Alexandria daily gazette, commercial & political. [volume] (Alexandria [Va.]) 1808-1812, 1809-02-15


ate farewell. We haze to thank you for
the model Of an administration, conducted
on the purest principles of repuhlcanisfn,
for pornp and state laid aside patronage
discarded; internal taxes abolished; host
of superauous officers disbanfied; the mo-
parclaic maxim g that a national debt is a
national blessings, renowned; and more or.
than thirty three millions Of our debt dis
charged the native right to nearly one
hundred millions of acres Of our national
domain extinguished and, without the
guilt or calamities Of conquest, a vast and
fertile region added to our country, far
more extensive than her original posses.
siorns bringing along with it the Mississippi
and the port Of Orleans, tie trade OF the
west 10 the Pacific Ocean, and in the intrin-
sic value Of the land Itself, a source OF per-
manent and almost ineAhaustable revenue.
These are points in your administrator
which the historian will not fail to seize,
to expand and teach posterlty to dwell upon
with delight. Nor will he forge our peace
with the civilized world, preserved through
season of uncommon difficulty and trial !;
the Good will cultivated with the untortu-
nate aborigines of our country, and the ci-
vilization humanely extended among them !;
the lesson taught the inhabitants OF the coast
Of Barbary, that we have the means OF
chastising their piratical lncroachments, and
awins them into justice and that theme
on which, above all others, the historic &c,
MUS will hang with rapture, the liberty OF
speech and Of the press, preserved lnylolate,
without wh:ch genius and science are gwen
in vain.
In the principles on which you have ad-
ministered the government, we see only
the continuation and maturity OF the same
virtues and abilities which drew upon you
insvour youth the resentment OF Dunmore.
From the first brilliant and happy moment
| of your resistance to foreign tyranny, until
the present day, we mark with pleasure and
with gratitude, the same Uniform, CONSIST
EN- character, the same warm and devoted
| attachment to liberty and the republic, the
the same Roman love OF your country, her
rights, her peace, her honor, her prospe-
rity.
How blessed will be the retirement into
which you are about to go! How deserved
" blessed will it be For you carry with
you the richest of all rewards, the recollec-
| ion of life well spent in the service OF
your country, and proofs the most decisive
| of the love, the gratitude, the veneration OF
| your Colntrymen.
That your retirement may be as happy as
| your life has been .irtucus and useful that
our youth may see in the blissful close OF
YOUR DAYS, an additional inducement to
form themselves in your model, is the de-
vout and earnest prayer Of your fellow citi-
zens who compose the General Assembly Of
Virginia.
The question being about to be put on
agreeing to the said address, the previous
question, to wit, shall the main question on
the said address be now put? was moved
and seconded.
And the question being put on the SAID
previous question, it passed in the a&&rma-
tive.
Apartments By tie Virginia Legislature.
On Tuesday se'nnisht the legislature pro-
ceeded to appoint three judges of che gene
fal court, to fill three vacancies created by
the laws of the last and present session to
organize and establish superior court
Of law in each county Of this con mon
wealth.
Two Of these were created by the law of
the last session. An additional circuit and
of course an additional judge was created
by the present session of the assembly. For
this last Office, the members of the present
assembly could not become candidates &C
cording to the act of '94, which prevents a
ny senator or delegate, during the tigne for
which he was elected" being appointed to