Alexandria daily advertiser. [volume] (Alexandria [Va.]) 1803-1808, 1806-02-12

sident, approved laws admitting alleas 20
the rights of citizenship on easier terms:
and upon a shorser residence than were
before required of then.
Framthe Notes on Virginia, It flr-
,her appears, that this gentleman 10 1872,
perceived this self-evident truth, that as
the actual habits of our country men attach
them TO commerce." our cemmsrcs and
coasts ought 20 be defended, by Aests as
strong as the weaker nations OF Europe
hoIcing possessions in one neighbornoodi
g can detach": s. That the sea is the held
on which we should meet an European
enemy" and that on that element u -
necessary we should possess some force
and yetwas so far from making proper
use of this truth, that, when private ci-
tiscn. he condemned the use OF II BY the
late president; and when he had astainea
20 tina, Office himself. at a time When those
disputes with Tripoli. which ended 10 war;
were depending, deemed it expedlsnt 70
dispose of all the public armed vessels'
which an act of the former administrator
authorised the president to sell, waen he
should deem il proper, and within few
days before the commencement OF that war
advised and executed 4 measure tor d.s-
banding large proportion of'the maflaes,
by the laws of the past administrators or
dcred 10 be retained In service; whose
places he was compelled TO supply by an
almost Immediate enlistment.
This genileman's want OF wisdom, as
president, is further cvin:ed, by the omls.
sion to repair our heaviest trigafes and
equip them for the Medilerraneaa service,
during the two first wears OF a war with.
Tripoli, which their services were constants.
ly necessary I'D demanded by the commo-
dore; by his order appointing time for
the sailing of these frigases to the Meds-
terranean; and bis omission TO ascertain
their unftness until the time had arrived;
by his order dispatching the friga,e Adams,
with her full complement of men, Provi
sions and guas, without her gun carriages,
to notify The commodore of the condition
of the Others; BY his adviceto congress
to cree, dry docks for the navy; and by
his communications respecting a noun
tain of solid rock salt, one hundred and
eighty miles long, and torsy-6ve miles
wide,n said to be situated somewhere 10
Louisiana, without one "shrub or tree"
upon il. S.
s.; IF the term virfue In the resolution is
intended TO mean moral and political lnte-
gritty, one single transaction Of this gentle
mans life renders his desti.ution of this
quality apparent 10 this dissentiene's, un.-
derstaneHpg; this he begs leave to state,
passing by all those other numerous cir.
cums,ances which have weight on his
mind.
On the 9th day Of September, 1899,
when one James Thompson Calender was
engagedsin writinga book, called the Pros
bect before us, libelling the public and pri.
ya,e reputation of the deliverer of this
country, general Washington, aud of Mr..
Adams, then president, book containing
such foul and base calumnles as have per-
-haps never been equalled by the wickedness
of the wors, men IN the most corrupt times,
the ROW president wrote letter to him in
which are, these words: " Mr.. Jefferson
Ia relative of that nancy is here aud directs
his agent TO cali on you with this and pay
YOU, SO dollars on account Of the book you
are about TO publish; when it is Out be so
good as TO send me 2 or 8 copies and the
res, only when shall send for them; and
on the 6sh day Of October following, when
that book was nearly printed, wrote to MI
Calender another letter, in which are these
words: :" thank you for the proof sheets
you enclosed me-; such papers cannot. fail
to produce the best effect. They intorm
the thinking par: of the nation, and these
again supported by the tax.gatherers as
their vouchers, Sc, the people right" The
writer of the 6 Prospect before u.s. was
6ned and I'm prisoned for,tke publication of
that book, and the president having attain.
ed to his Office, ordered the fine TO be re.