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sylvania,without epuWolent con
cession, be required to furnish a
quota of militia proportioned to
hor representation in that body.”
Butler, Pickmau, 'f’roup,
Tall "sdee, Taylor,* and Smihe
opposed Mr: Dana’s amendment
auu Mr- Dana and Mr. Hoots
•upported it
Mr. Tallmadge read an extract
of • letter which h« had this day
r* reived from the Secretary of
War containing information to this
efleet. “ There is no state in the
Union which has not made its
returns of roihtia according to
law.”
Mr. Quincy made a motion su.
proceeding the motion under con.
■ideration, viz. to strike out that
part of the bill providing for cases
cf deficient returns. As there
was no occasion for such a provi
sion.
Mr. Southard moved to recoin,
mit the bill to a select committee
with a view to enquire into the
practicability of more equitably
apportioning the quotas than has
heretofore been done.
The motion was carried, Messrs
• Southard, Fisk, Ross, Tallmadge,
and Daaa supporting it, and the
f bill referred to a committee of
twenty members, and the House
a cjourncd.
t• ' *
From the Richmond Enquirnr •
TO PHILO LAOS,
ALIAS
MUCIUS
ALIAS
The htn■ John Randolph,
Sir
The world is not at no loss to
discover the honorable gentleman
who las addressed the President
of the United State*——No one
can mistake the peculiar style of
[; his con positions. The pen which
he wields evidently borne along
bv the same irregular eccentriety
which n»*rks the political path of
their author—He observes norules
of composition——he pursues no
arrsgement of ideas. He skips
here and there, with the antic
agility of a jacko and wan
dersfrona subject to subject, with,
out the lest regard totheconncction
of ideas* He writes as he speaks
—in the same “ crude and desul
tory” style—and with the same
want of arguement and logic-
All his ideas are loose, brilliant
without soliditj— “the mere legs
& wings, of an argument. They
are the emblems ot the mind from
which they spring. 'For he that
thanks without rcsoning on any
subject must necessarily speake by
stans, and write in the maxes
of parenthesis. Nothing is more
remarkable in tHesr ccnpari
tions, than such involutions of
style j the meserable pitfalls of
thought—which, v*aya an ingeu -
ious writer,) i4, on some occasions
may have a spirited appearance as
pompted by a certain vivacity of
thought, which can glarce happi
ly aside, as it is going along. —
But for the most part, there effect
ia extremely bad, being a tort
of wheels withiu wheels ; sen
tences in the midst of sentences ;
the perpUxed method of dispo
sing ot some thought, which a
writer wants ait to introduce iu
its proper place.”
But these letters, Sir, do infi.
nitcly. more credit to the Head
than to the ifeatt of their writer.
They are marked by a pecular mao.
nerum ot temper, if 1 may bib al
lowed the expression, which
sumps them as the pi oductioo ot
your pen. The spirit, which in
spires them as yours. 1 hat illi
beral vehemence of temper, knew*
no curb upon its ryacjitmenu— -
which overleaps all the bounds of
principle or ptudcoce to satiate
Its vengeance Or its ambition:—>
which lulls withoiit distinction,
like the merciless Indian lon a.
hawk, upon the beau ot thculdor
the ) oungi-rtbat * haughty tmea
of sedsutticitncy which arrogates '
all possible iperit ty r .'itself, and j
demos it io all, but to the total its
enlisted in ifs service-——Uhyt air
of pailent pliriiy which 'falsely as
sumes ths ociusive title of lie.
publicans ot the Old School, and
•* lets loose the dogs of wat” upon
cvciy aids who dares to dissent
item its chattel- these ate |hc
symptoms which peculiarly point
► out the author ot these nddrta
aes.
Whether you, sir, utter decla
mutton* in the Representative
T!a!l of Congress—or deign to un
bend your majesty in the circle of
vour “ choice, spirits”—or whe
ther vou nrc stretched on the bed
of disease, realty sick or only craf
ty-sick,*’ the envenomed spirit of
resentment Will still continue to
haunt you. Wherever you are
the incuhut is upon you ~-tlarrt
latcri lethulis arundp— tho’ your
head may fail you, the roaster
spirit, which presides over your
disposition, is always at its post.
Dismiss your fe,ar% sir, about the
progress of your disorder; “ Ob.
scurity and fcbleness’* may rob
your understanding of its pow
ers, but the rancor of the politician
will never desert you.
It is not wonderful that this sort
of spirit should have been infused
into your followers. They have
caught it by a sort of political ino
culation from yourself. la the
opinion of these tolerant gentle
men, they are the only Fleet of
Heaven—they represent t*»em
selves theexclasivc Republicans
of the old school-you are sh ad« W
ed out as theholy St. Peter of this
political world and all those who
are so pfesumptiuous as to refuse
to kiss the little toe of their Pope,
is of course to be damned without
the chance of redemption.
I •
1 ask, air, «here is the political
wet in this country, which has
Hcca animated by a more ranco.
roo« sentiment of hostility i The
“ two gangs,” into which, you
are pi eased to say the people ot the
United States “ have been divi
ded,” are comparatively tolerant
toward* each otner. Tftey will,
occasionally allow some atatw of
merit to their opponents. But ve
ry different indeed is the spirit
which animates your small and
puny band! Wc perhaps owe it
to that very contemptible thinness
of your members, that at this mo
ment the intolerant practices of
the superstitions sects of antiquity
are not agaiu dug up, to be used
against us—that we are not now
broiled on the gridirons or roast
ing on cowles. The ire faggot
oi the catholic superstitions are
but types and emblems of the lu
ff which would consume us But
your ranks are too thin for the pur
poses of resentment —and ihcie.
lore you may take it out iu low
abuse. Monks and women who
have no other mode ot venting and
gratifying their spleen are prove l ’^ l,
ally privileged to rail! Like them
sir, you, are destitute of the poli
tical power of inflicting a more de
cisive vengeance—and like them,
may enjoy the dtstinf uislied pri
vilege of employing your tongue
or pen in the language ot the pas
sions- Happy, if you do not in
flict greater mischiefs upon your
selves, than upon the objects of
your resentment !
In vain do we look for some dis
tingushed exception in the motley
group, winch you have rallied to
gether. Your spirit annimates
the whole"" 11 Whether we
template their restless and ambi
tious chieftain, tho e who staud
next to him in vehemence and
rank, or that class of subaltern
characters, that bring up the rear
of the army—we behold the file
of persecution, spread along the
ranks. The generosity of their
I opponents yields ao claim upon the
| ingratitude Sc toleratiou. In vain
' have two adminisiratioas shed the
light of countenance upon an at
torney of the United States—in
vain are instances of official remiss*
ness imputed to htw- in vain it.
his disaffection to the leading mea*
suiesof administration not only
su'pccttd but proved upon him—
the man still iciains his post an;,
his hostility. Pleading helot<
the very tnbuaal of th Chief Jus
■ tice the United States, in this dis
I trict. under the last adminisuati
on, he laments that the substance
f ol Liberty was near being cilacct
ia this country. And now he it
| preaching up the extinction of
[ federal and Krpublitau distinc..
» tions— the union ol all the tricuds
of their country to snatch it fram
' the disgrace, which hovers over it
through the auspices of the pre
dominant party.
lliiaspuit, air is caught from
you—uml it covers under its wings
the most pernicious absurdities,
which you utter. 1 will net say
of ycu, sir nor ol
Hume| the volants ot idolatry,
that u the baser the materials are, j
of which the divinity '* composed,
j the greater devotion is He likely to
exrite in the breasts of hi# d»lu
! ded rotaries—«hat they exist in
, their shame, anti make a merit
‘ with their deity, in braving/or his
| sake, all the ridirft'e and con
tumely of his enemies —that ten
■ thousand crusaders enlist them
selves under the holy banners ; &
even openly trfhmpH in those parts
of their rehgiotf? which'their ad.
versaries rega/d as the most re
proachful.”— I have, too a high
respect for your genius and inte
grity to entitle them base materials
——and one of the sincerest re
grets which I feel, when John
Hwndoph rises to my view, is the
prostitution of ihote powers,
which he possesses, to the gratifi
cation of liio ungenerous and un
bounded passions.
Had you, sir, at the time when
you disapproved of «oy particular
schemas t.f the last administra
tion, confined your strictures ro
these alone-—had you exercised
your independence as you ought
‘to have done, without fly ing into
the extreme# of passion—had you
come forth frankly and faintly
with your reasonable objection*
and remonstrances—your object I
might possibly have been atchievtd |
& your talents would have been of
use to your country. The gallant
stand, which you had made, a
gainst the Yazoo fraud, would
hava insured you a most favorable
hearing. At all .events,(the coiussu*
of your reputation would not at
this time have strewed the earth
•e—your ears would not have been
ravished with the thanksgiving of
federal hosts and British minions.
But this reasonable course did
not suit your ambition- .You as.
pired to be the leader of your par
ty—and you have now sunk into
the champion of a faction. Y m
might have been spared the morti
fication of contradicting your for
inti maxims, & of refuting your,
sell. You might have avoided the
mortification of flying through the
signs of the Political Z idiac,
from Capricorn to the Crab
The course of few men has been
more eccentric & inconsistent than
your own.—You have scarcely
consulted any other monitor than
your own possessions ; and they,
like an ignis fatuus, have bewil
dered you amidst bugs and quag
mires. These very letters which
you have addressed to the Presi.
dent of the U. States, furnish new
proofs of the facility with which
you may contradict yourself. At
this time, you can speak with a
sneer of “ the masterly arrange
ment with Mr Erskin«” whan
you were the very first man, du
ring the last session of Congress,
to bring forward a resolution, ap
proving of Mr Madison*# prompti
tude in forming that arrangement.
In what terms shall we speak of
your conduct towards Thomas Jef*>
I’erson— the man, whom you once
so deeply admired, but of whom
you now sneermgly stale, that “ he
made his debut” (this jou know is
false) * on the theatre of the great
world at the court ot Versailles, and
caiue home in due season, in dis
tress, taste, politics,’* (what poli
tics, of the old or new regime, you
do not distinguish) f philosophy &
religion i in short, in every thing
but the polish of his manners, a fin
ished Frenchman.” When you
say of him, that « the measures
which have led to our present dia«
astcrous and disgraceful condition,
were the measures of .hat nun” :
do you imagine that the world have
lorgotten the compliments which
vou paid him at the last season of
Congress, when you said that the
»age * Nestor and faithful Sthene..
ms by his side” had prevented a
itruish war ? Aud is it Mr. J. who
s now the cause ‘ of our present
lisastrous and disgraceful couditi
*n Was it he Sir, who has issu
d the french Edicts and British
orders in Conned ? r
Was it he who wove around the
brow of Napoleon, the laurels of ;
Austerlit7— or was it he that de*
posited the Trident of the Scaimo i
the hands cl Biitain ? Yet when
these unjust Edicts were issued
against our commerce, the spirit of
this country, sir, flew to an embai- j
gt. this would have answered
•very purpose, but lor the evasions j
ot smugglers, and tiie oppoHtiou of i
such Uiciaimt'ts, as vourselt in ti e '
' l
| national council The world are
i well acquainted with the measures
jof protection which you would
have pursued, though you have not
had the manly «pi"t °*> e " * >oa
vow them. The Honorable Job),
Randolph was for a base uncondi
tional, unmitigated nubmiaaon to
British outrage and mercantile cu
pidity. He was for giving Great
Britain * carte blanche to be filled j
up, as she pleased, out of the spoils j
of our rights and our honor——
Good Heavens! Could the spirit
of the immortal Curtious be once
! more permitted to visit the regions
of day, ho* would it blush with in.,
dignat ion to behold you thus basely
stooping to * a stupid and insolent
■ monarch who has long been the ty
j rant of the Ocean, the curse of his
people the scourge of the world !’
1 shall not breathe another word
sir, in the defence of Mr. Jefferson.
When an adversary comes forth,
who is any thing like his Peer ac
complishments tr services, he shall
be heard but at present, it is
; so unnecessary task --—for when
j such men as John Randolph ate
, the assailants ol such men as Tho
mas Jefferson, a defence is useless.
I he accusation only recoils upon
the accuser. It is * Hyperion’ and
a 4 Satyr’—*-it is the attach of Dio
mede «gait*t the shield of Apo’lo.
j I pray you, « ir > turn vour xe*'nt.
m»n<B against some humbler game ;
against, if ton please, the reputa
tion of Wilkin.-on ; but Thomas
Jefferson is above \our mark.
Like the illustrious Chatham, * re.
corded honor* shall gutter round
his monument, and thicken over
him. It is a solid f abt ic, and will
support the laurel# thru adorn it
Their praise will wrur well, for
they have been dearly earned.’
These observations are some
what like your owij dissultory &
unconnected. In iny tv.xt, Sir,
we will go on to take up Mucins
more in the wa> ofsvteir, cod
touch the principal points which
he discloses.
MARIUS.
Extraft fro«i the report cf a Initiative
committee on the Penitentiary of Virgina.
During this year, there have
been fewer eonvitts received
than in the fix preceding
years, except the lass. as ap
pears from the following iili,
deferiptive of the numbers re
ceived during each fueceffive,
year, the since commencement
of the inftituilon.
Year Spring in. Pell tin.
1800 pnloutit. 6 15 «i
1801 l 9 i 4 33
1802 17 21 gb
,80 3 33 2 * 65
1804 30 n 41
1805 24 26 5
1806 a8 13 41
i 8c 7 $1 *8 fid
1808 18 18 36
1809 4,
Total 410
The annexed table (A.) shews
in detail the number of con
victs received from each dif
tnfct ; their places of nativity j
their periods ol confinement
and the nature of their crime.
It appers from the following
lift, that those who hdve beer
dilchar ged fiom the infiitution,
duting the year, are fewer b)
one than thole who have btgr
received :
Number of prisoners dischar
ged at the expiration of
their relpefclive terms of
imprisonment 36
Pardoned by the governor
and council 6
By the Piciident of the U.
S. ,
Total 43
At the expiration of the last year
there were 119 prtloners within
the walls of the penitentiary ; a:
j prefem 12* , the tneteaie of
I courts is three ; of thele there
; ate now u in, for lecond of
fences. The following lifl
j shews us sn what way these be.
ings are employed, or in ntber
| words the fpecicsof occupations
which arc now carried on in
; this inltuulion : l
si shoemakers
4 boot makers
3 binders
a cutters
s harness makers
31 wrought nailors
j 10 headers of nails
8 cutters of nails and brads
6 black smiths and (inkers
j 2 grinders
2 coopers
2 capenters
5 Assistants to spinning ma.
chine
4 spinners—these are all the
women in the penitentiary
2 tailors
5 weavers
2 attendants on weavers
1 washer
t beating hemp
1 dish washer
2 cooks
6 at milcellaneous work
Total 12a
The pecuniary resources of
the inftitotion in good con.
dition ; the profits of -the pre
sent year are not so great as
tho r e of the iaft. The follow,
ing p’-efent< at one glance the a.
mount of each article manufac
tured from Ift December 1808
to 30th Nov 1809, vie :
Amount of wrought Dolls. Cts*
nails 10.669231.$
Do. of cut brads 17,3185!
Do. blackfmhhing,
carpentering, Sc c 1,269 7* l-i
Do. of tailoring,
tinning, Sec, 468 54 i-»
Do. ofholftcring
catrideboxes See 4,519 34 1 •
1 Doof cordwaining 11,459 891-2
Do. of weaving,
spinning cotton,
twine, Sec . 1,235 78
4*b9*s °3 1 *
The gross ptofits of
which are about 9,121 64 i t
From which deduc
ting the commiflions
of the fuperintena
dant and turnkeys,
&c. Sec. the clear
nett profit of the
whole is, as near as
it can beefiimated,
about 5,29« 27
It seems, that there have been
fewer articles manufactured du
ring this, than last year; and the
realons are, that the public
work, which has proved so pro
fitable to the institution, has
been almofi completed; and
besides, the carding, roving
and spinning machine, were
originally biought to us in so
imperfebt a condition, that ft
good deal of work and atten
dance was requisite to put them
imo operation. So much la
bour was therefore, withdrawn
from the manufacture of other
articles. These machines are
now going into excellent oper
non ; and may prove confide*
rably profitable to the institu
tion. The machinery is now
to us worthy of infpeftton.—
The cotton is carded, woven
and spun at three thftinbt oper*
ations. The ' spinning mule
runs 60 spindles, and (pins a (
this season, about ten pounds of
five yard thread a day'.* when
the cay s (hall be long, of courlc
the execution will be greater.
The fame Tpirit of econowy
is seen in the feeding & c loath
ing of the prisoners. Each one
is supplied by contrast, with
breaklalt and dinner for fix
a quarter cets per day. The
whole of their cloalhing fr crn
the law materials, up to >be
complete gaitnent, is the woik
ot their own hands. Thelf
views cannot but be flattering
10 the people of Virginia, arv*
’ the friends of humanity ever,
where. Interest Sc benevolence
aie thus (hewn to go band w
hand ; and (ince the ends of
} punilhment fo husi£ BC ''