Alexandria gazette & daily advertiser. [volume] (Alexandria [Va.]) 1817-1822, 1821-03-07

between the TWO CouhiieS' " " ~
course of the last summer, had been COM
menced at Paris, has since been trans
ferred, and will be pursued, on the part.
Of the United States, in the spirit OF
cancellation, and with an earnest de-
sire that it may terminate in the arrange
ment satisfactory to both parties.
Our relations with the Barbary powers
are preserved in the same state, and by
the same means, that were employed when
I came into this office. As early as 1901
it was found necessary to send squad
ron into the Mediterranean, for the pro-
lection of our commerce, and no period
has interviewed, short term excepted,
when it was thought advisable to with
draw it. The great interest which the
II, States have in the Pacific, in COM
merce and in the fisheries, have also made
it necessary to maintain naval force
there. In disposing of, this force, in
both instances, the most efectual mea-
sures in our power have been taken,
without interfering with its other duties,
for the suppressing of the slave trade,
and of piracy in the neighboring seas.
The situation Of the United States, in
regard to their resources, the extent of
their revenue. and the facility with which
it is raised, affords most gratifying spec
tacle. The payment ofnearly slAty-seven
millions of dollars of the public debt,with
the great progress made in measures OF
defence, and in other improvements DIVA
rious kinds, since the late war, are con-
elusive proofs of this extraordinary pros
perity, especially when it is recollected
that these expenditures have been de-
frayed, without burthen on the people,
the direct tax and excise having been re-
pealed soon after the conclusion OF the
late war, and the revenue applied to these
great objects having been raisedin man
ner not be felt. Our great resources,
therefore, remain untouched, for any pur-
pose which may affect the vital Interests
of the nation. For all such purposes
they are inexhaustible. They are more
especially to be found in the virtue, pat
riotism, and intelligence, of our fellow
citizens, and in the devotion with winch
they would yield up, by any just measure
of taxation, all their property, in support
of the rights and honor of their country.
Under the present depression of price,
affecting all the productions of the coun-
try, and every branch of industry, pro-
ceeding from causes explained on for
mer occasion, the revenue has consdera-
blv diminished; the effect of which has
been to compel congress either to aban-
don these great measures of defence, or
to resort to loans or internal taxes, to sup
ply the deficiency. On the presumption
that this depression, and the deficiency in
the revenue arising from it, would be
temporary, loans were authorized for the
demands of the last and present year.
Anxious to relieve my fellow citizens in
1917, from every burtben which could be
dispensed with, and the state of the trea-
sury permitting it, recommended the re-
peal of the internal taxes, knowing that
such relief was then peculiarly necessary,
in consequence of the great exertions
made in the late war. made that re-
commentator under pledge thai, should
the public exigencies require recurrence
to them at any time while remained in
this trust, l would, with equal prompti-
tude, perform the duty which would then
be alike incumbent on me. BY the ex-
pertinent now making it will be seen, by
the next session of congress, whether the
revenae shall have been SO augmented as
to be adequate to all these necessary pur-
poses. Should the deficiency still con-
tinue, and especially should it be proba-
BILE that it would be permanent, the course
to be pursued appears to me to be obvi-
Gus. | am satisfied that, under certain
circumstances, loans may be resorted to
with great advantage. ! am equally well
satisfied, as general rule, that the de-
mands of the current year, especially in
time of peace, should be provided for by
the revenue of that year. have never
dreaded, nor have ever Stunned, in any
situation in which | have been placed,
making appeals to the virtue and patriot
ism of my fellow-citizens, we'll knowing
that they could never bemade in vain, es-
pecially in times of great emergency, or
for purposes Of high natl nal Importance.
Independently ofthe e1igency of the case,
many considerations of great weight urge
a policy having in view a provision of