The Alexandria herald. [volume] (Alexandria [Va.]) 1811-1826, 1817-01-29

We dSiSuta1d tC djN sJb NOuICs
y laid the resolution on the table,an
ave ever since refused to take il up
"a there IL lies nailed, like bad money
The counter--and with his consent
nd good viii sc should lie this bill
aud whyf lie perfectly appreciated
motives OF the gentleman from
Kentucky who had brought in this biz;
ct il was not practicable TO act In obe-
,epce To that public sentiment, OH
ticb the gentleman sustained his
'.ws of the subject, and iall short OF
lie proposition 10 refund the excess al
lady received. MIR. r. said he ould
OF meet his constituents, passing the
dill and receiving the compensation.
will not, said he, touch one cent OF
your moRey. Since i had a seat on
this floor, have always received what
the Sergeant at Arms has given me-
and, il 1t were necessary 20 appeal to
any man in support Of my declarations,
would bring him into court 10 say,
whether have not said TO him, sec
what yeu give mc, make il right--but !.
never did (nor will even count cneV
cen, got from the flieer OF this house.
Ii was not, MIR. K said, for six or ten
dollars day, or for fifteen hundred dol
lars gear, that any man who had par
uclo OF stlf-cspect, would sacrifice
what he must 10 come here. Gentle
mcu conc here for hcnor--hc cid not
suppose, he said, that any man Genes
here To take point ci observation son,
which lie can carry en- more securely
system, Of political inurigue.
Who would have believed MO
wcuid have believed, he asked, thai the
people OF the UniieSl States would have
borne MI the privoticns end losses OF
he t2tc war and Ut The measures that
led 10 it: that they would have quietly .
regarded national debt, swel.ed 10 an
amount unknown, 10 an amUGnt greater !,
than the whole expeGce of cur seven
years war ) that they would have seen
the election of president taken out of
their hands that they would have borne
with abuse and pc cuiaticn through eve
~ department of The government ard.
in the commissariat, &c and that tho
great Leviathan, which slept under all
these erIevanc es, should be reused in.
10 action by The Fifteen Hundred Dol
lar Law, as petition laid on the table
this morning handsomely called il. AS.
TO that petition, he would say nothing
of ii but that the agents who mar ufac-
tured and sent it here seemed 10 have
done every thing but read the law IN
question--tor the principles stated in
that petition, os belonging to it, were
dlametrio ally opposite to the provisions
OF tie law
MIR. r. said he trusted, with the hon.
Speaker, that they should deliberate on
this question with sobriety, imparsiality
and dlsnily, not SO much as 10 the qecs-
tion before the House, as on every oc.
oasion which comes before this body
because such conduct was due 10 the
body itself He trusted tina, this house
would pursue one or the other OF two
courses; that it would permit the mat
ter 10 sleep, and leave it 10 be sculcd
by those who rode into Congress on the
uBpopularity oil the law. For he should
blush, he said, that this house, actuated
by public sentiment, should act al oil on
The subject, and fall short OF making
the most ample and complete reslilu-
tion, For the sake oil the character of
this House for consistency, the bill
ought not to pass in It's present shape.
What viii! the public say These very
demagogues and inluriaied partizans,
what will they say' That you have made
most uugracious and lame caaende 10
he public. We can do nothing pro-
perly, said Mr. r. but leave the subject
where 1t is. and let cur successors,
howsocver and for whatsoever elected,
act under the impulse by which .hey
were chosen. The fact was, upon this
occasion, MIR. r said, that those who
had labored TO excite the public mind,
had not iabored in vain. The mischief
he said, was done. 1t was thought
fine theme of defamation, and taken
up accordingly by the prostituted press
es of both factions of The country; bue
that excitement had in great degree
subsidized. Mr. r, spoke of the impor.
lance o! preserving the character. Of
this House. We, said he, have nothing
TO givc--we hold no levees-we have
no re;ainers, no clients--lhe represent
tatiyes are accountable biennial!y to
their constituents, from which ordeal /
lcei no disposition 20 shrink, but which
detracts something from the valve Of q
seat III this House, or we should not so
often see tner beTs yacatipp their seata