Alexandria advertiser and commercial intelligencer. [volume] (Alexandria [Va.]) 1800-1803, 1802-05-13

Vered up the Berceau? What vast waicn
induced the administration to indulge the
.oficers of the Berceau with $40 dollars,
land a proportional allowance until en-
,arkation, while they are 70 rigid with
y ur own officers Were thele marks or
1endlhip return for the millions which
the great republic kindly took charge OF,
and askindly keep, or was it an invltatl-
on 70 make free uie of American property
in the Wet Indies, or on the plan OF 60
vernon Monroe, to accept loan to bere-
paid, if convenient No matter which 1t
was-King Buonaparre and we are liter
rebubAcg, and friends make no account OF
tribes. Whar was it, again, which
prompted governor M'Kean and tecreta.y
Dearborn to provide 70 !handfomely for
their relations : Was It economy which
induced the attorney general TO accept
5000 dollars year, for an almof iinecure
otfice, ana be ablent from the feat of 60
vernment half the time? What could pof-
ibly induce ALBEIT Gallatin to receive
5000 dollars year, when he formerly
voted againf 20 large fun, when the
fame Office was held by another man =
Was it economy which induced the ma
jority in congreis to revive an expired law
rating the aIaries of the public officers,
when fome Of that majority formerly vot-
ed againif fuch falaries Was it regard
for economy, or love for fPeclfc appro-
priations, which would rot permit thefe
iaiaries to be revived difinaly, bit vot-
ed for them in m2Cs.s Was this fpecifc ap-
preparation or @coaomy / Il was NOT
Was it economy that prevented the M
joriries of the TWO houfes from reducing
their fix dollars day, which fome Of
them complained agsina as too high, at 2
tine when every thing was at war prices !
Was ii economy which prevented them
from reducing their daily allowance even
TO FIVE dollars, in iealon ST peace, when
-four has fallen and bufinefs &agnated
Economy is the magic which is to pull
down every eaablifhment of the federal
fyt}em. Was it economy then which
prolonged the felton, for FIVE months at an
inmenfe expence, when the mott OF il
went into the pockets Of the hon. and fru-
gal gentlemen themf Ives?
Did all thefe things, it is aked, proceed
from economy and patriotifm No, but
from the love of power and of cath.
In one point Of view the prefent congrefs
have, It is agreed, done much. But
when we confder what time and patience,
and wiidon are reqoired to build up, and
how calily and rapidly folly and violence
can pull down and defroy, the ma jorities
of the late felton, cannot even on this
ground claim the praiie Of ingenuity or a.
bility. Bus when tae friends of the con-
ltitution and the country look back on
what thefe Rlajorities have accomplished,
emotions of ltronger nature than con-
tempt itfe!f are awakened grief and in
dignation are excited.
The convention with France and peace
in Europe reRdsred reduttion OF expen-
ces prudent and necetlary, and federal
administration would have reduced them
when the purpoies for which they were in
Cured no longer demanded them. Bur
let the public Judge whether this adminif-
tracion willnot reduce the.arny tea dwarf
ith ikete on, and TIE navy to rotten holk.
Let our cities and merchants determine
what will at lae becon1e Of an unpeote6;-
ed commerce and revenue levied entire
IL upSn it. Let the farmers determine
what p-ice their produce will bear if trade
IS defroyed. Let the military man, ant
me fdtefman calculate what thefe mighty
iavings may colt the country if the war
iholld De renewed in Europe, if French
or Englilh haughtiaeis and rapacity lhould
be relunled, if Louiian& ihould come int
the hands of the French, if the war in the
MA TrJse. opl ti,o -. &c