Alexandria advertiser and commercial intelligencer. [volume] (Alexandria [Va.]) 1800-1803, 1802-05-29

3 g. a. exiting law, they might be COM
.,ed and adly, That IN many cafes
Ii grant would confer a handioms gla'ui.
sb;la in others it would nor cover sne
'sy' - Zone unmarried men receiving
r. ialarics, and fome who had families
beag ar low ones.
q Further, the Legislature had regularly
<,y.red by fablequent appropriations, the
.-nces Incurred by the officers and clerks
he leyeral renewals OF the offices from
.&b;laselphis, in confequence OF the raya-
! fthc yellow fever-and yet, during
a, ,b,fe removals. " the officers and clerks
- n the frvice and pay Of the govern
.r.o,. and received the full amount other
|&sIaries, excluGvely of thefe extraordinary
allowances, as well as during tae time IN
which the expences of removal 10 the dH-
8, r,4 of Columbia were incurred.
i Under thefe circumstances could there
h. any heG,a,ion or doubt in the minds
|Inf Re administration as to the proper
'eourfe to be purfued ? MIR. Lisingiton
Ewi,h a falary of9ooo dollars Per annum,
L. an outfit Of 5000 dollars more
80 Whit in the iervice and pay of the
6eoyernment" was, by our preient ccono-
snical administration turnilhed with the
ts extraordinary allowance" OF national
EfriQ ate to carry him and his family to the
SpIsce at which bis future feryices were re-
kquired, and yer the penetrating eyes OF the
Ainvefigating committee could not lee any
impropriety in this !" extraordinary al
lowance''- and YET the expenfes OF clerk,
who has perhaps for many years ierved tue
government faithfully, at 2 pittance OF
\ about 6 or 100 dollars per annum, who is
leaving his friends, his home, to continue
! Dis ieryices, at a place where the neceiia-
ries of life are 70 much dearer than At the
place which he left, as foon to require
from the confederation of the Legislature
gsu addition of IS per cent. to his falary
4 remuneration of the expenfes, under fucb
fcircrmGauces, is held up as an unjufihable
Expenditure of public money.
4 Oihame where is thy bluih
n But, while the committee were upon
Eshis fubjett, why did they not give Con-
greis iome information relative 10 charge
(which has been made in the public papers,
Ragain& very ufeful and faithful friend of
1 the Irilhman who edites the Aurors-I
mean, citizen Anthony Campbell, late
CLERK in a public Office, and now worthy
iubaltern in the armies whereof that fecond
Scipio, Thomas Jeferfon, is commander
in chief: The charge was very much, if not
exactly TO this purpofc-that tie fad kn-
theny, being a clerk in public Office, at
4 the time of she removal of the offccs at
tsched TO the feat Of government, Gid re
.ceiye certain fun Of money from the pro.
per officer TO defray the expences cf his re-
moyal, but that he, notwithstanding, die
not repair to the City OF Waning ten, and
did refuie to return the f4iae whcrcppon,
70 ufe the words of the committee in the
cafe of the father confeaor, Randolph, q
iuit was inltituted againf him." &c. 1t
Ba pity that the patrio,ic committee did
not bear fome tefimony TO exoaeFate this
faithful and worthy public isryans from
this charge 70 publicly made. As he Is OF
the iea," il is impcfible that the
charge lhould be true, but denial of il,
from faeb authority would uneuefionabiy
have covered his vile calumniators with
reproach and dilgrace. They could pafs-
by citizen Randolph's deficit of 6xty thoH {
land dollars with two lines yindicati.
on of the faithful public fervants of their
own " ieff'' would have been very pref
~ reliekto the black lift of crimes which
they have brought to light, and charged.
upon the members Of the tormer adlaiai-
,irations: they might then, when they
held up the pictures ofvirtue and vice, Of
dhnierefed patriotifrn, iuch as glows m
Inc breaits of Randolph, Lamb, Duane and
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