Alexandria daily advertiser. [volume] (Alexandria [Va.]) 1803-1808, 1805-12-30

! or suttler, provided that each had done
a signal service to his country | call con.
tinued he, upon any gentleman TO say,
! IN what instance such a project as Mar. Ea-
tons had been carried into complete exe.--
cutlon. He had already served his coun-
try three years as a consul in Barbary, aud
| when dismissed, he forms the vast idea OF
I liberating bis countrymen, from an ignomi-
| NOUS bondage, byconquering the usnrping
i barbarian, who held them in slavery he ct.
dthe greatest part, and | verify believe,
continued Mr.. Varnom, that in avery lite
tie time he would have taken Tripoli itself.
| The President ot>the United States tells us
m his MESSAGE, that we have received a
Fsgreat benefit from Mr.. Eatons services.
| lshe navy he thought would rot have spet-
/ Oily effected peace without him. MIR.
Varnum concluded by declaring that sipce
! we wereaa nation, such service has not
| 'been rendered Is as that BY Mr.. Eaton, and
that he deserved every honor from his
country.
Mr.. Elmer was III favor Of voting for a
| medal swords says Mr.. +. are more ap-
propriare TO hereward Of officers serving
lander commander in Chief At Stony
| Point, he Remembered that this was the
| mode OF reWarding officers fer a singular
oct OF bravery. Ii Mr.. Eaton he disco
vered something more. Forti.ude and
skill, connected with bravery. He shoe'd
therefore vote for the highest honors 70
such man.
Mr., T. Randolph said, .hat he rosein ez-
PLANTATION, that he spoke OF 'ntrinslc merit,
| and Of the action alone. lie did not agree
| with the gentleman from Massachusetts,
Mr.. Yarnum.> If in this case, contirued
Mr.. Randolph We give gold medal wha.
must we give when the very highest SER
vices are rendered Us We may go on in
this manner voting without end. We ought
| to be careful of the public money, aad not
to vote it away, except upon some e1faor.
binary occasion. BY such hoRor as this
| in contemplation, men may fancy them
selves, q Nero, Nelson, or Monroe
They may have conceived themselves TO
have arrived at the ae5lus ultra, Of military
! achievements. Has many Benefits had been
| done in Africa, without disrespecr to the
| subiect, as my Gady Bountl(ul performed
in her household we could pay no great
honors. Mr.. Randolph said he regretted
on this occasion difference Of opinion, but
protest might perhaps beSenesred which
some time hereafter the house might blush
to look upon. He was not present when the
vote passed for medal to commodore
Truxton, but he koew upon such question,
there was buta small majority. The achiev-
ment however of the commodore might
have been worthy of a medal for be game
the first naval action since we had become
nation, and was the affair now in discus
sion, of similar importance he would be
anxious 10 cover the agent with honor, we
may continued he lavish our funds without
end for thousands may have displayed
equal heroisro. He did not know how the
exchsquer might be, but his calculations
were greatly against it.
Mr.. Williams of New York, went over
the history Of the war with Tripoli, and the
ruinous consequence which attended it.
He spoke of the services of Mr.. Eaton,
and Of the benefits which the country has
received from them. lie commended that
he had effected more than commodore
Prebie, however great that gentlenan's SER
vices might have been, land for which he had
been rewarded by medal, Mr.. Williams,
was in favor of the same honor being done
to Mr.. Eaton. The yeas and nays were
now cailedfor which being counted BY the
clerk were found to be.
Yeas 50
Nays So
Mr.. Smile then moved that the resets
ton be committed to select committee
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