Alexandria daily advertiser. [volume] (Alexandria [Va.]) 1803-1808, 1806-09-29
Ppm the New York Epsning Post.
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10 the senate iOF CouSus $500 '.
| day, the day following, the bill being no
longer before the honse,or within its reach,
The president. we are ihforme d. was SO
gracious as 10 send down his dispatches
from Mr. Monroe at London, of rhe ! 8tn
aud 25th of October preceding dispatches
which had been received and kept by him
FOUR WEEKS And when they came to De
read. il was found they had q most import
AMI bearing upon the very SUBJECT four Spa
nish rela,ions( which had almost cngrossed
the attention Of congress for three weeks
in succession with closed doors Such too,
SAYS Mr. Randolph, was their Interesting
and momentous nature "as~to produce an
instantaneous conviction on the minds or
many, the best informed and most ihfaen-
tia! me mbers in the house. who had voted
with the majority, that the course which
they had pursued wAsWRoNG."
Behold here another instance of demo.
cratic consistency. During the federal adj
ILLUSTRATIONS, ,hespeoplernow 10 power and
hen out, were clamorous In their Proach-
es .agains. the president that any thing
Whatever, even instructions to- envoys,
should be kept secret day. They insisted
tina. all secrecy was hostile to repabiic GO
verament. They maintained thai dispatch.
esfrom foreign ministers were the property
Of the p eop!e, and that the executive ougat
10 transmit them the instant they were re.
ceived, TO congress, and then TO the good
people by means ofdhe, presses. CLosED
DOORS they abhorred more than they did The
lnquisi.ion itself and negoc1atioas at fs'
reign courts they declared ought 70 De trans
acted in the face Ut the world. Behold
them now in power: Not only is<she cloak
of impenetrablv secrecy ,hrown over. all
their proceedings for weeks tcgesher. bal
important dispatches which relate ,o'td;e We
ry subject under debate, is handsomely
wnhhelG ill a vote in the dark can be OBJ
tanned, which shall render the knowledge
of them afterwards eff no avail. This Is
democracy this is repubaicaD;stn, isit! g
1t is w,thpain and hsmiilailon we have
70 mention the how cunning the lai.ry ar.
,ifce whichwas resorted to in lhIs BUS mess,
for the purpose Of conceafng The tru'htrom
the house. Although the dispatches tad
heea lying for four weeksanshe uiiice OF the
secretary of state. SINGLE copy only Tor
the original l'scli) was ssnt to DO hoases,
instead of sending falr copy 70 eaon SO
as to make IT IL believed tina, inere mao aoi
been sufficient time since the recSpiloA Of
the papers, to permit the clefsa1a the OF
fee of foreign affairs 10 make ous proper
duplicate of them. The activity OF Mr..
Randolph, however, defeated heintensfon.
tor he went Immediately to Mr.. Wagner,
the chief-cerk Of that department, snd ask
ed him how the trun was. Mr. " sgner
told him the dispatches hid arrived week
before christmas. Since that time Duane
discharged the -admlnl2tra,on 1A~,h want
of genuine republicans retaining Mr.
Wagner in Office.
The appropriation of two millions hay.
ing been made, the next thing was how 70
raise the money; for the Presidents SUR
PLUS, which ne boosted IN the message lay
ready in the treasury for all exjgeDclcs,was
not half enongh, even had It been there.
A consultation of sages was held ia the
presidents water closet as to what was 10
be done! To lay new tax was ~utterly
Impossible. The administration had too
long laborrd under the tas-o bAotia for THAI
a mad cog might as well lap wafer as they
meddle with TAXES. What egpediens then
could be hit upon? Egad a very good
expe die nt. Continue the old tax Tor car
!. rying on the war in the Medi,erraaeaase sea
against the bashaw of Tupoli. So said,
so done; and so twas voted nena. con
The mex, day MIR. Barna BidwelL ges uP,&
IS moved 70 continue for years the
additional duty of two and ahaH per cent.
ad valorem, imposed by the act 'fnrther
.toprotectthe commerce and seamen OF the
United States against the Barbars. powersw
But inasmuch asthe commerce and seamen