Alexandria advertiser and commercial intelligencer. [volume] (Alexandria [Va.]) 1800-1803, 1802-05-08
Golgrsss Df tDs Iaifsn States.
HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES.
TSx,laay, February IS.

sutitled g IN III to repeal certain ads
rejecting The orgauizatiom of The carts
sftbe q. STATES"
lNr. Ratlsdge's Speech cantinufa.)
The diAria judge in Rhode Illand was
appointed circuit judge, ard Mr.. Greene
was appointed diarie Judge. On the 4fh
day of March MIR. Greene took his feat
: in the ienate--the friends of the admin
Rration objected to his keeping it-tbey
faid he was judge, as appeared by the
journals of the ienate--they here made
complete recognition of his appointment
as Judge, and he vacated his ieat-atter
getting hons ne received his commiiiion,
in which the blanks had been filled with
che words eircuit Judge infead OF diitriet
Judge. MIR. Greene eneloied his commit
,iion to the executive in letter mott pro-
foundly refpeefful, and requeffed the errors
of the clerk in the department. of fate
might be corrected, and his commltilon
made to conform to the appointment, as
recorded on the ienatorial journal. To
this letter which was in highly relpeetful
terms, the prefdent would not deign to
havel any anfwer given; he pocketed Mr..
.Greene's commifiion and placed another
gentleman in his office-this is a hifory
of the appointment of Mr.eGreene, and
the manner in which the PRECEDENT 6 cor
seted tie procedure. To my friend
from New Y ork, Mr.. Morris) who fome
days paR adverted TO the prehdent's iyi-
TEN of perlecution, the honorable gentle
man from Virginia fays he is 70 Ignorant
of the exiaencc of any fuch fyfem that he
cannot conceive what is alluded to-and
my friend from North Carolina (Mr.
Henderfon) who fpoke of the destructive
fpifis which had mounted in the whirl-
wind and now directs the form againf
one half of the community, he charges
with having winged his flight into the re-
gions of fancy tells Us the ipirit he
fees is mere l5ilt thin as air, and with
out real form or fubfance. Sir, my hon.
orable friend from North Carolina is un-
der no magical deluGon; the fpirit he no.
ticed is gigantic fpirit, and with 81
ants hze unites giants appetite; it at
tacks the independence of mind and vio-
lates the right Of opinion; it efabli(hes
mental tyranny; Jumpers with integrity
and poifons morals; it has arranged one
half of the community againe the other /;
il denounces az /" se1T" in our country
all thofe whom the luxurious Warrington
took to his confidence and inyefed with
bis favor. 1t ehablifhss boards of inqui-
fition to know how men who are in Office
voted at the lat election, and if they did
not then lubferve the views of the ruling
party they are lfript of their Offices. Ma
ny of the prolcribed are veterans offeven-
~ FIX, they waited their youth and their
fubRance in fighting our revolutionary
battles, and as frnall reward for great
iervices they had Offices given to them by
the difinguiihed Wilmington. Mott Of
shole who had been appointed by him, this
deRroying fPrit has turned adrifr, and to
thoie who are not yet de&royed it gives
lin the New Haven replyl the promi(e of
Polypheme to Ulyfes, and fays 'you
fhall be devosred laa.' This is the ipi-
Tit, fir, againf which my friend from N.
Carolina has RATED his voice, and if the
honorable gentleman from Virginia will
appeal to the wives and children of ninety
or hundred meritorious men who have
: been hurled from Office to make way for
tho{e who are willing without .examina-
tion TO yield blind fupport to minilferi-
al meafures, to fling Hozannus to the pre-
fident, and bend to his will as the ozier
does to the breeze; fay, fir, if he will
appeal TO the wives and children of thole
gentlemen, who have been degraded, diff
graced, and reiaced to want as far as 1t
was in the power of the executive TO de-