Phenix gazette. [volume] (Alexandria [D.C.]) 1825-1833, 1827-05-15
From The ,New Yoyk Dniiy advertiser.

Ss5 as q Ehs HrISnaf e,
! in Gloucester county, in Virginia, at which a
long address 10 the people OF that state was "a
dopred From that document we extract the
following passage.
| "OfMe acts oj'Me present administration, no one
is so highly injurious as the pGsiia haaa Of patron
age. ,chich IS extended fouurds The Northern
States five could be induigenl on such an
occasion, we nigh, possibly excuse Mr.. Adams
| for these favourable sentiments, when we re-
member this, it was the place of his nativity, *
the ground on which he first raised the ladder
of his ambition But when we see him having
no expanded and generous feelings Of regard
for the people of the southern states; when we
see them cramped bv the rigour OF fiscal law &
reduced even to the skeleton Of poverty, must
no, we, in the bitterness Of Indignation, forget
10 pallate these works Of weakness, folly and
i'm policy? For ourselves, W. do not wish to
look upon the Northern States with jealousy s.
envy We love the stability Of the Union too
well and we would if possible have no conten-
lious chickering's Bul we have rights, and a.
mong those tie important one'of being protect
cd by that constitution which is hal!owed by
the wisdom, and rendered sacred by the blood,
of our ancestors. This claim on the General
ned 10 US a. wen in peace as in War We haze
III me resources in ourselves ghfch might render US
0Duiet, aud a soil calculated 10 produce 10 orr
coaatry'bg The iabours Of our agr'eufwists, a
powerfm influence among The nations Of Me earth;
but our trade Is iellered by severe restrictions;
our canvass no longer whiiens distant seas
industry i, damped by gloomy torebodings of
lis own usefulness. The poor mans laOour
brings him no profit, and complete slagnation
Of enterprise has taken place in the Somhern
part ofOur country, The true seal 9fthe vtahty Of
our political body"
OF all the charges brought against the pre-.
sent chief magistrate Of the Union, that at the
head OF this quotation is the most extraordlna-
ry. The heads of the three principal Depart
menls Of the executive branch OF the govern
ment have been appointed to their places by
him. The Secretary of State is from Kenluc-
XIV, the Secretary Of War from Virginia, and
the Secretary Of the Treasury from Pennsylva-
MIA. The Secretary Of the Navy is from New
Jersey. and the Post Master General is from
Ohio. Doth these gentlemen received their first
appointments under the preceding Admlnistra-
ZION, and have been continued by the present
Among the foreign missions that we recollect,
one was from New-York, two from Pennsylva
MIA, one from South Carolina, and one from
Tennessee, or Kentucky, we forget which. Elk
cept the single case Of the foreign minister a.
aforementioned from this state, we do not re-
collect solitary important appointment from
any state north or east of Pennsylvania, except
the transfer of MIR. Everett from Denmark 10
spain. OF course Mr. Adams has, thus Tar, no
claim for any excuse" for his favouritism to-
ward. "the place Of his nativity" even If the
vlrginans could De- induls"nt On such an oc-
easion, as II happens that he has not discov-
cred II in any positive act in The exercise Of his
unquestionNble prerogalive.
In making his appointments in the cabinet,