Alexandria advertiser and commercial intelligencer. [volume] (Alexandria [Va.]) 1800-1803, 1802-02-08

the reyefle by .saroying ,hole very OIL.
.ces! No, fir, my ambition on this a.
l tru& it will De on, all other locations,
IS to pat down fyitem fundamentally
pernicious. have itAsed the grounds OF
which / deem i; fo,and am ready to mee
the lentiment OF my country.
We are now told that we are to fll.
! pend this buinefs for a lhorr time &c
top US from Ealing thu death warrant
Of The contribution. Let me tell theis
i jen, whatever expre6ions OF ter.
rcr they may make, that they PATS by
nv ear like the wind, AMI leave NOT a
race behind Where Is the pr-cipta-
ION talked OF 1: D;t not the difeuiiion
originate on the Ssh Of Jaedary, and
did not the buineis travel as flow As
t could Hal not gentlemen acknow-
| -.ged it had been fully and deliberate
~ oiculled He knew but one fubjea
,hich nad been 70 tuIiy d:fcud:d. What
IAN this ielett committee do? Have
gentlemen anfvered my arguments on
his point? If our opinions on the con-
,ituiionali,y of the bill are 70 various
and contradictory, what can We expect
.ro:n the magic Of a co.n.nitte but de-
lay? / am fure, therefore, gen:lcncn
are not ferrous, when thy protels an e<-
.,e>ta,pon tina, the report will furniih
plan of accommodation. The principle
mutt be lettIed here.
Mr.. Morris begged leave to nen-
toned tina. the hatement made by the
honorable member firm kentucky as
*, was not tat. Half Of it was tru. !;
he gentlemen had laid we will liaen to
40 amendment, we viii have iin?!e re-
cal. But i, was not tree, that this
ride of the h,ui. had declared the fyl-
I'm was pure, and admitted not Of a.
nendinent. 1t had, or the contrary,
.,seo Acknowledged BY every member,
hat had f ok~n, 10 be capable OF ia'-
,t,ycnea,, anu g~ntlem-n had been
cai,1 upon to point out the desettire
ars.
Bat, f.ys n gentlemen from Xe,
lutky, W vii! have no MODIFICATION ii
ne ',l'. l. tina: sentleins. taen the
,,@@pcr IF tn: Conferences OF half the
1,ui., and the oshse hiif 200! TaS
, i ,ies e OF pfeii.nption l a-ve' before
n>ai OF; thar he ihonld get up and lay,
toat nothing cou,d DE- 'ofered which
would be approved Of. Mr.. Morris be-
iieyed fyAem could be deviied better
than either the old o. the new one.
Nay, Mr.. Morris laid, he would ap
peal to the language Of the gentleman
himfe!f, who told us that after all We
were content to repeal tn: law 70 tina,
we fpased the judges. Did not men,.
Der from Connecticut declare, that he
mad voted aga;n.t the law lalt felton,,
believing it then, and till believing it t.
be bad che. He could 60 on citing eve
Try member, that had fpoken On this Gde,
to the fame effect.
Mr.. Breckenridge replied, that the
gentleman lat up lad inflated what h.
had faid, and built all his obf:rvation.
upon it. He appealed to the houle, whe.
Their he had not rated in 70 many words,
when he made the motion to-day, tia,
all the gentlemen in the oppoGtion had
during the whole courle of the diicuflion,
contended that the courts and judges could
not be put down. He had not fad, tina.
all the gentlemen in the oppoftion were
oppofed to any amendment Of the fyf.
tenn; and therefore, there vas no poifbi.
lily Of the committees forming any fyf-
tern to meet the wines of both fdes OF
the boufe.
Mr. Cooke fpoke in favor Of ,le mo-
ton.
Mr.. S. T. Mafon faid, he had thought
his friend from Kentucky had Rated
grounds, that would no, have been treat.
ii 70 rudeIy and abruptly by the gentle
man fron New York, who had 70 fern
ly reproached him with the charge ofprc-
famption. His friend had Aated truly,
I that the queaion was repeal, or no, re-