Virginia Argus. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1796-1816, 1809-05-23

the only embarrassment more especially
az the principal obstruction 20 negociat,on
had ceased, this government having relin-
pushed all claims of loans and PREPARATIONS
ON account of the Presidents speeches.
The case of Gideon Oh instead, which
has exc;tedso much attention and anx-
ieyt, is at length brought TO close.
When the supreme Court of, the u. S.
peremptorily ordered AN attachment
to issue against the executives of Da-
vid Rittenhouse. Gov. Synder, in
compliance as he alledgel with ta= act
of Pennsylvania of 1903, ordered a
guard to be drafted from the militia
of Philadelphia and stationed at the
dwellings of the said execurrixes, un-
der command of General Bright, 10
protect their persons and property"
The marshal finding him self resisted
in the service of the attachment, had
issued notices to several thousand of
the citizens to appear on a certain day
TO aid In carrying the laws of the Unit
ed States into effect. Before that
day arrived, however, he found an
opportunity to evade the guard, obtain
an entrance into the house of one of
the executives, and serve the attach
ment. The notices to raise the posse
were then countermanded. The Co
vernon ON receiving information of
this ordered the detach nent to be dis
charged, and, under a law passed by
the Legislature'just before it rose, the
money in dispute paid out Of the Treas
ury of the State. Meantime, General
Bright, and the individu Lls composing
his detachment, were indicted in the
District Court of the United States
for opposing by force Of arms the au-
thority of the United States, found
guilty, and sentenced, Gen. Bright to
paya fine of 200 dollars and be i'm
prisoned for three months, and the
eight others each to pay fine of so
dollars and be imprisoned one month.
and to stand committed until these
sentences were complied with. They
were accordingly committed to prison;
wehre they remained from Tuesday
the I'd May until Monday the 9Th,
when pardon arrived from the Presi.
dent of the United States RENTING
both their fines and imprisonlnents,
and they were discharged accordingly.
This case has given rise to great
differences of opinion, not only in
Pennsylvania, but throughout the
Union--as to the question whether
the State or the United States were
in the right-it being commended on
one side that the state had set I'D a
claim where it had none in law or e.
guilty, and on the other that the Un it
ed States Judiciary had u.urped a
jurisdiction not given it by the Con-
stitution. The ease is new and opens
a wide field for argument.
True american.
Several fedetal papers have spoken ve-
ry warmly in praise of MIR. Madison.
-In tho days of Grecian degenera-
cy and corruption, Phocion, (who vas
ut once the wisest Statesman aud best
General of Athens, but whose salutary
counsels were ,disregarded, as his
splendid victories were unimproved)
was addressing tie Ati,enians from the
rostrum when, observing he was gene.
rally apPlauded by the people, h- turn-
ed the to friend next him aud enqui.
red,-" did you observe that com
mitted any egregious blunder ?"--
The same distrust which the applause
OF the rotten-hearted Athenians excit-
ed III the breast of Phocion, the APP
probation of the wrong-headcd Fede
rallsts oughi to raise in the bosom oil
Mr.. Madison. ib
Mr.. Erskine, in his correspondence {
with Mr.. Madison, affects to con,id er
the non-interceurse act as conciliato-
ry measure. --The Governor of Cana
da, in his speech to the legislature
last month, decIares," As feature OF
hostility the non-i ,tercourse act is even
more strongly marked than the En-.
bargo." &c. "Who shall decide, when
sush men disagree?" ID
Hy a federal r ,IcuI,t;oo ko.,~,.,