Alexandria daily advertiser. [volume] (Alexandria [Va.]) 1803-1808, 1804-01-24

,b,,. ,housand 1--WE hundred dollars, ifInauenced
! By pecuniary considerations While gentlemen
are for detraaing from The ll:tle which these
great officers possess, We find that collectors, and
susefylsors, and other Officers, whose duties are
merely ministerial and which re9aire only COM
| mon talents, are drawing from the sfeasuty TO
the amount OF Ave thousand dollars year; and
mil T.; late law passed drew from FIVE to twelve
tbcusaod dollars and these men, according TO.
the IDEAS of some gentlemen, are to retain their
sooo dollars while the Secretary of State and OF
the treasury are only to receive three thousand
Ave hundred.
/ well know that when the act, eaaoifhing
the fslares as they now Rand, paicd, il was
fuhjea of csmor; bur il was clam0r that
neYsr reached me; | mean one by which Was
not Altered. For have always believed, in pub
lie as we'll as In private life, it is iouni policy
to obtain the bef agents, to give them enough 10
do, and to pay them we'll for ,her fefvices. /
believe that in "a Eogle negotiation, condutted by
Secretary Of State, mildons may depend Upon
the exercfe of the difcsesioaary power with
which he is clothed. 1t may depend npon his
anfwer to foreign minif.t, whether we fhall
have peace or war. There is ALTO vad reipon-
Gbilty attached TO the Secretary OF the TreaiuFy;
and slough the fcoPe OF his au.ies may be LET'S
exteniyc Than thofe Of the Secretary OF STATE,
yet mill.ons map be won or lpa by the manner
in which Ne dlthsrges them. 1hste are other
officers whofc com. cnfations are hxcdby this bill,
called upon 10 dlfchargc high duties, on the pr
per execution of which much depends.
I, nay bcsfaid, for al ihrie things the Pref
: T. ext. y, 4 h. z
man OF tn. f5it talents and ha; the heads Of the
departments cannot 60 arals wiellout his fantei
oning Their rea(ures. II has, however, always
appeared 10 me that every form of government
,hat devoives the whole ex. cltvs Powe, on 1sGn.
Gle Individual, differs but inf mfrom ,hat.which
dcvolves il upon a plurality of perfons. 1t is OF
the eGence of government that one man canno
execute it alone ard tina. is obliged to flare
i, with heads Of departments, or wih agents by
iome other name. The imbecihty OF human na-
lure is (uth that he NUT participate power with
Others Il is the nature of the human race not
to p9iIsfs confidence in themfelves; TO take ad
vice and Of eonfeq c &c TO De influences BY ,ofher
in whom they repefe confidence. Whatever,
therefore, the theory Of the government may be,
the acts of the government muf take their color
more or cfs from the advilcls of the heads OK the
executive power and hence the ne,cfity of
thofc adviiers being men Of wifdom and Of the
oureirs character. Such men ought to.yec-iye
comYenfation that will render than independent,
for it is in the middling ranks, neither among
tbc rich nor the poor, tha, fuch characters a.
bouad.
AsI have b,fote remarked, kaow when
the lat at on this fubjett paded, there was
ciarior ciamor 90 one point, & then IN another.
Bat what efctt had it on the nation Let gen
tlencn enquire Of the people, whether, while the
Affairs of the nation are 70 profp.rouly managed,
they are NOT conten, to giyea fair compcnfation!
/ We only ak shat thoie, to whonthc country
emiuent!y owss It's peace and profp=rity, may be
enabled 10 nppart with comfort thcrielves and
their families. Let US luopofc that thief. who
manage the public concerns bad acted indiiereetly
that inttead OF pIcssvingu us III peace and paying
off with great rapidity the public debt. they had
produced fate Of war, and had fadded the
people with additional and heavy inpoftions. If
they, in fuch circumstances, fhould ak for dlsrlcs
and urge that the articles of Ii are al war prices,
| Isyoulu have them anfwered, no, gentlemen,
| yng have brought us into war, wiiely Or unwile-
X, no matter which, it cals for facrihces begin
/ at home you have laid new taxes upon the p or
and thc rich live then yourselves upon fmai
!; faIaFcs, and fc. an example TO the people, by
/ tcing The 6ra to make lone peitonal iacrif es
yourselves. fay 70 to the Houfo. ] cannot
enter into companion Of the price Of wfcal and
brad, and other articles Of necefity or comfort.
cannot huckAer with ZACH men as Eli the great
1 off ,es Of governments and go co them ard lay
| whatever your talents, or whatever the fervicrs
/ you render your country, you may live on Ieck>
and onions: No Gr cannot foop to this c5n.
| duct. Ifonmy home, / lhould have 10
tell my conRiluents, re have reduced the falsri-s
of the heads of the Departments, fmail as they
B ,u.rr 70 faue ihe ,,nhlic r.nneu. hl,t ~. haus