Alexandria daily advertiser. [volume] (Alexandria [Va.]) 1803-1808, 1805-01-17

uadsffsahd hin fully. am informed tia
he has talents and Information. and tfsa
hi. speech this day, was nor without much
sound reasoning; butso angramnatleal ans
90 Freuchihedis bic dialect, that l can ne
yer gather his ideas but in part. he wa
opposed to the resolution. He argued sha
the district could NOT be rssfoc ede6 with
out the consent of the inhabitants. Atth'
clo.e-of .is speech he took the. liberty o
clud.aa Eppes for his great soiicitude Il
extend the right Of Suffrage, and reauestes
him TO coecciseh his benevoience that MA,
to his own srsts. ss-. 49,
will Civ. thee some idea sfhis gram
mar and his <tpronuacration by exhl
biting some parts OF sentences Tie ear &C
eas.oaaEy esoght. =" Ers ees dc shsld Q
I" legislation, and Consrez may do vic
f" him as be please. -. FL Is the ch.ld o
legislation, and Congress may do with il
as 1t p!sases These dissirie k.".-
Irhis dis,..rt.j 40 Dos. "--- 10 both.
:. Thass liberty which :hey intended Il
" secure to themseys. Even w:ansmir
g and shld,en rczhoics. Even wo'nsr
and children rejoice. "Wede peep nfd'
:. Uai,ed Stsses. We must oder ether
g kel dem or transfer Gem to d~mseli,
{. Polly ciekal [politisaIi anneetated". all.
nihiisIrd. | sheuid suppose tha,tr'end
Luea, would have acquired abstssr know.
ledge oi both grammar and pronunciation
before he Offered himself 4 candidate for
Congress; yet il a knowledge: Of she gram.
mat OF cur sernaUular tongue were made J
requisite, without which no person should
Gc ensit,cd 10 a seat what ould become
Vt halt The democrat, now there. 10y.
After Lucas, on the same side of toe
question, rose friend Thatcher of Massa.
cnusrtls, and in shore but handsome and
Yrrunen, speech refuted the assertion tina,
Congress had not time TO attend to the at.
fairs of the District. He enlarged on the
inability of Congress to yield The power oi
legislation, the right Of future Congress
10 resume, the violation of public Faith,
the folly of imposing on the iuhabitants
what thew were solicitous not 10 receive the
proprtely Of having the seat OF govern
ment nat under the jurisdiction OF any one
State, imperium in imperio, or rainier, the
sovereign a.. norlty In the hands Off sub.
ordinate authority. II.
Friend iasgart followed on the sans
side of the question AID enforced the Prln-
siplcs before advanced with a variety OF
new arguments. and placing several sub.
jects IN new light.
After which We came to the root of the
business VIII Oh however did not run DEEP :
Erastus Root spake next, and favored the
retroe-ssion. He.was honest enough to
acknowledge thar he wish.d the whoie dis
,ret retroceded; he wished removal 81
the seat of government. could cot help
smiling at SmiErism OF his: He spoke OF
the power Of legislslnS ,"ever ihs zchsls
and afterwards cs5r less part"
Dawson Next in favor of the resolution.
His voice is So maldep,iikr could not
hear much. heard .him say, however,
.auI representation is Z" Coos best gift TO
maui" lie. quoted line Of Shakespeare.
hieh he probably learned when school
Ivy, tor lit,le think he has SEN much Of
Shakespeare Of late. Shail We barter shis
" Gods best gift ,o,maa" +" for SO much
irash as maybe srasPsd thus?
G. W. Campbell, Of oscilla.ing memory,
spoke against the resolution ar considerable
,,ngth. After whom Friend Goddard
sioscd The dtba,e, t. replying 20 some re.
marks that had fallen from Eppss,
The, committee rose at 3. rt.ardly ex.
pee, that the question will be taken before
Sixth gay.