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THE SUBSCRIBER
!Y A s !aely iHki-n the house for
s meily occupied by Mrs. Cot*
if. fronting the main road leading
mi Athens, through this place,to
August, and situated near the
Public &q::a: e. The house is fined
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oompany. His long experience iu
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i*hoi *e liquor ;ad his stables well
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experienced ostler,
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January 23d, 1824. J
Washington jockey Club
Rif 1 ESi
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Wednesday in March next,
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subject ro the regulation of the Au
gu-ta Turf as to weighs and ages.
Hr day 8 running* 3 oiles heats for
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V Notice
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The Washington News.
IPdSHINGTON, (ceokgia) SATURDAY, JANUARY 31, 1824,
From the National Intelligencer .
To those of our readers who thii-k
with us, that the Omgtes* of the
United States cannot, during peace,
mote benefi ially employ its time
and the redundant revenue of tlie
nation, than in afFnding aid to ob
j** *ts of lo'ernal Improvement, vve
offer ur congratulations on the near
prospect of the passage of an act,
by Congress, authorizing surveys
and estimates to be made of • enaio
srreai roads and <-anals. The hill
wss yesterday ordered to he read a
third time, by a majority which
leaves no doubt of its fi.ml passage,
in the House of Ucpreseu atives.
Os its in the Senate, we run
little hazard in making a favorable
prediction.
Our old readers ail know that,
in* regard to this subject, we disa
gree, as to the power of Congress,
with some of those politicians with
whom we agree, on almost every
other point. It is fortunate, how
ever, that even some of theae may
vote for Ibis bill without a violation
of conscientious scruples, and that
it is such a hill, also, asthe Execu
live is not indisposed to give his as
sent to.
Our opinions on this subject may
be peculiar; but two little bills have
already passed (lie House of Repre
sentatives, at this session, for ma
king roads in the Territories of Ar
kansas and Florida, which, if ihey
become laws, as we presume they
will, are of more importance, in
our estimation, looking to their cl’
feet on the social condition, and
moral as well as political strength
of the country, than all the other
laws wdi be (hat are likely to pass
at the present session, if we except
the one of vviii h vve have just spo
ken. The hill for the alteration of
the ‘Tariff, to he sure, will, if it -
pass, have an operation favorable
to particular parts of the country*
and particular interests; but loter
lal Improvements benefit every b
dy, without exception. The nabob
and the pauper eq j ally share the ad
vantages of them; they are, there
fore, peculiarly fii for Republican
Governments, the whole policy of
which is to assist, and not, like Go
vernments of a different order, to
impede the march of intellect and
of physical improvement. We are
not, and never shall be, the advo
cates oflavish expenditures on these
objects. ‘There is u reasonable li
mit to all tilings, and possible ex
travagance iu the use of it, is no ar
gument against the exercise of any
power. We are in favor of keep
ing up a small army, for example,
even in lima of peace; but we should
be bitterly opposed to a large one.
Every thing that sustains life, or
that adorns aud elevates the human
character, may be carried to inju
rious excess: but shall we therefore
refrain from the use of them?
Perhaps it may be well to add,
before presenting our readers with
the bill which has just been ordered
to a third reading in the House of
Representatives, that it is not gen
erally understood to involve the
power of Congress to nuke Roads
and Canals. The following is a co
py of the bill, as it has passed:
A RILL to procure the necessary
Surveys, Plans, a*d Estimates.
upon the subject of Roads and
Canals.
Be it enacted , &t\ That the Pre
sident of the l riled States is hereby
authorized to cause the necessary
surveys, plans, and estimates, to
be made, of the routes of such
Roads and Canals as he may deem
of Rational importance, in a com
mercial or military point of view,
or necessary for the transportation
of the public mail, designating, iu
the case of each Canal, what parts
may be made capable of sloop navi
gation; the surveys, plans, aud es
timates, for each, wheo completed,
to be laid before Congress.
*l?id be it further enacted , That,
to carry into effect the objects of this
act, the President be, aud he is
hereby, authorized to employ two
or more skilful civil engineers, and
such officers of the corps of engi
neers, or who may he detailed to
do duty with that corps, as he may
think proper, and the sum of thir
ty thousand dollars be. and the same
is hereby, appropriated to be paid
ut of any nionevs in the Treasury,
not otherwise appropriated.
THE mil ÜBdR.
Agreeably to promise, we publish,
on our fourth page, the Circular of
the fourteen Members of Congress
from the Staie of Pennsylvania, re
specting the nomina'ion, by the Re
publican party, of a candidate for
the Presidency. The publication of
this Circular is due to the formality
of the document, and the source
whence it springs.
The object of the writers of the
Circular appean to be the same
which was recoonneoded by a re
spectable writer in this paper last
Spring, but wlti h be himself, find
ing it impracticable, has long since
abandoned, and, being an old, uni
form, and coaaisteiit Repu'diean,
lie is now an active advocate of a
Congressional nomination, believing
that to be the only means of preser
ving the ascendancy of Republican
principles. We think that the au
thors of (he Circular fiitter them
selves with a success they cannot
reasonably expect, if they calculate
on that document’s producing at
once a revulsion of the usual course
of thought and action of the Re
publicans, by exciting their hostili
ty to the nomination of a candidate
for the Presidency by the Republi
can Members of Congress, if any
such be made.
We purposely abftairs from any
thing like an analysis of this Circu
lar, which does not, it will bo seen,
deprecate a Congressional nomina
(ion far its own sake, hut on account
of the circumstances under which it
would now be made not being ac
cordant to their wishes. ‘They ob
ject to a caucus, that it would not
be a general oo**. They would
make it less so by withdrawing from
ii so respectable a portion as they
compose of the Representation of
the State of Pennsylvania. There
never has been a Congressional cau
cus from which a greater number
of Republicans have not absented
themselves, than has signed that
Letter. Nay they themselves have
carried the caucus principle further
than ever it was carried before, in
separating themselves into a State
Circle, and recommending, to their
constituents at home, what they
wish that (heir constituents should
recommend to them to do here, not
in their official, hut in their private
capacities.
These remarks are not inconsis
tent with a proper respect for the
motives of the gentlemen whose
names are signed to the Address,
the frankness and publicity given to
which, indeed, are entitled to all
commendation, as well as the zeal
which is shewn for the preservation
of Republican principles in their pu
rity.
Whatever mav be said of a Con
gr ssional nomination, we have ne
ver contended that it was binding on
any one further than his will con
sents: nor do we believe it ever can,
uuder any circumstances, procure
the election of a citizen to the Pre
sideney, who is not really preferred,
by a greater number of his fellow
citizens, than any other of the can
didates for that station — Nat. hit ,
FH'M THE FR4NKLIN GAZETTE.
[CTRCU’ \n ]
To the Democraiic Republican Citi
zens of Pennsylvania.
Fellow < itizens : The relation
which subsists between the consti
tuent and the representative, must
always be a sufficient apology for
any communication upon matters
of public interest which either may
deem proper to make to the other;
and it is, at all times, desirable, in
the exercise of functions growing
out of these relations, that a free
* interchange of opinion, and full op
port unity of examining the whole
ground, should be had previously
toadeeisioo upon any question of
magnitude and diffriuhy. Influen
ced by these considerations, we beg
leave to invite your at tentio i to some
important facts aud circumstances*
as well as principles, involved in
the proposition to nominate a candi
date for the Presidency of the Uni
ted Slates, to succeed the venerable
patriot who now fit is that disiin
guished station. You are, oodoubt,
aware, that, from the period of the
second eleeiion of Mr. Jefferson,
down to the first election of Mr.
Monroe, in 1816, the nominaiioo
of the successful candidates for this
high offi e ha* been made by what
is called a Congressional caucus,
composed of the republican mem
bers of Congress, and that these
nominations were made by the gen
eral consent of the republican party
throughout the nation; but the e
vents which took place iu 1816, at
the last caucus nomination, togeth
er with subsequent discussions, have
excited a strong apprehension a
mong the republican party in a ma
jority of the states, that the voice
of the people maybe misrepresent
ed in such a meeting.
We do not (impose to inquire
whether that apprehension i so
well founded as to justify, on that
ground , an abandonment of this
mode of nomination at the prcseul
time. It is sufficient for us to un
derstand that the rvill of the people
is the highest political oULhonty, aud
that this maxim applies in its full
force, as well to the organization
of party associations necessary to
the public welfare, as to the estab
lishment of general political com
pacts. Whatever mode of nomina
tion, thes-efoie, receives the gener
al assent and approbation of a par
ty throughout the on;son, although
there may be some obvious delect
in its forms, may properly be regar
ded as the declaration of the popu
lar will of that party, and entitled
to he respected as such; but when
any mode of nomination ceases uot
only to meet the general approba
tion of those who of right may parti
cipate in it, hut even becomes unac
ceptable to a majority of them , it
would be contrary to every princi
ple of republican policy to maintain
the practice; it would be nothing
less than permitting a minority to
make a nomination which was to
hind a majority who had no parti
cipation in it. Such a procedure is
so far from being entitled to the ap
pellation of a republican measure,
that it partakes ot all the essential
characteristics of aristocracy.
Guided by these views, which we
have no doubt are in perfect accord
ance with your political principles,
we have carefully inquired into,
and deliberately considered, as far
as we are able, all the circumstan
ces that ought to govern our conduct
in relation to the nomination, at
this time, of candidates for the Pre
sidency and Vice Presidency of the
United Slates, by a Congressional
Cau< us.
In the first place, we have rea
son to believe that, owing to the
influeuce of public opinion in a ma
jority of the states, which give a
majority of electoral votes, the re
presentatives in Congress from those
states consider themselves as for
bidden to take any part in the pro
ceedings of a Congressional Caucus;
and in the second place, that any
nomination so made would be resis
ted by the republicans in all the
states which are opposed in princi
ple to the mode. From this, it is
evident, first, that (he representa
tion in any caucus which could now
be convened, would not only he
more defective than the representa
tion of the republican party in Con
gress, but must consist of a small
minority of that representation, in
complete as it i; and secondly, that
any nomination made by a minority
of the republican representatives in
Congress, being essentially an aris
tocraiii* attempt of a few to control
the many, unsupported by any us
age or expression of public opinion
to give it sanction, would have no
claim to confidence, form no rally
ing point of union, but inevitably
tend to produce incurable dissen
si *ns in the republican party thro’-
out the nation, which might iujuri
ouslv affect the permanent interests
of our country.
In addition to these considerations,
there is ene more im mediately con-
neoted with tire interests of Penn-*
sylvaniu, which bus not been with
out considerable weight iu our de
liberations upon fi-“. propriety of
pledging ourselves to abide die de
cision of any partial meeting of
members of Congress that might at
tempt a nomination; the assemblage
of such a meeting being unauthori
zed by the whole republican party,
and its rdpreseota ion very defec
tive, the party would neither at
tempt nor desire to exercise any
control over the proceedings, which,
thus exempted from proper respon
sibility, would he lef< io ’hance, un
influenced by the salutary restraints
of public opinion, and the candidate
selected might happen to be one
whose views of national policy were
the most opposed to the interest! of
Pennsylvania; and if we were to at
teud such a meeting, although such,
a candidate were nominated by a
majority of but a single vote, wo
should, according to the usage ia
these eases, become pledged to sup
port him, though iu opposition ta
the united voice of our coustil&ents.
We should be wholly at a loss, ia
such au eveut, to find aty excuse*
for having taken a step so adverse
to your interest, and so ineompati
ble with the obligation which youi*
confidence has imposed on us. W<*
have, therefore, after the most ma
ture consideration, concluded, that
whether we regard the preservation
of the republican party, by a rigidL
adherence to the fundamental prin
ciples of republican policy, or tha
great interests of the Amerh an na
tion, or the more immediate inter
ests of Pennsylvania, it is equally
inexpedient and improper for us at
this time, as republican represent
tatives of Pennsylvania, to attend
any partial meeting, or caucus of
members of Congress, to nominates
candidate* for the Presidency aad
Vice Presidency of the U. States.
Aud, in order that you may be*
fully informed upon this subject, in
time to devise some mode ot nomi
nation that might be generally ac
quiesced in, we have, iu obedient**
to a sense of duty to those by whose*
suffrage wo hold our seats in Con*
gress, deemed it proper to make
the avowal of our determination*
with the reasons upon which it i
founded.
THOMAS PATTERSON*
DANIEL UDREE,
GEORGE PLUMER,
JOHN FINDLAY,
JOHN BROWN,
S. D INGHAM,
PATRICK FARRELLY*
JOHN TOO,
THOM AS J, ROGERS,
ROBERT HARRIS.
JAMES WILSON,
SAMUEL M*KEAN,
D. H. MILLER,
WILLIAM FINDLAY.
Washington , January 6.1824. /
Extract of a letter from an officer
of our squadron in the Mediterrane- ,
an, dated Gibraltar, Nov. 27: ‘Mr. {
Henry, our Consul, has received a .
letter from Mr. Sbater, at Algiers, .
informing him of some disturbance
there. It appears that some caused
of animosity has arisen between
Algerines and Moors; and the Dey M<
in consequence, ordered all the lat
ter, in the city, to be put to death. .
Now, each of the Consuls employed e
two or three of these Moors as ser- a
vaots, and the prime minister was
sent with a body of soldiers to take J
them away, Mr Sbaler resisted,’
and told the minister he would
teet his with his life.—His Moors |f
were sitting down at bis feet, and
he standing over them with his
drawn sword : the minister begged,
him to desist, as the consequences
might be fatal to him (Mr. S.) and ,
further stated that it would cost him
bis head If he returned without
them: but Mr. S. was inflexible,
and the minister cleared out, went
to the English Consul’s, broke opea
the boose, ransacked even to the
women’s apartments, and took off
the Moors with him. By the lust
accounts from Algiers, Shaler has
still retained bis Moors. The re
port came out only this morning
possibly (here may be nothing in it,
hut it is probably true, as it came
frj Mr* H,enry.—JY\ T. American?
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