Alexandria advertiser and commercial intelligencer. [volume] (Alexandria [Va.]) 1800-1803, 1802-01-19
Congrsfs Of TIE untten Suites.
HOUSE OF RRPRsssSrATIyRy.


HOUSE OF RsrRssssrATIrss.
TUESDAY, January
DEB.ATE
oa the Akportienment Bill, es mstiaa
made ly Mr.. Bayard to Fske ar 80,
and ;g/tn 10000.
CONTINUED.
Mr.. Bayard faid tina, he would fur
nifa the koule with fome information re-
ipeefing the propoition alluded to by the
gentleman from New York. The pro-
petition had been made. He would In
form the houfe by whom it been
made ard what were the motives Of
thoie who made il. 1t had been made
by ale, Of msn once called Jacobins, then
democrats, and who now call themlelves
republicans. l, had been oppofed by the
federaiiits, who, having mo!t ftrensth,
trullrated it. II had been the deiire & ef-
fort OF the former deicription of men to
get all the offices Of the tate into their
hands, in which having failed, they with
ed to be annexed to Pennly:vania, where
democratic principles held fway.
MIR. Van Nefs. After the great d,f
play of talents and abilities which we
have had upon this iubj G., it is not to be
expected thar | ihali rife to detain you
more than a moment or two. / have al.
tented, Sir, with great Difference and re-
fPets to all the gentlemen who have been
up before me. have heard an eloquent
diicui,ion, extremely entertaining anu
Improving, but which being rather too
much confined to abarait principles, 1
think has not been in all its parts imme-
diatejy applicable to the queaion before
US.
Gentlemen, Sir, furely deierve credit
for their candor at leait, who avow their
motives to be local prepoaeiious c. par
tialities. Considerations of this kind,
particular attachments appear indeed too
operative in the preient cafe; but, Sir,
think, and believe, the ient;ment is
Common 20 majority OF my colleagues,
that we ought not to be wholly attua,ed
by iuch motives. We have heard much
upon the quefion, whether We are the
representatives of the. itases Tor of the
people of the d;Geranr itates) or whe.har
we are the representatives Of the qy5ok
people of the United States! l mutt con-
ffs, Sir, that the moment l enter this
houle l eonGder myielf as bound by &c.
neral obligations towards the whole ma
tion. My obligations and duties extend
to all the United States, and in an att OF
national legilation, l do rot feel myieli
juaihed in confulsing the particular a.d
more immediate inSereh Of any individual
fate as contradiRinguiihed from thoie OF
the others. No arrangement, tending
in its reillt to general benefit or aavan.
tage, ought to be varied or rejected s'ere-
ly upon the ground of partial inconveni-
ence 70 am particular tate. This doc
trine, tavors too much of that narrow.
nets, Of that contracted il!iberality which
GU, ht never TO govern the mind Of the
leg failure. He ihould take extenGve
y,cvs of his fabjett, and BE- influenced
only by liberal policy.
Oar government is, after all, bot a
government of experiment. We have
Opened new road to ourielves, and are
travelling on in it without knowing to a
cer,.nty what dangers may await us by
the way. We lheuid therefore, Sir, pro-
coed,
Viii eautiaus feps nna Nszr."
We have been in Number as low as s..
We have crcrcaisd to Io6. We now
propofe to rifle to III (at $4,000 that
is to comfortably more than dupliea-
ton in aoous 3or "a years. Is not
this, Sir, advancing with pretty rapid
nrides! We all acknowledge we mutt
Aop fomewhere.
There is a certain point, Sir, that point
where iecurisy and convenience tor the
traniaetion OF public bulineG meet, which
we muis no, PATS ii we DO we may find
it dlficalr and undertaking to recede.-
The contribution of human nature is
iuch that We are all era;ided with the en-