Alexandria advertiser and commercial intelligencer. [volume] (Alexandria [Va.]) 1800-1803, 1801-12-29
aleranDrta a0Derttser.
TUESDAY,, DscEMBks 90.

We are authorized 70 fate, that no OIL
ciai information has been received by Co.,
yernInent re?aeiveto boat belonging to
rhe iriga.e Pfefdent, commodore Dale,
having ap!-s. -
1t isa circumstance highly gratifying to
Republicans, aud honorable to the country,
that til, Demtc Gratis in corgref,, at leaf
rhci. leaders, ditcoysr efficient honor & in
tcg-i:y 10 diiasow the bale and infamous
charges which their hollow hearted mini
OTIS have been in the hahit of advancing
asa:nf the mott dittinguiihed charatteIs
OF the ate administration. Men wh3
plaai.r PoG-ofices, and pnhli.h private
letters, had before plundered the office OF
the Trca.lry, ard from books which were
there found paoii.hed what they called de-
mon.srat;czs, that PIcxERlsc and VOL
coTr had de.rauGed the United States CT
hundreds of thociands OF Dollars for which
no account had been rendered. Many
honea people were weak enough to believe
thele charges. The public ought now to
notice tie elimination in which ,heie
wsetehes are held by men Of character In
their own party, who 70 far from giving
the leaf c;edis TO their wicked talfehoods,
openI, declare in Congrefs, that they do
uas even Exlpsd Mr. Pickering Of ever
having appropriated Jingle dollar of the
public money to his own uie; tina, they
confder MIR. Pickering as man of the
mott ;,yxtroackabIe integrity. A committee,
appointed during the laa FELTON,, in which
were three very diitinguilhed democrats,
aszsiu2gD pronounced as Rastering an
eulos:um upon the talents induGry and
integrity manifeRed in the official con-
dues OF agr. Wolcot. Where will thofe
creatures now hide their heads, who have
been san6ng the credulous populace with
promi:es, that the new administration &
democratic Congre!s would atteR the
truth Of their libellous aAerrions, and
bring to light fuch frauds and defaleati-
CTS as would fully jufify all the fcanda-
| loas 4bnf: which has been for years be-
Roaea upon the Era characters of the ma.
eion What then, it will be akcd, is the
ohjee OF ;nei,using an inquiry into the
| accounts cs the late naturalization -
| This cue1i a deleIves an anfwer, and the
| anlwer will involve ione principles advan-
ced By the prefdens, iii his mcfage, and
| advocated by the Democrats in congress,
which merit very frioas confederation,
and Which are calculated TO alarm the ap-
prehenfons of thois who with we'll to the
| Contribution ana prciso, form of our go.
vernmens.
The PRECEDENT, in lis Meaagc, iuggeRs
! to Coagreis the exped'ency Of multiplying
barriers 1--WE ufe the PreGdent's own Ian
| guagel 2sainit the diihpasion of the pub.
tic cons.ibutions, by appropriating firej6e
l/ams to every IpecjG 9aripe|s, and by diff
allowing all applications OF money vasyfsg
from the appropriation in otjets orarasf-
ceaSigg 1t IN amount.
| The Object OF the democratic members
now is 70 enquire whether Mr.. Pickering
and the other members OF the adminiftra-
non, have ever varied from the principle
which is here fuggeRed as the only proper
rule for the regulation of th.ie who direea
The application of public money-to en-.
! qlire Mt whether MIR Pickering has ever
ppiisd money which had never been app.
rop1iatei by law tor that is cot even
pretended or Infatuated, indeed, the very
contrary is declared by MIR. Nichoiaon !;
| aut whether lie has ever made applications
t money varying from the approx ration
IN Object or t.anicending It IN amount.
The Republican Members acknowledge
! hat he has, and that fuch has, from necef-
ity, been the praetice ever fince tee CO.
sernment was brought into opefation
md it is fincerely TO lie hoped that Con-
REFS will no, be 70 vifonary and unwife,
IS to impo!s upon the prefent, OF upon any
utare heads of der drtments, their reitric-
.ans here recommended BY the PRECEDENT.
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