Alexandria advertiser and commercial intelligencer. [volume] (Alexandria [Va.]) 1800-1803, 1803-01-18

I.YinS go TIC tH1t TIC leHIcut Hal lc-
termined that upon the receipt OF that
letter, my comn,liion of Governor Of The
North Weitcrn Territory ihauld cea!e,
was delivered TO ne by Mr.. Secretary
BYRD, on the 9Th day of this month. |
regret Of you, fir, to prefent my humble
thanks 70 the Prehdent for that favor, as
he has thereby difchargea lne from an Of
Ace I was heartily tired Of, about fix
weeks fooner than had determined TO rid
nyiclf Of it; as he may have obierved
from an address, NOT to the convention,
bar TO the people Or the S.h inf. ] can
not, however, agree with the PRECEDENT
thar, in my addreis to the convention,
which is aligned as the reafon ofmy being
difniGed, thar there was either an inten-
perance or indecorum OF language towards
the legilature of the United States, or
dilorganizing fpirit of evil tendency and
example; unlels an honef and true repre-
fentstion of fatss deferye thofe epithets; or
that g The rules Of conduit enjoined by
NY public itatlon" were, in any way
.iolated, unleis it be underaood that the
rule of conduit for men in office is an I'M
piicit aud blind obedience.
AS the convention, fir, was to meet in
purfuance of an at of Congreis, whereby
the election of the members was directed
TO be made according TO law OF the ter.
ritory that had exiised, bur had been long
repeated: a fenfe Of public duty led ne TO
caule the elections to be made conform1-
bly, TO the fpirit OF the act, and the exit
ing election laws, as they could nor be
made conformably TO the words Of tie
at, and when the convention was met,
had done within my public capacity.-
Every citizen had right 10 adarefs thar
body, either openly or ia writing, & that
right vas common to me with the ret
AMI / believe, fir, it as Z paramount duty
which every peHon owes so the comma
nifty Of whica he is q member TO give
warning, either to the representative, or
TO the body, when he fees that the rights
of thar community are invaded, from what
ever quarter the invaGon may come, AMI
TO direct them, if he can, to the means of
warding it of, or OF repelling it; and
icruple not TO fay that the violent, h2ay,
and unprecedented insruion of the Iegif-
taturc OF the United States into the in.
tsrnal concerns of the north weitern ter
r;tory, was at leaf indecorous and incon-
iiltent with lis public duty, and might
add, that the transferring above FIVE thou
fand people, without their knowledge or
con!eat. from country where they were
Ia poaellion oflelf government, to anothsr
where they will be at leait for time de-
priyed OF that privilege was iomething
more than indecoroas, & that, had il nap
pened in Germany where fuch things have
happened, no man in America, would have
hetitated to call it by hariher term.
Degraded as our country is, and abjeta
as too many Of her, ions are become,
there are itiila watt proportion of them
who will be at no lois for she proper
tenn.
Be plcaftd alfo, FIR, to accept my thanks
for the peculiar delicacy you ooferved,
in committing the delivery your letter,
and 10 furniihing him with copy OF it,
70 Mr.. Byrd, againa whom there were
IN your hands TO be laid before the pref
dent, complaints Of fome,hing MORE than
mere indecotum, ard of a total neglect
of and retutal TO P rtorm his olGcialduties.
II is fir, lueh ar9kcs as this which ierve
70 develops cha sa6ter, and like the relief
in painting, bring Out the figure, ditfinet-
", IN It's proper lhape; it produced how
ever no oshsr emotions than that kind of
fubriiis which Phytiognomilis tell US is the
expreaion on the countenance Of certain
mental fenlation, which | do not chooie TO
name, and never fails Of producing that
effect.
With doe refpea, / am, Sir,
Your obedlenr iervant,