Phenix gazette. [volume] (Alexandria [D.C.]) 1825-1833, 1833-04-08

The Government paper says. in reference to
an article which we copied. two days ago, from
the Alexandria Gazette. asking Information con-
corning an inquisition reported to have oeeh es-
tablished INTO the conduct Of the Commissioners
of the NAVY Board -. We are able to give posi-
- tive assurance, that no inquiry into the con-
IS duct of the Navy Commissioner IS on loot
Is The conduct Of some OF their Clerks may oe
IS under investigation. What has been or VIII
8 . be discovered, we know not" we are giad
10 learn that rumor has exaggerated the matter
II is the conduct Of certain Clerks, II appears
that is under investigation, BY two cItIzens, mel
thcr Ut whom belongs 10 the Navy department.
The next question is, with what authority nave
these gentlemen been rightfully clothed to inves'
tigate The conduct of Clerks in an Office to which
neither of them belong, and the Chiefs Of which
are abundantly capable of experimenting the at
fairs which the law places under their charger
On this subject, the Philadelphia Commercial
Herald very we'll remarks
"The free citizens of this Republic will not
rest easy on witnessing all Overhauiing by IRE
sponsiJie. and some Of them unknown ipdlvidu-
ais, oil { re labors of such men as Commodore ROE.
GERS and his gallant associates 10 the Board OF
| Naval Commissioners. MAD. Int
The Charleston Mercury, OF the 28th ult.,
contains the speech which general Hamilton, the
Hector Of the Nulliters-the saccharine Hector
delivered in the Columbia Convention, on the
Compromise bill. He apologized for Messrs.
Calhoun aud Go. thus:
81 have said in the acceptance OF the compro.
mise our delegation acted on an irresistible po.
liticai and moral necessity say thus empha.
| ~tically, for If they had declined the compro.
mise in the face of the united and earnest %sulIcita-
ton of the whole Of our friends in Congress from
the other Southern states. we should have cut
ourselves of even from the sympathy OF these
| States. and have been left to have prosecuted a
struggle thus hopeless, with the whole force oil
the embodied public opinion Of the South against
is"
Nevertheless, be crowed victory in a vaunt.
full note.
You, sir. addressing Gov. Hayne.) recol.
lect both in 1924 and 1928, when We breasted
the storm side by side, in the great conflicts that
took place at those i'll .starred cycles Of legisla'
tive proflIgacy and abandonment. that we then as
humble suppliants Tor justice. would have closed
with Mr.. Cambreleng's proposition, after pro-
vidipg for a list of free articles, that the revenue
should settle down on all ad valOrem basis Of Is
per cent. MAY we not now, when no longer
suppliants, bM ruth arms in our hands, not beg
ging justice. but demanding it, accept a lar more
favourable adjustment"
Again
The boon has been won BY our sturdy re.
81 stance, and now at this very instant South Ca.
rolina accepts it. not as a s~upplient on a ben.
ded knee. but Nth her lance couched. and not a
feather quirering in her plume"
The case as represented by the General is
this:-The Nullifers forced a majority Of Con.
sress to offer a compromise; and they. the Nul.
lifers, were under "a moral and political ne,
c~essity" to accept the compromise thus extorted.
c ompulsiOn On both sides;- contenton both.
(Naf. Gaz.