Alexandria daily gazette, commercial & political. [volume] (Alexandria [Va.]) 1808-1812, 1809-06-30

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the administration, but measure d /
promise between the hot and the coo1 q
after all our troubles we may be nsr'E
to laugh little tina, our relief was t.
about by this poor non-intercour,e ~
The President has made good use of
Therefore, say |, let praise be given
executive for the lpromptitude and
ness with which he. has acted.
/ would then now, sir, as we are
at an sra inwhich we have right -
forward to the same prosperity and !.
ness for,which our country was dis,;na
ed under the administrations Of W. Z
ton and Adams-the two first YEAR, IS
Adams administration / mean--J
hope thar an abandonment of political
lerance which msguides men tllensrl,
by which they misguide Others, tia,
tentious spirit of party which has m,,'I
many blind to their own errors, will eS1
and that from this time new party
bent upon the promotion OF and pr0,l
of the country and the preservation +
public liberty may succeed-a party #
country and the constitution. Both O,.3
have run wild SO long, that it is Dr4
fair to say, as it is certainly true, that \
ther is exactly right.
When public contests last 50 veru h,, !
No side is 7ch0lly right or yAsi!g uSa
Let us return to the steady sober n1
pies of the Washington administrator
well as to our foreign relations as 10 ON
ternal concerns. We mad enough Of /
Adams system Of sedition laws, &c. drS
his administration, and enough of til, /
LAYER Of philosophy since. | wish tokS
the golden age of Washington revived.
was then usual to speak freely. Let US |,
it now.
AS it regards the motion now before
house, let us take into view this consil
ton and recommend it to the attvndrI
the gentleman from Kentucky CIR. MEl
that it gen. Washington issued procLi
ton not authorised by any existing law,
SO much calculated to promote The pu /
prosperity and to call for the public con-
SO III the present case did president NII
son for there is no law authorisinp the
clamation which he issued, and which
much approve. 1t is not expressly war;
ed by law, but it is in the spirit of the /
Suppose that vessel should sail from
United States after the 1st of June to CE
Britain, and it should be found, on a Il
investigation, that the proclamation had /
suspended the law, not being issued in /
tormlty thereto, and the merchant was ID
prosecuted for breach of the law-os
that proclamation be pleaded in bar Of n
very! Certainly not; because it was 4
authorised 10 be issued after the revocaE
1t is not only necessary that the proch}
ton should be approved, bat that !
should be passed giving validity to it.
o1iSSti0 llOt tliCl CIOt y LIZ COilLClIl " III llct
giving this appreciation, but should 81
and pass laws upon it. II We last VII
got upon some new notion of passing
stract propositions against which Ivotf
can shew that | preserve consistency &
ing for this, by showing, as i have don'ts
a law may be founded on it.
In every point OF view, whether g;nI
men on one hand are willing to do JUST
to the executive or to heal the wountl
party which have bled 50 long; it the,
willing with the returning prosperity di
country to restore to social interccurst
harmony without which life and llbsN17
ofso little value, let US 60 with them
them not be SO frightened by our praise
to draw back, or how are we ever to
proach them : Iintreat gentlemen, tai
fore, not to be afraid of US. We are an
nest and honorable party, not guided BY 4
ty zeal alone. When the administral
deserves credit, we will give it TO them
when they deserve censure, | believe
.tlemen will give US the credit Of not b1
TOO sparing of it.