Phenix gazette. [volume] (Alexandria [D.C.]) 1825-1833, 1831-01-21

Col. VIM. G. Il. BUTLER, of Fairfaxco
has been elected Brigadier General in nl NUN!
Gen. George Rust, resigned. f3ee
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The Albany Advertiser says:-It is cr
reported in NewYork and Albany, that w.s's!
English Duke has ordered two millions 6rs.
dred thousand dollars to be invested in AM u.N
stocks.
The Albany Evening Journal asserts that T.
Albany Regency, shave determined to r",. y
MIR. Sandtord to the Senate Of the U. St,, ,s,H
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Comet.-There is visible, about tlav GoA.
the South east, a small co,nef.-It has hSssn
served in Lynchburg, Richmond, PhladsinG
and at Fredericksburg Y
Imprisonment for Debt.-At the comms,.
ment of the session Of the MARYLAND Iee;sIaaN0
Mr.. McElfresh, of Frederick County. ssked
obtained leave to bring in a bill to abolish imn+
onment for debt, and will no doubt, in due T."
bring the subject before the house.
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Elegant Erfract.-The pamphlet from NH.
the following extract is taken is entitled !,
Grafton delivered at Plymouth, December ~
1909, at the Anniversary Commemoration Of =
first landing of our Ancestors at that place, >
JOHN Dorsey ADAMs":- y
"The Indian right of possession ITSELF Sian
with regard to the greatest part Of the cour,r
upon questionable foundation. Their cul,iy,:
fields; their constructed habltations; snacs
ample sufiiciency for their subsistence, and VII,
ever they had annexed to themselves by perS,
al labor, was undoubtedly by the laws of n,,rn
theirs. But what IS the right of huntsman n
the forest of thousand miles, over which he h.,
accidentally ranged in quest of prey: Shall M
liberal bounties Of providence to the race Of MAJ
be monopolized by one of ten thousand for who,
they were created: Shall the exuberant bosom \
the common mother, amply adequate to the nov.
ishment of millions, be claimed exclusively b., /
few hundreds Of her offspring? Shall the Lord
ly savage not only disdain The virtues and euio,
inents of civilization himself, but shall he cont,
the civilization of the world? Shall he forbid 4,
wilderness to blossom like the rose! Shall \
forbid the oaks of the forest to fall before the AZ.
of industry and to rise again transformed into
the habitations Of ease and elegances Shall
he doom an immense region OF the globe o.
perpetual desolation and to hear the ho3Iin.s d
the tiger and the wolf silence forever the voice d
human gladnesss Shall the hills ard the yalleys
which beneficent God has fc.med to TEEN wifi
the life of innunerabIe n itudes, be condemn
ed to everlasting barrenness? Shall the might
rivers, poured out by the hands Of nature, Al
channels of communication between numerous
nations roll their waters in sullen silence and
eternal solitude to the deep? Have hundred. q
commodious harbors, thousand leagues Of coast.
and boundless ocean been spread in front Of
this land, and shall every purpose of utility to
which they could apply be prohibited BY the ten.
ant Of the woods3 No, generous phiIanthropsi
Heaven has not been thus inconsistent in the work
of its hands! Heaven has not thus placed 4.
irreconciIabie strife, its moral laws with its phys
ical creation"
We are pleased to observe that the Commute.
of Roads and Internal Navigation in the tiOga
of Delegates have reported favorably on the pet
ton of Messrs. Porter, &c. for a turnpike TOa.
from Potomac Greek to this place.
Fredericksburg Hrdd