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rifice the hnnor and independence
of the nation for a little trade in
codfilh and potalh. If we are thus
degenerated—i we are thus fallen
in thirty ffiort'years, it is high time
to abandon your republican fyftem
of government. Sir, will pofterity
believe then this very people, who
thirty years ago magnanimoufly of
fered up their lives and fortunes for
the acquilition of independence, are
now prepared to facrifke that very
independence to their avarice ?
Will pofterity believe, that this
lame people in one (hor year, for
got the affair of the Chefapeake ?
That they were ready to (hake
hands with the murderers and rob
bers of their countrymen ? I will
nor, for myfelf, affenc to fuch a bafe
barter of honor for gold. No fir !
If it has come to this—if we cannot
for a year or two years endure the
privations incident to a meafure of
embargo, if we cannot cxift without
the luxuries of life, notwithftanding
the molt imperious calls of honor
and of duty, v/e are unworthy the
bleffings we tnjiy—we have loft
our virtue and are ripe for the dy
rally of the, Bonapartcs or any-other
dynafty, and whether you are con
quered by France into miferable
Tervlruie to-morrow, or corrupted
to fell your country, to England, is
not worth a.refi*6tion. This ac
curfed avarice will ruin you.
Sir, it is not to fuch a people as
thofe, and I trull in God, a majori
ty of the people of New-England
are very different, that I would ap
peal to teft the coire&nr'fs of the
measure of embargo. Were I dif
pofed to teft its corredtnefs by its
popularity, I would appeal to the
ptopie of Virginia, too honorable
to be corrupted, too enl ghtened to
be duped. I would ask them what
they thought of tire embargo, and
would anlwer with an a!mod unani
mous voice—they would go further
-—they would be ready to fuppqrt
it with their lives and foriunes.
You have done every thing for
commerce—you have negociated
for commerce—you have jeopar
dized the peace of the country for
commerce—you have palled an
embargo to protect commerce—
and commerce cjs the fir ft to aban
don you. ‘God forbid that I ffiould
fpcak thus of the whole mercantile
community. I have coo many in
ftances on this floor of noble and
magnanimous faerifi e of private
intereft to the public weal—they
are not the Smiths or the Grays,
or the Crownm flue Ids, of whom I
fpeak.
If the embargo were raffed to
morrow, none would trade but men
ofdefperaLe charadter and bankrupt
fortune—the real bona fide Ame
rican merchant, would not venture
a fliip at fea—and where would
they trade ? Why to be lure they
might drive a trade in beef and
pork and flour to the Weft Indies,
and foine of our cotton and rice and
tobacco, would find their way to
England, if the French privateers
did not catch them—but the market
would then be overrun—it would
foon he no better than the home
ma*-ke r , and where would you trade
to befi jcs ? If you are determined
to pay the nine pence per pound
tribute, for permiffion to re-export
your cotton to the continent, the
French decrees would take ir, and
if they did not, the price of the ar
ticle would be fo enhanced by the
tribute, tnat the market at the con
tinent would be loft to you.
( Per million to arm is tantamount
to a declaration of war, and the
people of this country want peace,
Lr£ they can preftrve it with
honor. And do you think, fir, we
2re ready to plunge headlong into a
ruinous war, naked and unarmed,
to gratify a few bankrupt commer
cial fpeculators ! It is eafy to de
clare War—it “s more difficult under
prefent circuniftances, to maintain
peace, and it is moft difficult of all
to wage a fuccefsful war. Sir, be
ware ! It is the object of the gen
tleman from Mafiichufetes and his
friends, to lead you ftep by ftep into
a war, and if he can, into an unpop
ular war, which the moment you
ceafe to conduct with eftldt, you are
ruined, and he and his friends are
exalted. To fuch an event, de
plorable as it would be, I could be
reconciled if I believed the gentle
man and his friends would govern
in the true fpiritof the conftitution j
but liberty has been hunted down
in the old world—there is fcarce a
remnant of it left, fave in America
—here it is fuftalned by the ruling
party j and fir, the moment this
party ceafcs to rule, republicanifm
is gone, arid with it the hopes ef all
good men forever. Gn this ac
count I deprecate fuch an event.
It would appear to me from the
tenor of the argument of the gen
tleman from Maflachufetts, that he
wants war with France and alliance
with England. If this be the facL
the gentleman is not confident. If
he is really as much afraid of the
gigantic power of France as he af
fects to be, (and I muft confefs, for
*my parr, I am very much afraid of
if,) alTuredly it is not policy to
provoke France—it is policy to
keep out cf the way of borh mon
gers as long as we car?, and to huf
band our refourres. And what
would avad an alliance with Eng
land ?—You could only furnifh
men to be flaughtered on the conti
nent. I can tell the gentleman
from Maflachufetts in what he
would much better exemplify, both
his patriotifm and confiftency—in
union—in uniting to call into a<sti
.vity the rtfourcesof the nation for
its defence—in organizing and arm
ing and difeiplining—and what is
not lefs definable in adopting a f) f
tem of finance, which would not
fail you in any exigency—in Iborr,
in purfuing the courfe, in which
you are-—which the founded policy
points to as the fa left and the bed,
the courfe of impartial neutrality,
if indeed neutrality has any thing to
do with it.
As to the embargo fo much has
been faid both in and out of doors
in its juftirh ation, that I will forbear
to touch it. It is only nectflary to
obferve that it has been fupported
and will be continued as a meafure
of fecurity and of jud retaliation—
as 2 meafure of fecurity it kreps the
property at home, which but for it
would have enriched your enemies
—as a meafure of retaliation, it
would have had its tfß<ft but for the
anti-embargo men of Maflichufetts.
If the gentleman will co-operate to
make it efficient, he will foon find
the great mercantile politicians of
England Andcrlbn down to
M<Call Medford, have not been
miftaken in the belief that this
country can virally aflvft the colo
nial and manufacturing intereds of
that bv ?n embargo Jyltem.
As to a det laration of war againd
France and G. B r :tain, and the po
licy of making it immediately, no
local con fide r a ions fliouid be per
mitted to enter into our view of it ;
but much is to be faid, that the
Southern people aie more incercded
in lading trie embargo than gom**
to war 1 by the fi and they would
find a vent fir a fmall proportion of
their ftaplcs—by the latter they
could get nothing but taxes a..d*
fighting. The anti-embargo men
cl Msllachufetts would net make
mtfre by the fi-fc than ourfeives,
and by the lad they would make no
thing more, than their privateers
would make for them, but the greac
object is to podpone the evil.
One word before I fie down, as to
what fell from the gentleman from
N. York. He propqfcs to repeal
the embargo in relation to Spain
and Portugal ; fir, is the political
condition of thofe dates characte
rized by a permanency and (lability
which would warrant a commercial
connexion with them—trade with
the Junta of Seville, a mere poll i
cal ephemeren—a being of a day.
Sir, I wifh the Spamfli patriots
fuccefs with ail my heart, bur fuc
ctfs is impoffible. Ten thoufand
to one that while I am fpeaking,
this fame Junta of Seviiie is im
plorirg clemency at the footdool of
the great ufi rper. Indeed, fir, if
we are bound to cor fidtr this peo
ple of any definite defeription, we
are to confi ier them rather as
French fubjebts than Spanifh patri
ots, for the only official paper in
relation to them is the indrument
cf abdication and renunciation by
which this unhappy people have
been transferred over like a flick
ot fheep to the emperor Napoleon,
and by the very men for whole
rights of empire they are laid to be
contend r-g.
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BAL I [MORE, Dec. 22.
A gentleman in this city has re
ceived a letter from his fun-in-law
in Montreal, dated 3th of Decem
ber, dating that Bricifh troops in
large numbers had the preceding
day palled from Upper into Lower
Canada ; that the Brit fh govern
ment had prefented jo,ooo Hand, of
aims and a large quantity of am
munition to thole Indian tribes who
had agreed to participate w : tf them
in the impending war the U.
States. In Montreal the paflage of
a non-intercourfe law by our go
vernment Was viewed as a dccLia
tion of war, which if we dared to
enaft that the Britifh would imme
diately march through and conquer
the country. Such is the opinion
entertained in that quarter and fo
little knowledge do they poflefs of
our population, rcfources and pat
riotilm. *
American .
Suppofe—a certain native born
American, now an admiral in the
Britifh fervice, and notorious fur
his cruelty towards the American
fir amen, dubbed sir Isaac Ccffin t ,
was to be leen prowling
our country in difgutfe , drefted in a
light blue coat, round hat and
coarfie jacket, with a bandanna hand
kerchief round his neck and cover
ing his chin.
Suppofe—this man at Gadfby’s
tavern, in the city of Baltimore,
fhould regret to his friend* the ac
cidental dificovery of his name as a
moft “ unfortunate ” event, and take
himlelf offimmediately as : f.*r o ef
a recolledtion of h s having
been in this city.
Suppofe—he were to enquire of
a citizen of this place, if the far fa
med tory and Britifh pen fiercer Key,
was at Wafhington, and fay that he
had fiome moft important affairs to
aojuft with a member of congrefs.
Suppofe—inftead of going from
hence diredt to \\ afhingconfhe was
to vifi: Annapolis, and examine its
haroor and the fortifications now
eredhrg at that place far the de
fcr.ce of the Severn*
Suppofe—-that -all thefe fuppofi
tions are true, and draw your own
corcjufions.— Bait. F.ve Pojl.
wuKwmuaigrsz&Bam&mmumi&mmmmmm
GEORGIA. EXPRESS.
ATHENS, JANUARY 14.
The mail from Wafhington City
fri vtd at too late a period ro enable
(s to make any extradls for our pa
ft-r of to day—lr our next they
fhal! be given hrg* ly.
We copy the following account
from a FhjJadt Iphia paper. If true,
•kisacirrumftance chat will advance
the Spam Hi esufe mere than anv c
vent that we have yet recorded.—
Joicph Bonaparte p; ft files the dif
tingtufhed affl-dlion of his brother,
who-will, no doubt, try every pol--
fi;-le*fxpedi< nc to regain him.
The Spaniards will, moft proba
bly, ava 1 themfelves of this oppor
tunity to rekafie King Ferdinand
fr'-m captivity. They will, no
doubt, agree on their parr, to ex
change captives, to which we arc
inclined to think that Napoleon
will not objeft If this exchange
fficiild. take place, the Spaniards
will ferl an additional impuife to
fheir zra! and energy* when fighting
immediately under The eye and di
rection of their legal fovereign. It
events fhould‘not take this courfe,
Bonaparte, infuriated as he muft be,
with fo many defeats, will, no
doubt, call into act ion every power
he p: (ft fifes. Under thefe circum
(hnecs, we may calculate that the
ddliny of Spain will foon be deci
ded.—Fir. Argus,
Philadelphia, Dec, 21.
Captain Rymer of the fhip Ann
and Hannah, who arrived here yef
terday morning, afterr a paffage of
eighteen days from Havanns, ftates
that a few days previous to his fail
ing, a national brig from Cadiz,
and a fchorner from Malaga, ar
rived there in fhort paifages, with
the important information cf the’’
Surrender of King J/epb and bis ar
my as prifoners, to the Spanifh pat
riots ; and that in conlequence of
this intelligence, the city crT Javan
na had been illuminated for three
fucct (five nights, and the inhabi
tants exhibited every dcmonftracica
of joy.
Capt. Rymer left Havanna on
the lecond mil ant, when flour was
thirty dollars per barrel.
_ - r ro r r\ r ?
■& J~.lv I w V /IOiO,
Pafted at the late feflion of the Le
gVlhture of Georgia.
(Concluded.) ■
40 To alter the name of John Clif
ton, to that of John Ajidsrfon Lea.
41 To give further-time to the
pur chafers of lets in Mtlledgeville fo
Jar as reft eels the improvements of
theJaid lots, agreeably to an aft cf
the 1 2th of December, 1807.
4- To amend an act to incorporate
the town of St. Mary's .
43 Empowering Jujlices of the
Peace with their free Udders to bind
out to fervice, nude free negroes, and
perjons cf color , minors above the age
of tight years, to ariiz&ns or farmers.
44 To incorporate Cbrijl Church
at Frederica ,
45 To regulate the town of Darien
in the county of ME Intofh.
46 To repeal an otl to compel clerks
to keep their cjfues at or within one
mile of tbs court bou/es of the Sev
eral ccunties in this fate, fo far as
refpcEls the county cf IVarnn.
47 To keep, cprn the main channel
ef Broad river, fem the confluence ■£
cf the fame with tie Savannah river
the J Blue Jfone creek .