Jenks' Portland gazette. Maine advertiser. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1802-1803, 1803-02-28
Lrgldarure Of the IHite1 5tatgs.
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Second SelIion seventh CsEgrels
HOUSE or REPRESENTITIr-Ec.

TUESDAY, FbB' O.
Mr.. Lsij this morning prelent. a
petition from the aliens re6deut AZ Car
lie, il Pcnnfly sani4, IL the fame words
a the one prsfeated yesterday By Mr..
Smile.
While the memorial was reading,
Nc. D1U:s rof- and ftid, he hoped
the reading would b. difpenled with,
and that the houfe would 20 TO other
bulinefs. He did not think i the duty
Of the houfe 10 Ok and hear fuch com
plants and even revilings from WORTH
lefs and dicontented men of that def
cription. They are not, laid he, lndnf
trious and Respectable men, bat tuEbu.
lent foreigners who have no title T. be
thus trou5lefome. ! do not think ii It
we are under any obligation to li.len to
flch in3ecency coming from fuch msn.
Mr.. Lei5 conlcnted to dfpenle with
Tie reading, and hoped it would be re-
ferred to FLEA committee.
Mr.. Tarnun hoped il would not be
referred. he did not think it entitled
to any fuch attention Il WAS evident
that the memorialifs were a dilcontent-
e1 and turbulcat clafs Of men, and had
taken liberties, in fpeaking of the au-
tho,ities of The country, which he tho'l
altogether unbecoming and indecent.
Mr.. Tbltebsr was happy to find that
his colleague (Mr. Var7um) was die
pofed to check flch infJlence He tho't
toe memoriaiil:s paid but an i'll comPii
men; to the mai)ri;Y Of that hoafa, BY
fuppoiag, that By reviling the lalf ad-
minilration they lhuold curry favor
with the prefant. Ii was matter of
no consequence to him what aiminf-
tration i might be that might be made
the obie9 OF flch cal0mny. He would
asfoon oppolc flch IN inftit offered to
the preleat al niui1ration as to any
former one. He had given his vote
againf the reference Of the memorial
offered yeaerd ~, tho he did not at that
time know thar It was a printed paper.
He no Y found that this memorial was
in precifely tbe came words, and It ap
peared 70 be a paper cirt at=J among
diicontented aliens for the purPole Of
procuring fgnatu'e. He was lurpri,
fed that a1y gentlemen, who bad telt
flch great f-ni5iity at The reading OF a
memorial from one of the late officers
Of the United States tMr M'F5enry)
and one which appeared TO Kim Perfeet
ly deceit and reipeatul could liaen,
withou; indignation, to the reading Of
this paper coming from perioas nor
even citiz ms Of III: United States. He
was of opinion that it ought not to be
permitted even TO lie on the table.
Mr.. S. SmHh had never knewn an IL.
Rance where a memorial or petition
that was PreIentcd by an honorable
member, vas relufed a commitment.
He acknowledged that fome parts of
the memorial contained very snsdVysd
exprel1isns but there were parts which
in bis opinion delervea artentjon. He
hoped, therefore, thatit would BE- COM
nitted, il order that flch parts as are
proper might be conidsfed.
NJ. S. would not qusGion the fnce.
lily Of the remark of the gentleman
from MAfAchuietts Nm. Thatcher
that he would equally opPole an infult
to the Prelen; administration :; Though
MI. Smith fail he would not forget
that, during the pre.ent felton,, that
gentleman had, by his vote, declared
that he has no confidence in that ad.
nini0ration--a declaration, in his OPT
mon, much more infnltiog than any
thing contained in he memorial of the
alien He cooiiered the conduit of
the houie towards the memorial pre-.
tented yeterdaY, as altogether mutual
and unexampled.
As to the memo ial Of late officer
Of the government, to which an allu-
fion had been made, he could never fee
what the obied ofit was, or that it had
any objed, unlels it was that it fhould
be printed for the ufe of the members,
and thus that it hould go forth to the
world.
Mr.. Tbafcb.r could not undsraand
what the gentleman meant by faying
that thoie who wiihed to hear the read.
ing OF the memorial which had been al
luded to, had no cbjed in view but to
have it printed and given ont to the
world. 1t never was printed, nor did
any one ak for the printing of lit
was not even referred to a committee.
AS to the veie which he had given,
and which had been mentioned by the
gentleman laa M. the rsafonx unon