Alexandria gazette & daily advertiser. [volume] (Alexandria [Va.]) 1817-1822, 1818-01-22
ALEXANDRIA,:
THURSDAY, JiAT.iRF %, 1873.
FROM CUR CoRREsPoSDENT AT WASH
ISGTOS.
Wednesday, January 81, 1878.

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great Kosciusko, accompanied with an
encomiastic sketch of his life, his gallant
| ~, his attachment at an early date to
| this couatry-his zeal in the cause oil
liberty, his services TO the cause Of lee
dom ia this country, and his noble but
fruitless effut to establish it 10 his own;
and this the general did for the laudab!e
purpose Of awakening the house to
sense OF the merit of that iilustrious COM
m,uder. in order to obtain from them
some marked expression Of their respect
for that great man-for which purpose
he proposed a resolution that commit.
tee should enquire and report what mea-
Sures it might be p oPer to adopt to show
the public respect for the memory Of gen.
Thaddeus Kcsciusko, formerly an officer
in our service.
The time has been when the bare men
ton Of that glorious name would, like
the Tyre Of Orpheus, have made the very
beasts dance in eItacy, and the huge ele-
plant himself WREATH HIS PRoDoscIs
1.-the in rapture" The time has been
when, il it were for nothing but the ap-
pearance of the thing, any popular assem-
bIy in this country would have turned
out at leas, one half Of its members re-
spending to proposition to do that real
patriot houor-if, indeed, to such man
aYy assembly could do honor; but every
day that passes prOclaims alresh the truth
of Edmsnd Bu ke's assertion, that the
age Of chivalry is gone, and that OF So
uhistcrs, economists and calculators has
succeeded" The proposition OF general
Harrison was laid in the most respectful
silence on the table-not a word was ut
tered, save BIZ the honorable mover, in re-
cognition Of the Polish patriot; and every
skull seemed as chap.fal!en as that On
which Hamlet lectures in the church.
yard. The house could not properly DO
any thing, bu. certainly something in
honor Of Kosciusko oush; to have been
SAID.
But, come! we have something to re-
count worth patriots talking GIVE have
THE APPROPRIATIONS BILL.
This, which had engaged the time Of
the house all Monday, was then called
up and the question being put that the
amendments made in it by the commit
tee should be concurred in by the house,
Mr.. Mercer moved that it should be Ia
ken by ayes and noes, in order that he at
least should stand acquitted by the pub
lie Of having assented to the dangerous
precedent which the striking out OF the
appropriations for brevet officers was cal
culated to establish. And now CONVEX
sation arose. in which the topics Of yes
terday were again urged. Mr.. 1rgham,
MIR. Robertson and General Harrison
were against the amendment-Mr. Pit.
kin, Mr.. Lowndes and Mr.. Forsyth in
favor of it, On the question being taken,
there were Ayes $50
Noes so
This was a trial Of the sense Of the
house upon the subject Of military ascen-
dancy-and the issue is decisive. 1t is
important in another and constitutional
point of view also--namely, as a success
full assertion Of the right of the house OF
representatives to stop the accomplish
rent of any impolitic or dangerous mea-
sures projected by the other branches OF
the government, by the mere power oil
the peoples representatives over the
purse Of the uatlon, and their comPeten-
cy 10 withhold supplies for any such mea-
.ures as soon as they become aware of
their tendency.
In both these respects, / regard the e.
vent as a propitious one at the same
time that confess | regarded it at first
as not very respectable; conceiving, till
was this day undeceived upon the sub
iect, that the act of 1919 was mandatory
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