Virginia advocate. [volume] (Charlottesville, Va.) 1827-1860, 1828-06-07

S,tong love ocoury which cherished by these brave
meu-t'cr deep yeneraon for the laws and government,
Not one amongst them hesitaed doubted and when
URGED tn turn their swords against that congress which
had neglected their claims, turned deafeor to their
plants, treated them only with niustice hut with
scorn instead of asssng that congress weak To re-
ss and too to be just They would have rallied
sword in hand to uphold and tcfoad it. And We. such
men are to he feared, suspected and hated The sublime
virtue of Washington, of Washington the military
cnctain devoted to military employment from his ear
hest youth, educated in the tented field resisted an AT
tempt, which 1t unrcsistcd would have placed crown on
his Drows and sccptro in his hands. When the graft
ude of the American people called him TO the highest
place IN their government, where is the man who will
now say that their affairs during his administration were
no conducted with consumnnte wisdom? Where is the
man who will undertake to compare the Ebony of John
" Adams with the Topaz of Washington or will pre-
sumo to measure the intellectual giant of the field and the
! cabinet with the pedant from the university.
Hamilton and Knox, two military chieftains" were
called to and IN the councils of Wasngton when he de-
liberated ON nations destiny. Can the most bgoted of
the Coalition dream of nsttung comparison between
Alexander Hamilton, the first Secretary TIC MIGHTY spir
which reduced its chaos order, restored the public
coat created system which has stood the oftme
ahdtral-with Richard Rush. who writes mazy nonsense
IN blank and calls it treasury rerort One would
as soon think of comparing Corinhian column with an
empty barrel rs the bold, udicous and manly Knox
with the loud-taiking disclaimer Of the war Office
&" That never set squadron in field
" Nor the division of battle knows spnstcr"
Those great but modest and disnterestcd characters
VINO composed the cabinet council of WASHINGTON were
always at their bureaux. They not to be found
securing the country to gain personal partiznns They
were not to be found revealing taverns and
pronoupcng convival panegvrics upon their
own surprising honesty and wisdom. Can the human
imagination conceive the possibility. that George Wash
gon could have been found at public dinner, toastng
Another military chiehain," Col John Marshall. has
presided over the jurisprudence of the United States for
twenty years Has this urst developed pow
eru perception of Justice great purity of intention and
profound legal SCIENCE in the discharge of the duties Of
mgh Office or has he not The Coalition shall answer
III the period between the peace 1888 and the estab-
eh OF the federal constitution when the absolute
eighty was IN the state governments, Gen George Gin
ton was called to the government of Ncw-York Gen
Niin to that of Pennsylvania Cen Smawood governed
MARYLAND Gen. Nioultrie and Gen. Thomas Pincknev
South Carolina in succession, and Gen Sullivan New
hampshire -Nas there misrue in those stotes
iiid these military discover any improper am
pion Did they commit any acts TRANSFORMING the laws
ana the constitutions of their respective stateso Was
not tho government of each ably and mparally admin
sered? Were not disorders repressed and the laws pro-
eced ana executed But the government the civilian
owdon III Massachusetts,, dstine ushed by an aar-
ming and dangerous msurrcction which was Guelled bv
The energy frmnss and prudence of that veteran milf
tary chicitain' Gen Lincoln And what royernor in
The latter state has been popular or caused SO little
reproach, that celebrated military chefinin the
late Gel Brooks "a military chiefiain" one Of the
prudcntly and wisely. TO be continued } =
Inc ~ Y Morning Courier publishes communication
rom The Corresponding committee of the an-auction
yScm OF that CITY OF reasons why the present system
OF auctions ought TO be aboshed' from which we make
ilie following extracts.
.f"ct,onS iHiUrc consumers rcncraly bv eab0ne;pg
nS, Is great error to suppose that goods sold
T'Nue at auction Than at private sale. The principal
nVcrs IN New Iork have been consulted and thew affirm
WIN one accord that they purchase on an average ofone
year. cheaper mt private than public sale One If the
t.geSt and most respectable auctoneers in the United
"taeS wo not long since, extensive dealer bv
i'c s!e stated the same thing lately the result of
ms cAPc'iancc NO doubt great bargains arc sometimes
obtained, WI Ell the market overstocked or d,,rn cr
ac ass OF trade but this would equally happen if
@ "hch an article is in demand, it sells much higher at
auction than at private sale. The excitement produced
by inc competition of crowd of BUYERS assembled in onn
room ana bidding against each other inevitably kec,s NJ,
Prices 10 inc highest point Besides it involves contra
ucth 10 suppose any person would send goods to
auction, and pay the auconeer's commission All Ill.,
oe duty unless he got higher prices than he could OH
n at private sale. 1t is only in seasons of extrene do
PRESTON that runoS sales made at auction to any
But, what is of more lportancc substantial and really
N'i''pc goods are not often auction II is at pr
Nc S'e that ney are commonly 10 be Ioui Both for
egn and domestic manufacturers prepare ON urposc c,r
dMCionS goods defective in every respect-n lcnath
w'dth quality, color and pattcrn-whici no rcputahIe
house would venture toimport and ia offer ot
o "ch would he dear at any price. Our country has
III consequence, become The great mart for the old stock
and refuse fabrics of England France Germany and Other
p"rls oil the world where unsaleabc goods accumulate
auctions thus encourage complicated decepons Even
when fraud ~ sonaly discovered the owner ia ro,
cfdy kept out OF vcwthc auctoneer is responsible
some compromise is quietly submitted TO- or wholly rc
fused on some technical normaity and all eynoY,ro or
The guilty party prevented Will il be believed that ~
what are called piece shelf sales which form nine fetbs
OF auction sales minute and even less and SCARCELY
ever so much two minutes, is all the time allowed IN
company of perhaps two hundred buyers to examine in tho
twilight OF an auction store, amidst noise and confusion
goods which they saw before The worse tl goods
me shorter will probably be the time given and fins
where canton IL most needed it cannot be exercise,
Yet IL is the indispensable duty of merchant carefully t
scrutInize every article before he buys it.
sales by auction give advantage to the SELLER which
may not be known throughout the country though mer
Chants are familiar with it, Those who send goods to auc
uon, commonly specify given price incudnr the auc
oneer commission and the State duty and ftho nrice
obtamed they direct that the goods shall moi he sold
ne auctoncer consequently exhibits at first few MEG
es only as trial; If these sold at tho price limited
the gale goes on butt not it is stopped On the CON
ary before auctions prevalent the importer fire.
9uenty exhibited his original invoice to the buver and
tne PFoh was matter disagreement between them TITS
efectualy prevented Mrgc profits.
lTee or tour states by imposing duty on sales at arc
ton make all the others tributary them in drect roI
no" 81 Their rigts IF sOocrcigntg Every consumer in
the onon OF merchandise that has been 6oInh ot auc
ton In New-Ycrk, pays duty into her treasury Even
inc produce which is sent hither for sale by auction from
al parts or the country between the St Lawrence and the
pu OF Mexico, pays the same degrading tribute What
IS S out one state levying mpos on the rest an A.
ouSe expressly prohibited by the Constitution of the CON
iederacy such revenue ought be paid into the treas
ury oil the United States. State Ne vi. -