Alexandria advertiser and commercial intelligencer. [volume] (Alexandria [Va.]) 1800-1803, 1802-06-19
FROM THE cAzrrrr OF THEu. STATES.


DEClCf0.--1NOs La
IS y4vopid fbs,xte,e advj/e- tbs 6liaded.Jet,
Of men, nofst9 give e,eahiit to sbets pe,Jsns
b. aubom fb<y kave been ia sien f00lxd
ard impetsd xtoa !; BIT on The eontrary,
10 tkiul itan a6ront to their parts, zobea
tbey bear Jyom any Of them lueb ae1oants
as they Vvoalduot dare TO tell them, bit
xpon tie prslum2tisn tbat tby are ids-
0ts.''
FREE.HoLDER. !,
Such is the advice which Addition gave
his credulous countrynen, nearly centu-
Try ago, and ] hope to be excaied tor pre-
fixing il to this number Of my examinar-.
on of the report of the inveaigating COM
mittee, in which, propo(e to make con-
cife recapitulation of the charges preferred
in that report againit the former admini-
trations of the American government, and
of the mott prominent points, which, IN
my opinion, completely repel thofe charges.
MY beff thanks are rendered TO the Edi-
TORS of this Gazette for their Politenefs in
giving a place to my remarks: | only
with that / had had more leifure, to enable
me 70 preient them in manner more wor-
thy the attention of their readers.
The multitude of ineonfaencies, abfur-
dities, and idle accu(ations, which the COM
mittee have thrown together in this report
whatever effect they may have in the ag-
grega,e on the fuper6cial obferveT, diAolve
into nothing when taken up separately and
examined with any degree of attention.
Nothing did I fay ; / correct nyielf.
They leave behind them the traces of The
vanity OF malicious-labor; of the remorie-
lels fury with which party fpirit can i'm
pregnate the minds OF men in high Gations;
of the malignity of Jacobinifm, and of the
dpotleis character of federal men. Ibsls
fill remain, and to the evidences of theie
do we Fill lock for reftora;ion of thofe
dogs in which we werenot afhamed of our
country.
Ihave heard fome perlons, who .burnilh
up their political knowledge by drinking
ever and anon from the, polluted founta in
Of the Aurora Office, ai1ert that the prac-
tice which has obtained of drawing mo-.
snies from the treafury without appropria.
tions previouly made by law, as fate9 in
The rebort, and as expatiased upon daily in
the Aurora, nuf have been improper
Nothing could permit people to remainin
this error, but their obfinacy in taking the
crude and falfe Aatements OF that infamous
paper for facts, in direct oppoition to the
publication on which it comments. None
of the charges in the report are predicated
upon this principle neither Mr.. Picker
ing, nor Mr.. StoddeIt, nor any other is
charged in the report with having drawn
money from the treafury, but in COME
quence of appropriations made by law
The charge is, that the appropriations for
the REFLECTIVE departments have, altho' ar.
ranged under variety of heads, been, in
ihote REFLECTIVE departments, conhdered as
continuing general fund for the various
exigencies of the public fervice. In the
general PREDATORY obferyations of the CON-
mittee, 1t is true, they fay, that apPropri-
alions have been anticipated by the iecre-
tary of the treafury, but they ALTO expli-
city fate, that Sin thefe cafes the ire
gularity has been afterwards covered by
4ubfequent warrants and appropriations,
and the committee do not difcoyer that it
has been productive of any injurious confe-
quences TO the United States" So much
for the Aurora-faeof millions drawn with.
out appropriation, which they till are
fools and knaves enough TO believe.
We have feen that the money paid to
the officers and clerks in the feveral execu-
tive departments, for the expences of their
removal from the temporary to the per-
manent feat of government, was paid in
purfuanceof the act Of Congress, which d.
reeed thar TIE gGces ihould be removed,
6 and that thesnecedary expence of .luch
removal ihall be defray our of the duties
on TmDOi1c ard &c IL