Alexandria advertiser and commercial intelligencer. [volume] (Alexandria [Va.]) 1800-1803, 1802-03-26

tion. An honorable member from VIZ
ginia (Mr. Giles, not now in his place,
who as however, taken an active
part in the debate, and who without
dilpafagement to other gentlemen, may
be regarded, as the premier, or prime
miniaer of the day, promifed US on
former location, that he would endea-
vor to take this cour!e. He told US, that
if party limitations ever could be buried,
the fubiett OF the bill before US was the
mott proper to induce both fdes Of the
houie TO make an effort 10 that effect;
that he hoped and i!ncereiy wiihed al!
ex;.anccGs ard toreign matter might
be land aide that gentleman would
meet the queltion WIN cooineis sad
temper, and make up their opinions on
the tubjeSt with view merely to the
Gmple merits of the cafe. And II l
am not greatly mi.tabcn, the honorable
member pledged .himieif, thai ne would
endeavor to enforce this doctrine by his
own example. But what was the iact ?
Had that gentleman confined hi:nielf in
the linalleit degree to the real merit of
the cafe Had he not on the contrary,
put his memory and invention equally TO
the rack, in order to ferret our proper
fubje6ts for iirrita,ien, and TO excite to
the tighe.t pitch, the party feelings and
party fpirit of the committee. Had he
not gone back to the very commence
ment of the government, given an ex.
paratc history of ali its operations for
twelve long years and brought to Our
recollection every topic, every fubjsct,
which during this period had been cor
jured up and made ute CT to prejudice
and inAame the public mind againf
thoie who have hctofore administered
the government He had not been "a
tisIied TO avail k;n!clf even of living OBJ
jsct, but had raked up the a'hes OF the
dead, not certainly to prove the expedi-
ency or confuut!onaiity of the meaiure
propoled, but for the charitable pu,poie
OF throwing an odium on his political
opponents. SO ac was he indeed from
combining himielf, as he had promiied,
to the point in di!pute, that his io!e aim,
his ooly Object would icen to have been
to thew that the ACT of the lait ieh!on was
paaed with party views, and party Pur-
poles, and upon the the fame grounds ought
now to DE done away.
When gen,l mar Of fuch high talents
and ex,eniive requirements, addreHes HIM
felffo much to the paiIlons and party
feelings. and 70 little to the reafon
and understanding Of his audience does
it not, fir, afford arong pre!ump:ion,
that he is neither Convinced of me found
ncls of the doctrine he advances, nor iasis-
fed with the frength of the arguments he
has to adduce in iu.pors of the aeAiure, he
wiihes to carry
l ohlerve, MIR. Chairman, on running
my eye over the notes which have taken
il the courle of the prelens debate, one
Circumstance, which has been noticed by
feveral gentlemen, & upon which they dwell
with apparent triumph. They tell US,
that the members OF the preient congreis
were elettel with view to the repeal OF
the at of the Taft ieiiion; that the people
have thereby lhcwn their high diiapproba-
ton of the new organization of the judici-
ary, then adopted; and have expreded in
manner not to be m;lunderltood, their fen
rinents in favour of the constitutional doc
trine now comended for. Gentlemen
fhould really however, coniult facts and
dates, before they indulge themfelves IN
theie round attentions. Is it not, fir, in
the preient inFance notorious to every bo-
DIV, that the great majority, three fomths
at leaH OF the menbers Of the prefent con-
erels, were choten antecedent to the pat
iage of the law in queftion. The eleed-
on., it is well known, had taken place in
South Carolina, North. Carolina, Penn
fyivania, New Ierley, New York and
| believe, all the Nev-England States,
before it was adopted. How then, can
gentlemen pretend to tell us at this day,