The New Hampshire Gazette

Portsmouth, TUESDAY, JANUARY 24, 1809.

We congratulate the nation on the passage of the bill more effectually to enforce the embargo. It has passed the Senate by a majority of 20 to 7; and the House of Representatives by a majority of 71 to 32.

As might have been expected, it has been opposed by the enemies of the embargo, both within and without the walls of the Capitol, with a vehemence characteristic of the spirit of the opposition. Let the American people mark this spirit, let them never cease to remember it, so long as they value their independence, or are determined to maintain their rights. It was hoped, at a crisis solemn as that of seventy-six, when the wrongs of foreign powers called upon the whole nation to rise in resistance, that the voice of party would have been hushed, that we should once more have shown ourselves "all republicans, all federalists," or with greater correctness, Americans. But the hope has long since vanished! The outs will, if they can, get in, by any means; and, consequently, when union is more requisite than ever, their effort is to divide the people from their government; and thus to destroy its energy, and disgrace it in the eyes of the world.

No sooner was the bill published than the hornets of the East attacked it with all their fury. Language, the most opprobrious, imputations the most scandalous, and falsehoods the most infamous, were levelled against the best and greatest men in the nation. To enforce the embargo was, indeed, an unpardonable offence! It went to the root of the existing evil-to destroy toryism-to prevent it from gathering a rich harvest, filched from the honest members of the community. Hence, the prints of the Essex Junto were instantly in full cry! Hence the liberties of the nation were endangered! Hence the Constitution was gone! To enforce a law, forced upon us by the injustice of our enemies, was treason! All who supported it traitors!

Mr. Giles had the honor of reporting this bill to the Senate on the 8th Dec. After lying for weeks, the Senate took it up for consideration, but such was the opposition given to it in that body by the enemies of the embargo, that even so late as the 21st of that month it required a night session to get a question; and the walls of that honorable body resounded with the cry of precipitation, although thirteen days had elapsed from its submission to the Senate.

It goes to the House, and there it instantaneously excites a storm. Time is demanded, implored. It is given-Several days elapse before the discussion is entered into, although the infamous violations of the embargo, and the voice of an indignant people call for immediate measures. When brought up, objections are started; they are listened to with respect; the bill recommitted and amended. Ample time for its consideration is allowed before it is again acted on. At last the patience of the majority is exhausted, and a resolute, a patriotic purpose is formed, not to adjourn until it is passed. Thanks to the nerve of the body, this purpose is maintained with inflexible firmness. Every thing is heard with patience, that could be urged against it; the discussion continues from twelve at noon till eleven o'clock of the ensuing day; when the final question is taken, and the triumph of patriotism stands manifest in the great, the overwhelming majority of 39.

Let the nation hail this as the first great step actually taken this session, to bring our enemies to a sense of justice or to punish them for its violation. Let them hail it as the harbinger of energy and concord in the other great measures still to be adopted.

[National Intelligencer.]