upon forrtgn nations, and •• ••
Im: om iHiafinchufetts haodv ;•,(!
mils that it created fom'e degte* o! a.
i rm. .Surely, sir, ih- two f;rU ■-••
tie men cannot -.tifh their dcchrao .*;
to b’ underfiool liti 1 Uy. sh.
certainly intended it is a r cr. figur
of rhetoric. ‘I he genflnnati o-s.j
Vlafiiuhufetts fays itifurredioos u. th
manufaduring towns have be n
familiar to him. But. sir, -th in fur
redicns occasioned bv the emb .n<
o
were different in h -ir charabkr iron
those with which that gentleman ha
been famil ar. Former mfuneeiion •
were turbulent ami tnischicsmr-,
generally heeded by men of desp- .at.-
charadler. These infurretho.os t.
which I allude, were the aflembba
of ordeily un fj.nding men, not c ;!
le£Ud together by imaginary evils. 01
imaginary wants, but b> the ahsolu'.<
pr-(!';:re of hunger. Those were nc.;
ordinary mobs, and the course of cor.
dnH pursued by thnn was not th
vhtch cliarrsfctcnsed ordinary infui
- tiions. It w:-;s she couducl of foher,
orderly and virtuous men. <h.Tatu;c of
orcid to fatisiv the cravin -s Or hun
ger. But the gemlemau from M.-li.-
chufats fay3 admit that 100 princip.,l
manufactures flmuld be reduced by
the cm! *rgo to bmkrupdey, and
50,000 arrifans turned out of employ,
they would (UH continue to exifl and
would ftrengtbcn the army or navy to
the amount cf that number or rum
Ihe phyftcal fircngim of the nation
would be increased, ‘fne more, there
fore, according to the mode of restart
ing, you affett die mr.nu!L'luri'..g in
tcrefl of that na ion the greater tne
benefit you confer upon it. If sir,
the cueT cf de(Laying her manuiac
: todies, was simply an increase of her
! army and navy, it might pofio.y pro
mote the national prosperity. iU
£S that oenilcman truly V,!“*
people will continue to exnt. -■ fluty
enter ihe aroiy orrnty ,l,ev mufl ~c
Ictnathtd, frti anti paiii f‘ lhc,t f ”'-
; vices. . .
If vhe tnanufaClures of G Bdiain
Ime oiftrs.-yed. from whence will flu
a obtain lev nut ? Deffioy her manu:
i fafclu es ami you dry up cue of hti
moi< frciiful sources of levenue, ],
tile .T.id no rranufiiiftures to export,
ii r lu■ porta<ions would of couist
oias-. Sir, if the gentleman is corrett
v his opinion, how w< uld the turning
•uj 15000 merchant’ from her
’ vs. t ilt a ht 1 ? \a hy cer
u t>, :t VvorM -veil b< r a.ro?y flpd
• ■ * 500000 more in number,
T* w.- ui , turn tlte phyGcal force
of the n no* , *cu rtiing to this mode
•of ~*••{’ But his admitted by
! ' rt ; no or.ible gemleutan that the tm
rv r v dm at f.rtl <. xcite alarm; 1 hat
tin Uatjoh ht h „ ltd to bciitve th-t
.1 in euup'i not its intercourse wi*h
• he. ! . oll*. tn-, would produce great
‘id!refs. 1 hat tins b and been thc opi
i ! us of wu.er.s, of rntichants, and of
. the nano- generally, but that they were
! m:L ken— their writers vyue mi (taken,
j’hvii :nn.ih,ent merchants were mis
| - Now, :ir, I will afi; if it i s
prob-1 hie (hat our mcichants on this
fme tm Arlu? tic ocean, however in.
teihgem h y may be, are capable of
f “using a more correfct opinion of the J
‘if et of ’he embargo upon Great-
Bii id. tiy'n merchsnts ot equal intel-
k M n'f. there, who felt the df-th of
u themselves : or whether the declara
tion f f our merchmts ought to tie be
’ fteveo if this case in oppehtion to die
oarh.> ‘ f d*e moll intelligent Eruifh
*• ‘ i-.r'o P Fbis eLrm, the geutlc.
mn s.f inns us, continued through
tire p! 1 eg. hrj; w.., diiliptrted in the
! ium -I i’.e.o •11 pastoo of this a
-1 lra- v. fc.-. ssf-i c u ;cd bv the di- coycry
I .1, 1 • . „ n 11 •
* v ■ on -u ii- lerLour.se
*sh 1 e U ‘'tale* hrd pr To ed no
‘hi gv in G. Eli :it, or wesjici lii.dy
••: tosfti giCtif ci.firc L, bur was the
ft ct of a very different cause. !t
‘.is the recent events in Spain and
:-v>ruq.sl. Until these events were
>n iwo in Kn- !uil. it was not tlte-de*
U* j-ton of Riitiih rr: rchant/ alone,
Mtt of the ILir.ih mitnUry thernfelves,
>-u th ■ .harg ‘ had pr duccd effetfs
-poii the nation. If, sir,*no dilfrd
vni b en produced by i% why •did die
iLuifh tnit iftry ever feri'-trfly think
si icpcthng their ordets ? Bui whin
•he revolution in Spain h- gan to ai
iutnc a formidable aspeU j when the
:s eiitiii;! success of the SpanifH pat; i
:ts was hoped (of; when the Liitillr
nini fieri began to conceive a hope that
y fhooki be able to CJur.tcrabl the
ff ct.; of tiici embargo, by findiug oth
1 snarkiHs (or tudr manufa&ures, ir.
be coionics of Spain T hen they
gzve anew impulse to the nanon, by
ngv i > ” v;ith zeal in behalf of the
•-.i-auLi Js; then sir, and not till then,
-/as the tone oi Mr. (Luring changed.
If the embargo has failed to produce
.11 the effivtts f.x cbted from it, has
n.:( that ‘failure bum produced by ad
ventitir us circumfiances no way con
‘lefik-'J with the m asure, and not el.
!rihutM- to :.ny intlhcacy ini the mea
• furc it Ir); ? If I am con eff in attnfcu
irig the- failure ol the embargo to pro.
ducef repeal of the Britiih orders, to
tie revolution in Spain and I cnatigaj,
it will be proper to enquire whether
those events will, for c.nv length of
time, continue to ccunteraft it. If
iocn is likely to be. the tffrtV, we
ought to abandon the mcaftire as inef
fkdcious. When I saw the fir ft ac
count ot these events, I was apprrhen
five of what has happened. I was ap
ppehenfive that it would buoy up the
Oritifh mini (try, and enable th-.rj to
bear up the tide of public opi
nton. If we have lufficient evidence
tbit the revoluuon in Spain • nd For
tupal, will permanently counteract its
effects upou the belli greats, the cm-
trargo mull be abandoned. Repca
oe embargo, and war commences.
am, tir, uptai the embargo ana war
mi cs place, and no ordinary war. Sir,
i have no hesitation in avowmu rifis
fentintent, altho’ the Efifex refqlutions
-nd sundry petitions received by the
our r branch ol the legdlaiure, h;ve
denounced as enemies ot the nation
Mi those that entertain this opinion.
V u ; c -d thne resolutions ami
pctiitoj)', I blush for my countrymen,
i bltilh to think, that in this hour of
pf’il, in ihis hour of public canger
and calamity, there fheuid be found
among us cne of ihe great American
Emily, who is so base, so ebanbened
so fi.R to every generous national feel
ing. as to declare that our complaints
againff G. Britain arc nothing but pre
tefas for war, arid that Gnat Britain
ought not to grant our demands.
Kir. Prefidenr, the gentleman from
Conne&icut luid the r< peal 0/ iho
embargo ru ed not produce war, un
iefs, indeed, Bonepane makes war up
on us; that we hu*.e Bill a lucrative
trade open to commt refill tnierpnze ;
that for the support of doubtful ii,;h:s
he is not prepared to go to war, but
th-i he will defend neutral tights wr II
ehrtblifhcd, and will net abandon
then;; yet the gen lemen Fays that war
is not ueccffai y upon the repeal of the
embargo, (Here Mr. Hiilh use deni
ed Cit'd explained, tire repeal cf the
embargo not nectffafily to involve the
nation for m uiul rights not clearly
euub.di.ed. Mr. C. read his voids
heth the I aitonal Intelligencer.) I
'fk gentlemen when v;e me told hy
i ’ i--‘- ;•'!*. we fkcli tratio with no
other nation tut hcrfelf, or in other
words, that we fliall not trade with her
em n t.-s, whether this is a violation of
neutral lights cS arly effahltffitd ? I
can draw no other condufion, thaa
dmi in die < pioton rs this gentleman*
the orders of council do not infratt
ncti rai fights. I. he would defend
Rtuiial rights, hu* will not go to war
on the rep-t-a! of the embargo, on ac-
Count cl the foi. ible execution of the .
Ifiiii h otdtrs, it would appear that he
Conceives they do not Violate our
tights—it the embargo Lib to pro
duce the rrptal cf their cnl-as atr.cl
the French decrees, war muff he rc
fortc J to. There i-. no middle ground.
You muff iubtr.it or opposu force by
force. By way of ridicul ng the em
bergo, the genii- man from Connefcii
cm dates a case, that if one of his
neighbors tells him hf (hall not trade
with another; and that other fays he’
Hi II nut iicde with the firft, he flics
m a caffion and fays he Wili not tiade
with cither of them.—This thegentlo
m. a fays rn a (peeks of magnanimity
v jth which he is not acquainted. But
sir, let us fee what kind of magnanim
ity 11 ii with which he id acquainted,
tmj which he withes this nation to
pradice. France fays you (hall not
trade with G. Britain, and G. B. fays
you (halUot trade with FraijCe unlcfs
you fi.lt conic into my ports and pay
me tribute. We fay we believe our
trade is very important to bsth ot
them, and we will not trade with the
one or the other of them. But the
gentleman fays, repeal the embargo,
j there is a lu'ctaiive trade wide open
j to commercial enterprise, not ptohi,
! biicd by the orders of council. <Str
by this course of conduct wc flroulc.
discover a servile fub'milfion to the wilt
of one nation, and a pitiful enmity tc
that of the other. This, sir, is mag
| nanimity with a vengeatice; this is that
species of magnanimity with which I
jwifli this nation to be ‘unacquainted.
When in the relation of c lontes wc
refilled an attempt to tax us, and the
rilling ux of thrcc-gCBW upca tea
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