Berkeley and Jefferson intelligencer. [volume] (Martinsburg, Va.) 1802-1810, 1803-03-25

Gus to the appointment Be enabled from
other evidence, toascertafn the most Just
and adequate allowance for his services
But it seems that to differ from my opo,
nent upon any subject is sufficient fol-
censure and discomfort among his friends,
But this win not deter me from mentio-
ming other subjects upon which have
presumed to exercise my own opinion in
OPPOSITION to his. I did presume to vote
against the bin for selling the GOVERNOR e
house and lot with other buildings, yal1-
ed at twenty thousand dollars, and apply
ing the money, with an appropriation oi
three thousand more towards building q
more elegant house for his Excellency.
did also presume to vote against the bill
for, building another Lunatic Hospital and
aPproPriating 8 5000 more for that. Il
was my, humble opinions. that a house
which had been deemed sufficient for .
Jefferson, or Henry, might satisfy their
successors, and when it IS remembered,
that the FIRST appropriation has search,
ever put the roof upon public building,
theteois no calculating what might have
been the expense, added 10 this 4 new sci
Of furniture, suited to this magnificent edi-
fee, new Kitchen, Coach. House, Ice.
House, Office, &c. &c. &c. confess
alarmed my weak mind. Asto the build.
ing another lunatic-hospital, recollecl
no reason for the measure, but in one
solitary instance, two patients bad been
confined in one cell--but as Major Ste.
phenson supported both these measures
which will venture to assert would not
have cost less than Fifty thousand dollars,
besides an annual appropriation Of 5000
dollars for the hospital, 0he expense Of
that at Williamsburg is {, 500 dollars and
the danger Of increasing the overnors So
>k.ryin proportion to the elegance ofhis
house, his friends are perfectly silent and
satisfied. twas in opposition to Major
Stephenson, a warm and jealous friend to
the senatorial-bill, which would have
given US two senator's instead Of one, and
our due weight in the highest branch Of
the legislature, and in this opinion not
withstanding the censure and misrepre-
sentation of his friends, / was supported
bysThore than two-thirds of the western
deiegation.-The shameful and redicp-
lous cry Of; negro representation, negro
law, and placing the negroes below upon q
footing with the whites above, are false
and slanderous, and intended to deceive
Your understandings by exciting your
passions. If q portion of slaves are count
ed among heynumber of human beings,
the Constitution of the United States has
given Us the example, but it does not fol.
low that they are either represented o.
have any privilege ia consequence Of their
being so considered and let me inform
you my friends, that the few counties
which form this district, possess within a
fraction as many Of these people as al the
western part Of the state besides. In thus
contrasting our conduct, am / actuated
by spirit OF retaliation or elimination
far from il. only mean to defend my
own and to shew that l also am willing 10
save the public money from unnecessary
disbursements, and that we are both will
ling to expend it when in our judgment
the public good requires il. -.
- * OSBORN SPRIGG..
N. B. 1t appears from areport Of
the committee appointed to examine in
to the expenditures ofthe Executive, that
3 s, 900 was paid to Pace & Peasants for
re-printing 1000 copies of, the laws
amongst the numerous services requi-
red of the public printer he is Obliged to