Alexandria gazette & daily advertiser. [volume] (Alexandria [Va.]) 1817-1822, 1822-03-08


To The Editor Of the alexandria Gazette.
SlR-Tbe question that now occupies
the attention Of the public, is certainly
very important one: have read with great
attention all the arguments pro and con,
and really cannot see that our condition
would be smeliorated by retrocession. we
should be subject to more than sixteen
thousand dollars tax, and as to the right OF
appeal, it has been fully provedlby enex
that we could 10, appeal in Virginia ex-
cep, in cases of 1900 dollars, whereas
here we can appeal in cases of 1000 dol
lars. Another great argument is the r'shl
OF suffrage. As to this, it is obvious that
only few persons could vote, namely tree
holders, and it appears to me, that 1t Is
tar more republican for none OF US to vote
unless all can. Why should there be an
ars:ocratical principle OF suffrage establish
ed sor, of voting nobility?
ltls astonishing to any man OF common
sense that these writers should wish Us to
pay Is, 900 dollars year to get rid oil e.
wills which do not exist. Every body knows
that Congress does every thing we want;
and as to their having the power OF achDg
Financially, we had better wait till they
do so, before we ungrateiully try to desert
them. twill be time enough when we
really feel any evils, TO think OF a remedy
But let Us enjoy our present blessings. and
remember with great poet.
For forms of government let fools contest,
That government is right which is admins
tered the best
Az 10 The observation that men OF wealth
are prevented from settling in town be-
cause they do not wish to be disiranchist d
it is most unprecedented assertion, and
rises from vanity mixed with ambition,
and a wish to vote. Men of wealth, are
properly speaking, men OF money; and
they would have 10 right otvotlng IN Pir-
cinia, unless they had lend. But it the
principal part of their property was mo-
ney, of course they would live where mo-
ney, and not land has the greatest lnfu-
ence.
Our ears are made perfectly deaf about
representation, and ] predicate on this
subject this idea, that one OF two delegates
of ours could not have much influence in
large body like congress.
Any doubts which ever bad on the sub
ject OF retrocession were settled by the
violence Of some publications on that side,
and could not help contrasting them with
the "digni6ed and temperate piece"e OF
"Sensn" as il is property stled by Philo
Seaer. No cause can be good. lay down
this maxim, where the defenders OF it get
to abuse. Aud as 10 its being began on
Toe other side. this deny, and if it was
ii doe, no; justify them.
These seekers OF places in the legisla-
.ure or congress have also raised cry a.
bout the Orphans court, and represented
the officers of that court as set OF Shy
locks stripping the widow and deprving
the orphan of it's las: morsel OF food. Now
know very well that the business done
here 10 The Orphans court is done in FTgi.
MIA in the courts ofchancery, at far grea-
ter expence and delay,
hope that all these wild projects will
| end in disappointment. and that we shall
know when I've are well, and not suffer
any writer or set of writer's to ''to keep US
ip state of instability" a. "An Alexan-
drian" says.
JUNlUS.