Alexandria gazette & daily advertiser. [volume] (Alexandria [Va.]) 1817-1822, 1818-03-13
ALEXANDRIA,:
FROM OUR CORRESPONDENT AT WASH
Thursday March 10, 1918.
FBIn3T. MARCH IL. 1913.

Thursday March IL, 1910.
The FIRST half Of yesterdays sitting IN
the house of representatives ws' wasted
wasted may truly calli) in discussing
he admiss,bility Of the petition OF on
vincente PazoS, who represented himSe !
in it as an agent Of Venezuela and bue-
nos Ayres. The Speaker, to whom II
had been directed, laid it before TIT
hou.e. and Mr.. Colstan moved that l.
should be read in order to ascer ain the
nature of its contents. II was accord
ingly read. and Mr.. Forsyth moved the
house that it should not be received
Which motion was supported by Mr..
Lowndes in very able .peech. A Pre:-
ty animated debate ensued, in which MI.
Robertson. Mr.. Tucker Of Va. MIR. Ba-
sett, Mr.. Triuble, and Mr.. Johnson OF K
opposed the motion-ant MIR. Forsyth
aud Mr.. Lowndes were joined BY Mr..
P,tkin, Mr.. Poindexter, Mr.. Pintsll, Mr.
Mills, Mr.. Ball, NJ. Sergeant, and Mr..
Cobb, in supportingit.
The ground taken by the lat er was
the impudent and PTesu@Ptuous charac-
ter of the petition, which contained the
most daring expressions OF censure On
the president Tor his wise and merItori-
Gus conduct in .uppressing the establish
ments al Amelia Island and GalveZtOwD,
which in truth deserved high praise.
Had the president acted otherwise, "r.
POlndexter said he would have been cx-
tremely calpable-ior those men whom
he disIOdged. were not only mischieVous
and dangerou, to others, but we're doing
great injury to the Patriot cause. If a"y
individual had any wroRg to complain ci,
let him come forward as such Iii was
said)-but nothing of this kind couId be
received i,om. the agent Of foreign peO-
pie, particularly in the shape Of an asper-
sion on the chief ma .istrate, and grOuhd-
ed on tina, an appeal against him to tho
legislature between such a cha acter
and the United States, the house could
not sdjudicate. Could that house say
that the president of the United States
had dune wrong and that a foreign agent
had done right in accusing him s-It vas
altogether the most impudent apPiica ion
that had ever been made, and was in
deed an appeal from the chief magistrate
to the people, had the accredited minis
ter Of foreign government been guilty
of it. A motion should be made to send
him out Of the country. When Mr. Jack
son was sent away, what was the cause
Of it ? Why his appealing from the pre-
sident to the people. The meanes, Of our
citizens we're entitled to petition but it
was not the business of congress to le-
gi.late for the whole human tamily-over
Foreigners they had no jurisdiction, nor
did they owe them any protection. Even
on the suppo,l,i"n that the president had
acted wrong, (Which was not trse) was
that house TO receive charges against him
from foreign agents ? This petitioner
applied to the president for redress, and
was, as he justly ought to be, disaPpoInt,
ed-he then appealed to the legislature,
and his next appeal would probably be to
the people.
/. A motion was made to lay the petition
on the table, but Iris was opposed BY Sc
veral, who protested against its being en-
tertained at all and particularly by MIR.
Forsyth, who put the question to the
house, wsuId they permit any foreigner
70 suppose that the executive Of the Uni.
ted States was acting in contradiction to
the wishes Of the peoples In the case
of the French minister GENET, who had
appealed to the people from the chief
magistrate, what was the consequence:
Genet was very popular, yet, on Ms Of
fering that insult to the president he
was MT able to stand the shock, and was
put down. His off nee, however, was
only a barren tlreat-tbi- was threat
c.r,;,.l ;p,n a1acu,inn and the offender