The Republican ledger — Portsmouth, N.H., 1800-05-20 00:00:00, page 1

Concrete of tye United States.
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HOUSER-MONDAY, APRIL 28.
MR. Rutledge moved that the committee
of the whole house to whom was re
terr d the bill from the senate in addition to
the aa to prohibit the carrying on the Slave
trade from the United States to any foreign
place or country, be difeharged from the
further consideration thereof.
Mr. Bayard fecended the motion, with a
hope that the bill would be recommitted ;
it was impossible as the bill now Stood, to
carry its provisions into execution ; and he
wished them to be so modified as to prevent
OUT citizens from having any thing to do
with so infamous a traffic.
The motion was carried.
Mr. Bayard then moved that it be refer
red to a Selea committee.
Mr. Rutledge opposed this motion, and
Mr Waln advocated it—The motion was
agreed to; ami three members appointed.
The house resolved itfelf iritos committee
of the whdle ohthe bill to promote the man
ufaaure of Sheet copper within the United
States, by the incorporation of a company
under the name of the Paffayick Company,
Mr. Rutledge ih the Chair, when thrill
was agreed to without amendment, and or
dered to be read a third time to morrow.
Mr. Stone from the committee to whom
was referred the petitions of Lawrence Erd,
and Samuel Selva, 3d, who pray to be re
leased from imprisonment in which they are
now held, for debts due the United States.
—The committee report unfavorable to the
petitioners ;^but in order to take the sense
of the House, fobmitting the following reso
lution:
Resolved, That provision ought to be
made by law for the personal difeharge from
prifonof infolved debtors-to the U. States.
The resolution was agreed to witho, de
bate, and a committee appointed to bring in
a bill conformable thereto.
On motion of Mr. Bayard, the further
consideration of the bill to eftabliSh an Uni
form militia throughput the United States,
was postponed till the firfl Monday in Dec.
next. Ayes 50.
' Mr. Eglefton then moved that the bill for
! establishing a military academy, and for the
better organizing the corps °f artillerifts
and engineers, be also postponed till that day.
Mr. 11-Lee called for the yeas and nays;
upon this question which was as follow:
Yeas 64. Nays 23.
On motion of Mr. Dana, the House a
gain went into committee of the whole on
the bill to provide for the execution of the
27th article of the treaty of amity, com
merce and navigation, made with Great-
Britain—Mr. Rutledge in the chair—and
M. Nicholas's amendment, which provides
that no person Shall be delivered up where
there is a concurrent jurifdi&ion, being un
der consideration. The question was nega
tived. Ayes 42, Noes 45.
Mr. Speaker laid before theJHoufe a let
ter from the Secretary of the Freafury, in
jclofing an account of the receipts and ex
penditures of the United States for the year
1798-
TUESDAY, APRIL 2,.
An engrossed bill to promote the manu
faaure of Sheet copper within the U. States,
by incorporating a company for carrying
on the fame, was read and palled.
A message was received from the,enate,
informing the house that they had agreed
to the bill for the regulation of public arse
nals and magazines.
A message was received from the Presi
dent of the U. S. informing the house that
he did on the 28th inst. approve and Sign an'
ad authorising the President of the U.S.
' to except for the U. S. a cession of jurisdic
tion of the territory weft of Pennsylvania,
commonly - called the Weftern reserve ot
Connecticut : also, that on the 29th he Sign
ed an a& providing for rebuilding the light
1 house at New-London, for the repairs of
, the r&boufe at Clark's point and for the
funport and repairs of the light house at
Wigwam Point. . ;
I The house resolved itfelf into a commit
-1 tee on the bill prescribing the mode of de
ciding deputed deaions of President and
Vice President of the United States—Mr,
Rutledge in the chair. , . h
Th? bill as amended by the feled com
mittee provided for the appointment of .a
joipt committee with certain defined, tiufo
no decisive power."
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part of the bill which directs the manner in
which exceptions taken to votes, Shall be de
cided—and inferring, as a new principle, the
following words, “ and the question on the
exception Shall immediately and without
debate be taken by ayes and noes, and decid
ed by a majority of members of both houses
then prefect"—being under consideration, a
long debate ensued, and the question Was
finally negatived, ayes 44, noes 46. The
bill was then gone through with, the Com
mittee rose, and the report was ordered to
be be taken into consideration to-morrow.
A message was received from the Senate,
by Mr. Otis their Secretary, informing the
House that the Senate had palled a billlo a
mend an a& intituled an a& to eftabfifh the
Judicial courts of the U. S. to which they
request the concurrence of this house, also
that the Senate have passed the bill to enable
the President tomorrow money for the pub
lic service, without amendment. Adj.
Mr. Harper, inftruaed by the committee,
to whom were reported so much of the Pre
sident's speech as related to the revision and
amendment of the judicjary system, report
ed a bill to provide for the more convenient
and effeaual administration ofjuftice in the
courts of the U. States. It was ordered to
be printed..
The house took tip the report of the com
mittee of the whole on the bill refpe&ing
the eleßion of President and Vice-President.
An amendment was proposed by Mr.
Marlhal, which, in case both houses did not
concur in opinion that a vote or votes was
properly certified and attested, then it ihould
require the concurrence of the two houses
before such vote or votes were to be count
ed.
On the divifidn there were 45 to 44 —
The fpcaker gave his vote in the affirmative,
so it was carried.
Mr. Nicholas afterwards made some ob
servations on the great evil that would at
tend this provifion,therefore moved that the
bill be recommitted, in order to reconsider it.
The house therefore again went into com
mittee, when it was moved to strike out that
provision, which was agreed to. Ayes 54.
Mr. Nicholas renewed a motion he made
the other day in committee, to strike out the
firft fedion, which was taken. Ayes 41,
Noes 47.
Mr. Gallatin renewed his motion, which
was yesterday negatived in committee, to
in„rt the principle, inttead of the admission
ofrejedion of a vote being decided by a
concurrent vote of the two Houses, that
such question fhpuld be decided by a conjoint
vote of the two houses united together in
one for that purpose. ^?
i/ Mr. Dent, who voted in the negative, on
die above q^ftion, tow voted in the affir
mative. M% Heister who was not before
in the House, voted in 4he affirmative, so
; # .Was carried.9^^ 4;%. • ^ ^,'f
C Yeas 48, Nays 46.
• The bill was then ordered to be engrplTed
:for its third radipg to-morrow, .
Adjourned. ' ,
w THURSDAY, MATE.
A message was received from the Senate,
informing the House that they had agreed
to the bill to continue in force the a& lay
ing an additional duty on salt. And that
they had agreed to a bill to authorize the
sale and conveyance of lands by the Marshals
nt the United Slates, with an amendment.
The hbufe concurred.
Mr. Nicholas feeing no use for this com
mittee, moved to Strike out the firft Seaton
ofthetill. Negatived 43 to 39.
Mr. Gallatin, moved to amend a fe&ion
which provided the means of ascertaining
the votes—Mr. Marshall answered. The
committee rose without a decision. Adj.
WEDNESDAY, APRIL 30.
The bill from the Senate, supplementary
to the a& to suspend part of an a& intituled
An a& to augment the army of the U. S.
and for other purposes, was read a firft and
second time, and committed to a committee
of the whole.
Mr. Harper, from the committee of
ways and means, made a further report on
the fubjed of the revenue ; which was com
mitted for Monday. ~
The house again resolved itfelf into a
committee of the whole on the report of the
Setea Committee to whom was referred the
bill from the Senate prescribing the mode
of deciding disputed eledions of President
and Vice- President of the U. States—and
Mr. Gallatin's motion to strike out that
TUESDAY, MAY 20, 1800.
And Thomas Cooper, he must begin next
with the dory about their gag §n his meuth ;
pray Mr. Printer what does Mr. Cooper
mean by the gag / a neighbor of mine, an
honest old mfn in his own way, supposes it
is some disorder he has in his mouth that
hinders him from speaking, now I'm not of
his notion, for 1 suppose its some stoppage
ip his speech ; when I afted the lawyer
what he meant by it, he told me it was some
of Cooper's damn'd democratical nonsense,
and the d<&r fays he durlt'm tell me for fear
of being brought to the bar for sedition,
however when Mr. Graydon comes home
I II ask him, as he has been at the fountain
head, and is a man of extensive knowledge,
huge learning, &c. &c. he finely knows and
and will tell me without a fee; but if 'not 1
must just do as I used to do, that is, I'll guess
at it, and if I blunder, I'll be the liker to a
certain great man who blunders, yaWns,
Heeps, wakes, blunders again, and is still a
great man.
Duane and Cooper should have remem
bered the old rhyme that fays,
“ To play with a king,
66 Is a dangerous thing."
Not that I mean as how the Senators are
kings, no, no, the fartheft from it in the
world, for every body knows that they are
Inen, honorable men, as the play-book fays ;
I revere the senate, yes, yes, every body that
loves Mr. Adams, damns the French, curses
the Jacobins, admires the Engliffi, &c. &c.
mult love them ; they are great men you
lee, men in authority, and we are bound by
the scripture to pay due fubmiflion to them,
its somewhere in the bible or testament, but
I don't mind where, but if we had Mr.
Jefferfen's big bible we'd soon find it.
Again my dear fir, in the senate we have
some of the fwampedeft fine lawyers in the
vorld, and the lawyers in these times are a
great many of them tarnations smart fellows,
there's no keeping up with them, such turns
and twists. Lord bless me, Mr. Printer, if
you knew as much about them as I do, you'd
be lurpriz'd at their ingenuity, why I know
one of them that can turn a penny into a.
pound as fait to the full as you can turn a
newspaper.
For in fiance, if he has a note, or a bond
on you for fifteen or twenty pounds, he can
with a little flight of hand wor,k change it
to fifty or. a hundred pounds, now this is
gaining cent per cent and a little for clerk's
fees, &c. this beats Hocus Pocus, Legerde
main, or and of the wonder-working crew
out of fight; when they can perform ,such
feats in a town no bigger than Harrifburgh,
what may the, not do in large towns,where'
they have greater opportunities
But mind; Mr. Printer, I do not fay that
ill the lawyers are as naive as th^acquaint-..
ance of ^min^o no, there i* fame of them
that moves on in the old flow way of "have
well, and hold well," they know nothing of
SIMON SLIM, to the Editor of THE Farm
er's Instructor.
SO neighbour Mayer, I find Billy Duane
has got contwittedly fwamp'd this bout by
mealing with the honorable senate—l think
he Should have known better than to have
disturbed the proceedings of the highest le
gislative body of the United Struts, he Should
have let them gone on with their caucuffes
arid election bills. Common sense might
have told him that governor Rufo,.Oh ! Mr.
Ross I mean, would leave no stone unturn-I
ed to destroy him and his press—who can
blame him ? no one unless he is wedded to
democratical principles like Duane himfelf.
I vow Mr. Printer, these democrats are
getting every day bolder and bolder ; because
they have carried their point in a few in
fiances of late days, they fay their eyes are
opened, and they will all for themselves :
a pretty story faith, odd rabbit them, nothing
but equal rights, equal privileges, &c.' will
go downwith them, but flop awhile ; if the
senate cat knock Duane and the Aurora
down, thit is, if they can destroy them root
and branch, it will be no hard matter to o
verthrowthe little democratical printers here
and there through the country.
When any thing of this kind is resolved
on, meats may easily be found, ite was a
masterly llroke they made the firft bout ;
Duane was promised as much long ago, but
itill he would talk on, arid now he fees the
cpnfeqnence, he's laid up for it as snug as a
racoon in a hollow log ; but if Mathers get¥
hold on him, he'll soon bring him before his
betters, he'll bring him where a new law
can soon be maof to punish him, if none of
the old ores will do it.
[I DOL. 50 CTS. PER ANNUM.
To the efforts and afcendency of a gang
rene Britilh faaion, which has wormed rt
felf into the vitals of our government, may
be attributed the unfortunate divisions now
exiting among our citizens, and those dan
gerous and deftruaful innovations directed
the fubyerfion of the firft principles of our
revolution, and which have so deservedly
excited the suspicions and fears of every
friend to our liberty and political bappinefs.
Organized into Jorietier throughout the
Union under the humane pretext of “ add
ing brotherly love to charity," with an est.
frontry exclusively the charaderiftics of our
blind aristocrats, we find them in private,
dilfeminating the molt pernicious doctrines,
and in public abusing, by the most infamous
toads, the majesty of the people, and the
cause for which they expended their best
blood, & exhausted their fortunes—We find '
them, tn the most dilgufling and nauseating
terms, praising our Ready and implacable
enemies, and classing our firft magistrate
with a wretch, who has been the flexible in
strument of more murders than an hundred
Herods ; we find them proscribing ZQte?
< r °9s °n the principles of which our govern
ment is founded, as a "crying heresy," and
abusing our best patriots who advocate their
country's happiness.. Even Baltimore,
(which to its eternal honor, can boast of a
greater number of &^fo, citizens than
perhaps any other commercial city in the
U. S.), disgraced by one of those peftiferous
aristocratic. juntos, a leading member of
which is a clergymen, and .a majority of its
members Brit,JhJ u bj e &s, Even in this city,
a fr nt ° exists, that interferes
with impunity in out ele& ions, that digests
! n private, the deepest conspiracies against
democracy, and finds a/yfaeprinters, al
ternately an) thing or nothing, to give publi
city to their political blasphemy.
In Saturday's Telegraph, (a paper firft
fcWlfed in this city by a^wQW%}-
appears without comment, a firihg W 16'.
&^ drank « at the Amve&y ffieY of
the Sons of St- George ;" but 1 Ihculd ra-
light of hand work, 66 win well ad wear
well" is their maxim,but this is not the way
(o rife in the world, witness A. B. C. D,
and so on through two thirds of the big let
ters^whg have risen to be great men, high
men, powder'd men,&c. just by this honor
able quickstep method.
But before 1 close, be pleased Mr. Printer
tq give me your opinion in a little case, that
my friend the lawyer fays I'm all wrong a
bout, Lord help me my dear fir, what a fad
affair for poor me ; but I'll let you know
the case and then you may judge.
Suppose A, had affronted B and C, Who
we'll pl.low are great men and hated A; glad
of the opportunity they lay hold on the affront
as a pretext to punish him, but wanting the
means, they join heads, and contrive a plan
that as fitre as a pop-gun niuft prove A guil
ty, that is, searching the laws and ancient
features, they can find nothing that pleases
them ; but being convinced that the privi
lege to do as they pleased, rested in a great
m°afure on the dellruaion of A. who was
<ften telling his neighbors what they went
about, and therefore revealing matters that
they would have been glad had remained se
cret ; they make a law themselves and com
mands A'to come before them and be judg
ed by them according to said law,
But A knowing that in order to punifk
him, this law had been made, he refufes to
come, confeious that they had judged his
cause already, and would determine accord-
? n g!b hefides this, he thought if he did go at
their command, they might in the fame way
bring as many more as they Should fee fit,
and judge and punish them in like manner;
B and C enraged at the refufal of A to ap
pear, immediately iitueMheir order to bring
/him by force. Now friend Mayer, I want
you to tell me whether or not B&'C have
a&ed right or wrong ? br in other words
suppose you had offended me, am I the pro
per person to prescribe the mode of punish
ment and to be your judge / The lawyer
who I have often told you, is a wife man, fays
I am, the do&or fays not, so between the two
(for I wilh to keep in with both) my poor
hpad, which is none of the strongest, is family
muddled, and-as I dare not decide for myfelf
without giving offence, 1 must request of you
to judge for me, and oblige vour old friend,
SIMON SLIM.
ST. GEORGE and the DRAGON!
From the Baltimore America#.