Virginia Argus. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1796-1816, 1808-06-14

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a., COMMUNICATION.
Those Citizens of Richmond, who wish
to see. SOMETHING DONE, for their
own honor and the good of their country
towards the encouragement of Virginiar
Manufactures, begin to be impatient for
report from the very respectable com.
-mittee appointed sonss time ago. 1t would
be circumstance forever to be regretted,
it difference of opinion among its4members,
or any other cause, should prevent that
committee from answering the public ex.
pectations, by producing some practicable
and useful plan for promoting the great
object to which their attention is directed.
The House of Representatives of
the state of Massachusetts on Thurs
day proceeded to the election of a
National Senator, in the room of John
Quincy Adams, whose term of SER
vice will expire on the Sd day of
March next when
The Hon. James Lloyd jun. had 24S votes,
Hon. John y. Adams 213 and
Laban WhS atom. Esq; - /.
MIR. Lloyd is, consequ ntIy, elected.
Mr.. Rose left Hampton Roads the 29,h
March, and was in London on the 2ad
April--both days Included, 90 days. A
bous 30 days after his arrival, the oues
tiCs, what course G, Britain will pursue
in relation to the u. S. may be deter
mined, which would bring the departure
OF adyices to about the 18th of May, to
which add 80 days for passage--ought
10 give us news about the 2olh instant
Prudent men will look 10 it, aud prepare
Tor the wors,.--.Hurord.
MIR. ]. Q. Adams has committed an of.
fence incapable, against the friends OF
union between great Britain and the cas-
terra states.--In order to reign over the
people as Satraps, there is a faction in
The eastern states wiling 10 subvert the
union MIR Adams has had the honesty
20 repel, resist, and expose them; and he
is removed from the senate. He has,
in his removal, the consultations of viz.
tuous man, and the applause of his coun-
Try, while those who would betsay their
country TO the fagitIous designs of Great
Britain, already meet the national execra-
tion.--f6.
The recent conduct of the judiciary at
Charleston is only an addilioned proof of
the monslrous absurdiiy of what is called
the Independence ofthe judges--they ave,
in fact so independent. of control, and of
every other tie but that Of their own per-
verse and adverse will against the very
principles of the government that unless
their tenure of offics is altered, and that
corps brought 10 some sort of responsible
W, they must in the end destroy the gov
ernment.
If the laws and policy of the nation are
10 be set aside upon quibble-if the We
ry principles OF peace and war are 10 be
involved in the wretched sub,erfuges and
=quivoc a;ons Of this subtle class of men
what awaits all the superiority Of re.
preventative government, which cannot
check nor chastise tile crimes of such a
class.-ib.
The following is the answer OF the Presi.
dent Of he u. s. 10 an address Of the
delegates OF the Democratic Republi.
cans of the CITY of Philadelphia, LIN ge-
neral ward committee assembled
The epoch, fellow citizens, into which
our loi has fallen, has indeed been fruitful
Of events which require vigilance, and en-
barrsss delibera,ion. That during such a
period of difficulty, and amidst the .periIs
surrounding us, the public measures which
have been pursued should meet pour APP
Drobation is a sonrce of great satisfa0,
on.
1t was not expected, in this age, that
nations, so honorably distinguished by their
advances in science and civilization, would
suddenly cast away the esteem they had
meriIed from the world, and, revolving
from the empire of moral ly assame cha.
racter in history, which all the tears of
their posterity will never wash from its
pages. But during this dellrlum of the
warning powers, the ocean having become
field of lawless violence, suspension Of
or. navigation, for time, was equally ne
cessary TO avoid contest, or enter il with
advantage. This measure will indeed pro.
duce some temporary inconvenience bu,
promises lasting go5c, by promoting a.
mong ourselves The establishment Of manu-.
faclures hitherto sought abroad, at the risk
OF collisions no longer regulated by the
laws Of reason or morality.
1t is to be lameD,ed that any Of our CT.
items, not thinking with the mass of The
nation as 10 the principles of our govern.
ment, or Of its administration, and SEEING
| all its proceedings with a preiudiccd eve