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' Before we sanctify the haughty pretentions of England by the sacred name of " rights, " let us for a moment consider their practical operation ; for it is the practical operation of a principle that furnishes its only proper and legitimate test. What then is the practical operation of what are termed the maritime rights of England ? It is sir, to impress and enslave thousands of our seamen, and at pleasure to sweep our commerce from the ocean I It is to commit spolia- tions upon us, boundless... in extent and endless in duration ! No adminis- tration of the American goverinnent has ever yet consented to sanction such a preposterous principle. To establish this position, I be«; leave to read several extracts Irom a correspond* nee between the American and Biitish governments. [Here Mr. Young read several cotnmunications, and referred to orders hetiveeii the two governments on the subject of impressment com- viencing as early ay 1792, and ending in \oV2. He tiien proceeded as fol- ions :'\ From the doenmcnts I have read and referred lo it appears, ihat so long ago as 1792, the practice of impressment was deemed by presiect to the rights of our citizen:-, and yet denying tiie oniy nitJiins of ascer- taining tliose rights, amounted, ici the language of secretary Pickering, to '• an insulting tantalism" — that our government repcat&diy offered to enter into any reasonable accommodation on the subject, and that these offers were nsver accepted — and that instead of desisting from the pr.
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