Phenix gazette. [volume] (Alexandria [D.C.]) 1825-1833, 1832-02-10

the Central BOARD sEdt' aPpo'"' '"o"'
missiouers in Norfolk, Richmond, Petersburg.
Frederick sburg or other places, to provide YES
coils. collect free persons of color, aud provide
for their transportation, &c.-with authority to
draw ON the public treasury for money expended
for their passage and support from time to time
No person to be removed from the State without
his or her consent, as long as sufficient number
who are willing to go can be obtained. When
sufficient number for cargo cannot be found
willing to 90, selection shall be made. first, OF
males between the ages Of l6 and 25, and te-
males between the ages of Ii and 2S-when these
are exhausted, a selection shall be made from
males between the ages Of Is and As. and their
wives and children under the age OF 10, and OF
females having no husbands with their children
of the same class. Afterwards selection shall
be made of males between the ages OF 45 and
SIS, and females between the ages of 40 and so.
No male above the age of Is, or female above
40, to be removed without their consent. The
county courts and corporations to lay of districts,
and make enumeratiOns of the free cOlOred per-
sons The central hoard to make requisition OF
the several courts fl their respective quotas,
whenever any number is needed to complete a
cargo. COlored persons owning property to
certain amount shall pay the price OF their own
transportation, when voluntarily Offering to go;
support of those having no property to be de.
frayed out of the treasury. All slaves hereafter
emanciuated, to be forthwith removed. The
sum of 100000 is appropriated for the year
18s2-and thereafter $500, 900 annually. Such
is general outline Of the bill. The question
agitated yesterday, wass that Of the compulsory
principle, embraced in the first section. A mo-
ton of Mr.. Campbell of Brooke, to amend that
section so as to dvest the bill of its coercive cha
racter, was, after considerable debate, (Which we
shall report in our next.) successful. Several
other motions were made, and decided by majo.
rites which amply proved the determination Of
of the House to adopt some measure Tor the re-
mova of the free blacks, although the bill may
still undergo some material alterations. When
the House adjourned, motion Of Mr.. Bryce Of
G. to limit the right of volion to those only who
are now entitled by aw to remain in the Com
monwealth, was under consideration, and will
probably be acted upon this day.
The Missouri Senato, Sit seems to be the
fate of certain brilliant statesman, TO be annoy.
ed aud frustrated by his colleagues in all his
schemes for the benefit Of the oppressed people
of this country. When Mr. Barton was succeed
ed by Mr.. Buckner, the party was congratulated
upon the access OF friend Of General Jackson,
and above "all minor things" upon the harmoni-
Gus action Of the two gentlemen from Missouri
How far these have been realized, we are unable
to saw; but from the reports Of the occasional
MARKS Of MIR. Buckner we have cOncei, ed very
high respect for his character, and rave been equal
y pleased with his practical. common. sense views,
and with his frank manner Of making them known.
Perhaps these qualities shine more prominently
in hun, from the lamentabie want Of them IN his
verbose and windy colleague. Our readers are
aware that MIR. Benton's legislative family con.
sists Of three children; my Graduation Bill''
which is the eidest-(a notable scheme for de.
frauding al parts of the country with great i'm
partialuy, being, like Jafier's child the heir Of
all its parents beauty, "a bill to repeal the du-
tv on Indian Blankets, and one TO repeal the du-
" on Alum Salt. The latter has been very
troublesome urchin, during the present session,
both to the Senate aud to its anxious father. On
Friday last it occasioned some disturbance, when
Mr. Buckner, INDUCED in some pertinent and
pungent remarks, in the course of which he re-
6uked his colleague for bringing the noisy brat n-
to the Senate chamber, in the following manner.
Boston CJ,T.
Mr.. Buekner repeated he was from a
farming district. was Of that employment himself,
was surrounded by felow-citiZens of the same
class, the immediate charge of whose interests
was entrusted to his rare. If his colleague, in
stead Of introducing theoretical resolutions aud
learned quotations from Prince TaIleyrand to
prove that the North Americans were she heaviest
taxed people in the world, would 90 out among
the farmers Of the West. and get little practical
| knowledge, he would be more likely to advance
their interests He would like to see the gen.
tleman go among the fa mers of the West and try
to persuade them that thu Y were injured and OPP
pressed, and borne down with burthens-that
they were taxed like slaves-why, sir, thew would
laugh at him in the face the very children would
laugh at it. The Western people never were
more prosperous, more Furnishing, than they
are now-;hey want nothing to promote their hap.
pness but appropriations for purposes of internal
improvement-to facilitate their intercourse with
the different sections OF the country.
II the gentleman. instead of repeating paltry
duty of a cent or two per bushel on salt. which
the people feel not. nor care for, had proposed
measure cal. ulated to remove the obstructlons in
the Mississippi. Missouri, and oiner Western RI
vers, some mode to construct rail ruad from
some proper point on the river. say from Cape