Alexandria daily gazette, commercial & political — Alexandria [Va.], 1810-03-31 00:00:00, page 2

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p Gczem & Dollan per armwn.
& Came. ; Daum.
si: armour, MARCH :n.
_.si____._.si
-ssr ; si ag—man conuncntal troops as a
Ajct [r.umhtfigvana atte ssffissﬀsiﬀtsssexsis'ﬄdsiectasid
sijzunjgn, (th when the war was over it
was in debt several hundred thousand dol
13", incurrcd 'tn—const-qutsince of. the war,
has"): [his debt to pay and its goctva'ntnent
tosttppmt hydirect taxation, deriving no
behest: from the wild and unatttltd lands
in the United Statcs, which Were preserv
ed gave" by the exertion: of that state as
' l-y those who have been exclusively btctne
fitted by them. Nor was Rhode island so
summe in the assumption of the atatess
debte as to have this debt, incurred in con- }
sequcnce of the war, assumcd for them,'
while other otatee- had. cmidcrable sum:
- ; tart (he ddmltmt—of msisia 'Bm.
zctsi ' f*_ [coruitilzD-ctj
- fihciquest'nn having been noted—
PT-Sﬄf the bill pasi ?" -
' i ['lr, Pmct': Speak couched.)
" 'er'u ! take another v'tew of the proba- 4
He mc-ps thin nmy, and ccm'tder that 'tt :
"bemude me of in oﬀenc'tve mit- a
. ss'siCanada, and that it is to hectkt-pt up
si - come . "gular sth-m stu- twenty
- : m, to sotm abuhssatk ne ! understood
t gentleman (tom New ]c-my (My.
Scttthnd) to ny, and that with them he}
'It'ot'tltl'etou thv lim- md ltmt-x Cunaduss
tothiecountry. When] hearoo much of'
this phtriotic Canad'tzm fire. it leade me to
think'immediutelv us the tlt-st-ncelcu litun
' tion of the nate that ! he]?1 t'tebly to reprc- ss
not, and thenne soon act e time ohail ar
si the, the} yn- oh'all make an attack t-n Cg.
notu or'Qttebt-c, that the best part usthat
nate blunt agnin fall a tacr'tstce to the'Eng.
liah Who can w'zth a But take possession of
it when they Meat", and ] would not give
( ne hundred more of it for the whole pro
t'ince-of Nor: Stntia for me to live on. _
The beat part of that state was in pog.
seu'ton of the enemy the greater part osthe
last war. They pu-Ved very bad ttnztnts;
they burnt out houses and tut down our
urthatds, and neither paid rent t-r dama
cs. Notwithetanding all this, that State
' ,',siHOUSE OF REPRESEMTATWES
knots! n .ctou: in , by
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Msssijss "Pi—sshfirffizssml
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34}, Medium DPM
our living. ]]
But, sir, we ne told by the gentleman
from New ]cmy (Mr. Soulhatd) that the
m emor us Canada bin mad. : war cpmh.
hat gentleman hn ctno occnion so be .
lmned, for" no that kind of unlace are an
ublc to comend with all sheweth! Aud wb
'ne the in: nation that ought who {righteo
fd into unneceuary expence. by high toncd
meek", let them comc from when Kh
m). Bj ib: I have heard 'of hi- spe
E.: deemed to do the sun Of '
ad lo 'pmzndc (hill! 'm ;
six?!
si CWSTQG qstlw Unital St'ates; ss _
lmdm . My "Giss'zemz,
COWCIAL UPOLVHCAL.
ss nuuo un mssnﬂfa ;"
samuaLsnownEm
Rood-nreet, Jhmdn'a.
aseumed for them opona suppmmun that
they had advanced more than their pcopor.
tion, and upon :: final settltment they were
found in debt and would neither resund the
sum that was assutfied for them or pay the
balance thus reported against them.
.- Many gentlemen who talk strong for
war. if we nhould have one, lrom theirlo
cnl situntion would hent- but little ofit ; nor
could they be much iniured by it: while
then place: that are the more exposed,
nach as the state that l represent, musbbe
defended and guarded, if at all, I suppose
by torpcdot-s. And if they should not
rove : sufficient protection, and our tom
and houses on the sea coast should be burnt
we moot then move back into the country
and live in the 'log houses of eomectlarge
land holder or be shut up in some large
mannsnetnring eetablithment to work ctsor
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'tbey' Mdbtmutandb'e e'mamped 20 .
days los the asiaksie of agun. ossr up he ctd'tscip- ,
ss the most expound parts of the me: it issi of
.. importance to encourage and not discourssagc
si them; Many men detachtd srom the mili
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i operate extremely hard upon thin t—ocicty,
ss and ! wish it waasiin my power to relict'c
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? will be very'injurioue to them, and the pub
:
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built, manmd and suppo: ted in this country ss
unless by impresswns or cppressionsct You ss
' must either impress men to man yourships ss
ship.
ss-\V e have been a sworednnion in many
mpects, and a very unfortunate one in ma
ny others. 'For many years past we have
been : nation of experimenu and substi
tures. ln respect to our navy, we began by .
building" srigates; then we got timber to !
' build sicevemy-fours; and we have gone (
through every kind and-gradc, even down ;
to gon boon, end all fee hear about gun
boat: now in, that it coat! us nbouuixty
four 1hounnd dollan :: year to take care of !
thou that are not in use. Now mrpedon
are all the rage, the one of which in to nu- .
rce'de the-aeeeceicy o! ehips or even gun- [3
m. . ct
—We began our commercinl welsan with .
noo-imporution. for which we mbuituted
mhrgo', lot which we oubniwted nou-iu
ssumuru, yhich-ie agreed -by all punin to
bewry-iuimiom lnd ought to be repealed,
and it hn-beenssm'nued :" winter, lad all
the eonumee and-euterprize-of lhe nation
erroded, 'brfiqfllende, if it bony, to
1 ]- evhmnlu. nit will no; byany
mnct " ct ct 18 06- kemictivc symm
mue: fumo- then n'ould be no end - ser :
Way the nbjeo; - .}
e bel— Wss?*ﬄ* -6 si"? * '
lap popet den: : nmy.-. "man!.
?—
at a-nsiotaeatﬄv'ma-gsiafosisdd their. dctutcty. but
.n'd ..., _ .ffi ssjji'siz. .tct ct. My
lined by than who denot- amiss mtteh a- lss
hung. ix.; :þg do. , 'And if you dsigtach them &
and take them.]tom their ;ompdnies it will si
be the mefna of bre'dk'mg' the'm up. :; hap ;
already injured them vectryssmaeh. and putsil:
them to great expence, add as ssthey are in ss
return home in a vessel of war—a gutt
boat atlcalt—and not in & trading coﬂ'cc
sor almost nothing, or you must give them
such wages to induce them to tmer on board
as would oppress the whole nation to pay
them. In this I diﬀer from many of my
polit'tcal friend: and many of my constitu
cms. But ! must be permitted to act ac
cording to my own judgment. I Would
have a few ships sot- thesiMrditcrt-ancan ser
vice. Our ministers should go abroad and .
tia who may think there may he more. meant
than in reauyinteaded, will be impuc up
on and put to great expence it. hiring me
rsort to take their place.
-The quabera or friends must suﬀer very
much by the operation of this Pan; their
pennon! service must be had and they
made auhject to martial law, their persons
cannot be exempt by finea or ccmmutation,
aa from the common militia dmy— in the
state os Rhode lahnd; aome oftht-se peo
ple in the count! that l live in me in lsim'or
us the preaenta mioiatration, because they
suppoac them against war. 'l'his law will
lie cnn derive no kind of ben-ftt from it.
An . eociety. with few exceptionn, they are
much end very demvediy rnpcctcd; ne
citizene and members us the community,
pencenhie and industricue.
But, gentlemen say, that the minority
find snult became the nation in no: protect
ed and their righte reapected, and oppose
every measure that the majority attempt for
that purpon. YVe do not find fault because
you do not protect our commercr. We
know it cannot be done with what ships we
have : but we find fault with the adminia
(ration for remaining and embarrass'mg it
when they know it is out of their power to
protect it. _
And as it respecte the opposition of the
minority to meamrea that thcv consider
ruinous to the best interests of the country,
you must expect it. We would help the
admininration to retrace, revise and cor
Lesxygbasimuanyidu Wiffisﬂfffiffifsssiﬄct
way. affindectd with bait consequenctsis. I
have : ye considered it a very lortunate
session of Congress, under any administta
them from this mititlry pereecumm, wnuu
We cannot protect our commcrcc with
out an immensc feet, and ] have alway!
been of opinion, that such an one cannot be
mer acts, and repeal and amend them when
and where they were found from experi
ence to need it, and separatr withr-ut doing
much other business other than making the
necessary preplrations.
tion, for them to meet and revise their for
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v—"rct sil, ;.ssizsissss sisisssisisi- '- .ct . _si__ctss-_-'ct. sssi'sif, sissss si
'RG-wvssssctW-igum
r—sssiu si ' mifiZ-sij'ﬄwywmy
? ss main mass, 3 " sssi ;.
siw _\h£4my.migsiedssss>sim siysim ! ssss
nisi- ' .;ws-nxvsifceosizavctbsisimsiexnsieu Wfsc-ss
iidui aid Nssl bZ-þblssfzw'si inn? th msict-M.
they will sssidm e'usi duty. . Yduwpnoe-zxiﬂy?
the mifn'msi but of me U. S. by 'thc-con'n'nw 4
xidn. ct jls'the constiwfion give: that p'owc'rct
)ou woukl n'ot iv'antlasi law w thateﬀcctsiand.
is itdoes not, any law that you mny mak;
will be ubcc-natitutioval and not binding;
But, sir. whenever-thm lime che]! comf.
that mﬂmve ad army Of one" hundred and
un thousand m-sin u sh'e commzttdctdfa Pus
cident, and perhaps one of mors: martial
ambition than the present, our .constitucfonct
will graduallylcu its vmuc, and will—ooly
ss answer for us to read acid see what we hctavc
ss be'rn. ] hate always hclcnged lo the mili
tia, umil exsicuud Ly my age,:md stood my
I chance in me [last detachmcnls, and have
: alway- bem- ready to perform that duty
\\ bcncver called upon. My pracsica] reppb
licanism new.: weuld permit me, to obtain
: travelling t'ule, for :he pursose of excus
ing m) nels from that lth'lce. , But is ! had
supposed, that she constitutidn could have
bun so construed as to have.- nmhon'zcd she
drtac'hing er imprcasing lhc mililin scr nine
mcml's reguk-r service. and that I cwld
have keen; for that lmgth c-hime, cncamp
ed al New Orlcam, or on the anew, in Ca
nada, or bcfure the walls of Qm—bec, it
ly at least. _ - _ _ .
! httt't- ! t'ety lertom objectton to the er
mv, on account of the nsipcncesi ]! !lfe
tthole of thee men can enhst, thc-tr guns,
he. will be worth : milltpn os dollat'e at
host, and is they encttmp, the tttsitnty dnt-a
in the two year., the pay and rotten tytth
the tents and camp eqttipegc, .Wllh the ex
pence of ttanspott'mg thme thmgo. altoge
ther will be tqttttl to I dnllar I day snt' :
m'n, including officer attd soldter, whtch
will make two million ol dullan more.—
And to thin the txpcncee ol _t'ot_tr armcrcra,
and the rent es )onr arstnalsct tl you have
five hundred men t-trrttmpcd. m ! plate,)'0u
must have ttto hundred th—mpmtnts. and
as munv atnzcrere, and aresnttle. And ts
you don't have more same (is the mtn must
travel :: great distance. .sheee txptsincn
must all be incurred by the htll, prottded
they should never be called into actual ser
l vice.
, We now have but little money, and our
. dwindlt-d to almost nothing. lc is there
fore improper, under such cin umstancc 0, to
increaseonr expences. which will compel
us to' lay additinnal dtttics and burdgns on
the pecsivle; who already have enough to
do.
A few days since. while in my seat,
thinking how long we had been here, 'nnd
! how little we had done. and how much We
. had cost the nation, my attention was called
] vety agreesilzly to a speech of a gentleman
'I on my lest from Virginizt (Mr. Eppes) de
si sctibing the great wealth us the U. S. say
? in - that they had a solid cnpita] of ten bun
tlred million us dullan. _ This immediately
raised my epirits t-etsiy much, thinking it
that was the case, a few millions ol dollars ss
squandercd away would scarcely be-missed ; ss
but when ( heatsid that gentlemm describe
this Wczlth and inform us, in what it con
sistetl,ttnd that it was, in an unsaleable and
unprodutht-e wilderneu, ] must confess !
ngain felt the neceuity of economy. -I have
alwazs beensplened to hear that ge ntleman,
he Speaka eelingly, end generally with a
full knowﬀedge of the subject ;' but a l-hope
'he never has been reduced to the necessity I
of borrowing - money, he may not siknow
quite as much on that subject as eome gen- ;
tlemen, tvho-may have experienced the ill}
l pretume, sir, that tt is on the credicof ;
this unproductit'e wildrmeu. that we are,
to borrow money to build and-mun eﬄpe, .
raise and support armixs and to carry on -
war. '
it is with : governmentssabout'borrow- ,
ing money, n-with-an individual. Atlong '
as there is ability to ply thin internt punct
siually, and the princctiple in : renonable
time,siyout ctedit will continue. But if
you cannot pay the interest. your revenue '
having sailed; ifyou depend upon borrott- ,,
ing to eu port governmcm—to support er. -
miee no "vice, and have no income to
meet thou npencce, the stock of the U.
Butc- will soon be below par, and your cre
dit is et un cod-si if we borrow, putting :
nominu] value on our lend sue our crrdit'
sail., our erediton will have come hand in
fixing the price. The "he of thie lend de- _
pcndt entirely upon the commend! pene- -
perity—os'she Untuantee'. "A it ought
not-to'be cold and neriicteed until shut 'a
pet-ity it epic reetoeedz- ]! we getsi-into
m our ﬂoating vupitdmunxbe hadst: '
home me or other te carryit on:. Our]
eﬀects of it.
would have put me w thinking vex y serious
O-,QUIII— 'I, .." —..o- *- -.-. -.L ""."n'ss"
corner of tho hid 00]. How, soml ll'u'
who have hnhor'lo smnd him with lhct'
cuotom, nd dom nbo my do dbpol'd "
do no, tho: he will thzcn-tem 04
endeovm- compvlt Me
Cook or Whence sighed be old COPP"
Dun, Powurnﬄq -- 'si -
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A lo!; of good mus- 53 AW'
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Much 19, ct._' .- . _ 3!!
Worl'er,
HAVHNG MMOV—ED from Wild! "
Prince dun. two lbon Th'
ISAAC xisisiﬂss
Coppcrme'tls, Number, and Tm-Pldfi
swcr the \pnrpoan of the woman, lad
at che end of twenty year!. our'numbm
having doubled our ability to ny it it dou
bled. -So that ench- individus'l preparmlss
would be' butffive dollln; being nddced eld
bass, without his paying onesme'; len
therefore, normly aguinn'niniug'ahio army
lur the purpose of [lying additionllbunlmt
upon the people.!zut ! an wi ! lum
them one cem,'dirmlyor*indirec y for all
purpose of paying any of the princippl of
lhcprnedl—debt, when our enditon do not
man it. Let those who may come to the
nage hereafter takenme of che debt aid
bear a small part of,:hc hssnfden With ""
blcnings dun shope they may inherit.
Age ;: she' mannes; zems, m., wsi
sin .. 7 . \ _
KWWW'F WMQÞR mak.
, ct . si'siP-F' si -ss-9***U*'=v (Gut.
jtrjcqthcqc wbb Isilsi' ctct __ _ _ ss
wherqsishwessﬂ'fi'ss T'fvsswss Whabbtnms, [sin
for shriakcsi dss-Kþcicsizfi Mzsi- bcupr lhcic
circumsta'nch;_ctti_1mf'e,si*hlgtctb 10 , [stlrtde lhc
?ssold music.- so dun t'lss'oisvzcttd land; ,ia mct, a
[m ate Qs things :nsioysid [be 'vCr-h :b'uc iiuhsssh,
sia century so bfimdzss . _"- si si'._
ss . lc ickichcttbc, pndsicdfi Within individu
L al. us do spends Mi &:{ash'asitsisihie own 'iduz.
tion. An'ctimlii'idualpupctssd siwlue cxsi 55,
cum md borrosiwn :ctncn'vf'until he gets Up
to bvlliu valnsie,_siinsflzsih judgement ; m,"
his" credi'tor uhdejmkeﬂp put- on his "inn—
lion, l'ccpfdjngsisi'm Old lludibrgs'l mode (,:
valuing prpgeny; and the the whole ossitb.
cnme for :ﬄ- in wipe, 'lccmdinzlo du
opinion of lbe-o
ss duce them on the neeuurin o! life. And
imtead olnpcntling three milltnm us do].
hue abuut the present contempluted army!
would reduce the pretent utttbsilhmem to
: eace ntablithmmt, ttt leastmuch soone:
than ] would add to the burden: of the peo
ple, or sacrifice ottr Wtctem leade.
The people are much in debt one with a
nother. The common satsimcre of moderate
property have suﬀered much, for the lm
thne years. Every thing." they have been
obliged to buy, has cossst them nearly dou
ble. Imrorttd woohn cloth which comss
monly tost three dolian a yard hat can
them five dollats; and their prgduce has
bin" ÞTOFQstinnally low, [maid [in
them a respite inr : few yelsim-umﬂ theyss
should recover in apme manne, front
what they have n-ﬀered for the last three
years. But I shall be asked how can this
be dfmt'? Rather than do it] wot)}d pay
she interest of the debt, and let the princi
pal rcmaictn. ] czn' are no use- 'm-"borrotving
money ol one man to pay another whensihe
does not want his money. " we have all
thts wealth why shou—hl the people be pushetl
to psszjy lbe public debt at this t'tch Our
debt ts about fifty million os dolkm. and if
our popttlatien should only ,bc-ive 'millionn,
at the ttme, it woultl'be nnly ten douanto
each individual. And as our revenuesi'il
dertvtd from consttmpsion bs—dut'lttlﬂe "(i.
des, and as'that eonsumption increases with
me POPUÞUW. so that as (our. populatiouiu
etean-s, our ability to pay hucnegg end
tl !! thould emount to ten'milfion-in twen
ty year- to come, our eevem-would-be in
creamsitg all -the intetjmedimzsime go 'a.
Political and dotm atte ecooomy are much
the same. ' When a men's income ln'th
him, instead ul putting smpminal ot- fic
tition value on his tmte, which will the
ceiVe himself and his ere'dtte'tt', he bed het
ter reduce his upmm to his weepe. Our
revenue having sailed utt'ht'g to our' remit
tit-nsnn cumnzerre, instead of incrnting
our expencgs, which will make itsitteetmoy
to lay t-Jtsitiullﬂl dutiel and burden: on the
people, ] tt'nttltl much mour! t'elt'ench ctu
exptnctl, otd imtetttstssdlsi intruding the du
tics to tt'atttmt :thie exptitce, ! Mould n
wild lnml, and] to borrow money or
keep up his ctcht. it is (only to add a few
dolla'n or arms to the nere, nhich uddno
hie lsstominal m-nllb aud' tolkﬂimu gives
him-addnionalcrcdit. — ' - "
_ " Lia'bd he is acctctongg
made a poor m; ' islq individual has
bi WIÞYHF: Uasirsicduce th,
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