Alexandria gazette & advertiser. [volume] (Alexandria [D.C.]) 1822-1824, 1824-03-30

You will then, be tells you, have roads
and canals, ready made TO your hands,
tbut our banks must furnish the money,
soi the state receiiue the toll, Then you
will have couaiy tree school, where
your sons may learn 10 be presidents, at
the moderate expense OF twenty-seven
thousand dollars per aonum,* Every little
Inore than the annual salary, when the
scholars shall receive their promotion.
Pot this is not all then you will have
COURTS: hustings courts, county courts,
circuit courts, or superior courts; chance
~ courts, maritime courts, or admiralty
courts, federal courts; (bu. no orphans
courts;) and he might have added, courts
Of inuyers, who, On any disputed case,
wil cheeriully travel with you to Fairfax
court house. Fredericksburg Richmond,
and Williamsburg, and introduce You into
every court 10 the state, tor suitable COM
pensaiion, (on each occGston) 10 them
selves; 10 the state. and To the various
clerks, bailiffs, sherifis, and marshais:--
trusting at the same time, that when you
become frssmen, you will not sickle al
the triHing sums required TO pay The
travelling expenses OF yourselves, your
counsel, and your witnesses; Dor at the
mileage OF Fredericksburg or Richmond
n.srsSaI, Who may visit you two or three
terms, upon the same business Sill this
is not all those among you who have
houses aud lands. and no others) viii
have the privilege of voting for two Far.
tax delegates, to the Virginia Legislature /;
(or psrchnnct two Of your own 30 see you
sell idTei and TO prevent Congress from
co...fibu ING 10 the great western canal.
And 1t seems you must be quick too, in de
cit, ny Oh the question before you; tor one
OF the intended Delegates, has been heard
To- declare, that unless you forthwith agree
tu the proposed retr0ce-sion, he will QUIT
your town.! and when from another place
~ sh,n have Teen returned 10 the Lrgls-
Iature. you will have 10 petition him TO al
!os you to go back -! This, MY friends
is brief sketch OF the many advantages
OF retrocession. which have been reUedied
to ynr by the uunasked MEG MANIC
and bis enraged ,journsymsn: But from all
such bungf,ng crJiSmen-,from all such vi
sionsry schs mes-irom all such wild vaga-
ries-snd from al such gloomy prospe cts,
"good Lord deliver US " On the subj ect
Off ads and canals, will de,ain you lew
min, ties longer. On that OF The courts, the
schools, the banks, the taxes, The dele
gates, and the comparative difference OF
the state and the distrCI governments, l
will address you hereafter.
You have been told that Virginia will
make US roads aud canals. That her lite
Tary fund and lund for internal improve
meut, will be appropriated to that puT..
pose, but, that we must be made part oi
Virginia before we Can expect TO partIci-
pale in her means. Fellow Ciizrns-oi
all he deceptions that have bean practIs-
ed upon you-ot all the assertions adv -
ed without proof, and, indeed. in the iace
of positive evidence, this, to my mind,
is the most decidedly bareIsced.
Ii Virginia contributes to no other high
ways than those leading 10 her own towns,
ny what mean. did the citizens OF Geo
Town procure the road Of which have
spoken? did not Virginia furnish fro
ff!ks o. the money? and has she not re-
peatedly offered to do the same for Alex
40 ria? When the Goose. Creek canal was
in contemplation she sent her engineers
10 survey the route, and assured us OF her
Gete rminstion 10 assist in the execution -
.sgain, when the Leesburg road was pro-
iecied, she passed law 10 incorporate
the Company, and authorised Us to cslcu
Ia;e on her aid 70 the amount OF fro fyfhs
of the proposed stock: In fact no instance
can he cited, where Virginia has ever been
required 10 facilitate the communication
OF her citizen. with any oil the cities ot the
District, that she has withheld either her
usual quota OF pecuniary assistance, or the
necessary laws for the security OF The ad-
vpn,yrers The inhabitants OF Washing
ton have made an excellent road ImmedI'
ately IN the rear OF our town, Cenne.tIng
the Little River Turnpike with The POto
mac bIiJge They solicited the AID OF
Virginia TO that part Of /, which passes
;hr ugh her territory, and received It upon
the first application.
This very road has deprived Alesan.
dria OF no Uncomfortable proportlun OF the
custom OF her own immediate neighhor-
hood when might have been, aud can
YET be. secured by The intersection OF the
Georgetown and leesourg turnpike. In
our. OF the toll galherer al the Potomac
bridge, aud ne will tell, that, during the
season OF hai roads, thirty or forty mar
ket aud wood carts aud Wagons, from
thai section oil the country, lying On the
route 10 Leeshurg, are daily IN the habit
OF trading 10 Washington, and eXpendng
not only the amount OF their trade, tut Of
zen much more, wrh her shop keepers,
II Is not because her market is better, but
because our road is impossible.
The whole trade OF the upper Potomac,
concenires 10 market, interior To ours 10
avery particular that IS desirable TO The
traders; and they assign as reason, that
but lew OF the boalmen Can be prevailed
On to venture any farther. Here then It is
evident, that tor want OF slack water ma
VACATION to insure safety, we are losing