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Truth and Eloquence •
Mr. Holmes made the following
remarks in his second speech*
The honorable gentleman rose
and after some preliminary remarks,
he observed;
There is more clamor in the Sen
ate of Massachusetts, than there is
among the citizens of the common
wealth. Out of this house every
thing indicates peace and quietness
If you are sincerely desirous to havi*
the constitutionality of the tmbar
go law decided i have observed
before, you may apply to the jud;
ciary, and have a speedy decision ;
and then if not agreeable to your
feelings, you can still pursue you;
- revolutionary course. 1 have heara
of some gentleman who proposed to
take the sword in one hand and the
constitution in the other and demand \
fheir rights. If the gentleman was
to attempt such a thing in the dis
trict of Maine, where he came from
he knew the course winch would m
pursued against him ; he Would be
.aken before the judge of probate
and be put under guardianship.
The gentleman has made strange
remark* upon the subject of free ships
making free goods* Oar government
does hot contend for this j yet gen
eral Washington was in favor of
tree ships making free goods—he
made several treaties recognizing
the principle—By the treaty of Bre- ,
da in 167/ and Utrecht if L3, Great \
Britain, recognized; the principle-,
and three tunes was it engrafted in
to treaties with Holland. ihe rea
son is, that Great Britain was, ht
those periods, neutral, while, other
nations were at war. ; It seeing sin* .
guiar, that - .opinions
and decisions of neutral Commercial
nations, the gentleman from Essex
should be the Erst to discover that
this principle wa£ against the rignt&
of neutrals. . - : %
. she United States* government
know Ue objects of the iVtassacau
selU‘ Uegjsuture—tney do. not care
tor them—neither wili they find it
necessary to use any force. , The ,
friends of the union in Massacnu
setts are numerous, and, fully > com
petent to put down any attempt.that
ipay.be made to ( , resist the laws of
the uniou by dorfce* L , ; . : ; ;y
- Suppose the salted;shades v ofyour
Hancpca and your Adams were to
t6’ visit this senate chamber . by; ac
cident. and hear your; debates, they*
would mauirally conclude they, were
i.i toe assembly oi* one Os ipe British I
colonies. How could it be OthervyUe,
vVhen they he t urd you justify every
measure of the mother country, eu
logize her kiwi ami apologize for jiet
oifences. But wnat would, be their*
feelings whaii tiiey. fc>u.id, to, their.,
disuppuiutmeun, They were in the
wiassachusetts beiiatOchamoer, hear-’
mg tl>e debates, on iftt&LiMwer to the
governor’s speecn*
. -« f perfectly- agree with his excel
lency, that if tae war is as he dis
cribes it, unjust , it is didicudi to ac
count ho;w those who thin a so, can re
joice at a victory, or reward the man
w.io has acmeved it—'upon the gov
ernor’s ground, co nmodore Perry
and all pis brave associates mqst
be aired assassins. rUe cau.se is not
less wicked because it is successful*
it wouid hardly comport witn the
vtevvs of a moral and religious peo
ple, to rejoice ait murder, because it
was done witu a favorite weapon.
Suppose it be true, as you say, tnat
your party have been the exclusive
advocates of a navy and \vc have
been its exclusve iocs, which, by tne
by, is Vom fact, wouid that be a
reason tor rejoicing at its triumphs',
in a bad caused Suppose, sir, you
had a iatontc pairot pistols, aud you
ah hi Uacl contended about their ej-
they were of the
j best construction, and 1 that they were
I not. .it length however lam cou
-1 vincefeuui purchase a pair, f *scc,
by liie highway, very peace-
ATHENS, ’ THURSDAY, MARCH 24, 1814.
ably and innocently* your old friend
and parent*; was particularly |
near to you ; he had never,done you j
any essential injury : and had at all
times been the bulwark of the reli
gion you professed., Though I “ had
no groupd of complaint against him/
vet this,is a good opportunity to try
my pistol—l take good;.aim and
lodge the bill in his heart—l turn to
vou— u sirs you was right, 1 am con
vinced ; come rejoice with me* for I
have killed your parent with these
pistols i they even exceed your de
scription.’* You would view me with
horror. “ Well,’* I Would say calm
ly ik Jf you will, not rejoice at the
even*, you may at least hofior and
reward me for the act , for I assure
you I did it genteelly.” Sir) you would
denounce me as a murderer of the
blackest hue. » v
But I do not believe that gentle
men are quite so inconsistent—i Sus
pect that this rejoicing is matter of
policy rather than sincerity • It was
necessary to dissemble to keep the
people right, and perhaps it was
found convenient to pacify your own
conscience ; they sometimes prac
tice this aitifice upon ‘themselves. I
remember a case which I believe is
in point—l will iclate it, that you
may judge—two neighbors lived in
k state of the bitterest enmity ; One
of them was sick and expected to die
he sent for his enemy and propos
ed a reconciliation—it was agreed
\to, and eVery thing wore the ap
peal ahee of Christian charity and
forgiveness* but as this rieW
nend was about taking his leaved ‘
the sick tnan beckened to him—
“ Stop, sir, now remember that if I
recover this all goes for nothing; it
,s to be j-ust as it wa£ before, if I get
well. * Your;case is not very differ
ent. When the country prospers
and triumphs and.yph .are sjck and
likely tp die disc ydb must. in
times of prosperity) you Send for yo.ur
political opponents, affect to repent*
piopose to be Americans* and to
join in rejoicing at, our victories;
out it is with the sick reser
vation—A* stop, gentlemen* nov? re*
member if we recover, if any utisfor
une nappens to your country upon
.vnich > we cau we reserve the 3
ngnt to rejoice as loudly , ’ and ten
thousand times as sincerely at your
country’s misfortunes as we did at i
her .triumphs ; whether some v.cou- ‘
scientious misgivings, were the cause \
pt th.e rejoicing ait. PerlyV victory, *
X leave larxomegentlemen,in the
majority to detcimi ne—certain i
am that thil is the . best way of re-
their l neon si s
tancy-p-ant» 1 am inclined to believe
that some.exultation at our late mis-*
fortunes will justify the conclusion.
.? i i:he gentle man from Essex has
.intimated that if'G*. Britain yield the
right ot impfessnaebt,.it would be the
destruction of oup marine. „ And the
reason he gives, is, that it would in
duce an infiux of British sailors, to
the .exclusion of oiir own. v fiksthe
gen tfeinan-forgotten that We have, a
law expressly excluding British sai
lors froth QUr employ l , Why do gen
tlemen Keep this act out of view m
debate l Is it because it is a pacific
Pleasure*.and they are to -dis
cuss its merits l t she majority have
taken speclai care to exclude that act
from this debate/ [Liere Mr. Put*
liam rose, and said .mat he; did not
notice the act, beause >ih did not ex;
Britisii subjects Which had been
naiuraljzed here*] . The gentleman is
wcicome teh his txplana ion, but it
does hot help.him to nis epneiusion—
itjs thought that there are not fifteen
hundred British sailors who have been
naturalized, here.. But |f there were
jttWetf thousand, itwould create np
influx* because. naturalized British
suojects are presumed so be already
here—it is rcaLy difficult to perceive
from what premises the gentleman
. could have drawn his conclusion—a.
is a little singular that Washington
and Adams did view,the subject ia ;
tliiip light-—ihey never consideredi
impressment aoeneiit—ju tne con
trary;, tbeyj>ppused it as an indignity ’
wjtuch the U. States couid not eudure
-—even t Mr. Pickering denied the
right—Judge Marshall and Mr. King
cicaly, and definitely cp.iteqded and
proved til at Great Britain had no.
right to impress a JbiiUia subject na
turalised m America —it is nevv doc
. Uiiic* sir/that impressment on boat 4
our ships is a iiritisli right, mid a,
the failed Slate*
contended that the treaty of
Monroe find Pickering could have
seUiea ad fiiincuUies. Thai treaty, if
raUued neither hi* vs set tied
the question of impressment nor pro
vented the orders in council. This
I will prove. The treaty itsdHf con
tained no stipulation on. the subject .
of impressment. The note on t tat 1
subject was never considered tttdhe C
nature of a stipulation $ and the Bri
tish ministry* when called on for- an.
explanation, disavowed having, made
any arrangement. Pne British min
istry, by their letter of the 31st Dec.
1806, expressly declared that if the
B.r'in decree was enforced and noi .
resisted by America, they cl timed
vhe right to retaliate, notwithstanding .
the treaty# id ad that treaty been ra
tified by Mr. Jefferson, after this a- •
vovyal, it would have been construed ,
into an assent on our part that Great .
.Britain, might retaliate w ialeyer she *
might deeni French aggression, and
might.be the judge, when, and now ,
far we ought to resist tiid And i't *
seems she undertook in eight days
after this letter to. retaliate the Ber
lin decree, by the order of 7th Jan
fivut decree* v =• ‘<.i ~ - , ».• .- v . ( •
r In speaking of French influence,
Mr. Holmes observed, the gentle
wUn from Worcester speaks of Gen
et and Fouohet, andbf their insulting ;
the government.. Whatever’attycn
ftients we might have had tor France, •
jwhen struggling as we thought, for
liberty; we have none, now. .Her*
attempt and our, attachment,
if any, vanished at the v establisiiment
of her monarchy. The gentleman
alludes to flour'contracts. > It is, per- ,
naps* not necessary to go back to the
days of Fouchet, to prove *• flour con
tracts** ft possible that some very
late contract might implicate some f
>f our friends near home. . It is, per- ‘
haps, most prudent, loF; the. geiitic- ;
plan and his friend to say very, little \
bf flour.cont racts. •. Was the sending
i urreau’s silly and insolent let- t
Ser .without an , evidence of $
“rench influence l ilad Miv Mudi
son back an insulting letter ot a
’British minister unanswered, . ..the .
gross and wanton .insult ottered to *
his. majesty ’s, .crow. j and * ai.gqity,
wouiu have sjiiu-ied from Geor
gia to, Maine.; the ministers would
have appealed to tne; people. iiv tne
f arm of a circular to tne consuls, or
some other form, and he would, have
been sympathized with, caressed ana
leusteu by all his majesty's JaitMul
subjects irpm Washingtqh tp Boston.
Vet Mr. Madison for.refusing to ait-v
swer this letter, and compelling tne
writer, id take it hack, is a frenchman.
‘ot as Washington an jingiisiinhiii, m I
a similar case, for seduiiig back a
‘letter uhopened, because it was msul* ’
tihgiy addressed i ,
Mr. Homies, after reading th
documents relating to the Russian
mediation, . Observed, What wiU
those gentlemen say, who have un
dertaken to prove, by * 4 tacts *x rea-
that Mr.. Daschkott iiad no
.authority to,propose this mediation i
Here is proof that will put down tne
revilers of that great and good man,
James Madison. v Let. these gentle
men attempt to impeach his cnarac-.
ter—-they cannot.reach it l Lej: your
pci ost malignant newspapers atuc*
him; let your little RebeFand, other
little reptiles raise their puny heads, to
j>uU down the fair fabric of his lame
—-as weli migh t the most cou tern pu
bic grOiindhug att nipt to subvert
toe. universal, No, sir i ills moun
tain stands strong! It is established
oh the rock of eternal truth l in vain
will the storms of faction burst upon
ns brow, and tne. ocean of Calumny
break its billows at its feet*
% Bsrnadjttt vs f Bonaparte* .
Several violent articles nave been
published in the
against BernaiiotCtr Crown Prince of
Sweden which tne Fmice.has conde
scended tb answer, ine lodowing
is an extract from his reply* .
Vam then, ia your . attempt tpr,
render the Crown Prince odious, in
tne eyes p£ the French who can nc>
longer mistake the true autner of
their caUnuties noi the object which
alone deserves their hatred. It is ‘
tne man who bas accumulated on.
their guiltless neads the hatred a»d
Vengeance of nations. Wno cornu
sketch without some omission, the
long career ot crimes wnicii ne ,
arrived at, and has maintained a.ini
sei! in powcrF Bonaparte, bom in
Corsica, was educated in a nukUry
scnooFin France, by the be u met nee
.of the unfoi tunate Louis r X V 1; ue
-issued Irom it to become a furious
jacobin, his jirst attempt J.O make
hi mself’ notorious was a pamphlet
m the most rcydiuuwwh| % suriib|
cal}ed, la Souptr of d* Avignsn ; after
the 9th Thermidor, he was marked,
arrested .uujd deprived of his rank
as an agent of Robespierre's : he fl t*
ter.ed and betrayed . all the tactions
in iiH he became their master;
be dtfiled the streets of Paris with
the blood of its citizens who claimed
a constitutional right: he sacrificed
a fine army .to his chimerical proj s
in Egypt There lie massacred his
‘Turkish prisoners, poisened his own
sick and destroyed his armv at the
most critical moment k.returned to
Europe; he attempted at the head of
to dissolve live National
Ref t sen lat ion ; and atthe point
of d> i»g in his enterprise, had he not
been saved by his brother’s presence
of mind;: arrivedtp. power he caused
Pichegnl to be t Strang'ed in adu d
geon, by* his-.MaineluH.es ; he pro*
scribed Moreau ; h* . kidnapped the
defendant of the great, Conde, on a
hospitable territory, and dragged
him, to punishment ; the reign of
terror, was /restored in Prance ; ii V
stead cfone Bastile, which the French
had demo.Ushed.Jie erected .eigat*
all*, the dungeons were fi'Tid >v tk
state prisoners,; suspicious as Tibe
riou* and criiel as Nero, he c ,v v#
ilshedin Prance a systemof .universal
which one half qf
the actiyity of all public functionaries
every liberal idea was proscribed,
every indtpendend Voice was smolh*
ered ; .the silence of death hovered
,and still, novers over : that, country.,
inhabited by one of the, most enlight
ened & ingenious nations of Europe,*
flattery alone is heard, and by a id on*
strous* scaffolding, of lies it eivjcav*
ours to conceal sucha hiultiplicity of
iornorsi •> His system of internal goy*
er flute nt has riiuel the p ospe itv of
France* ht* conduct in foreign * rela
tions forms \ only 4 tissue of Mac a*
laveUufl perfidies/, ,■. ~ ,
in the Wars which his wild am*
bition, has, kindled for the last Wp
yta”3 v . ( all those veterans, . the -pit!
defenders.ol tiHir (country have per*
isped in. succession; the 4 uif
T rance torn from them peaceful o>-
cuput-ons, has been thinned without
pity P it tne glitter of vi.ct<k>ics gamed
by French .valor.was for so-ne years
able to produce illusion,-liui iljii>loll
is now/destroyed*. Bonaparte, ,L>y
abusing fortune, hai at last tired her
out, he-now experiences reverses 4-
ione, and nis,success was his .only,
merit,., He has notjpne faithful ally;
ail of them aspire to shake, off ,the
yoke ot vassalage,; which imperious
circumstances impose.!, a.id which
ne decorated with, the . name.of aU
hance.. .He has still satellites,'whom
fear tor their own safety attaches to .
his person ; die- has not one friend in
tne wnofe yvorld . k v
*■ * fc f he moment approaches,.-when
Jkis man, wbojso long wound !m way
in darkness to a height at which he
seemed to tread under foot fclpp hu- ’
man .race? b- about to re-enter htflf
original nothing. It is.in vair< that
lie should confound his,name aivj ,
interests with those of France ; b* t
has nothing in common with htv ;
it is only his usurpation.: and tyr an**
ny which have . hitherto conn;; ued
tne fate of France , with his* The
allies have loudly they
do not make war upon ijit Vrench
nation, but uppn r ßpnapayp: alone.—
Among so- many* radliphs of men
whom he calls his sqhjecrts, the ty*
rant isJnsuUted j a general am ics
ty b pio Ciaimed for 94) those who
have served him, provided they re
linquish his, partjy and act against
him i be., alone is,proclaimed an. out
law, agaiast huuuo.ty. - f / \
4 aN|*vcr did. a more Se
nate.-preside over the destinies oT
Euroiie than that which tb* Allied
Hoyereigns form at thi&day. Can
it be supposed that the Prince Royal’
ot Sweden would not raise has voice
in Senate in favoF.pf his cotri
try, were the dismersibcrtneiH or su>
jugauon of France even hinted a.*, i
But France may obtain the n*V.t
honorable peace?’ the mome.it 51;
chooses to set limits to her Uespa. s
abuse of power.
Fhe Alliies wish only, to rees
tablish the tranquility and .mdepen
dence of the civilised world, the
Pri.iee Royal of Sweden eturisae*
tne. remembrance of France ; he
ceases not to pray for her happiness*
It is 3miaparie wno has n-iUier
French blood nor a Freiich heart.
Alter the manner of ancient anignts
the Prince Royal lias nobly uirowu
down to him ms glove; let
versary take u up if he dare;
come and teriu .utc liiu
test ill single cuiusiau'*
NX Ft.