Alexandria advertiser and commercial intelligencer. [volume] (Alexandria [Va.]) 1800-1803, 1803-02-18

-. ,,ilyfHie. $500
nal r. : This rime, and recede The ter
s'e' .y would in his view, exhlbita TOR
ni .e, ;oeonsaency of conduct in the le-.
Rt, ns,,. i would dacover fush YER
g' .il;,s, iuch dipoiition TO change as
i'i'n'' -, fsi, @ noisttle, The minds OF me
soolI '. = and ..ause their confidence IL tie
s0' A. he arguments TIA, had been drawn
s,on expcoce and Inconvenience he shc,s :
An 'am;,tsd Of az esfy anfwsr. A territorial
'so;ilarure would remove every diiilcuity
'.;co0 trcm shefe fourccs. Itwould 'rani-
"a ii ;he b06n,is, now orouded on Us,
.sc,ssiog the internal concerns OF The
.rlsce. The pe, pie OF the territory had
heretofore, been aserle from that mea-
me. and no doubt that averhon had con-
,sdersble inaoence 10 preventing congress
from adopting fuch'a prosiiion he be-
l;,ysd. however, tina, the people were
fat changing their opinions on that Tub
s;ta; they were beginning to ice me
Deeelli.y Of a legilalure Of their own,
and he expected the period was not We
- remote, When there would be an uni
xe,f,t concurrence of feniinent 10 favor
of it.
He faid he conGdercd, as highly i'm
r,oner eye.y proportion which might be
efonlidered as pointing, either directly or
indirectly, at removal of the feat OF 60
ycrnment from this place. The evident,
The inevitable tendency of fueh motors
was to discourage adventures, to check
Improvement, and greatly to impede the
PROPERTY of the place. Inaead OF doing
this, he thought government ought TO
protect and encourage it., as far as en-
enlargement could be given, without re-
fortirg 70 taxes on the other citizens OF
the United States. He never would a.
gree 10 let his confituents be taxed enc
Jingle cent, to be laid out on improve
ments in the city, farther than might be
necenary to erect, and keep in repair
fuitablc buildings for the accommodation
of government But he would allow II
every advantage, every encouragement to
be derived, from an explicit, anegHiVoeal
and decided aDar0nee, that Il 90aA fer
.Vy remair the seat Of The governmeat 81
tbs United Slater.
With this view ofthe fubjeA, Eaid Mr..
Gregg, and under thefe impreaions ihall
give my decided negative 10 the Prcpof-
tions now on the table, and to all Others
OF a iimiIar nature and tendency.
MIR. Smile could not agree either with
the gentleman from Delaware or with his
colleague tMr. Gregg on the confituti-
al queltion. We had power to accept
the cefion, or not accept 1t !; from which
neceaarily refulted the power of receilion.
lnaead of arguing as the gentleman from
Delaware, he would call on him to point
out, in the contribution, the prohibition.
His colleague talked of moral obligation
to keep the territory. This might exit,
fit were propelled to force this territory
on the fatcs without their content. The
gentleman feems to have taken oherc5
at the exprefion which had fallen from
him of faces. For his part he had ne
yer been accufomed TO courtly language,
bur to the espredion of his ideas plain
ly and openly as he conceived them.
lie certainly had not ufed rhe exprefion
with any intention TO treat the people
OF this territory with difrefpea +; but to
exPrefs his regret atthe degraded fituarion
OF thole who were formerly in poifeilion
Ct The foil rights of citizenlhip. The
senleman feems alto offended at the cpl
.het OF lyraat, applied TO US.
Mr.. Smile would ak the gentleman
IRON Delaware, if ever he knew a 60
sernment poGehed Of unlimited power,
WHO had no, abultd it. This was the
Condition Of this government, which, he
however, hoped, if continued, would be
moderate.
He had eypeGed that ceatleman on.