National gazette. — Philadelphia [Pa.], 1793-03-27 00:00:00, page 4

.3da.:s c i Official conr'uS of the Secre
tary of the Treasury.
(Concluded.)
FsinAY, March I.
Mr. W. Smith—[in continuation.)
THE house knew as well as the Secre
tary that loans had been made, and
that monies had under them, been drawn
into this country j but they knew that
thole monies had been specially appropria
ted to the linking fund, and it never en
tered into the ideas of any member to di
vert them from that beneficial object, in
order to apply them to the current service :
It was not to te presumed that the Se
cretary would have recommended such a
diverlion.
To impute blame to him for notcom
mr.riicating the amount of monies drawn
from time to time, there mull have been
some law or order of the house requiring
the communication, or it must have been
necelTary to lome object depending before
the house. What law or order of the
house made it necelTary ? None: The laws
authorized the loans and prescribed their
objects ; 'he reft was mere executive bu
i'mefs ; and no communication was neces
sary to any measure depending before the
house.
But though the Secretary would not
have been censured for omitting to givt
the information, the truth was, that the
PicfiJrnt's fpe- ch of Bth December 1790,
the Secretary's report of 25th Feb. and
the ast of the 3d of March 179 1, were
conclulive proofs that the legislature knew
that the proceeds of the loans were in a
train of being brought to the United
States. The accounts of receipts and ex
penditures prcfented in the firil week ol
the session, informed the house that i
large sum had been drawn for ; and the
i'reafurer's quarterly account contained
lu thcr information 011 the fubjeft, all
which was piior to any call of the house
for such information. Hence Mr. Smith
deductd, that it was not a fadt that the
Seer.try had failed to give the informa
tion, as lilted in the resolution, and that
even had he so failed, he would not have
been censurable for a breach of an eflent ial
duty of his office.
It had been said by a member frotr
Ptmifylvama, (Mr. Findley) that the late
ne's of the information from the Secre
tary, made it inconvenient to go isto an
enquiry of his official conduct lo near the
close of the session. To this Mr. Smith
replied, that he did not expeil such a re
mark from that quarter of the houfe—ll
the gentleman had not been prepared foi
the enquiry, or thought it an impropei
feafjn 10 enter upon it, why did he second
the motion for bringing forward the char
ges ? If fufpieion had so long exilled a
gaintl the integrity of the Secretary, whj
was not information called for at the be
ginning of the session ? Why was the cal!
delayed till the session was within a week
of its termination ?
It was admitted, that the Secretary had
obeyed the order of the house with won
derful alacrity and promptitude; it was
indeed strange, that the gentleman whe
brought forward the charges, should be the
firll to complain, that there was not time
for their confidcration.
Mr. Smith concluded by noticing the
observation of Mr. Mercer and Mr. Mad
ison, that the opinion of the house on the
preceding resolutions would not change
the truth of fafls, and that the public
would ultimately decide whether the Se
cretary's conduit was criminal or not.
This, said Mr. Smith, was like the con
duit of a prosecutor, who having chosen
his jurifdidlion, and being non-suited, wilh
ed to appeal to another tribunal. Why
were the resolutions brought before the
house ? Was it not to substantiate the
truth of them by a vote i And had the
• prosecution fjcceeded, would the Secreta
ry have had an appeal to the public ? No,
the resolutions would have been sent to
the President, and the Secretary would
have been removed, disgraced, and ruined
forever, wi hout appeal."
After some further debate on this reso
lution, the committee divided, 16 to 35
againfl. it.
The other resolutions were 101 l without
a division.
Go that which accuses the Secretary
of having been guilty of an indecorum, by
the llyle of his late report, Mr. Findley
made the following rematks:
Since these resolutions were laid 011 the
table, I have upon reflection been convin
<_cd of the impropriety of conncfting it
with the others, or of treating this part of
the Secretaiy's conduct in this manner.
It is solely in the power of this house to
punish all contemptuous or indecent treat
ment of its authority or orders ; for this
ourpofc it is not nectflary to lay our opin
ions in this way before the public, report
hem to the President, or make them a
foundation of impeachment. We might
have ordered him to the bar of this house,
and obliged him to make proper acknow
ledgements. I have known tome high in
office treated in this manner for infinitely
less an impropriety. It is true in the cafe
to which T allude, I thought the affair was
carried rather too far. The offence was
only a letter to the house refpefting the
:onduft of a member, whom the officer
:harged witl making free with his cha
racter in an insidious manner. I would be
lorry to fee this house pursue such trifles,
hough the indecorum of the Secretary
to this house is ol a higher nature. I
:hink it is bed to treat it with silent con
tempt. I will vote against this resolution,
ell it should be interpreted as a relinquifh
nent of ourauthoiity to punish contempt "
The committee then rose and reported,
:hac they had disagreed to the relolutions
eferred to them.
The house then took up the resolutions
and passed a decision, on each as follows :
On the question of agreeing to the re
port of the committee which rejects the
Several resolutions—
Ayes Noes']
On the I ft resolution referred 40 —12
2d 39 — j 2
3d 33—15
4th 35— 8
sth5 th 33— 8
6th 34— 7
Calumnies againjl the French.
During the vehemence of a speech in
the French Convention, the Orator cri
ed out that, for himfelf, he is an Atheist.
I'his is wonderfully worked up, and
founded forth by the enemies of France,
ind is accompanied with conclusions bold
is they are sals: ; that that declaration
sr the dodtrincs of the oration, refpec
ing the fubjeft matter of Atheism, were
■eceived with unanimous applause (except
iy two or three Pricfts) and that there
ore it may be considered as an exposition
>f the creed of that assembly ; and the in
inuation is, that it is the ireed of the
lation. These ideas, with many others
ire industriously ulhered into the Ame
ican newspapers, with a view, as it seems,
:o warp the minds of Americans with the
prejudices of another nation, against the
French Are there citizens of America
lifpofed to promote such abuse of a nati
>n to whom America, as a nation, is obli
ged, and that too when she is struggling
r or her precious liberties against the inve
erate enmity of all the despotism of Eu
ope ?
Can there be a single citizen, faithful
o this lovely country and to his own
lonor, who is disposed to injure the
French nation ? or become the tool of
hose whose ill will to the French is con
picuous, and whose difpofi'ion towards
>ur own nation we cannot be ignorant of?
When we consider the relation be
ween the two countries, France and A
nerica, the obligations conferred by the
)ne, the gratitude due from the other,
t would be infamous in any citizen of
his country, on any account, to Jlir up
• nmity against France. " Ingratitude is
.vorfe than the fin of witchcraft, which
safin againft'both God and man.
If there be Atheiftsin the world, men
who deny the existence of a God, and
tvho have no religion at all, either true or
alfe, the number is very few. It indeed
is said, that no man can be an Atheist,
For that all nature cries aloud through all
ber works, " there is a God !"
It is not possible that France should
be a nation of Atheifls. There is not
in the whole world a nation of Atheids :
there never was, and never can be any
number of them together: they consist
of a few, dispersed, speculative men, who
perhaps unhappily for themselves, have no
conception of a God other than Nature ;
of which they do not conceive of it as be
ing a person : they know not the comfort
of depending on a providence, but they
avoid the error of imputing bounds or
lhape to Nature, their God, by imagining
it to be 3 per/tn. Diary
K. B. In the French original M. Da
bortjiles himself a Deijl: See National Ga
zette of March lsth.
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