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went font the ifiKtse, provides, thAt the e
numeration shall commence in August next,
aiul the returns shall be made within nine
months thereafter. One of the Senate's a
mendments, is, to make it commence in
June, and be concluded in five months. This
amendment was, after debate, disagoeed to
and the other umendmunts by the Senate a
greed to.
NEW ORLEANS BATTURE.
The House resolved itself into a committee of
the whole—Mr. Basset in the chair, on the bill
v Providing the means to ascertain the title to
the Batture in front of the suburb of St. Mary, in
the city of New Orleans.”
Mr. Bibb moved to strike out the whole of the
bill from the enacting clause, and to insert the
following as an amendment:
“That the interest in or title to the batture
fronting the suburb of St. Mary, in the city of
New Orleans, which may have vested in the U.
States by the treaty of cession between the Uni
te J States and France, concluded at Paris the
"0th of April 1S03, be transferred to and vested
in the corporation of the city of New Orleans, sp
far aq to enable said corporation to defend any
suit or action which may be instituted for the re
covery cf the whole or an; part of the said bat
ture, in any court having 'competent power and
jurisdiction to bear and determine the same ; and
if no suit oraolion shall be Instituted and prose
cuted to final judgment or decree within
years, all individual claim, right or title to
the said batture shall thenceforth be forever bar
red.
“ And be it further enacted. That the said bat
ture shall be used and enjoyed as a public high
way and landing place, as well by the citizens of
the U. S. as the inhabitants of the city of New
Orleans, who shall continue to use and enjoy the
. right of digging and carrying earth from the said
batture for making and repairing public streets j
and levees and other purposes, which they were
accustomed to use and enjoy under the late Span- J
i&h government”
Mr. bhcffty culled far a division cf the questi
on, so as to take it first on striking out. - '
Mr. Bibb supported his motion in a speech of
considerable length. He strongly questioned the
claim of the petitioner, and contended that if he
had a claim, it had been in the petitioner’s power
to have obtained a decision on it by the land-com
missioners by whom tides were in all other ca
ses examined, and that by submitting it to their
decision, he would have avoided the removal by
force from the property. Mr. B went into a de
tailed reply to various arguments, heretofore ui g
ed in support of Mr. Livingston’s claim. He
•was opposed to giving this case a direction differ
ent from others, as he feared it would be the en
tering wedge to the grossest peculation, and that
the Yazoo claimants would come next. He
wished besides not to put so great a property at
the disposition of the Attorney General of the
ferriiory. The mode proposed by his amend
ment was the usual mode and that which ought
to obtain in this case, and was more calculated to
do justice to all concerned than the mode propos
ed by the bill.
Mr. Shejt'ey replied to Mr. Bibb. He depreca
ted the continued alarm of Yazooism which was
raised on every subject coming before the
House, and was in the present case an_/»ni'x fatu
us to Ifcad them to injustice. The first section of
ti»e amendment propusea made the corpora
tion of New Orleans a party in a trial to take
place in that city. The next'section declared that
the property should become a high-way. This
would certainly promote injustice, becajjse, eve
ry citizen being interested in its becoming a pub
lic high-way, it would be impossible that a jury
composed of persons so interested could give, an
unbiassed verdict. Shelter yourself not under
anch subterfuges, said Mr. S. If you are notdis
posed to do justice, say so openly j do not sanc
tion such a mockery ol justice as this would be.
Mr Shefley replied to various other observations
ol Mr. Bibb.
Air. PoyJrns made a long and elaborate speech
on the subject of the title to this properly, deny
ing that Mr Livingston had either a shadow or
■cmblance of title.
The committee rose at 3 o’clock, reported pro
gress, and obtained leave to ait again—and the |
House adjourned.
March 15.
Mr. Netut^n from the committee of CcnruercG
and Manufactures to whom were referred ti,c
nttfiulments of the Senate (which postpone ilia
commences nt of the bill to June SC.) to the bill
to prevent the issuing of sea-letter; except to
certain vessels, reported an agreement to the
same, with an amendment tucret'o, viz. “ Provi
ded nevetheless, that no svu latter 3hall be issu
ed to any vessel which shill not at this time be
furnished with or entitled to a sea letter, unless
such vc-v el shall return to some port or place in
the FF S. or territories thereof on or before the
said 30th day of June r.oxt.”
The rep vt <»f she committee was concurred in.
CO.VIMSUCJAL BILL.
Mr. Mac on rr.uJtf tbs following report, which
w «s ordered to be printed ;
“ The confer .»K on the prrtof the two Houses
on the disagrr in;-; votes on the bill “ respecting
commerrid intercourse between the U. S. and
Ureat Brit a’.;', and Franc : and for other purpo
se •” have irvt, and those on the part of the Hous*
of Keprf srntativ: J report. That thej' have met
the conferees on tho part of the Senate, and
that they have not agreed on any modification of
the ill, nor have either agreed to recede
“ The conferees on tlie part of the Senate
made a proposition to insort, in the room of the
•"Stines til' ic'cen cut, tlie following • “ Be it fur
ther enacted, t lat the Frcsidentot the U. States
be, an;l be hereby is authorised to employ the
public ..rmed vessels of tlie United States in
cimvoying the merchant vessels of the United
States, wholly owned by a citizen or citizens
thereof and laden with cargoes wholly the pro
perty of a citizen or citizens of the U. '.-tates,
mtd to issue instruciiqt)* which shall be confor
ir ihlc to the laws and usages of nation*, for the
govarr.ment of tlie sh'pa which may he employ
ed in convoying such merchant vessels.” To
vdi'i b the conicices or. the part of the House
disagreed.
“ The conferees on the narl of the House of
Representatives made the following proposition :
T" permit British merchant vessels to import in
to,the Uiiited Stat *s British produce cm 1 inanu
t., lures, but n it to exwirt any ariicieit whatever ,
to p rmit French merchant vessels to import into
l*f United States French produce and manufac
tures, but not to export any article whatever ;
t<> itUmii the 10;l» and l.'Ji’j sections < and to ex
plain the I2lh section touching :tbe penalties and
forte; urcs under the embargo act To which the
conferee . on the part of the Senate disagreed.”
Mr. Kppr* reported a bill imposing additional
dot'.es n;,u„ allg o«mIs, wares anti merchandize |
iuirvuied into any foreign port or place.
fTfiis.bdi is composed of five sections.
l oe first imposes an additional duly of
percent, ad valorem on all goods From foreign
ports paying a duty ad. vul.
'Flic 21 imposes an additional duty of per
emit upon the duties now imposed on g^ods pay
ing specific duties.
'I nc .hi i ipoies an addition of len per cent
to the s v.ir.d dul*' a imprwrd Irv tin* act, on -11
g Kids ufci cafier imported >n vessels not of the IT
States
'J tie 4'h pt escribe* the mode of eoriertiofi.
The 5th continues the law in force t-» the l,t
dav of April 1311, nod no longer J
The bill was twice read ami comm'Fed
The 11 ns* Ur It up the me usage of the Se
nate, statin,, thou- having appointed cntifcree* on
th disagre migvotes of the two Houses on the
c'-’uns bid } uiid resolved to appoint s committee
rn tlicir | .rt.
T'tn - rd * of (he dav rn the bill 'Xlpectjog tie
Battu-vben:^ cadediet -~
Hr. ii utrtt moTCft to postpone the further con_
siderati > i of the bill till Monday next.— Nega
tivt-d 61 tn4j.
The ni >tioii under consideration when the
House y«< rrday adjourned, to strike out the
whole of the hill, was warmly debated at consi
derable length, Messrs. Poindexter, StieHev,
Kosa and B.*yd opimsing it, and M -ssrs. JJibb,
Troup, Taylor and Holland supporting it.
The motion was negatived o7 to 51.
After further progrea.1-—
The commi.tee rose, reported progress and
asked leave tosilagdQ; wiiich was refused —
The bill is now directly before the 11.-use.
v£urjufi*cc,
RICHMOND, MARCH 20, 18ia
FOR THE ENQUIRER. ^
TO THE REPUBLICAN PARTY!!
TIIE CENTINEL_No. IV.
Let us examine some of the grounds on
which the federalists, old and new, arerais
ing all this clamor, in concert, against the
present administration. We shall find it
a subject of curiosity, if not ot instruct;.,
on.
That the federalists (I mean now the old
federalists,) should deem it (heir policy to
bring to the recollection of this nation, the
subject of finances, must be a matter ofjust
surprize to-every man whose memory is
strong enough tc co^er liir Ust ten years;
and is, in itself, a conclusive proof, tiiat if
they do not succeed in their present adven.
ture, it will not be for the want of hardihood •
But that the new federalists (by whom I
mean the minority,) should make this a sub
ject of reproach to the administration, gives
such a shock to moral Sensibility, as might
almost convert a philanthropist into a hater
of man; Because (/fey well kii iw, that this
very subject of finances forms one fit" the
points of highest glory i;i the republican ad
ministration, and tiiat they have themselves
been accessary to the atchieveinent of it.
Yet we have one of these gentlemen, in an
essay signed Philo Laos, ia the federal pa
per called the Spirit of *76, mourning over
the last treasury report, wifh all the since
rily of a tragic actor. This essay is univer
sajl/ ascribed by the federalists, and very
generally by others, to Mr. John Randolph.
1 am un willing to believe it. It Was painful
cM.ongi. ,p me to be forced to give up Mr.
Randolph as a fiolitician { but could I believe
him the author of that essa^, my confidence
in him an a man would be gone for ever;
because I should be forced to believe him ca
pable of making a wilful misrepresentation
U1 Ii\CCS*. • ► •.
1 hat essayist, speaking of the manage
ment of the revenue during Mr. Jefferson’s
administration, breaks into a passionate ex
clamation about “ an enormous surplus of
PrccedinS years, (before folly had snatched
the helm of government,) exhausted a
federalist, of the old school, would feel him
self at liberty to understand the writes hs
fixing the commencement of Mr. Jefferson’s
administration, as the iEra at which folly
hau snatched the helm of government; and
then “ the enormous surplus of preceding
years would mean the balance left by the
icderalists in the Treasury. This is a fa
vorite topic with uninformed federalists, or
fedora lists wliofhiplj; their hearers uninform
ed. 1 .icy cjaim all the merit of the vast
and rapid reduction of .the public debt, by
declaring that the funds, with which it has
been paid, were left by them in the public
vau.t*. Aow, how stands the fact? What
say the Treasury books as to this balance
l^e federalists to their successor ?
. iat balance’was one million, sttven hundred
and ninety-four thousand and forty-four
dollars ; and with this balance (less than
two millions,) Mr. Jefferson lias paid off up.
wards on thirty-three millions of the fit in
cifial of the public debt, besides the interest,
and left nino millions in the treasurj', on the
1st of January, 1809. These are facts pro
v,en l^e re!,orls antl public documents of
the 1 reasury department, and facts which
were well known to Mr. Handojpfi.
But the writer, in question, has so con
structed the paragraph which we are con
sidering, as to render it susceptible of an
o.hei meaniug, and thus to leave himself
“ a hoiii to creep out at;” for w hen pressed
on this view of the subject, he has left it in
hu pdvyer tq say, “ I intended to fix the /Era
of the reign of folly, three or four years
back , and the enormous surplus of preceding
ycaro which I intended, was the sixteen
millions then reported to be in the Treasu
ry ;” that is to say, the folly of the govern
w-5.u1 Uic very instant mat they lost
the enlightening counsels of Mr. Randolph;
tliis it modest, if JVIr. It. really be the au
thor. And under this modification, the pa
ragraph, .r, question, becomes a general
complaintoj) the state of the finances, and a
ground of accusation against the govern
ment for their financial scheme. The Se
cretary’s report is called by this figurative
writer “asinking political barometer,” by
which tire nation is to calculate its approach
to ruin— ‘ a mournful state paper”—which
exhibits a revenue dried up; and before
any thing like preparation, even for defence
was made, a loan of four milliohs certainly
(perhaps mere,) becomes necessary.” If
Air. K. be the author of this essay, I say
again, that ifiy reliance upon him, as a maii,
is gone; because be well knows, that all
this whining and mournirg is without foun
dation ; and that the management of the re
venue, tio lav Irflni giving j. st cause of com
pian .-, is a subject of well rfierited eulogy on
the administration of Mr. Jefferson. 1 beg
leave to refresh your recollection of the
course of this business, in order that yon
may see how disingenuouil and unjust areall
these complaints. When ,\4r. Jefferson came
into office, there was a tax on carriages, on
Snuffs, on refined sugar, oh domestic distilled
spirits; an auction tax, h stamp tax and a
direct tax on land. I remember, that in the
spring of 1800 a very interesting extract of
a levter from an old republics- farc er in De
laware, was published in all the republican
prints, going to show not only that hrs fede
ral taxes (in consequence of the direct tax
on land,) exceeded his state taxes in the
ratio »t ¥> 100 toKO ; but that, by the same
cause, the aggregate sum of his taxes, was
more than one fourth of all the annual Jiro
Jitn of hi»la ruble effect* ! A nd going far
ther to demonstrate, that by trie hpetati’on of
’lie Same tax, our fourth or the L»wer class
of owners of land in that state, would be
s; ripped of every inch of their real property in
two years: The wiiterihrn asked the a.
binning question, what would he the condi
ti 11 of tiie lawl-holders, if Clongrvss should,
«• fhen contemplated, double or treble
I tl.e taxes At that time, this letter pro
l duCcd a very strong sensation; for every
: tmm« t*U its ivut.i. A U« wquld.
be very glad that wfc* should.forget it; but it
i'our business to remember u; anti vow
that it is brought again to his mind, I Hope
that every farmer will record it, in indelible
characters, on his memory. Shall we bring
these men again into power? Shall wc ic_
nouncc the benefit of experience, and invite
king Stork again to eat us and otir wives and
children up? Lay these things to your hearts,
and ponder well upon them.
Now, let us ask what did the federalists
do with tlie proceeds of nil these internal,
over whelming taxes? We have seen that
they left very little more than a million and
a half in the Treasury: What, then, be
came of the money ?-Did they pay the
public debt with it ? This is a curious sub*
! ject, and dem ands* your attenti on.
In the spring of 18C0, a federal committee
of Congress, composed cf Messrs. Griswold,
Harper. Sewall, &c, was telected by Mr.
Sedgwick, the federal Speaker, to examine
the accounts of the {J. States, and report up.
on the public debt. Oliver V/olcott, the fe
deral Secret Ary of the Treasury, had given
it as his (*, nion, in the preceding January,
| that the public debt had cncrcated upwards
of one million, four hundred thousand dol
! .s_(to wit: L 1. JIG,338 50 cents.)
1 bis very impai tial committee, appointed
|<i:i the 20t!i March, 1800, develops the very
I involved nr.d complicated Treasury books,
j,nr ten J’vai s back, and in eighteen days (8th
j May.) lay their report upon the table of the
House of Representatives, showing, that in j
that short time, they understood the Secreta
ry’s books better than lie did himself, an-.}
that the public debt, instead of being en
creased, had been, in fact, diminished up
wards of a million of dollars, (to wit:
3 1.092,841 : 48 cents.) Rut the superior
accuracy, ability and candor of Mr. Gada
tin, soon showed, that both the federal Se
cretary :,nd federal committee were grossly
wrong; for lie not only shotted, »but dernun
xi ruled, that the public debt had been en
Cl eared by upwards ,.t nine millions, (to wit:
S 9,462,264* : 88 cents.)
Mnce. then, the federalists left lit 1c or
nothing in the Treasury and instead of di
minishing, increased the public dent the
question recurs, what became of the public
money? And this is the answer: Tt went
to support executive patronage, to feed a
swarm of civil officers, that covered and
destroyed this land, as the locusts d'd ivirypt;
it went to pamper the idleness and insolence
of an extensive military establishment
useless for any other purpose than to swell
the Presidential retinue and hrow_beat the
opponents of his measures in Congress.—
Mis Mr. Randolph's new alliance with
those gentlemen erased the memory of the
premeditated insqlt v/i* ic’.i he received in the
Philadelphia I htfan-c from capt. M’Knight
and others, for having expressed his semi
ments in Congress on the subject of disban
ding the army: has he forgotten the little
satisfaction whichbe received on complaining
to the President of that insult.oc is he now rea
dy tp take to his bosom a man who after con
temptuously vibrating the expressions of his
speech and jostling him in the box, atlength,
insolently seized and j irked him by the capc
ot his coat? It he has, I congratulate him
on the convenience of his memory, or the
primitive meekness and fcr?;veness of his
spirit.
hui it may be asked what beneficial end
tne federalists could promise themselves by
this pi esidential retinue, this vp.at executive
patronage ? I will answer the question in
the words off.fr. Jefferson, as they are to be
found in a letter of his, in reply tc one ad
dressed to him by a citizen of Kei keley.—_:
1 his letter bears date on the 4th fceptem
ber 1800; and is highly worthy of entire re
publication ; but 1 extract only so much of
it as applies to the subject before us :
The at question which divides our
citizens is, whether it is safest that a pre
ponderance of power should be lodged with
the monarchical or the republican branch ct
our government? Temporary panics may
produce advocates for the former opinion,
e%cn in this country ; but the opinion will I
be as short-lived as the panic, with the
great mass of our citizens. There is one ;
circumstance which will always bring iherp
to rights ; a preponderance of the execu
five over the legislative branch, cannot be
maintained blit^ by immense patronage, by
multiplying offices, making them very lu
cra'ivc, by armies, navies, Isfr which may
enlist on the side of the patron, all those
whom he can interest, and all their fami
lies and connections ; but these expenses
must be paid by the labouring citizen ; he
cannot long continue, therefore, the advo
cate oi opinions, which, »o say only the least
of them, doom the laboring citizen to toil Sc
lleie then we have the Ucv most sensibly
and plainly given to that part of the federal
policy which led them perpetually to swell
the patronage of the executive; it was. to
give a firefionderance to the executive
branch of the government, and, as I said
in a former number, to strain the presi
dential chord up to the tone of monarchy.
— I bis short sketch conducts us to the com
menerment of our own fiscal operations.
When Mr. Jefferson came into office, he
found the country in the situation which has
been just described. 1 be people oppressed
by a heavy band of taxgatficrcrs, and dis_
solute soldiers; bowed down and bent under
the weight of internal taxes ; and notwith
standing this, the public debt greatly cn
creased, and the Treasury almost exliaus
ted. His firs, care was to lift the mountain
weight from tne heart of the farmer, and
let him breathe fret*. '1 he long train of ey
ecutive dependents, wa3 immediately cut
o!T and reduced to the level of private citi
sens ; the whole mass of internal taxes,
which hadhi’ng ’ike an abscess on the lungs
of agriculttir*, wa* extripated.root S< bran, h,
and the expenc.es of the government redu
ced to «.n 'economical standard. And after
all this alleviation of the public burthen, the
j i £ venue was found sufficient not only to sup
i port the government, but to pay the whole
•Merest, one, as we have already seen, up
wards of la millions of the principal or the
public debt
He might have pursued a different course,
he might have reduced the expences of gov
ernment, ami still kept up the internal tax
es ; and had he done so, the Treasury would
now h-ve been full ; hut your pockets would
have been empty, and the greater part of
you totally ruined by the operation of thedi |
rcct tax. Whereas you have now had
eight years of agricultural ptosperity, nnin
cumbered witp a federal tax ; and ,f war is
inevitable, y<*j are in a condition ' to meet
i the burthen without a ipurrouy of inconve
nience.
Mr, Jefferson might have adopted another
(Course to keep a fund roady for war: hr
might have piled up in the vaults of the
Treasury those sums which have been paid
in discharge of the public debt: hut in the
uir.an time that vast debt would Uava b«cn
eating like a Cancch Sato the vitals of the
wvatth and credit of the nation.
Those who complain of the present state
of the 1 rcasury, call upon yon to deride this
question: is it or is it not the trie policy of
the federal government to lay taxes upon us
beyond what is necessary for the support ot
government, and the payment of onr debts,
in order to provide beforehand a fund for
rear ? Hear how Mr. Jefferson answers
this question : 1 quote hisljrst message_
** There is a reasonable ground of conf
idence that we may now safely dispense with
all the internal taxes, C;c.; and that the re
maining sources of revenue will be suffici
ent to provide for the support of government,
to pay the interest of the public debts and
to discharge the principals in shorter peri
ods than the law, nr the general expectati
on had contemplated. Il'ar, indeed, and
untoward evente may change this prospect
of things and cali for exflencc* which the
imflorts could not meet. lint sound flrin
ciflles will not jastif- our taxing the indus
try of our f l/ow citizens to accumulate
Treasures for wars to happen we know
not when, and which might not, perhaps,
happen, but from the temptations offered
by that Treasure
In these few words we see the whole
scheme of republican financiering. Jc is
bottomed on the idea that a state of peace
is the natural state of a simi le and virtu
ous republic : »li43 scheme, therefore, pro
vides fora state of peace—tosupp.-rt the
government ; to pay the interest of t!,o pub
lic debt, and extinguish the principal faster
even than the laws or general expectation
contemplated. And these purpo.es have
been completely answered by it. put this
scheme was expressly not intended either
for a state ot war, or for untoward events
short ti war: “ those events.” sa\sthe Pre
sident, " may call for expenres which the
imports couhl not meet.” Those events
have ocpnrrad, and, as was frankly declared
to the nation, do call for expences which the
imports could not meet: such, simply, is the
stale of tilings presented by the last report
of the Secretary of the Treasury; and
where, I ask, is tile ground of rational com I
plaint r
Is it any ground of complaint that the re
publican s\ stem of financiering has not
made provision for events, which it whs ex
pressly declared beforehand, it was not in
tended to provide for t la it any ground of
complaint, that a “ war” of piracy on our
commerce, or (if the federalists will not al
lo^ it that name) “ untoward events”
short of war, call 1 n* other expenses titan i
the imports ; when it was expressly foretold '
at the time when our scheme was adopted, j
that such events would cal! for such other
expenccs f Is it any ground of complaint
th it^ the people, after having been permit
•cd by the republican administration to use !
and enjoy without interruption, the fruits of
their own industry for nine years, do not, |
now, find those fruits in the public Trcasu. '
ry, in the shape of a fund for war? Or do
these federal Gentlemen, new and old, «x
pect (i: I may indulge in one of Mr, Ran
dolph's liberties) “ to eat their bread and
butter, and have it too ?” Is it any ground
of complaint that those fruits of their indus
try, were not taken from them, year after
year, in the shape of taxes, and locked up
in the public vauH-i in order to foim a fund
for war i
I hose who complain that we have now
no such fund to meet the emergencies o.‘
war, arc. by necessary consequence, the ad- j
vocates of heavy previous taxation, or of the
non.payment of the public debt ; because
without the one or the other, it is madness
or folly, to expect a war fund to be tvtr
ready in the Treasury.
Rut I am opposed to any such previous
formation of a war fund, for the plain and
satisfactory reasons given by Mr. Jefferson
I o wit J. Because it is wrong to burthen the j
citizens with taxes beforehand to meet an i
event to happen, we know not when. 2.
Because the existence of such a fund in the
I reasury may be, itself, a temptation to fo
reign war, or worse enterprises at home ;
to which I add a third, suggested by Mr.
Gal.atin s report, that such an emergency
as war, happen when it will, can never find
us unprovided ; because a na ion which
pays her debts with the punctuality and
honor that our’s has done, has a living fund
in her own credit which she can call into
play at a moment’s warning. The in.lividu
als of our own nr ion, enriched by tiie for
bearance to oppie-,5 *be;n with taxes, are
able and ready to loan to their country ?.nj
sum for which phe has occibon, until oui
revenuescan he adapted to this new state if
*" me return ot peace ana tran_
qmlity, enables the revenue, without any
additional tax, to reJmbjjrse the loan.
so Jar is it from being true-as this feds .
ralist of the new school insinuates, that the
public 1 heasury is a political barometer
with which the wealth of th® nation rises
and falls, that exactly the reverse of it, ij
the fact ; in a. young republic like this, cf
Irani, the nation is to the Treasury, what
the reservoir which holds the mercury is to
the tube of the barometer: for in the same pro
portion as the mercury rises in the tube, it
sinks in the reservoir; and such is exactly
the case between the treasury and the nati_
on
So, had the federalists been permitted to
goon with their system of taxation and had
not squandered :t ott e>:eru*ivc dependents,
they would probably have had a foil treasury
at this time ; but what-would have becnipe
* t the nation ? Overwhelmed with debt,
impoverished and bankrupt! And as soon
as the stock on ham) was exhausted by a
War, no credit, no source of supply at home
mr abroad, no power of renovation here, nor
elsewhere.
” But then Mr. Gallatin shews that v/a
are driven to the necessity of a loan thitf is
a part of the same doleful and stu,.ul ditty.
YV ii.it, if we are driven to a loan of four
millions as Mr. Gallatin suggestsan/irudent,
or of six or ten millions if the federalists
choose it: is not this exactly what we were
ltd to expect,under ffie events which have oc
curred ? J)o the federalists suppose U3 so
stupid as to have expected that an (sconoml
cal pence establishment, avowedly a f.eacr
establishment merely, would Support us in a
time of war especially, too, after being ex
pressly apprised by the President in the be
ginning of his administrat ion,that such :t con
sequence cn*ild nolbc expected? And if foreign
injustice Sc tyranny shall drive us to a war
loan, wJk fe i, the harm of it? Our honor has
given us credit, and experience has siiwwn
us, that, i? as victorious as virtuous in the
contest, a few years of peace will expunge
the loan, even vAthdul the increase of IttXrn,
and leave the credit of the nation on high.® *
ground than ever.
But who is it that reproaches us with thr
necessity of * loan? Not the federalists of
the old school, to l»e mho • Cer'ainly th> y
i ennnot Uavfj *1^ ep'roivory to utter to* w«r<*
J'jrh to Us i They, whcr. while they ivtre
j bi caking the buck cl the nut on under the
load ot internal taxes, did little else hut mj»kd
[loans—-they who could not even meet a hot*
water insurrection, or, as it is som'e'irbta
[called, a pig war, without making a loan I—
tv ho even made loans in times of prop
fount and ui.disturbed peace; and at onfe
time 'borrowed live millions ot d lt::rs (ft
1 ig?1 - t[CT cent J ’ 1 have now Lelore me (bo
report bi h committee of Ctwigress, cons ting
of Messrs. Otis, Nicholas, tillswcld. Nichol
son, Wain, Str ut: and (,’nik, made in Jftn,
I 1801,. by wlnclfit appears that in four years,
. from ’9j to ’J8, In Musi ve,the federalists' made
j no less than six different loans, exclusive of
loans prior to '9s anriounMv^ to near f nr mil
lions [to wit: 4 900 (HlO.-) a fid exclave, al*n,
j of the eight per ceyt loan which was af er
! wards made ; so that if there he any tlung
reproachable in making a loan, that teproacly
would come with a very halting grace from
the federalists.
The important' of this subject and tvv
anxiety toplace it in a lull, clear and candid
| light, have made this number much li nger
| than I had intended; I will cli.se it with a
[short extract from Mr. Jt Ifers* n’s first me*,
j sage to Congress, and Mien leave to yrur
[judgment the it: er its of the republican fiscal
j scheme, and the demerits of those wliocoiii—
I plmn ol it:—“ Considering Mi" reneral ten
| denr.y to multiply offices ck deptodencif s Sc
tlit# increase rxpence to the ultimate term o£
hiuxhen which the citizen can hear, it be
hoves us to avail oiu-e'ves of e very occasion
which, pi rs* nts itself for taking off the sur
charge ; that it nev e may be seen, here,
that alter leaving to labor the snmilcst por
tion of its earnings on which it can subsist,
government shall itse• t vubsnme the residue
of what it was insti'u-vd to guard.”
Tit rat - in the Centinel, No II
Tor “ my object is to illustrate the posi
that tile minority are lite men entitled
to our confidence for having been once re
publicans”—read “ the more entitled, ike.”
In the Centinel. So. Ill
For “ a government like outs. &c.”—read
"in a govc.naitnt like ours, ike.”
ii/* Heflkctjons oil tiie late news—on
F ri Jay.
'J ' c * • v ! read the Centinel ! It is from one
of the most pooetfu! pens in the Lr S—the prtteizt
No is ’nip i lant. as there is no subject on wlur.lt
the people are ir.ir; liable 10 :inposiUoii,tluui mo
ney matters.
X?' ft turns out, that titc war with France
is piHJtic/g-e-S >far from it, she is relax
ing her commercial restrictions, as respects
the United Stales, iVr“ See tlte important
news, by way of (charleston.-Several
American catgoex liavt bs.eu also let loose
from aequeslration.
V/as Maiumed on the lalhinst Mr. Robert
B Him,, L,<j » K ng an 1 C>uc. n, to Miss
Fa ! HAi’l .E i’a i.i a \\j. »'i vtii.ahie I'jtlgl.ter
of Mr Robert !Lnl of K.mg William.
Mari;ien—On the Gfii irwlant, Mr. Jamfs
Fr m e u to M $. At a a y King—ail of King
VV liilum Con ily,
(COMMUNICATION.)
J). parteu this life, < n Monday evening, the
l .Vh instant, at Mxjor Pettr F. Archer'S, in the
town of Scoitville, nd county of Powhatan, sf
tee an iJnctrs-of eigiit or ;en days, a young ntau.
about the .ge of twenty-iuur i r live \e.uii, winy
called himsi If JOHN' KlUKE ; h- J he wa*
from near N-isavill.:, in Tennessee, and on hisrc
tarn to *he county of Dmwidtlie, v.htie his ta
ttler rt re.ei
Poverty end .'i dress were attendants on this
unfortnm te rrnvHiir; and the !.ai Is of charity,
kindness end medical ai>i w^re extended to biin
in \am. f >rthe information of the iriends and
relatives of the deceased, the Editor of the fv
tersbiirg lutem.- ncer i- requested 'o insert the
above iu lin pap'.r. March Id, ISi'j.
” ■ " ■ ———■* ufortisz.g.- .i- - r-.~
fur S ALE AT THIS OFFICE,
a tew cones or
FullonV Torpedo War.
CITY ELECTION. " "
r° T*e Freeholders and Nome ISepe^s rj the
City of Kichtn nd, authorised to vote for
[common counciimen. take notic-, that the electi
on will take place on Wednesday the fundi day
of April next, the poll will be ope red at 10 o’
clock, at the follow mg places : lit Jefferson V/ard
at the court-house, in Madison u* d, at llr. Ea
gle- 1 <t\ ct n. hi Monroe v/aicl, at Air. TIiothus.
White’s new brick house.
JOHN F. PRICE,
Sergeant jJ the City of Richmond.
March 20_ uw
't ’HE SUBSCRIBERS have for s:»h_Fist
i and second quality brown Sugar, n Hilda,
j and barrel's,
I.oaf Sugar in birrels,
Ji ime green C >fl r in hogsheads, barrels k bags.,
lo H gsh'-ads Ad'j iu Klmi,
15 Boxes Imperial 1 -m,
.5 Quarter casks M-Jemt Win*,
5 lJ >. tip. I 7" Teneriffb Wirte,
'J l)o. do. Sherry Wine,
ti l)o. do. M ihjja Wine,
10 Hogshead* priin- M l.'i«i:s,
2>) B*reels rectified W.iiake,--,
50 B xes Itui :tn»,
20 Boxes Ci.Tk Pipes,
10 Box s Mtikiaid, lo b igs Pepjer, 10 bags r«r«
Ginger, .15 bAxts Wmdow'Glass, 8 by 10 20
[*rfP» Piper’s Snuff, 1 ton Shot, German k DU
I tered Steel, 8 b »xes Brim-tone, writing & w.a.i
| "Hi P-per* 4<J0 Sacks salt, 10 hhd*. stone Ware,
' 15 box*. Spati.sh Cigna, vO Uuej Soap, and 1 ,o
j Grihd Stones A Ilf f which will be sold on ino
Iflerste terms* for cash, couii. y produce, or saw
proved piper.
WRITE & SIIMI d'QH.
Mfl • ,,
r £ -O BE SOI.,), r.v RUI’tlC AVCl'JON~
3 On ftresdav the third of April next, at tbcip
store in Mnkrt'itr('cl->Si,i.; to commence in i>)
oVIork m the morning—tho- ,;o.iJa to be- viewed
i the flay of sale :
The entire Stork ir. Trait, of James I7all
1 Co. consisting of 400 p ic' u - . » of the following
j articles : * . • k "
1'rinted CAlieoee,
Fancy Platf.*,
Sop!1!-. MmtreMseil C »ni
hrirk^,
Super V H Light Chintz,
Caiiihrick Musl’hs,
HOSIEkY.
•jhtrtinp Camh.icks,
[ Superior Shitting lrnor
Ciotlia,
I Muck CMmhrick<f
Cttticc rtirer-f: *,
I Coloured i hfriJzy
| Stanchest ny, • ,
f union kerseymp?*,
i lie nb-n-p Goons will be sold, wiihom tvscivg
| oa liberal ar*i iwnirm. d din# tcrmOo /»v. j,*
; cm corn <d k Cv. „ ,
■ Hilliw >r(, »pV* iji> /!»
4 • VjSi
' ,d
fr»nh I.tntns,
I-elifte Velvets/
Etfl'.;' ttfou,
T ii,.ties,
Vrimed Quilting*,
r 1 I'n.iteA
J \/<dfttc«At»,
j Sevfmg Silk,
. ScwIpjj Cotton*,
[ 1* nny Muslin*,
| Ele^ uit Mudirt
*ud K. in.*,
Boi ]t Muslin^,
French I’ulhciit
kerchml'*, &.. $,< j,i;>