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IfaoM thk National Intellicsncer. A VINDICATION OF THE Me afar es cf the Preterit Ad mm ft ration* BY ALGERON SIDNEY. <€ Where Liberty is—there is my Country. 1 ’ No. 11. ( Concluded .) The reformations which had long been concern Vat**d, were then efteidrd, and nothing left for the’ late ffilinn, but the performance of the common rntine of public hulinefs, and an aitention to such things as might a rife in the progress of governmrnt. I o derail rhe proceeding* of Congress would be rediou? and uninteretling; though to the public it ruy be flighty ufcful to (late the principal things which have received their a*ten ion. With a fir.c’ re desire to aid and improve commerce and navigation, the Presi dent in his firft mefiage reprefmted the evils to which th.y are exposed by the diferinfmting duties o‘ Cirear Britain; vvlii h, from the different modes of coMealing imports adopted by the two nations operate jirearly to the injury ol our carrying trade, by draw ing from our citizens at leal! three dollars to escii cue that we draw fron the fuhjefts ol that nation : Wher .y Britifti I ihiefts are enabled to command in a great measure, the freights of the fix foutherp States to the exclusion of our own mcrchan’s, and ; particularly, :o the injury of she Eaflern fU-tes. * bo this fukject he invited the attention of Con- w!jo at tlieir 1 all feflion, appointed a committee >f eminent merchants and others, to confider and Teport what, in their opinion, could he done in furtherance of* trade and navigation, ibis ■commit tec reported in favour of verting the executive: itb p.iW"r to annul our difcriminaiicg duties Wiienever t!v c.if.'tiininaiinc duties of Great-Britain should be •sboiffjed vt * p-rfms immediately interested in the car* 7 ; ;ngr rradc dTerent opinions were entertained * thought the p;opof*d measure would be highlv b • efic’.i o hers, pnflkSed of equal &ill, experience aud ; r.eireU, believed it would have a tendency to |>rr.a .v.e an injury. To furni h evidence to our iner* ■x ivjhs of a disposition on the part of government 2 > well to consult their i e'.ings, as to promote their tntereils, the consideration of the report was defer red, and probably will be until experience (hall shew that, in time of race, the pcopofed measure is eScn tial 10 the carr in,’ trade. To avoid the warte of our national rcfources, the preiiiSent recommended the eflablifitment ol a dry dock, to preserve our vetfels. flickered from the wea ther, snd to Jeccre them from the rapid decay una voidable to timbers daily experiencing the vicissitudes r>f heat and moisture. be unexpected and serious afpea of things on the Midi Tip pi rendering ir potfibl that both o ,r money and on- ships might be employ ed in a more active manner, and for pnrpcfes more jpreffi ig this ufsful propofnton was with great pro priew, pofipontd for future consideration. Mu;h pdin have been taken to renrefent this as a visionary p-;)j,*ct of the executive to tquander of the public pro p-rty, millions of dollars. To lave money—not to sq under it awav was bis design : the expense inrtead o. being millions, was not to exceed four thoulhnd -dollars. Which fnm is annually necefTary to keep Twelve frigates in repair, while lying in water ; the (ingle expenditure of that sum upon a dry dock would M ike pi ovilion for years, for the preservation of the feme number of frigates. It is known from the experience of Holland and V-uice that veflcls, if kept drv and cover-d from the fun, will continue as found as any other works of w ood. Dry docks are eredled by all the maritime Hates in Europe. Congrcfs have made provision tocompenfate perform ■who received known wounds in the teivice of the \J. &■*.. s during the revolutionary war, for whom no provision has been made. Ihi-y have authorifed procuring and equipping four fnu II armed vcfTeli for the service against Tripoli ; conciliated for u!e near the Qarhary courts- This has been represented as evidence of tne w-csknels and in— confiifency of the adminirtratiim ; who are charged with navi -ig fold a part of the national (hipping im provident lv. A Two co’clufive anf.vers present tbemfelves : firft, these were fold by an order of t he executive! given in obedience to a law, palled before he came frn< office ; Tccondly, they were not ealceiated for a war with the pirates of Africa, and would not an swer for the public service. The only remaining of importance which claimed the attention of congress, was the violation of our rights by the Intetulant at New„Or!eans, n depriving oik citizens of the right of deposit at that pDce, and forbidding all intercom fe between the fubjedl* of Lmuiliana and the citizens of the United Stats. This fi grant breach of treaty* received as it demanded, the mud prompt and vigilant attention of government. Nor has the celfion of that province by Spain to Trance had a tendency to increase the confidence of this nat’on in the views of thol? powers ; though go vern nrut has received from both, the mcif solemn afl u ances that the rights of this nation fiiall be refpecdfd. On the twelfth day of Mav, T VB6 , the United Sta.es solemnly proclaimed their rights to the free navigation of the MifflfHppi and it. Lawrence, and of the head waters of thete rivers, and all the lakes, £ulphs and other streams which conne&ed them with the main Ocean. - , The full enjoyment'of all the rights made known by thi.: declaration will bt maintained, sacred and in Iviolate, so long as the people of thele Pates conUitute la lurton. 1 The President. with che consent of the senate, has pnointed James Munroe miniiter extraordinary to ■he courts of France and Spain, to regain the ertjoy- Ineut of the right of deposit, to remove, and in future. Hrevent the embarfaflinenrs under which the weftei n Hates labor ; to enlarge the rights of the nation, and Hnfure those already acquired beyond the pofiiuiliry dispute or contelt. ■ Conereis, in furtherance of the views, have ap ■ooriated two millions of dollars, authorifed the Hefident to ertabliih arlena'.s in the weltern countiy, ■ build and equip fifteen gun- boats, and whenever he judge nectfl'ary to detach eighty thorn fa ml troops, the clofc of the session a.i attempt was made by oppolition ro cad an odium noon the commifßoners ■he finking fund. This terminated, as every oth-r to injure the adminitlration has, in their de |B and mortification. So ably were the proceedings board defended, and fj clearly were the wii nnd mi lit v of their uieafurcs proved, that es the b ir twelve members could be found hardy HH A io hilrnt trom rlie vote of ccnfidf nee and ap_ adopted bv rhe lvufe of repreit ntatives. ■ v.\.e the ia.lt act of that congreis, under whefe authority, no tnouTts vvere !;-.)rs\‘nved % no t *xes ere a fed no laws parted rertricling the liberty ot the cili- | zens. Every other mngrefs increased the burthens of the pcovde — -by this rhev were removed. When the partton of the times shall nave been for orotfon--when the w. rring iiUeiefis of individuals and the petty bickerings of rival candidates shall have been assigned to the tomb o( oblivion, the future his torian shall faithfully record tlicfe faft, as a rich le gacy tr. porter try Here 1 might triumphantly demand of the refliefs enemy of liberty, to point out that aft, which proves he exiltence cf a with to dcflroy the federal union ; which threatens private proper‘v, or prrfonal security -utid refpeftafeirty ; which Can reasonably create any feir or jeaionfy in the-mind of the mt-ft Jufpicious politician; which war* not required by the state oi the ’ country, and does not merit the approbation of the people. The mod finking and efficacious mode of contrasting the present ‘with la ft adminiilration, is by an at- I -ention to their fjfcal concerns In the two firfi years of tbi lafi adminiilration the executive was aurtiorifed to borrow nine millions eight hundred then fa nd doL lars ; a of which vyos aclcallv loaned at eight per centum interell—For .he two laid years, no loan has bf*en made or authorifed In the tvvo firit years ot theiart adraimftration an addditioiial duty.cf eight cents per bushel on fair, the fiamp dn*y, and a land tax of two millions of dolitiis *vtr I** iei—during the present no tax has been levied —ti e land ux is difeontinued, and the Uamp tax with all tlie other ’otern' i .l taxes, has been abolifficd. Du ring the lafiad.ninftrarion, in three years, the nation *1 debt was increafetl three millions three hcndi td ntd n neti-for.r thousand three “hundred and fevenreen dollars and forty two cents —Since the preterit, in two ve?rs the national debt has been rcduc and frven mi!lions, right fund ed and forty nine t> oulnc, tour • hundred ana thirty (even dollars and thirty -eignj cent*. During the Ufi adrniniflraiion no payments were made o.Ahe deferred debt —On ft* e Er(l ot April jßo j, inie -est firft fell di-e on that debt and the pre h.-nt adminirtration have annually paid thereon, twelve hundred thous n i dollars—Once mtirc, wlien the la(t adtniniftratioti retired, there were one million leven hundred ana ninety four thousand and forty lour col lars in the trealury—Now in the fame trea(dry there are five millions and twenty thousand two hundred and thirty dollars sixty two cents, The aftrual finings of the two lart y'ears may bs jurt Iy eflimated as follows : Two years payment of intercreili on the deferred debt at twelve hundred dolls, thousand dollars a year, equal, 2.4©0 000 Iteduftion of the public debt, 7,849437 38 Increase ot fpecle hi lie trealury, 3.236,187 38 Dollars, 76 From which fumr- drduft the proceeds of the bank (hares lately (old by order ofthe commilhontrsoi the linking fond, 1,287.600 Dollars, 13,188,0.22 76 A sum more than fix times as large as the land tax levied in 18Q0 by the lafi administration Os which fnm n ne millions seven hundred and eighty eight thoufand and twenty two debars and (eventy fix cents have aftually been, ar.d are in a train to be, applied to the reduction of the national debt. With fiich bright profpefts of a speedy rxtlnftior o( the national tlebt, without additional burthens how careful (hould government be to avoid ever* thing tending to increase our expenditure ? when that debt fliall have been extirgniffied, the present revenues of government will be cqaal to its mainte nance and to the support of any r.ecefiary wars in which this nation can be engaged. When I refioft open the fitrrender by government to the people cf t million of dollars annually, in abobfii* ingtlie excite ; upon tne rapid reduftion o( the pub lic debt, and upon the fpccic in the treafurv, and call to mind the avowed and known determination of ;hr late adminiili iuon. not only to continue, but to dou ble the land rax. lam loft in amazement. I ernnot difeover the exiHence of that recertify which demanded such repeated and oppveffive contribution?. Yet I boldly declare that to continue as wdi as the land rax as the other internal taxes, was the design of that adminirtration I his declaration is made both from a knowledge of the views of the persons then in power and (rum the provifibns of the aft direfting the valuation of lands and dwelling hordes; which clearlv proves that a permanent direst tax was con templated. That aft creates the imveyor of each valuation difrrift a permanent officer snd afeevtains the compensation he fitpll receive each official aft. it direst s him to keep a record oi the valuation of each lot and house ; j-snd whenever a transfer fliali take place to change live purchase, credit the feller, and en ter it of record. It provides that when anew house shall be erefted it (ball be valued and added to the valuations made under the aft ; that all lands exempt ed from taxation, whenever the exemption (hall ceaf , fnall be afkTed; and that whenever and so often as a dwelling house (hall be destroyed tlie valuation rhereof shall be cancelled. Neither of these provisions has anv relation to the tax levied,they all clearly re fer to future taxes. Indeed the expense incurred in arteffing the lands and houlcs in the different Fates, and in collecting the tax forms coaclufive evidence that it was determined to cdabliffi an annual land tax The sums by rhar adminirtration appropriated for the expense of afitfs ments amounted to four hundred and five thousand dollars. Dollars. The real expense may be eflimated at 4° 0,000 The com millions to the various officers for colledli ons and the contingent ex penles, as flatk-narv, print mo, advertising, &c. will amount at lead to 2801000 The toffies derived from various causes exceed 125^00 Making the whole loss and expenditure amount to dolls. 705,000 Which sum being dednftei from two millions of dol lars, the amoflnt of the tax, leaves only tlie sum of one million, two hundied and nicety five thoui’aud dollars, for the.public ufi. Apporiion to the feverai dates thrs seven hundred and five thousand dollars, in the fame ratio as they ! paid that tax, and it will appear, that by levying it, j there has been expended and loft to the people of! Maryland fitrv three thousand, seven hundred and; ninety one dollars, and to the people of Connefticut forry : five thousand, Rven hundred and forty two dollars ; which sums are equal to the yearly expenses of these (tates. On the fame principles th loss to Nonh Carolina was sixty eight thousand two hundred and feven*v eight dollars-.nearly eqml to tVe ex** penles of that (late for two years. These were the real Trfll-s to the people of the dates mentioned, to the people of the other Mates, thev-were in he fame pro portion. and exceed s loss of thirty five dollars on every hundred dollars collcfted. . Can anv person -ho inveftrgstes this fobi ft be lieve these expenses were incurred with a view to firing the tax of a single year into the treafurv ? ! think not: It mufi have been the design to make pro vision fora dursble land tax- No other cause can he afiigned for this wafie of property, but a wtfii to in ereaf* the ex-cutive power, by the appointment ot a I undred commissioners. a thousand furveyers of aHels mentdifiiifts with eft-bliffied fees of office, rWKe • hat numb-r of art 1 (Tors and collectors amonglt whom fhouU be divided the five hundred and eighty ‘houfand dcilars expended. FR ANKFORT. Ap*il 14., nTbeFafterp rspersteem with oW“fvations,rumours, ronjeftu-es and fabrications relating to ‘he people o* Kentucky, and “he ft ate of political opinion amongst us. vVhen we hear the whole coift ot the A lantic fe - founding without name, it tnight rlat er ©tir vanity, and oive u* a wonderful idea of our importance and high cor>f!de , 'afton in the federal scale ; were there not Tome reason to fear, that we ar? (ometimes played off as poooets in the hands of ihc po ivi al (how men of the different ‘parties. There are two points con concerning Whfch the clznior is rahed,—the one is >he fiory of fCentucky being in arms—the o.her is inflammatory piece ouhlifhcd in the GuardDn c. Freedom, under the signature of the W eftern Ame rican. As to the firft, it appears from a ftaterrtnt in the New-York Evening Poft,that the ft orv originat. cd ivrtb a young man bv the name of Ckcmiceil: bureiy theie is feme magic in names ! An eftarn editor ohferves concerning the nair.es of flournoy, that there is fome'hiitg Prenckfeld in it; —Hut this name cf Cro;n well (z name, however, which we never heard in Kentucky) is not merely frencbVied or anglicised but ii fcerr.s aimoft /antamourV r? rebllion & ufurpa/ion \t~ ’ fell ! And moil ea*nei;D would we recommend it fo’ he confider a Fon of the fame legal penetration which difeovered in a newspaper effaiy an offence againfi Dr. Logan's aft, whether this modern Cromwell, hkewife has net, agreeably to the fame refined rules of comtruftion, been guilty of holding correspondence ir.dereftly with the French and Spanish governments, by uttering and pnblifhing certain fcands’ous and fe ditic.us lies, in a certain vehicle calledand knowm by the name of a stage coach ? Should this b? the case, we (hall have no reason to regret the sedition aft, as this truly cotnprehenfiv-e foreign law, wilf anfvver all its valuable purposes in the federal court.’ Severe reprehension certainly is due to this pretended Kentuckian, who to asrufe himfelf by playing upon the curiosity and political speculation-s cf his Ep.fiern fellow travellers, fabricated (lories in vvhch he knew there was not one fyllahJe r,f truth, fii d’fhnnorabl? to the loyalty arjd republic?nifm of his Weftem fellow citizens. The other point to w hich the attention of our brethren in the Atlantic fhetes has been so much direfted, is the publication of Mr. Flournoy tinder the signature cf a American. The federal editors ‘erm it a demotratical publication ; —the re publics:?! -editors rra ntain that it wa publiQied in 2 federal paper, but art admit that he Governor of Kentucky has inftstuted a prosecution against the author. As the politics of the author or editor, hey will be regarded as veryimmateriahvhen it is con. ftdered hat he has not met with one solitary advocate for his opinions. The publication is received with univerfaldifapprcbotion by the citizens of Kentucky. As to the p3rry to which the author may belong ; we know nothing but what may be gathered from a jeu e.Jprit of the lame writer, inserted in a former number of the Guardian, which as strongly exp-eilive of an attachment to the nrinciplesand measures of the Adams administration. As to the politics of the print in which the address of the Western American appeared ; our fellow citizens on fhc ether file on the Alleghany, have yet to (earn it seems, /here is not one paper in Kentuckey which is net decidedly republican and, perhapj they have ye? to lean from rhofe whom they have been 2Cctiftomed to present as just emerging from the savage stare that genuine repuhlicanifm opens its ear ?o both sides of po'itical questions beholds no thing in unrestrained difeuftion hut a prelude to tnumph ar.d eftabliftimenf of truth, and regards rts cause as founded on a rock against which, in a fair combat, neither the-powers of prelencd dfederalifm.nor of anarchy will be able to prevai /. With rcp;r\vd to the fa ft that the'Governor of Ken-’ tb:y, at the falicitation ofa number of refpeftahle rir izeos, direfted a prosecution to be cornir.enced aga'nft the author of the piece in question : we know nothin'’ of it. Os theutter disapprobation which Mr. GarrarJi mufi feci of the principles and objeft of thD wild inflammatory publktarion, no one who is acquainted wi h him can entertain any doubt; hut we have never nnderitood i'Hat be direfted “or advised the srraihre of confering, by a (late prosecution, notoriety and weight; on a produftiena which, if left to Mvlf, would Tilently returc to tlie duil from whence it came. (From a CorrcTpond^nt.) F Gfw TH E Fv EPU R LICA N. ( ; No. VIU. Having seen who w**re entitled to vote, and who were the fubjc&s of taxation in Con necticut, the various objects of the fociery, deserve attention. I • Building a Meeting-House. A majority of the votes can decide on the propriety of •f.ifing such a building, and lay a tax for its accompiiinmenr. But, however unanimous they may h e, they cannot decide on the sue of the building, without rhe concurrence of the county court, to whom a re-pert of the voted buiiding mult be made. After having their hand to the plough, they have not the privilege of looking back, though every cne !of them should faint with their labour. A I clerk mult be appointed, whose duty it is to i superintend the building, and, under a penalty to report the progress from time to time at the meetings cf the county court. If the rapidi ty of the building is not equal to what the court judges ir ought to be, they mufi: take it out of the hands of thole for whom it is erecting 5 appoint their own fuperimendanc and proceed to its completion, ;nc6-"B wantini’, they levy a tax fro Tt time to 11 v according to the abiiires of tne people3 t::, the objeft: is accompli (Vied. H A house of worth ip ; s now erected. focicty is not at liberty robe without 2 J” lar preacher for fix ivontns together: ii t I||| are, the county court are to proceed ro K"l| rax, according to their circumstances, r.'SB it cut in preaching for the deficient agreeable to their own diferetiont The law made fecuri'y for hearers by providing n n H of one dollar on each perfbn who has no rJB| Enable excuse, such as sickness, cr other ability, for non-attendance. Repairs of the public buildings are ofß course (übjedt to the fame votes as tiC u ** tion, and belong to the fame head. 2. Appointment cf Parijh officers . This® head requires no illuflration. B q. Calling the mt, lifter. Candidates for the I ministry are engaged to preach in the fociery B from a fmgle Sabbath :c a year, as it may he B found agreeable. Though a niajority is ca- 1 pable of binding the Dciety, it must be ac- 1 knowlcdged that unanimity is generally 1 (ought; but frequently, when a choice is fix- I ed on, the word is fdectcd. After a trial of feverai candidates, tlie foci*- ety meet and propose the one they prefer, or to whofc expectations they think their ability a match, and agreeing on the sum they can consent ro give, direst their commerce to make the proposal, and if it is accepted, a convocation of the presbytery is called and he . ordained their minifVer. A “ settlement,” or . sum to enable the building of a house is nfu ally made, to the amount of 4 or 500 dollars, after which he receives a dated (alary. The agreements *re usually made for life, and though there is a kind of canon law which can authorize the difiolution of the contra®, until the focierv v;rs convulsed to the centre, I have seldom known it done, except at the desire nf the clergyman, who had a call [the noise of more dollars] elfewhore. The salaries, it mult be confelTed, arc mo -1 derare, usually from tlvee to five hundred dollars a year $ but it enables the clergymen to live in a decent fiile, with the addition of the perquifiles arising from marriages and the education of youth, in which they all em ploy fome portion of their time, and whence a confiderabie influence is immediately ob tained, and the foundation laid for a greater in futurity. Small as the falarjes are, they prove the position that mankind never ace willing to be driven into the support of opinions, even those for which their voluntary contributions would be cheerfully rendered. No tax is paid with more grudging than the clerical one ; and its continuance is avowedly for the purpofc of fhifting from the shoulders of the pious , part of the burden of fupporeing their own opinions. They have even the broad face toTav that religion would fall, without legal ‘fupport. In canonical affairs., the full communicants have alone jurifdiftion. This ia undoubted ly correft. When a member commits a pal pable and notorious error, he is called before the church ; if he is ready to make the con feffion which they will diftatc, he is forgiv en, even for seventy times seven. If he refu-- fes any part of it, as against his Own convic tions; ihey expel him; and they claim to themselves the authority given ro the apoftlea to bind on earth for future bondage in hea ven. Bur though they thus scratch the name of the finner from the lift of faivation, they are cartful ro keep hold of his purse firings. Who will presume to fay, after viewing this faithful pifture, stfter knowing that but one persuasion has received this care from the civel power after beholding theie tranfae tions of the govern often t of that state, and ’ learning that the corporation of Yale Col ledge, confiding of twelve clergymen irvjf eight officers of date, mu(t by law be of that persuasion. who wfil presume to fay that Con necticut is without a union of church ami state and an cftablifiied religion * I (hall don? my reflection this fubjVf with a Angle remark : this policy bte so much hypocrisy in that: tfee ‘whftfe world cannot produce i‘.s mad ftp (a $ ftp dvwfihnSi A YANKEE,. Fok the Republican* Mejfrs. Lyon Mcrse v 1 would beg lea* c to call the attention eA our Mayor and Atderrr.cn to the clwniimfs, m and about the city—it is well known that )>.aion ca.led the moil fickiy is now approaching; and that from the present drv weather, we have reason to expert there wili very shortly, be fame heavy falls of rain ia which case, if followed by a hot fun fbine there mutt be great exhalations wherever the water may for a time lodge } and that it mas lodge near this city. ‘1 he large heaps A* 1 i.able litter thrown in piles on the Couth com-, mon near the town, amongst which, ntav frr quently be found the badiuof dead Do s