Delaware gazette and peninsula advertiser. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1814-1820, 1817-12-31


District Of Columbia scarcely co,npri
,cd more Inhabitants than is now vOn
tanned in Georgetown, Mrs. Madison.
in the bloom Of health. and with 81
constitution capable Of supporting an,
fatigue, commenced her career by vi
sitting all the ladies Of our citizens !:
AS also those of strangers who might
arrive at the metropolis. With how
much address she acquitted herself
and with much ease IS she stopped {
couqurr," is fresh in our repen-
brance, and will long continue as 8
pleasing recollection.
But we must all Of us remember.
az one same time. how many priya
tions she suffered as our pppulat'"'
Increased and the influx Of stranger,
augmented. What was began as Il
pleasure became serious and severe
duty, aud in the end, a lahorious task.
She had roininenceJ, however. am.
she could not retreat and towards
tho end OF Mr.. Madison's admiaistra
Ition she had not an hour ssc rouid
call her own, periurming "A tour Of du'
ty which not one woman in thousand
Irouidsupport.
Having thus traced thrnugh fout
administrations the measures thought
lit TO be adopted. by whirh Nc were
arrive at the families Of our rhie'
magistrates, and observing each Of
them to vary will, circumstances.
why should We be so unjust as not Ia
jalIow the same liberty of alteration
ut the present day? iiut let US even
suppose that Mrs. Nioaroe could
without tic sacrifice OF her heaItI, 4
eonstitution. performing the duty o.
striving all day long. through frost and
snow. from the eeatrc to everyextrene
Of the District ~ rctura visits OF
courtesy; is it task fitting to be i'm
posed upon herr or is i! 'iesiraiiie thai
the lady ofihe chief magistrate sIlonlt
he seen driving like an Estaic;tc over
he extensive grounds which, inrluh,
the District, in order to maintain
pnnetilinus ceremony, in which, cve'
ticking the very horses into conside
ratien, there is mere virtue ina tbt
in~aell than in the observance 20
BESIDES, The population Of Wash
'nston and the District is rapidly AM,
;ai'y increasing. and this is cere
inOny which aust. from the nature oil
things. BE-. in time, abolished on,
which no human being. not even .
Hercules. much less delicate tcmal,
could accomplish.
The season therefore, strikes u
mot only as einS favorable to such AZ
IaIteration, but as requiring il; and vt
Ihavc no hesitation 70 believe that ever
those who have expressed sentiment,
very ,incoygenial 10 such AN ORDER u!
things will, upon cool consideration
see their 4" neral fitness" and own
without insitatinD, thai to exact from
ne Lady OF the president sacrifices
whirhno citizen. who had regard 10.
his wife, would suffer her to perform
would be an act of Injustice Of tn,
Highest grade. and instead of honorin.
|the family of the man Of the peoplc'.
ehoice, wuald be treating il Nil. con
'umely ant! degradation.
lfrumor speaks correctly ia publi,
|soriets, and we have no reason {,
doubt il, Mis-. Monroe il at home j,
he morning to receive all thuse cal,
which the ladies OF the District q,
. strangers mayplease 10 make; and tn,
president receives the heads of de
; apartment and the members Of gu
government at all hours in the day
land strangers and citizens betwee,
= NE and Two. 10 these receptions tier,
is no display or unnecessary cercnon,
hr etiquette, hut every thing to prov,
that the attentions OF their fellow eli
lzens are greati'nl to tl,eir feeling an,
tnostentaiiously desired.
From the .Nszc York Commercjp
4 sldrertiser.