Alexandria gazette, commercial and political. [volume] (Alexandria [Va.]) 1812-1817, 1812-12-03

profession cfihe country; when You
thin the ranks ofiaw and of medicine
-and in that respect perhaps spare
h,.nua lie if not human blsed--we
have q new order Of society, a new
constitution.
air. r. then. adyertcd to the last Sec
ten OF the bill. Hs owned it was With
some Qcpi@asant feelings he saw this
provision ior cammutation OF service
from a Fiye years enlistment to enlist
n,cas during the war. But 1t was highly
pnss,hle that upon this as well as ether
topics, oa which lie had incidentally and
very dss,essisely touched, the House
had heard objections and arguments ST.
m;iar to those he had used and Infinitely
marc WORTHY their attention.
Gsfore he sat down, Mr.. r. said be
must be permitted to remark, that al
though he should not, as he intended,
from the ,ateness of the hour Of the day,
go very far into the book of Chronicles,
the Records OF .l799-he must be per-
fiitSti1 q tuC IIOusC "Oa1ti SASo'S "i"'
for it, to speak in reference to transac-
tons Of the last session, en- the subject
cfin4ian savages. who had been brought
up in this days debate. The House
NAV not have troubled It's recollection,
said he, with the declaration on this sub
ject at thai day made by ne, and which,
however irconsidetately made, still
adhere to. The power OF the Indian
savapcs Within the limits of the United
States, with whom we were In any dan
ger OF cos,!ng into collision, Was broken
by the same arm which broke the letters
OF British dominion. The peace OF
Gr,Mville, which followed Wayne's In
dian war, pat an end to all collision be-
tween us and those bar5arians S: there
never was, from that time up to the
.ransact ton a; Tippecanoe, any interrupt
lion Of car ascendancy over them
When toe present President OF the y.
States eanac into power, MIR. X, SAID nc
had announced the pacific disposition Q!
tn. Indign tribes, who were generally
linked together in the Message with the
Barbariaa powers OF Europe. lhls de-
clara ion Of their pacific disposition had
been reiterated in each Mcsssgs untIi
that of the last session, as Mr.. K proved
by quotations which he read. In the
Message at the opening OF the proceed
log. session, which Mr. Il, donomlnated
the 'pyuulliInate session, their pac!fc dis
position vas distinctly stated, ',se
continued declarations, he said, were
conclusive on tho subject Of Indians and
of Indian warfare.
In my desultory way, continued Mr.
r. vii, make another remark as to the
nav of soldiers. / had always under
stood that in an army it was the policy
of the officers TO keep the soidiery poor
Il beg to be understood as speaking
of regulars only-that IS long as the
men were flushed with money, they
made by SO much the worse soldiers
that tbsir fitness and utility rs soldiers
was in the inverse proportion to the
xoodnass Of their finances.
With respect to the examples oil an
Gent commemorative, 1t must be OBJ
vious tn gentlemen much less we'll read
in them than the gentleman troniGeorgla
who has alluded to them, that there Is
no analogy IN the cases nc cted-tRat
their govern scnts were anomalous ha-
WING no fixed principles, nothing that VIC
should cal! civil or rational hberty-,hat
thsy were Ignorant of the liberty OF CON
scienca-that they had not representa-
tive government. How then can there
be any analogy between them aFd our
selves, who sit here under specific and
limited authority? None l believe can
be poiI.tcd cut.
It appears 20 me, sir, if this bill be
not re committed and do not undergo
Alteration, it will endanger collisions o.
authority between the state aud federal
governments. would ask by what
right can the federal government under
take to dispense vita the law oil st"te
in \ case of contract betwesn two clu-
zeps Of the same state? would ask,
with Difference and submission, whether
thc state courts will feel themselves
bound by this law. In some states they
may; but in a majority of the states
trust they will not. And, notwithstand-
ing what the gentleman from South Ca
ralina HIS said on the subject OF the con-
due, Of Massachusetts, il is matter OF
no,o-ic,y that the opposition of Virginia
and kentucky did put an end to Mr..
Adams's var. We took our stand, sir,
and on principles for which l bave been
attempting this day most feebly to con-
tend. We tciumphed The patrisusm
and good sense of the American people
ratified what We did. II you doubt it,
look TO the authority. At session of
the Virginia Legislature in 1899, GER
tain-resolntions were passed which pro-
duced nearly the same hngdage on this
floor in re,atioa to her as we have to-day
heard FROM the gentleman from South
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