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in Irfs than fix months from itfc firft
inftitution the congrefs finding it
impcrft&in its organization and is-’
adequate to it* end difihlved i:—in
is iu ad they fubftituted three prin
t ipft tecretarics fit lffted from the
whole country and diftinguilhed for
their military ability—the fftft
named was their pr<-fident and they
had he Tides a Jeeretary and as many
clerks as they plea!e,d t*i appoint.—
As the bufinefs of the department
snereaftd congreli went cn making
addition* to toe Board from their
own body, & as well as I recoiled! it
was this Board, fo CGr.ftkuted, which
carried us through the revolution.
Let it be remembered that they had
on aii average of feven years more
than jo, ooo men in the field ; that
their duties were appropriately thole
of a Buard cf war only—that they
had no invalid penfion, no Indian,
no military land bufinr fs to rr.an.ngr,
and above ail thy quarter maticr
general, commifiary-general and
ordnance departments were chitinft
ly organized and admirably con
duced. Whether the organization
of this board was the belt pofiible
organization be would not pretend
to f; —certain it was the war had
been brought to n fuccelsful termi
nation. He would fay nothing in
relation to the mfiitary eft <bli foment
prior to the year ißco—m that
year however the military peace cf- .
tablifoment confined of one regi
ment of artillery and two regiments
of infantry, the quarter-matter's of
fice was dlablifiitd—The fecretary
of war then had to perform, befidcs
the duties appropriately belonging
to the war department, the duties of
quarter- mafter-general, (ommifu
ry-general and rrnlter of ordnance,
the bufinefs ot the Indian depart
ment, military lands and invalid
penfinns. F rrifi atiors, arfenals,
armories, magazines and military
pulls advances to contractors, and
all die correfpondence growing out
efthefe various branches mull-have
made no trill eg addition *o them.
Small as was the eflablilliment of
that period there mull have been an
accumulation & preilbre of bufi icfs
far exceeding the ability of any one
man to difeharge with ft ielity ro the
public. How, it mav be afked,
vas he able to get along ? The an-
Twer is, at bed, badly. The Fate
of the country was a flare of peace
—the inattention, the negleft, the
©vti fight infeparable from fuch a
furchargr, injurious as they mud
have been to the public let vice, ru
inous ;s they would have been in a
ftate of war, were not felt—if felt,
were not TcvereJy felt—if lcverely
felt, were not complained of.—
With all this accumulation and
pirffure upon the department wc
went on to increafe the dti <es. In
the year iSoS, *<• added 6000 men
to the eftaui foment, m >rt than
doubling the dunes at adafh—We
gave no additional aid or aflillance
to the department. It was in the
year 1809 that General D arborn,
n man of vigorous mind, cf ex ten
five knowledge of detail, of inde
fatigable induftry, going out of of
fice, declared that the bi fr-els of
the department had increaled be
yond what the capacity of anv one
man could perform, and thar fome
aid and alfiftanee were indifpenfable
to the public lervicc, whoever his
fuectfibr night be. H s iucoeflbr
(the prefent mcuir.bcß ) according
ly addrefif and a letter to the chairman
of the military com mi tee of the
fenate, reprefenting the necefiityof
additional aid, and particuiarlv advi
fi -g the eilabhfhment of a q a r :er*
mailer's dt panm nr—the luojeft
was con fide red, ], believe,, bvuao
bill pafifed. No w, in th* year 181 i,
we add 25.000 men to the eftab
lifoment, are about to enter into a
ftare of war, and gentlemen cannot
yet fee the expediency of new or
ganizing the department. Suppofe
we were thus to multiply tenfold tnr
bufi els of anv other department,
without increafipff the offi.ers or
u
f'darics of that department, do gen
tlemen think they ■* -uld not be
cal ed upon for rffilHnce ? It is
true we are alleviating :hc burthen
by the organization or the Quarter
Milder, CommifiTiry and Oicmance
Departments; but It” gt ntlemtn a(k
thctrdelver in a (pint ■ f candor, if
the direction of a f one of 25,000
roe , the general orders and tht ’ge
neral correjpondence , are not enough
for any one mao, Laded, asheir.uft
be, with the entire relpor.fi 1 .11 t> of
the department ? L* them afk
themfi-lvcs if th* details cf fuc h an
r fii c, divided b;; -vrtn the two -üb
orbinate fecretaries, would leave
much lei fore ro men who, befi les
the ordinary duties, will have the
re-examination f all route fled ac
counts, the afi errasrment of bal
ance, and the mak ng advance s to
contractors, [he bufi e 5 of courts
irarnal, and rhr rn :-re trouble fume
bufi; els of numbers of congrch,
who croud the < fir es th em morning
to nig hr. and v o ?an never be
turned IF unfair (ho ? Sir, the (ur
prife is nut that every thing has pot
been done, but tr a } loaded and c.p
prrffid as he is, any thing has been
done with advantage to the public
fervice; that it has been well done
nobody can esprit—A feerrta; v St
eight bock-keep rs arc not tqual
to one half the duties. The re a lor.
urged b.’ f he gentleman from Vir
ginia (Mr. N< iloi ) to and the gentle
man fr< m Kentu k (Mr. Johnfon)
cannot be too much infill* and ot —tht
prefident has recommended it.—
Will we refulc him the meant of ei
ther o carrying it on ?
If gen lemen rj- dt he bill, and arc
in earned for the war, they rnuft
fubftitute fomeT.ii g-—aid mult be
given to the department; not the
aid of clcrkfh p, but the aid of ref
peclable chatrdter, of competent
knowledge of moi'ary de ail-—To
command ii the f ffice rrsufi be ref
pedablc, the lalarv intft be relpec
tabic. One dm gsto me abf lute
ly certain; the department mull be
new < rgan zrd, or the war prepa
ratio* s muft fi -p—N > mm in the
country is rqv.al to or.e half the du
ties which devolve on the prefetit
fecretary.
When the following extraft of a
letter firft appeared, we intended
to have re-publiihfd xt —hut thro’
neglect it was omitted until wc
deemed it too late. The Editor
of rhr AuguTta Herald h s open
ed his battery on Mr. Hall, in
conFq mice of the publication
cf rh s letter, and dealt out his
abule as librraliv as he does on
every virtuous Republican whom
his 7Lvi\ in the cauie of cf the bfft
of kings,” prompts him to at
tack. The publication the
letter, at this time, is not inten
ded altogether to retu e the ca
lumnies of this little “Agent"—
bur, chat the people ot Jackfon
county mav have an opportunity
of perufi - gthe letter, which feme
other gentlemen took upon them
feives ro ridicule and aiilreprefeat
during the fitting of the Superi
or Court, in that countv, the paft
week. We know that the pe
rufal of it is fuffirient to cement,
more clofely, the friendfhip of
every honeft Republican # or the
writer. Ed. Express,
Fxfi*a(T of a letter from the Ho*.
B. Hail, to a gentleman in this
cif-.
tfajhington , jd Jpril, ISI2.
“ Tne o. fefpondeoce between
Elenry & Craig eftabhlhes twofa.Ts
b- ond the ppffib lity ®f duuot:—
F rfi, thar E nas endeavored
‘o fow the if-ed* cf d'fcord am eng
us; todtlmember the Union and dc
ilroy gui independence. Secondly,
tint there is a party wno have cued
the views of the BritHh miniilry in
their diabolical plans. Wnen this
view is taken of our fituaticn, the
tardy proceedings of Congrefi, and
what by feme has been confidercd
a’ a war.: of er.crgv, is at once ac
counted for. The din ultiesvvhicn
we have to encounter from thir'd
pa ry men, apoficate republicans, rT
deralift.*, tories & Britiih hirelings,
cauie Ub to drag heavxiy along,—
This being our fi nation, nukes ic
abfoiurciy necefTary to proceed with
the tumult cannon. If war had
been declared previous to Henry‘s
dilclofure, there was a party ready
organized to join the enemy and di
vide the Union. If ree did not
de late war, the outrages and in
fiilts which we had received were
fo great, hat the citizens were locf
ing afi Confidence in the government
—Wni'ft the federal party were
foreman in tht cry of a want cf t
nergy, they were the foie cauie, and
ufed every exertion in their power
to parable the government, and no
drlubt were fecrerly rejoicing at the
fair profpedt vvhich by their viilany
uad been brought about, for the
purpofe of d-’ft roving our happy
inimitable government. May I ot
in the language of Cato afk if'there
“ the*e ts not fi.me chulen curie,
f me hidden thunder in the (lores
of Heaven, red with uncommon
wrath to blAit the man who owes hVs
greatnefs to his country’s run ?"
Ycs, they have fallen into their pit;
rheir infernal plans arc exhibited to
the* public, md their defigns, even
without the lhadow of a veil to co
ver their deformity, arc expofed to
the derifion of every honeft man,
of every nation or party. The po
litical bafenefi of the federal party
is fo great, that the people, aware
of their utfigns, wiil not cruft them
ia t ffi-’c; and it Teems they would
prefer c© re : gn in hell, radier than
enjoy the plealures of heaven, where
they could not rule. Let thrm
employ the fame time and talents in
the lervicc ©f their c untry, as
they have devoted to the deftrudh
on of our conftitution and liberty
for years oaft, and a grateful people
will rot fuff r their fcrvices to go
unrewarded. I ft the patriot and
not the rraitor “ whom the citizens
of the United States delight to ho
nor.” The (land which the lead
i g feds, have f aken fince Henry's
difclofure, gives juft caufe to ap
prehend, that their deftrutftion is
iealec, or that they will trample
down the hbercy of the U States;
that they are indelibly ftampt with
that carle of curies—“ he that is
fi;:hv him be filthy ftill.” I
would by no means have it under
flood than thofe obftrvations are in
tended to be applied inoiferimtnate
ly to the federal party; no, I have
charity to believe, that there are
individuals among them, friendly to
the independence of our country,
who wiil feel ind gnant at the trea
fonable defigns of their kadcis, and
will no v jcn heartily to avenge
their country’s wrongs. I lament
that they fh uld 10 long have been
deceived; but on the ther hand, 1
rejoice that thr mi ft which biinded
them is difpdled, and that the hcl
l ih defigns of England, aided by
the leaders of the federal party, are
left without a cover!.,g—that party
diftinftions will no iorger divide the
friends of liberty.
The mT adtive preparations are
got g on to raife and organize the
a r rny contemplated by the feverJ[
laws pafied this frffion of congrcfs.
TANARUS place the United States \n an
attitude demanded by the crifis, is
not the work of a day; from a ft ate
of peate, it requires time to prepare
for war; however* we are drawing
to z, ciofe—we have been in fee ret
ftflion two days—l ran only ted
you that we neither lac k number nor
fir in nets —-War wii t 05 C c clarcd
loon as we arc ready to carry it,on
with fucccfs. An active co.-opera
tion with the govenunent is expec
ted from every friend to our coun
try—lt is not a time in which we
may remain idle ipeevutors cf pair
ing events—Our aft is at (lake. If
the imprefikient of 6257 American
Earner), and the plunder of cur pro
perty, together wth the nft.fi.3 we
have received from E. gland, were
not fu(Relent to create a Spirit of re
ft, ha nee, when the circumftance cf
endeavoring to overturn our gov
ernment, nd involving u* in the
greateft calamity which can befal 2.
narion, a civil war, is taken into
the acccunt, where is the indi
vidual v/ho values property, life,
liberty, honor or country, that is
not roufed with indignation ? Is there
an individual whole iuke warm ou*
will not burn within him, when he
is told that two of the nephews cf
George W.dlung on, “ the father
of his country,*’ have been impr*fif
ed, and are nowin llavery on b ad
the Britilh navy r .Such is the fadK
If the dead can feel any interzft in
the tranlatft na of the living, the
ghoft of Wafiiingron miift frown
indignant at tne pufillanimity of his
co u n t r y me n for fu ffr ring fu ch wrongs
to go unrevenged. Let cs be true
to curfeives, and the fame valor
which caused Eng ! and to a know
ledge our independence, wfil com
pel her to reipeft cur rights Lam
accounts inform us that fince the
fitting of congrefs, more than two
millions of dollars have been plun
dered from us by E gland “
Augujla Ckrsnide.
SHERIFF'* SALE.
On the Fir ft Tuefiay in JUTS
next, at the Ceurt Houje in Madifm
CsuntVy between the ttfttal bears,
will bejVld the following property:
VIZ.
TWO Horfes, the property of
Charles Clements, viz. a grey and
a forrel; upwards of five feet high;
taken by rxr< ution at the inftancc
of John Cumm’-'g.
also,
229 acres of land, lying on Fork
creek, Madlfoa counrv, tne pro
perty of B. Hainev, adjoining lands
©f the Widow Colley, and others,
granted to Francis Power, well im
proved; taken to fatisfy two exe u~
tions, one in favor of Sami. Strong
and Herbert, vs. B. Harney, the
other in favor of Moab Hail, vs.
B. Hainey—returned 10 me by Da*
vid Graham, confbble.
ALSO,
120 acres cf h and, on the waters
of Blue Stone creek, Madifon coun
ty, granted to Lewis Sewail; taken
as the property of Milder Childers,
occupied at prefent by Wm.Cieg
liOra, E q well improved, to fafis
fv two cxecuiTons in favor of Tho
mas Cargill, and returned to me by
Same l.Whii.wonh, - onftable.
N. WILLIFORD, 3hfF.
May 28.