Alexandria advertiser and commercial intelligencer. [volume] (Alexandria [Va.]) 1800-1803, 1802-05-13
FRoN THE Washington FrDrRAL1sr.

have been exp.tte1 iron democratic zeal
and diintereifeinels, that we are natural.
ly led to enquire what it has proiuced. -
The meeting Of tn. FIR rsbublcau con-
grefs was announced witch JOY as part of
that g glorious revolution which had
been effected, AMI as a new ara pregnant
withdeligatfal wonders. The mountains
hav. f1ssn Ave months in labor what have
they broughs forths
When we review tbs works of theie
&c great councils of the nation," the frit
: thing which &rikes US, is, that no mutual
nunoerpt laws private or public have been
paa, thar many Of thofe pal are Of trivial
importance, or in the ordinary routine of
bu6nels, and that therefore democracy can
: claim no angular merit on account OF the
MATS Of bulinefs accomplished. On the
contrary, there has certainly been an unu-
fual fhare of ignorance and abfurdity, Of
plumbers, embarrassment and delay. The
iefion has not however, It is cheerfully
acknowledged, been productive of no be-
nehr. 1t has afforded the public fome ufe-
fol lenons, it has torn the Elaa1 from falfe-
hood and brought important truths 70
Light.
The meaage of the PRECEDENT, read at
the opening Of The FELTON,, taught the pub
lie, that notwithstanding all that had been
Gaid about the dangers Of executive inauo
ence in the Legislature, thar influence was
now employed. To originate money bills
is the peculiar prerogative Of the houfe OF
Representatives, yet the PreGdens trongly
recommended the abolition Of all the in
ternal taxes, when that recommendation
going out to the public would itfelt virtu-
ally abolifhthem, would render their con-
tiruance not only unpopular but almof
impradicable. Was not this pointed re-
commentator, on fach flbject, overitep-
ping the lphere of Office, or at leaf the
bounds OF propriety And when the exc
sutive marked out for Destruction that por-
tion of the judiciary fyfem recently en-
acted, and fent his document to diiplace ff-
teen federal Judges from Offices (Which BY
The eoaf,tafio1 they hid during good beba-
v,or, was not this employing executive
influence Was il nor employing 1t for an
unjutti6able purpofe?
Mr.. Pickering had long been charged
with embezzling public monies, and the
hour had arrived which was 10 confirm the
charge and damn him and federalifm to
everlafing infamy. But fcarcely had the
ienion commenced, when diAinguiihea
perion in the party, a6fuated by candor or
by cunning, expreded his belief in the ir-
overwhelmingly of thar illuminated
man. That opinion, founded no doubt
ION ofeialinteNi3ence, has been confirmed
sby an official report from the head of the
treafury Experimentation that very man,
who, as we have been told, abetted, or
>connived at the villany OF perjured clerk
TO cloud the fair fame of one OF the mott
upright OF men and fbfsrye the purpoies
of a vile ambition. Happy indeed will it
be for the people, if the Gsneyan and his
coadjutors fhaA go out Of Office withhands
as clean as thofe of this rigidly honef pub
lie officer and his colleagues. ii they do,
It WILDE more than has happened with one
Of their predece1ors Of the fame fchool. .
No longer able 10 deny orconccal the in
tegrity OF Mr.. Pickering they have charg-
ed him with not adhegins in every cafe to
ipecihc appropriations. The preddent too
in his menage, has recommended g fpeci-
6c appropriations for every purpofe capa.
bIeof definition" We might therefore
imagine that he made fpecidc appropria-
tions, 70 much per diem, pay and rations,
for every man, woman and child, faddle
horfe and coach. hor:e which he has in his
palace, kitchen orfables, and that it was
death to eat one day more than ano-
Their. Wemight fuppoie that he limited
h;s cOHse bic {onnc and HE ,neatc HE r,af