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APPENDIX——RESOLUTIONS.
of the late " house of delegates" might not have foreseen,)
they have gone in aid of the system of measures adopted by both
England and France, and particularly of England, to embarrass
the government of our country, and to effect its downfall and humiliation,
for they were entered into and passed the house of delegates
at the very moment when that system of measures, if they
could succeed, would have had their effect; that as serious and as
awful as the declaration is, it is our firm belief our differences
with
the two great beligerents might have been settled long before this,
had it not been for the opposition made to the late great leading
measures of our government, by " a party within ourselves;" that
the late treacherous and dishonourable conduct upon the part of
one of the great and powerful nations of Europe, in disavowing
the acts of her minister with the government of our own country,
must have been instigated in part by the differences existing
amongst our citizens, and from a hope that she might find friends
in our national councils, or by the many resolutions which have
been entered into by the opponents to the late administration of the
general government, similar to, and advancing the same sentiments
contained in, the resolutions adopted by a majority of the late |
NOV. SESS.
1809. |
No. 5.
RESOLVED, That we highly approve of the measures
adopted,
and the policy pursued, by the late administration. |
Policy of general
government approved. |
No. 6.
RESOLVED, That we have the fullest confidence in
the patriotism,
virtue and wisdom, of the present administration, and that we
freely pledge our support to the general government, upon the
adoption of any measures calculated to protect the rights, or to
avenge the wrongs, of our country. |
Pledge, &c. |
No. 7.
WHEREAS the present relations of the United States
of America
with the belligerent powers of Europe, give us but little room to
hope that they will speedily abandon those unlawful measures of retaliation
on each other, and of violent and indefensible aggression
and encroachment on the rights of neutral states, which they have
adopted, so inimical to the laws of nations and the free navigation
of the seas; and our country, free, flourishing and independent, and
resting, as the basis of its existence, upon the industry, public spirit
and disinterested patriotism, of its citizens, contains within its bosom
the seeds of almost every comfort, convenience and luxury, of the
eastern hemisphere, which, if by careful and tender hands they be
nurtured and cultivated, will flourish into maturity, in the midst of
a grateful people, grown by their assistance, and conducted by
their prosperity, to a proud state of perfect and enviable independence
on the commerce and manufactures of the nations of Europe:
And whereas it is the indispensable duty of the representatives
of an enlightened people, who are resolved to live or die all
free men, to propose such measures, and enact such laws, as will |
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