Alexandria advertiser and commercial intelligencer. [volume] (Alexandria [Va.]) 1800-1803, 1803-03-16

fiCf ~ mere, duut s'''s-SSot oa' $500
/ no where elfe. Vet we are told that 40
| unfortunate debtor, who unfortunately
ATTEMPTS TO defraud his creditors NAY
have the misfortune TO be puni!hed. Gen
| tlen,en might as well FAY thar owing TO
the unfortunate cupidity Of The midnight
thief who broke inro a houfc and deipoii-
| ed lis tenant OF his property, or owing 70
! the fill more unfortunate man who raviih-
ed his neighbours daughter, &c onghe
not to be punilhed. How is the tact u'l-
der this law !? Deliberate fraa1', and that
only, is punihed.
The gentleman from Virginia fays
this law is an,i-rcpubl;can in lis nature
and tendency. If 70, | ara as ready to re-
peal il as himfelf as | believe am as
much attached 10 rePublican.lm he he It.
But how is it anti-repub!ican Btcaple'
it is iaid, il operates more upon one ciais
OF citizans than upon another. Ii this
circumitance make in anji-repuolIcan,
there is rot a law in exilence that
is not anti-republican there is not
law, which we have paded, or can pals,
that does not at one time operate more
upon the claCs than another. What was
the operation Of the tax upon fills,
| ffamps, and thoufand OTHER articles
Yet among all the objections to thoie
laws | never heard this RATED as an OBJ
lection. IF any man conider it anti
| republican and unequal, he has only TO
make himfelt trader, and it at once be-
comes to him republican and equal. Bot
70 far was this OBJECTION from arillng
IN my mind as poAible, that I was about
to urge the oppofse argument, and to
recommend the law TO the APPRECIATION
of one Ede Of the IIouie on the princi-
| pie of It's being republican in its nature
and operation, ard which ! fncerely
think ought to recommend it to both
Gdes. 1t is republican oeraufe it is e
| quail in It's effects it divides the pro-
pesty of the debtor equally among his
creditors and republicanifm is founded
upon equality. It is not only republican,
but moreover it is equitable.
I have already gone farther than |
intended. Gentlemen who have fpcken
! have gone very wide from the quei
ton before the houfe. ! found it neceRary
in fome meaGure to follow them. 1t the
fubjeel is poapcned, further remarks will
be unnecefary; and if another decition
/ ihalI prevail, it will then De in order TO
make them.
! The queRion was then taken, by yeas
and nays, on Mr. Grifwold's motion to
poitpone the fubjed until the next ief
ion, and carried Yeas 5o-Nays So
as follow:
Yeas Mcafc. Alton, Bayard, Boude,
Brent, CstnpbelI, Condid, Cutler, Dana,
Dayenporf, Early, Eimer, Euf;s, A.
| Foaer, Fowler, Goddard, Gregg, Grif-
void, Grove, Hannah, D. Heifer,
| tIolms, Henderton, Hill, Hoge, Huger,
Hunt, Lowndes, NATION, Meriwether,
Mitchin, t. Morris, Mott, Nlchollon,
Perkins. Platter, Reed, Rutledge, Shep-
ard, John \. omiln, }. oiliih, N. : y.
/ Smith, Southland, Stanley, lenney
/ Thatcher, Tillinghaa, Van Cortland,
! Wadfworth, L. Williams, Wood. 50.
Nays MeGIs, Archer, Bacon, Bailey,
! Bi(hop, Brown, Butler, Cabell, Clay,
Clopton, Cuts, DAYTON, Dicklon, e.
mendorf, Cray, Hafings, ]. Heiiter,
II llsnl, Holnes, Jackion, Leib, New,
! New:on, jun, Randolph jun. Smile, llartl
Smith, !. Smith, JofAh Smith, Stanford,
/ stewarc, TaliaH-ro. jun. Thompion, A.
| Trisg, 7. Trigg, Upham, Tarnum, Van
| Horne, r. Williams, Vim, Wynns,
| 80.
| From THE GAZETTE OF THE Y. STATES.