Alexandria advertiser and commercial intelligencer. [volume] (Alexandria [Va.]) 1800-1803, 1802-05-10

eiieghsre will happen here --thefe gensls-
men are not mafons in politics and govern
ment-they cannot build up again they
are mere lappsrs and miners and lfthey pull
DOVE the mild government, shoie.whocome
after them will build up defpotic one.
IF you will not reject this meafure, pot
poae il for a year--the people want no
change Of our contribution, give them
but time, and my lie on it they will
ay f--she sPrehdsnt will refpe6a pub
lie opinion, give time for its expreaion
and the Pfeident will fubordinate his
deGre to deftroy, to theirs to preferye.
Is there no groani upon which gentle
men will meet US and compromne ? IF
the remnant Of the army is dilliked, we
will aboli(h IL; if a further Reduction of
our little navy is deired, we wiil.reduce
it we will join in aboliihing the inter
nal revenues ); indeed, indeed, fir, there
is no lacr,dce we will not make 70 pre-
vent the facrihce of this conititution.
Gentleman fay, the eonRitution will
live ]; fir, it may laf our time, but it
will drag oat miferable exifence after
receiving this wound it will be mortal ;
inai:t it and you doom it to ruin; like
the belt and mott lovely part of Gods Gre
alton, violate and you defroy it; as has
been oblerved in the Houfe above by a
coantryman and honorable friend of mine,
that it will be with th, contribution as
with confined fluid; if a drop of it ef-
capes, the leak through which it eeals,
will foon become breach by which the
whole will pats away. This bill is an
egg which will produce brood Of NOR
tai consequences. Although the blow
aimed at the contitution VII not imredi-
ately defroy, the injurious effects will be
Immediately felt; it will iooa proltrate
public confidence; it will Immediately de-
Preciate the value of public property, who
will bay your lands' Who will open
your Wefern foreas! Who will build
upon the hills and cultivate the valleys
which here furround US? He muf be a
fpeculator indeed, and his purfe muft over
flow, who would buy your weaern lands
and city lots, if there be no independent
tribunals where the validity Of your III
ties will be confirmed, Have gentlemen
forgot the fales of public lands made in
France; The national domain was fold for
allignates; after they had bsen we'll fold
and one infalment paid, the terms of pay
ment were changed and the purchaiers
were Obliged to pas in fpecie or relinqu.ih
the lands. Sir, look at home and we fee
examples to prove the neceGity of an in
depenaant judiciary. Have we not feen
fate fell its Weifern lands, and after
wards declare the law under which they
were made null and void. Their nailify-
ing law would have been declared void,
had they had an indepedent judiciary.
Whenever in any country Judges are de-
pendent, property is iniccure. An no.
norable gentleman from Kentucky fays,
he does not want TO feek examples acrols
the Atlantic. Sir, is this wife; are we
to fhut our eyes to the light OF hiaory and
turn away from the voice Of experience.
Sir, the untatored. Indian marks on his
tomahawk great events as they pats, and
augurS what will happen from knowing
what has happened, and fhall we travel
on withou, noticing the finger boards e
retted by hiforians for our fecurity' The
gentleman centuries our having noticed
France, and read pafage from fpeech
of the luxurious Warrington, where he
called the French great and wife people
What has been the fate Of this gallant
people ? Where is their contribution We
have ieen La Fayette in the camp de Mars
at the head of $4,000 warriors who with
one hand grazing their fwords and the
other laid on the altar, wore in the pre-