Alexandria daily advertiser. [volume] (Alexandria [Va.]) 1803-1808, 1806-04-02

.,aua purchase, that law passed con-
m the 24sh February, 1905, ausho-
nc Inc president TO erect pore of entry
Is = delivery 10 this very territory. La the
~, ...h section of that law is the following
.,y;sion: !" The president is hereby au-
lso,;,ed. whenever ne shall deem il expe-
,.0r. TO erect the shores, waters and IN.
-. .f the bay and river Mobile, and OF
'ssriyers, creeks, inlets aud bays empty.
- into the guilt of Mexico, east ofthe said
Ger Mobile, add west thereof 10 the Pas
,,,aola inclusive, into separate district,
4 ~ 70 establish such place within the same
:. he shall deem expedient, TO be the port
'fsutry and delivery for such district; and
a designate such other places, within the
.,ms district not exceeding two, to be
.ors, of entry osly."
Itii$ here to be observed that in order to
,r.yeat shutting, thar although the waters
rrf,hs bay OF Mobile extend into the Mis-
a,,ipui territory, yet there is no shore of
-, bay within 80 miles Of any part of the
s(,oot oldUnlted States" The president
: nu,suancc of this acy did erect Vest
Tloyida. or rather the Flofidas, into a Sc.
4 0.rae collection district, aud established a
nor, Of entry and delivery, tits true a little
,ba,s our old line at fort Stodeft: but the
Suspiards In defiance Of oar law, of our
rirhs and OF the president himself, COM
nader 10 chief of the armies and navies
dths United States, &c. &c sslll hold o.
tsrmis, the country, OUR Collection district
And this is NOT all they make US pay at
4 tstown of Nozzle, toll of IL percent.
I'm all our vessels and cargoes passing
4 dough this district of ourS.-- Aud now
\ shat Is to be done about this baslness.!
aTry which can DO the other the most
harm?n No. Too Improbable this. It
only remains then that wesshoald quietly
! read back our steps and lay down our new
precautions, or what will be more CONVEX
ient, give monsieur Ialleyrand seven or
Zen millions or such mater, TO do itfor
rs, and then five harm any body IT will
BE- ourselves, and this is nobody's buainess
but our own. If we had thought howe
w TO have examined the tile bsfere
vepaid the money it might have saved'us
sgood deal of trouble for now instead OF
holding all the country f. of the Missis-.
/ sippi, the waters OF which fall iato the
Gulph of Mexico, and for which We have
actually legisla,ed, or OF holding w. Flori.
,da itsaf, infinitely more important 70 Us
10 point of situation, than the whole OF
Louisiana, New Orleans, excepted, and for
tie purchase of which the money was
Known to have been appropriated, we fad
within our humble claim only the liule
island of New Orleans east of the Missis
appi. Exactly what we wanted he did
not get. What wonderful speculation
lfthls unfortunate mistake taG been found
cut some time ago how it would have
tampsd the national festivals, aud the
National Intelligencer. The great object
is to keep this affair as secret as possible
all the blunder IS some how remedied.
IT'S well the United States are rich,
and the purses of the people open whilst
the doors of congress are closed. What
would be thought of the widest spscu!a-
tors, who should purchase and pay fifteen
millions of dollars for a territory, without
hrss ascrrsainiDg the boundaries, or even
being able 10 come within hundreds OF
miles of them, either east or west. Leav-
ing on the one side infinitely the most va
liable part of the supposed and Wanted
acquisition, in Situation not TO be obtain
ed but at the point of the bayonet, or by
aPeace offering of additional sums OF mo-
hey and on the other, country larger in
sStentthan one third of the whole United
States, subject of most vague dispute;
sto the limits of which after paving fifteen
millions of dollars they could not produce
aslngse scrap of paper, upon which 10
found the most uncertais conjecture, how
ever ~, ,xy ~