Phenix gazette. [volume] (Alexandria [D.C.]) 1825-1833, 1830-06-14
COMMUNICATED,

COMMUNICATED.
Chesapeake and Ohio Canal Meeting.-The
indelicate and malignant attack made by the Sc
cretary of the Treasury upon Col. Mercer, al
the Meeting of the Stockholders of the Chesa.
peake and OhioCanal Company on Wednesday
last, was repealed with great ability and eloquence
by the latter gentleman, who completely discom.
fitted his rude and vulgar a~ssailant. 1t is most
unfortunate that the government has not a more
polished or ADLER representative at these meetings;
for, however low the present Administration may
be held, as to capacity and intelligence, every
American feels mortified at the exposure of ig-
~norance and imbecility of one of its members
The innate malignity of the present Secretary of
the Treasury is so active and preponderating, that
neither time nor place can restrain it; it seems to be
constantly oozing out in spite of every effort to
check it. Ii, however. received a severe rebuff on
the occasion we have mentioned; & the strong
indications of contempt with which he was greet
ed by the Stockholders must have taught him (f
he can be taught any thing a lesson which it is
hoped he will not soon forget. We trust that
neither his efforts nor the very unwarrantable
ones of his co-labOrers in mystification from
Georgetown will produce any other effect than an
increased confidence in the ability and industry
of the present Board of Directors. The Chief
of this p%roscriptive Administration will have to
learn that his mischievous propensities and i'll
clinations will not be tolerated by the indepen-
dent Stockholders of this Company; and that
though he may, in the fancicd plenitude of his
power. ask whom he pleases to be President of
the Board. they will still exercise their own dis
erection and Judgment in the selection of that Off
Ger. Col. Mercer may appear to the very con-
tracted mind of Secretary Ingham as a s'vi-
projector;'' but it is sometimes better to
be even a visionary protector than a heavy B9o-
tian plodder, whose schemes are always founded
in self, and whose projects. if he ever invent any,
are calculated to iniure rather than to benefit the
community. Mr.. Ingham must be sensible, from
the specimen of Wednesday, that the proscrip-
tire system he and his coadjutors of the Admi-
nistration have introduced, will not take where
good feeling and good sense have an opportuni-
ty to operate.-Nat, Journal
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Hard to please.-The Columbia Telescope is
determined not to be pleased. The reduction of
the duty on salt, on m~olasses, on tea and coffee,
should, it says. have been opposed by the South,
that 'sthe system might be kept as odious as pos
siblet to the Tarifites themselves" We presume
that the desperadoes who were willing to seek
amended fortunes in Revolution, see, in the re-
auctions alluded to, the probable overthrow of
their patriotic hopes. and the restoration of quiet
to the minds of the Southern people.
Rich. Wing.
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Chief Justice Marshall. of the Supreme Court
of the United States, has issued a writ of Ne En-
eat against Mr.. Barrozzo. requiring bail, in the
sum o twenty thousand dollars, for his remaining
in the u. States to answer to the suit of Mr.. Tor
lade d'Azambuja. Mr.. Barrozzo, however, it
is believed, has already left this country.
Nat. Gaz.
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