The recorder. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1802-1803, 1803-06-08

-, ""o % tiC NtSlahCe ana lagactY with
which our luxurious adembly attends to the
expenditure Of public money, Men of Viz
GINA Take noticcl am only going 70 tell
YOU What is inconteGibIs. el.he tobacco
"nrehou'e was begun two years ago. The
building has, for long time, been ftopt, for
want OF money 70 hnith it} You all know that
when thick flonc Wallis lcftunfaiGhed, and
without cover, the rain is AFFORDED in the
cterices, waihes ont the lime, ard dearoys
che maionry. When private man is build
sng houie, if any accident ftops It's progrefs,
the uniVer.al practice is to cover the top of
she walls with turf, or flags of ffone to keep
put the rain But nothing of that fort is to
be leen at the half built tobacco warehoufc.
II the lat} aicnibty had ordered fuch cover
ing 60 be placed on the Top Of the walls, they
would have been quite as wei emploved asthey
were IN paliing lnapertinent votes about the
0irtnss of PRESIDENT PAPER TEN
DER, of man who profeiies the utrnon ref
poet md gratitude for his creditor, and, al the
fame mor1ent, attempts to pay him with
falling per pounds
:, The new tobacco ware houfc fhould have
teen built ofbrick his would have favcc! two
Ihiras, perhaps, of the money, which has
been expended, The building cnuld, in that
cafe, have been completed in FIX or eight
months; whereas, at the end Of two wears, il
IS tending half fniihed, without 10 much as
the protection OF Gags, or turf, TO fave the walls
irom being ioaked with rains This is the way
In which public bui1nefs is done This is the
WAY that your money goes This is your pre-
Sous republican executive council = And
this is the manner, in which your delegates
attend TO your .huinels, after al the fine pro-
miles which rFev make over oceans of whit.
Ky. Not one OF rhcfe, profound FACES has
ever been (fen in Riebmsad at gaming tabls 1!
a the trumPets in the city with that the
aiien5ly could fit per annum from the fIrlt day
OF January TO the latt of December
If the ware houfe had been hniihed, tie
1ta5e might have been, at this moment, rcceiv.
ing iltteen hundred or two thoufand dollars a
year Tor lodging tobacco. Initefd of that, a
very large fad' has been expended, ard the
work isFanafng HfH, and has been 70, for
many months, perhaps for twelve month.
nc iublin.e genius of Alexander MeRae IS
too much engaged at Loo, to think of fuch
tribes. In the felton, Of December, 1900,
tbs firm democrat told NE, one morning in
sIoodailS, that he had won two hundred dol
lars at cards, iince the beginning Of the fef
non. he aniwer vas g thar IS a De,-y pood
Ilofy; 0Ht 0dUile ygn nfver t. ieiii ngafn:"
had once wrote out, and actually prepared
for the prets, the hitory of a certain letter
addreiied TO Mr. Oliver Wolcott This let
ter was intercepted BY iome democrats,
5uit like the FAR famed dl(patches of Lifon, the
Brtifh ambahador. The letter itfelE con-
tanning nine or ten pages, was read TO me by
democrat. In the remarks, had fid, fone-
thing about thirty nine lalhes, but friend in
ferpoied, and the tory was fuppretsed, eEtet
II was juit going to PTes. ~
Weareturn TO the tobacco ware houfc, that
lnexhaattible fund of praifc and admiration.
Mary people wonder why the houfe was BE-
gHn, we are not certain that it will ever be
bhlIt,) OF ifone. They fay that brick you'd
have aniVered the Purpoie quite as well !;
That there was no occ2iiol for making this
warehouie fronger than its neighbours Of
prick or wood; that, by this means, much
money might have been laved and that, by
this time, a conGdcrable fun could have been
collected by way Of houfc rent, for the lcdpinq
OF tobacco. Thefe grurnbIers farther affirm
shat itate tax was long Gnce impofed upon
and paid by the planters FOR the express pur-
pqfc OF building 4 ware houie. They offer TO
Prove that the the raifers of tobacco are verv
great fuherers by the want of fuch a ware
houte; and that the conduct of the assemble,
and It'll more OF the executive council, is un-
grateful and Infamous. They obferve that
they have iculc execute for the assembly, ecaufc
from ignorance, and want oFa regular eduea-
ton, noeone tenth part of that body is fit for
public builnefs. Daniel Shc'fcy Of Wyih.
county is undoubtedly, and in every ienfc
OF the word, one Of the beh of theni.f Lall
NOTES.
The demos Of Richmond are bard put to
i, in detending their hero. Some Of them
fay, that he had juit before fold land, and bad
been paid with deprecated paper. Others
athrm that the tender laws afford him d com