The Alexandria herald. [volume] (Alexandria [Va.]) 1811-1826, 1823-03-24
TO 6e EyeehoIders Of Prince Hillians
Loudoun. and Fair}dr.

sthis congressional district, the right of
suffrage that right. on which depend
the operation of our system Of govern.
mcnt and the success OF our republican |
Institutions.
In proportion to the importance which |
our excellent constitution attaches to the |
elective franchise, has ever been my diff |
6dence in asking of you its exertion i'm
my behalf Six years service, while it |
has taught me how to discharge some oil
tho duties ofyour representative, has dis.
closed to me, as is the tendency of all |
knowledge, that hayc yet much TO learn.
In continuing to be candidate for your
suffragcs,t can tender to your acceptance,
nothing more than the benefits Of an ex-
perience which you have enabled me to
acquire, and ofa zeal for your welfare,
quickened by the grateful remembrance
Of your past favour.
For my principles, as politician, |
trust may appeal to that constitution Of
government, under which il is our pride
as we'll as our happiness, to live. In re-
viewing the application Of those princi-
Piles to public measures,it is less wonder.
ful, tina, differences of opinion should
have existed among us, than that those
differences should have been SO few in
| number, and should, SO soon, have sub
4 sided.
With all the defects, which have been,
at any lime charged upon our political
institutions, there is not, on Garth, the
example of a people, who enjoy so much
happiness, at so little cost. That Ameri-
can must, indeed, be callous TO ell the
finer feelings of the heart as destitute
OF piety 20 God, as of love to his country,
who does not exult at the prospect around
him. To perpetuate such unparalleled
national felicity, should be the object of
| us all of the constituent, rs well as the
Representative. can most truly declare,
that, it has ever been, and if know my.
sell, it shall continue TO be, mine.
Al the end ofevery congress, since l
! have had the honour 10 be your public
servant, have thought of rendering TO
you, detailed account of public mea.
| sures. Two causes have conspired TO
| restrain this desire. One is, that to cons
ment on the political conduct Of my as
sociates in public service, who are not
present 10 defend themselves, would be
| task Of great delicacy the other, and
perhaps the better reason is, tina, our con-
| gressionai district is in the vicinity of the
capitol, and the newspapers Of both town
and country afford ample materials,
wherewith 10 form an unprejudiced
Judgment of public men, as well as mea-
sures.
To conclude this brief address, my,
| hope, be permitted to say, that born to
labour, love employment for its own
sake: that, in every service, whether
or military. which 81 eJhu Ass sopeh s9s
looked less TO the advancement of my
| own interest, than to their prosperity
have never courted public station, be-
cause it was exalted, nor declined one,
because 1t was humble. 1t has been
nough for me, that | found, liz obeying
he call of my country, the means of use
fulness. BY this principle have beer
hitherto guided. IT will be my pola,
star, should you continue to deem me
worthy Of your confidence. Your faith
full servant, q. F. MERCER
Mr.. Joseph Moses, Of the Jewish per
suation, lately hung himself in LONDON,
in consequence of his great losses by the
| depression ofSpanish stocks in which he
had dealt largely.
MIR. Peter Bailey, the editor Of the pc.
riodical publication in London, entitled
the Museum, lately died in coach on
his way TO the Italian opera. He sung
an Italian air IN the coach just before he
died, when he calculated "Oh Mary !" to
his wife, who was with him, and fell
dead in her arms. His dissolution was
occasioned by the bursting of an aDeurism
in the aorta in his inside, from which an
effusion Of nearly two pints of blood had
taken place and lodged in his chest.
The Intenseness of the frost in many
parts of England the past winter has
been severely felt by man, beast and
bird. An immense number Of water
fowl have been easily taken, and larks
and other small birds were caught with
but little trouble. On the Goth Of Janua
~, one man caught in garden in South.
smpton between six and seven hundred
small birds. The price of fuel had been
greatly enhanced, and hundreds Of poor
suffered in consequence.
A soldier, named Layton, decamped