Alexandria advertiser and commercial intelligencer. [volume] (Alexandria [Va.]) 1800-1803, 1803-02-15

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40 agreeable; and YET there wele others
which deieryed attention. The gept!eman
lat up from NIaaachuieits ms. Ihateh-
ef had adverted 10 memorial from
late cR;cer Of government tMr. M'flsn-
ry) he was rot prelent when that memo
rial was read, but he could never Zee Tie
drift Of it, unlefs il were to have isp5snt-
ed, in order tia, ii might SO forth 10 he
world, and perhaps create prejudice a
gainif the prcfest adlnini.tfation. The
gentleman had iaid hat his efpohtioR 10
the petition woald be the fame, had II
made iiniIar reference to the preient as
il had 10 the former administration. Ecw
could that be his ientiment, when he On
certain location, during the preient lei
zion, declared by bis folemn vote that he
bad no confidence in the executive, he
was at lois to determine
Mr.. Thatcher did not know wha, had
led the gentleman {Mr.S. Smith, TO con
Glide thar the late fecretary's Object IN
prsfcn,inp his memorial to the houie was,
10 have il printed. IF he had been pre-
fent he would have known that there was
no at,emps, in the houfa TO PRINT; nor e
ven a motion to commit It. Although
he conGdered the gentleman from Mary
laod (Mr. S. smith, out Of order IN re-
earring 10 the votes respecting the affairs
of New Orleans, he would take the ilRer
ty 10 obierve,; tear the vote which ne al
luded 10 was forced upon the minority.
That gentlemen with whom he had the
honor TO vote on that occafon, fated to
the houie feveral very important ohJeeti-
ons 70 tha, flQgfs OF The reiolution pre-
tented by the gentleman from Virginia
M. Randolph one Of which, was, that
i, pledged the houie Of REPRESENTATIVES 10
.wsit the illu- Of fuch afeelates as the Elk
ecu,iye fhould have adooted, without
Knowing what fhy eee'e. lie believed
that many gentlemen in the majority had
ilnce found reafon TO doubt the policy OF
their vote upon that occafion.
MIR. Smile faid tie gentleman from
M8faehufetts (Mr Thatcher had fafed
frong objections 10 fome OF the expFet-
Gons Of the pstition. He acknowledged
that there were fome things which he
wilhed hadsnot been iulertsd but il lone
parts of il were wrong, why fhouid they
reject the commitment OF thofe parts
which were uoexceptionable- He would
ipf mention the fituation of thofe people
in the year 1898, and 90 when the Ali
en- law was in operation. When he con-
& defed the feelings thofe people mua have
experienced from their iiiuatiun at that
time, he thought there were iome ex-
cufe for them. He believed every iat
fated ia the petition was true. TIER
Gtuation under the Alien law was truly
dreadful. They were at the mercy OF
the PRECEDENT and liable TO be baniihed from
the country upon the complaint of a. lin
gle individual. Whatever the gentleman
from MAAachufsits tMr. Thatcher might
think, he thought, for hlmfslf, thats his
declaration by alolemn vote, that he had
no confidence in the executive was quite
as iniulting as any thing contained 10 that
petition.
MIR. Elmer hoped it would not be
referred 10 committee. He thought the
gentleman (Mr. Leib) who Prefented il,
was wrong, after what lad taken place
yeaerday. That petition he faid, was
NOT of the nature which ought TO have
come from Aliens. He would do eve
ry thing for that clafs of people which
humanity and policy would juaify; but
they were not to inja't that bog/s nor the
uation. When they thus rehetted on the
government, they fhoud have recolleaed
that every government claimed, or ought
TO claim the RICH, of regulating It's own
concerns. He had no idea that fuch LAM
guage (aould be addrefed to American
Representatives.
Mr.. Nichofon did not recolled that he
had ever voted againit petition till the