Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1834-05-23

Our C~oWntry.-The collar presses are busily
engaged in the dirty task of eliminating our
government. The Trenton Emporium says
" half a million may buy q majority Of the Uni
ted States Senate" Is this press paid by a TO-
reign and hostile government for thus SANDER
ing the American character? Is it impossible
that an American press, sustained by American
patronage, could give utterance to so vile a ca
Iumny upon our country? Had a foreigner been
guilty ofthis wrong, the whole population would
have Indignantly exclaimed againstthe outrage.
If this despicable policy SO generally adopted by
the collar men, be persisted in, can we complain
if our beloved country becomes an object Of
universal sCorn and contempt? When We Sian
der and degrade ourselves, have we a right to
ask others to respect and honour us? II the fac
ton thus openly cherish and utter sentiments
like these-sentiments grovelling and paricidal,
and which would disgrace the spirit of an Ar
nold-the consequence to our national charac-
ter may be easily OWNED. We may address
our country in the language ofByron to France.
"Derision will strike thee %forlorn,
A mockery that never will die;
And the curses ofhate, and the Kisses of scorn,
w ill burthen the winds of the sky;
And wide DER tiny ruin forever be hurled
The laughter of triumph, the scorn of the
world" Phil. Com. Int.
Adjournment Of Congress-Relief to the Coun-
trv, dc. $c.-Nothing will prevent Congress from
adlourning early in the ensuing month, but the
hone of some change in the opinion of certain
members, by which such a compromise could
be made as to afford relief to the country, and
prevent a succession of evils which threaten us
on all sides; and we should say, that if there is
a prospect of relief-ifou our can be re-
vived, our manufactures saved, our mechanics
employed, our farmers protected, and our reve-
nues replenished, it would be the duty of Con-
gress to continue in session until next March.
But we are free to confess, that we see no pros
pect of relief The memorials of hundreds of
thousands of our fellow-citiZens drop still born
on the tables of Congress. The inclination to
afford relief-to do what is just and right-and
called for by the public voice, fully exists; but
alas! the collar so tightly e%nvirons the necks of
certain members, that better serfs and subjects
do not belong to the Emperor of Russia. All
the legislation Of the country, as Congress as nop
constituted, is rested IN the President, through the
more than royal Veto poper. There is no hope
ofrelief; we must neither deceive ourselves, nor
our fellow-citizens: q change Of rulers is the on
Iy hope; the Downfall Of " the party' the only
prospect.
Having made every effort; having been as
sailed by tine gag law; having nobly defended
the constitution and the laws, nothing, We res
p%ectfully think, remains but tor the Wing party
in CONGRESS to agree to an adjournment, when
ever the Majority is ready, and, by returning to
their constituents, showing the dangers which
threaten our liberties, organizing in every town
and hamlet in the country, ringing the alarm
bell, and call the people to a general rescue;
the fall elections will sweep away the admins
tration, and all its collar adherents, in one broad
and overwhelming ruin.-N. Y. Star.
Poetical.-The N. Y. Commercial informs us
that a gentleman from Philadelphia had his mo-
ney, amounting to over a hundred dollars, sto-
zen rom him at the Five Points by q SYREN !