Alexandria gazette, commercial and political. [volume] (Alexandria [Va.]) 1812-1817, 1817-01-20
uExANDRiA.
NoNaAY. J.st.sr 30.
FROM 3uR CORRESPONDENT
AT WASHINGTON.
january Il.

The House OF REPRESENTATIVES, III
committee, once again. yesterda, !
toas the compensation bill into consi-
Iteration, and Mr.. Randolph's propos-
ed anne .d!nent Of which | gave you an
account in my yesterdays letter, was
under discussion slnosttte whole da. :.
Dir. Hubert. OF Massachusetts,. made
i leng and arSnmcatative speech InI
which he perenptnfily denied that the
tanner that had been raised against
Tie increased compensation, was the
real Voice of the people. II began IN
TIE greatest city IN the Union, ne
said, where for the purpose OF pro
tl,cing an influence on the tIecnon
then about to take place, party
meeting was called. and resolutions
were PASSED. IN which to- compensa-
t;on law was denounced as most pro
Aigate act, and @srribei TO the o;Po-
sitr party. shat resolution OF coarse
found its way iNto tie newspapers.
and about l,c Same t;:ne the yelS same
game VAS played by the other party
who. after exhibiting The compeasa-
t,oI law III tie bl&Ckcst coiorS pdssi-
be, endeayOred 10 faStcn Il On ihci'
adYersaries also. The sane practices
took place in most other parts OF the
Union abunt the eleCtiGG tiMe, and
thus the whole people, however npp"-
site IN party, concarred IN siayirs
this law aud OF OF tn0se parry arti-
fees arose an universal c!am2r which
was maGe subseryicnt TO mutual party
aCcusalo on and calamIy. Mr.. dil-
bert protested against tie deceptive
caioiery practised apon the pe%.!> D!
pretending To huw to Their opinions,
and he drew picture OF The degraded
attitude in WEich Congress mast ap-
Z. "a. to tho very people themselves, ii
in compliance With their temporary
nl-irlged clamor they should repeal
-tlis law. 1t was out a tCw months d
go, that after long and iahorious DIS
cussioB, anu oil mature dciiberattnn,
they had made the l&w--they had
at that time too ioressen that il wnutd
ag:taie the people ard probably be
eeusuged BY item. and that (rer, Fro
baby dis, not defer thcIn; Sc ihat
there was 20 reason now inf repea!!ig
il q ,,ich sd nrt tim o, rrate aSfIlG-t
til. Ssing Of il. lfthenthey sio;r!s
hs~.sri. ,rpeai Z for tie short resi-
d. 0 tai6 session. he said thr! woGiJ
ha : t0Gciled the bnttam OF hImilia-
ten tn Use the wstds Gt Burke and
trosght up their lead covered with
aud" the people'woUiG ascribe it to
Far and all o,erwecniGS last for pc
pul. ~, and be Persuaded they were
gaverued by those rather than BY
hrmntss aud wisdom. As TO MS SON
stitupnts he told them that as lie had
already voted. 50 he would vote a.
gain. If necessary. for the measure !;
and he reminded tiie house that he had
voted on every question uniformly in
fay or of it. as well when the question:
was taken by ayes and noes as whcnI
it " as not. He told his constituents
too that 10 repeal the law was tue last
act he should Io, to disgrace himself.
and the consequence wa, that tntIt
unanimously nominated n!n, tn repre-
sent them. AS 10 SIR. kaut0lpii'sI
prooOsitiun to refund the noney re-
ceived un .Cr the iaG, he would only
say, that when he was convinced that;
ne had committed ti,eft or robbery i
he would vote for il /; sat no: till thea:
and he compared the prOPositi; = to a
circumstance lately related IN the
newspapers, of giving an emenc to a
rubber to make him .dlsSorSe money
he had stolen and swallowed for con
eealment.
MIR. Eandolph's Motion was ncga-l
lived. and the 5ll was reported to the
house.
January ls.
A bill for organizing. ctassif! ingI
and arming the militia was yester'ia,
read twice and referred TO Il commit
tee ofthe whole ior Monday. l mem
ton this, as l apprehend it to be a
measure that Will attract great share
Of public attention and produce much
discussion in Congress.
The compensation law came before
tie House aud drew forth discussion.
lac question was on concurring with
ae committee OF the whole in iiiling|
The blanks with six dollars. MIR.
Calhoun made very able, a master
" speech uDon The occasion, in which