Alexandria daily gazette, commercial & political. [volume] (Alexandria [Va.]) 1808-1812, 1812-02-26

,,,a,nts from England sta'ns' Una.
- - had been recalled, andthat the Prince
DENTS Speech at the opening OF rS'n'a-
rvs .aared no favorable prospects. we
a''A' ! understood that letter has been
nav !, Washington, from French OF
80 mentioning the probability OF a war
s,.,veen France and Russia
,ah.te which took place in the House
representatives Yesterday, on the question
:, : ..nor;no the consideration of the Report
~ To Committee of Ways and Means on the
-, e Revenue, the friends of that course
:i.,,lv discovered signs Of nausea at the
s.,n.ct Of swallowing the bitter tlM Of ta@a-
e. which they themselves have prepared, ana
e., they now wish to procrastinate, under
A.. feeble subterfuge Of W; iting for arrivals
fOp Europe, which may Possibly remove the
necessity Of taking it at all, by bringing the
,.rns Of an accommodation Of our differences
with the great contending powers oii the
o,bsrband the gentlemen opposed te postpone
,oeot pointed cut in strong terms the necessl-
" Of meeting the crisis, and distinctly exhibit
mo 10 the American people what they have
to depend on, by an immediate determination
Of the great questions OF peace or war, "hich
thew coatended, were involved In the qIes-
ton or ,axatlon. 1t was sarcastically remark
ed that Congress had been sitting now nearly
torr months. and had done little else besides
running MO debt, they had 6een waiting Ter
the Constitution. She has arrived, and brought
perhaps, the compliments of the Emperor to
our government, and nothing more. The
Horaet is now expected and her non arrival
is made an excuse for postponement. Per-
hpsit would be we'll to send out the Wosf,
that aite, the arrival of the Hornet, she may
be waited for, and there be another excuse Tor
further pos;ponement.
Some person has published in the Aurora
violent philippe against the constitution OF
Virginia, because none but freeholders are al
loved to vote. He considers it "prodigy
OF human Inconsistency" that such regula-
aon Should DC adhered to by a people "whose
hearts and heads in ali other circumstances
render them the Pride of the nation to which
'Gsy be'oag." The writer observes in another
P4Ace,--" The proposition tor convention in
Virginia, appears to have been gotten rid of
Without crganer,! A singular fact! A
hleSsgr2 proposing to extricate large body
% 'ee mast essential fart Of every society
non 5ashagous c1clusion--from the exer-
''Se az civil rlSbts--trom the exercise OF those
'Htcuons which, when the revolution begun,
'"1s Tue GIari. and the raliying word->'ta;ra-
"'R cad refreSentatloa arr inseharu5ie," TIA,
"ultasure calculated torestore man to his ma
saral rights in society, should be passed over
""i'Om debate, and got rid OF with a hrevious
Y"e''''3'is indeed passing strange
!" IS equally wonderful, That any writer of
s0oa sense should expect to convince men OF
.'''F elFocs by adase: 1t is method that ne
~ has succeeded, and we do not believe it
~ viii, Mr.. Randolph is probably as-much
I' PF'de" Of Virginia as any OF her citi-
49, and yet this Aurora-man stiles him a
"'S'se6fe 'aiia,:4rote," who "wou!d prefer
;, '' '1+ fofd ourr plantation Of negroes.
- va" Tree citizen among men who perform
~ functions assigned them by the Creator,
), Cat their bread which they have them
elves earned"
-, nc Constitution of Virginia may require a