Alexandria advertiser and commercial intelligencer. [volume] (Alexandria [Va.]) 1800-1803, 1802-05-13

rated uQtil you had done everv n; ''a'
the militia which you could have .5 lot
were an enemy at CIR door" Yo, t tsa
feparated inAead of eve,y tbin S| nave
have done nothin3, and PtcfdentjsI y! wv
iure falls heavily on your heads. 'S''
(" But our revenue is faai:ieat and y,
we take off the taxes and pay Of al =! .
deot." Glorions nev,! A1nir,bI,sIu.l'iae'
lators! 1oar revenue /. fuHcisnt '5a'
treafury is fall. But was it y,p, va Va
nitration thar filled it, Did yoa riE 'r ao,.
popularity by laying taxes TO 3. yoa
the country from inlult and ao,, ~r..i
and to pay off the debtf was n a1 W.
Giles for lhutting himtelf 10 in hi, sa I
when French rapacisy was pIan3eri,a 49,, :,
in every quarter' Did you not cl.sr,
for paying of tie public debt and YET a,
poi; the means Of doing it, Hay, W,
not now greatly dlminihed the reiopr,
for extinguilhlns that deb, by abofSi.'
the whole internal revenue? IF it w.
right that part ofthe internal take, .snrg
be repealed, yet would not the ro,.
have cheerfuily fubnitted at leaf n,
part for fsw years longer if their ptoI,,.
were honettly applied to the extiog,b
ment of the debt ? Since the internal r,Y,
tended to equaIizc taxation in different
paris Of the country, Gnca the fyAen va |
already in operation, fnce various even,
might render it Of high importance 70
-oantry to be in poattIion Of tbeR r:ion.
ces, Gnce at any rate rheir amount migr /
have efeaed a much more fpeedy ezia. |
guifhment Of the public debt, let any Re. |
aecting man fay whether it wa, prsI.a
to aboliih the whole interna, r.venu. and /
cut it up root and branch !! Ifhowev..r I
lources 10 rhe amount Of the internal rys
nue. could attualIybe fpared, oughtnndI
high duties on coffee, bohea tea, 5rogah.
gar and Eal 10 have been diminiheII
thofe on refined fusars and pleafura5Ie carl
ages retained? Let" the mouth ofabr,"
lets,he poor and middling claGes Of 6.rYI
who pay thefe duies make the rlLI
Let reaion and humanity, ju&ice ardfad
policy anfwer the queaion and the? na'
Fay, yes.
"But we have made proviGon for w'
ing off the whole DEBT" Indeed I've
are glad TO hear il; bat what proris!
/" We have appropriated 10 many uilha
annually" Oh! thas i: you have r.
mJtd to pay at f1ch time, but evsTn
knows that promlGng and payingm"
very different tElngs. Are you i"n
will have 70 rauch to { pare? IfyoapJa Il
much on thai fcore will you have oes'
left for other parpofes! viii not The q
pott be dilninilhed by the return Of nA
by oar lofs of the carrying trade aa1
general fagnation Of commerce.
you not be obliged to borrow again.
fat is that d loan IS authorized BY IL
very Dill which by its title promlit' io2
Of tt,s DEBT, and sarious agencies arD
vic, authorized ST a confederate eEpH~ /
It was therefore With propriety urged T
the federalifs that the title Of ia:D
hould be changed from that Of o..
provide for the redemption Of the '2
public leor, INFO that OF Dill 0@J
er,ain prayidons Rejecting tie fa%
3sbt an authorizing re-loan OF P1'@
On the other hand, had not PIT a T..
debt been actually discharged BY l% ,,r,1
ner administrations, and were no. -. n
provided for it, extioguichment, saa
eft TO themfelve8 would have accom-.
ed that object without em5sta'q'. .. %
The Mint Of the Un.td sal"
marked our blythe ruling fec" "'
tru6fion. That eaabl.lhment' oot
Ggns of national iovereigog, "1 :.
to annihiIatlon BY a ll palsd n ps
Of representatives. The couo''J loe
gain to have been aoo3ed with 0'r
with barrels n fraudulent cOPP7
mi with peIiihaOJ'