Portland gazette and Maine advertiser., 1810-07-09
Domfstif JIntelligenfe.
FROM THE VIRGINIA ARGUS.
4 Demo Paber.

WASHINGTON, 5th MARCH, 1910.
1t is a consolation TO reflect, that the
spirit of the national representative body
is not totally extinct and that if it is not
exhibited against the enemies Of the coun-
try, there is at least courageous manifes-
tation of it against the prlhters. In nay o.
pinion the orators of congress ought to be a
little more tender in this particular for
where is their reputation 10 be found if it is
not in the newspapers Ten years ago the
freedom of the press was considered by the
republicans as the unaltsrab.e right of the
citizen but the patriots who commended
for uniicenced discussion, whilst they were
freezing in the arctic circle of opposition,
are no sooner ripened into the torrid zone
ofpower by the vlrtuous energy ofthe press,
than they depreciate its merits, and cry out
scandal
50 1t is not only allowable, but it is the in
dispensable duty ola freeman, to investigate
the characters and conduct Of those persons
who administer, as we'll as those who make
the laws by which he is governed and
whilst exercise the right and perform the
task with decorum, thank God that it is
not in the power of even the Congress of
the United States to COMPEL me to undergo
an inquisi orial examination at their bar,
except by gross breach ofthe Constitution.
Without meaning the least disrespect for
that honorable body, must be permitted
to remark, that there appears to be very
great degree Of aptitude in the House of
Representatives to forget that the delegates
of the people are not the people themselves,
and that there is at least one sovereign tribu-
nal to which Congress itselfts strictly amen
able for Its actions. The time, we must
hope, has not arrived, whenthe citizen shall
stand in awe ofoppression from the usurped
authority Of the Representatives Body
nor, as Mr.. Taylor expresses it, when con-
gress convene at the capitol 81 to plaster up
characters 6ylsgislative acts"
E-r.ract ola letter from gentleman at
Washington, dated the 1871 Of June,
Our little Navy is now in prepare
ton to sail in two divisions-they will
sail under the command of Rogers and
Decatur 10 the two extremes of the u
nited States there will also be small
force under the command of captain
Campbell at Charleston.
The Heads of Departments will
leave this after the 4th Of July"
PHILAD. JUNE %.
A British brig of Ia guns has arri-
we'd at Newcastle, with 100000 dol
lars on board, for the Spanish Minister.
The money was originally sent from
Vera Cruz, on board Spanish ship,
bound to Philadelphia. Being in dis
tress at sea and unable to make this
port, she was fallen in with by the a.
bove brig, and had the money put on
board her TO be landed here. As all
British an French armed vessels are
excluded from our waters, 1t is not
known whether the money vii. be per-
mitted to be landed, or the vessel or
dered oH.-As it is tecuHar case, we
should suppose the former. But there
is no knowing what our wise rulers
viii do vn the occasion.
PORTSMOUTH,, JUNE %,
Letters have been received BY the wife of
SAMUEL PRAY, late maze of the ship I.aco-
nis, OF this pert, dated at Ba,onne, March
loai, 1910, wherein he states, tie is suffer-
ing ever, tang, but death, IN prisons and
hospitals, and Just recoy cred from a severe
sickness, occosioued by mwholsone air,
and diet. and close confinement with which