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VILMJNGtON; (N6th.Caxoi.ii-a)u THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 3, 181J.
Volume XVI1II
vnon.)vir. l.lotd s j,cuer
' t "T" TO THE ' t .
HON. 10HN RANDOLPH,
A HEMBK& Or COCRK rOM THK
t'j H.1T.f VIROiaiAv:
' But V9U rtell ii that the state of
New-York, that great, thriving, and
' porAiloiis meinW of rie "Southtrn
v " Confederacy? Unless she Is in a state
" of utter blindness as to hef own intcr-
'ests, will not onl leave us to wor
,; out our own salvation, and niake our
) neace with Great-Britain as we can.
$7 ' IjutJWUiv present so irresisiauia ana
!V . f ' hostile frontier to the Union of .Hart
1 1 "ford, as vou have bcen pleased to
term it, lhat even one of her nearest
Counties if I undei stand you cor
rQctlyionld be. an overmatch4or-
someot the otatcs tnat wm compose
Of this creat, thriving and respec
table member of the present Union,
of the Southern LonUderacy never
-I shall most certainly speak with
i
the more prominent of ynuf remarks
for had I not have prescribed to my
self this limit. I should have written
a volume instead even of a long -Ict-
tfie D'Alemberte , of our country, as-
soiled him.- And the raia'and the
floods came, and the "winds blew) &
beat upon that house, and it fell ; and
ter. For when the lightning flishts I great was the fall thereof, .7; A
and irradiates, at every extremity off " One othcrpitical cnqvuryhall
alone detain yonnd, u i lunnitely
the mossilawresttrtthatan now. bo
propounded". ,y J there no door still
open no avenue yet left, by which we
may, by remanding to the caverns' of
the deep the lava ich is even now
bubbling at the mouth of ths volcano,
escapenot only the evils" of the pn
sei) hour, but secure to us the bles
sings of the future i l think there is,
and what may make it still more
grateful to you, is, that we are wil
ling to be indebted to the interest, the
liberality, the maensnimitvr.of Vir
tue horizon, a repeated and extended
scope of vision can alone embrace iu
-And if in the course ot the reply,
more of warmth than I am aware of,
has, or ma attach, to any sentiments
or expressions contained - in it, you
may be assured they are entirely des
titute of any personal relerence what
ever, and appertained exclusively to
the subject to which they relate for
I can very truly say, that in propor
tion as opportunities, for the .deve
lopement of your, character, have
been presented to rae. in he same
proportion Jias been presented to me, ginia, to give it to us.--It follows :
in the. same proportion has been the J Abrogate th representation founded
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'TfSpecVand even reverence. wOf her
intercsw in case jui viiaun, a
worst of all possible political events,
' except a systematically tyrannical
, 1 oppression ot any part of the United
' Sutes cf what she might be with
r out us, I will not comment, other
than i o far as may be necessary to
etate, that merely on the conaidera-
tion of the point of interest, I differ
' from you" toto ' caelo-i-while I agree
; iA you most fully, that the present
''.' la- not the period to moot this point at
V. length, nor any other connected with
it. But speaking of New-Tork 'on
-. this occasion, I cannot, forbear to say
she is the Siptef of our affections
0 tlie best btloved of . New-England
' ' ahe is bone of onr bone and flesh of
our ' flesh geographically- she is
3 w ithout bur limits, but morally, and
socially, she is completely within
7, them she has in a great degree the
' same habits the same - feeliug the
Bame. education our population is
t her- population,' and her population
. 1 is ours the greater part 01 the coun
ties of the western part of the State
, f New-York . are, settled from New
England,' withV which from -their
nroximity a' constant intercourse is
preserved andvjul tUir famuy-fetlings
and aflciiops are kept in ftill play.
She may be lured from her path ot
" ' duty lor a moment, y.y a destru:tiv
L." - family ambition, and avarite she
1 r may become for a time the favored
v - child of tne bounty of the National
Government her sack may b fd-
led with tea titnts double the portiod
' of Beoj;tmin of the fat things of the
land, and the fruits of the earth, from
the table and the granarl s of Pha-
roah ; but depend upon it, should
the period ever come when she must
' make so ungrateful an election she
will not burst the chords of affinity,
and tear asunder all the bestaffec
tions, and tender liens of the hamaa
heart She will return sgam to the
land of Canaan, to the household of
her friends and her brethren j---and il
divuioit must ensue, she cannot pos
ai'ily under any imaginable concate
nation of rveots, so far comprottiu
tier dignity, or-stoop irom ner pnde
of plsce, as to link, when she might
become the leading power, "the P-olar
Star of a Northern Union into the
Arriere Guard of a Southern Con
fedcracy, or consent to play a second
fiddle to . Pennsylvania, or to rank
herself as an attendant satellite,
submissive, though distant follower
vl the fortunes ol Virginia.
.'Hut I sgaia repeat, a discussion of
none U these suoiects is gratciui 10
tne, and it will toe, 1 tear, 100 appa
. rent horn ample internal evidence
lhat I have treated or them " invita
Minerva," for aldiough not exactly
imnrcsicd into the service, I am al
most as little of a volunteer in it a i
X had been. .'; Indeed, considering
' Vour letter as addressed to the pub
lic rather than, to myself, and to
Virginia, perhaps, as much as to
-Massttclmscts, I had, until a few
Ak) s'tace, concluded not to reply to
, iu But further reflection, and oilier
, opinions, and believing that the stron-
7 st bond by which the Unios tan
kle, sustained, is a due ana iigu res
pect for out selves, and for each ouicr
Mid Uul the inhabitautl of die . sevt-
al prts of it ought not by their si
nce to suiter wir roiK-ctive uui-
tir.s erroneously to le depreciated.
revtr uointentionallv it may have
done,' nave induced tat to tie.
from mv original dctcrmutation
' ittl to address to you the present
I-ilcr, which, protracted ns uis,I
I4s sull cnd.avored t J conhae to
tncTease of my estimation and respect
lor it. ' j . , . v'
Unreasonable however as it may
seem, I must ask your patience.yet a
little longer for a few further remarks
before I close this letter.
In the course of my unimportant
life, U nas been my sedulous endea
on slaves, a provision offensive to
freemen at all times, and unneces
sary to you,' as your influente
would be predbminant without it
"take back, with it, if you please, the
discriminating duties', and appor
tion the direct taxes upon the free
white population of the country.
vor to avoid personalities, wheneyer Interdict tlw future admission of hew
a sense ox duty did not' compel tne States beyond the old territory of "7 vonung in aid 01 uie policy 01 tnat
the United States, and within that tnemy, to turmsh jUe weapons ol our
territory, unaer a noouiation enual , ucairueuun,
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to the 6ther states, .and the. business
is as surely done, as that a conscrip
tion bill would become an act f the
government, if, it waited only f the
signature of the president to complete
it. ; ""' .. . :
You may however tell. 'us, that
your J English blood" (an4 there is
none better) will not super you to do
this, 'because your enemy' says you
shall, and Massachusetts says you
t)Mt'$a something like it, as . the
price of peace with the one and Union
with the othef.wr-.How far you would
thiki it right, or expedient, to reject
those measures which you admit per
haps, to be - neassaryTaod indeed
would, some of them otherwise be
ceruinly adopud, because your sis
ter Massachusetts accords with, you
most eut. rely-that juicy ought tone,
but has happened to express that 0
piu'ion a little too abruptly, I leave
for your Dctter judgment to ' deter
mine. That all foreign dictation, &
especially that ot our immediate ene
my should be rebisteJ, usque al in
ternecionem, I agree with you most
fully; or rath.r I admit it ought to
be repelled at every hazard, short of
sullcring our prule, and our passions,
to avert to them; Jind I would most
willingly still adhere to this practice ;
but you have presented the Ex-Pre
sident of the United States in so bold
releif in your letter, that in replying
1 know ootwell how-to avoid noti
cing it, without appearing to concur
in the sentiments you have advanced.
Of this venerable gentleman, now
passedthe common age oflman, aud
hvuig in retirement at his seat near
this town,' with his faculties as I un
derstand unclouded, and his - heart
beating warmly,' for the-r fate of his
Country whose head has been bleach
ed by the hoar of fifty winters devo
ted to iu service and whose intergri
ty has never been qaestioned, I have
little personal acquaintance, not ha
ving to my recollection; -met him in
private society more than once since
the expiration of -his presidency 1 al
though I have been honored by his
clvuity but his public life is famw
iar to every 1 yro among us who has
at least in point of Bumbers to that
of the sinaUVst state in the union,
at the time of the admission.
Restrict the services of the President
to a single term, increase that term,
if it be thought besi, to six years.
Divide the Uuited Skates into four
great sections, irom each of which
.a President shall iz selected in
turn and in succession only.
Do this, and if the present incum
bent cannot command tie confidence,
or elicit the resources if the nation
if he can neither make peace nor pro
secnte the war, , coerce him with his
immediate dependants to retire from
emce-voluntarily as U form 11 you
can constitutionally it vou musu-
Elect Mr, King to the presidency-
place a distinguished Virginian mthe
Department ot State, or when an op
portunity may present, at the court
of St.' Tamcs, or: if I'll another b
any ; knowledge fif.th pobtkii hislo- J Uiiori be necessary to the supremacy
ry or nis country, ana notwitnstan- lot Vircnnia. we will not auaitel a-
Jiutr he may' have his foibles.' and bout names' or shades of difference
perhap's partaking of the complexion place Judge Marshall, the present;
of his character, some of them strong Chief Justice of the United States,
ones too, yet that history will in my in the Chair of State, and Mr. King
opinion ailord many brilliant pages in j in the rice Prtsidency, and fill up the
his favor to future biography, and
many lasting claims on the gratitude
of his countrymen, whose sense of
their obligation, wa most-honorably
manifested by "his elevation to. the
subordinate departments' of the go
vernment with men, of any party, or
from anyof the Sutes in the Union,
provided the candidates possessed the
requisite qualifications of talent, in-
With sentiments of great esteem,
1 am. Dear bir,
Your very respectful and- '
Obedient servaut, -v., .
, JAMES LLOYD.
Boston on. 19 1815.
Legislature of Ohio.
.-r December 21.
Mr. Bar-net, from the ioint com
mittee ef Finance, reported on Mon
day last the following resolutions ;
which were adopted by the House of
uepresemauves. ------
It-solved by-th? General Assembly
of the state of Ohio, That the Gover
nor be requested to open a correspon
dence with the Secretary of the Trea
sury ot the United Sutes, for the
purpose of ascertaining on whU con.
ditions this state will be permitted to
assume and pay her proportion of the
direct tax pf the United Sutes Ub
assessed on this state, tor the -year
1815 and that he use his influence
to obtain the privilege of disbursing
t ie whole or a part thereof in dis
charging claims against the United,
that uow exLstjlor that may hereafter
accrue, in favor of the citizens of
this btate, for the purpose of enabling
the h-gislature to assume the pay
ment, without being required to make
au immediate advance.
. Resolved; That die Governor be
highest station, to which the voice of I tccritv, and reputation, to command
seven millions of freeYeople could I tht confidence of the nation. This
advance him not by any flaw of the being done, should the cammissiou-
popular gale, for if I duly estimate I ere return fiom Ghent re-infecta.
his character, he never possessed the! despatch immediately an honorable
11 11 11 1 i ninin
Against . 'Postponement.? Messrs.
Barbour, Brown, Chase,' Daggftt, .
Dana, Fromentin,.-German, Giles,
Goldsboroughf Gore, Horsey, Hun
ter,' King,' Lambert, Mason,- Rpbin
son, Taifompsoo, WeUs,"5(Vhar-.
So the mte refused to postpona
the bill. -;.v,:,;.L ,..v ',H vr 4
: Ou motion qf Mr Gihs, ' , ,
The Senate, then determined to r
cede from its disagreements with tha
House and adjourned. . . "c
fhe bill .wants only the signature
of the Prtsjldenl to become a law. r
IN SENA TE Monday J amtartfy ZQ,
Mr CoL-s, thd President's BeCre
tary returned the bill k to incoipo
rate the subscri.lx-rs to the !-bank of
the U. States of America," with tho"
following oiidS ie : v
, ToUhe Senate of the U. $. --Having
bcsiawvd 0,1 the bill, en
titled " An act to incorporate, tho
sabscriber 10 the hank of the United
States of. Amu ica,". that full eonoi ae
ration which is due to he great im
portance of the subject and dictated
by the respect whuh I feel fox tho
tyro houses of congress, 1 am cai
strained, by a deep a-ui solcina coi
Vituon, that the bill oum uot to be
come a law, tO'ruuro it tp the be
naie. in which it- originated, witfa
my oojcclions to the same.
Waving the Od;ition,of the coo
st'uu.ional authority ol the Legihb
ture to establuh ;ni incorporated bank
as beiag precluded, 111 my judgment
by repealed recognitions, unaerya-' '
rica circumstances, 01 tne validity ot
Buch an iustitution, in acts, o4 tho. .
legislative, executive, and judicial
blanches of the Kvernment, arcona-" ,
pained by iadicatioils.'1 ia, Uiifereiit'
modes, of a concurrence ot " the jje- '
nerai will of the1 nation ; the prox-
sed bank does noi app-ar tube cal
culated to aimrcr th pat pose of, re
viving the puulic crcd.t,ot providing
a national medium ot circulation aud '
of aiding to-? treasury by facil u -
ting1 die indibPvnsible anticipuiiona'
wf the reveiiuc, .ind by ailording tc '
Uie putuu. more duraU&loaiut. .
1. The capital of the baab utoi,!. :u
compounded -'..of specie 7.ot pubiia :r
stock, witit a certain froporuoa of , ,
eath of which e very suosa iocr i& to
furnish himself. w
Tiie amount of the stock to be sub
scribed will not, iLis believed, bfc . ;
sufLcient to produce, in favor of the
Eublic credit,, any cOitticUrable or
tsting devaiion of the market price,
whiUt ihH may .beotcaMuiially. dc-
prescd by Uie batik iuclt, if it should -A
I carry into the market the allowed s
proportion 01 its capiui consisting of -
it ui,
Muthorisedaod requested, in case die oruer to procure pe
qualities 'that could cither catch the
breeze or retain it, but as the reward
aud acknowledgement of a long se
ries of able and faithful and meritori
ous services. '. .
Of his admipistration, I am not
cow about to speak at larae, but
however discordant' public opinion
may be on this subject, on the earlier
part of it I could dilate con-amore,
for at no time 'since our existence as
a nation have the best fcr lings of the
American bosom beat moi e in har
mony with the finest impulses of na
tional respect, and of patriotism, than
Plenipotentiary ta London let him
offer, ot a single interview, after the
presentation of his credentials, the
olive brauch of peace, by agreeing tp
terminate a war commenced in rash,
ness and folly, and prosecuted with
defeat and disgrace, on the single ba
sis of the " sums ante bellum.'V If
this were accepted we would then go
to wot k most cheerfully to repair the
errors Md7tru'rifs brine past, and to
f orgive and forget the authors of thenoi
If, unexpectedly, such terms were
reicctea, ici we same vessel that car
ried the Envoy a Europe, waft him
during the period when their Prisi- J back again acioi the Atlantic, when,
dent called on them to avenge the I u soon as the result of his mission
wrongs and insults of the French J was known, the nation would indig
Hepublic 1 and when he himselt stre- nanny ana instantly, piacme us
Duou-ily endeavored to lay the broad I shoulders at the wheel, and fervent
foundations of a hicrhlv rrsner table I rV addrcssinff its Di avers to Him
and permanent naval and military es-1 " fho ride upon the whirlwind, and
United Stauswiil irinitthedisl.urs
meat to be made as aforesaid, to sti
I pulate on the part of tliis stated-dial
uicy win, prtur 10 uic o.ii uy 01 ju
ly aexi, satisi'y aad discharge, claims
in tavur ol the ciuzeus ot tins stale,
who may be authorised by the U ti
led States to demand payment at tne
treasury ol this state, to . the fall a-
mount that this state will be n quirtd
to pay by assuming her proportion ot
the direct tax
Ue'solved, That the Governor be
requested to use his influente to ob
tain aa -arrauecmeut,- by ., which
claims due ta the citueos ol this sute
for miliury services and for supplies
turnislicd by them, be satishcd 111 pre
ference to iy otlur description ol
creditors.
Hut- Ohio leads the way, in a
dotting live advice recommended to
the suits, in the first Kcsulve cf llie
Hartford Couvention.
u account ia
sacrifice ' oa
"t.S c
Hi wen
Men d
nfT
ublishment, which it continued, the
rished, and duly, but moderately ex
tended, would probably have secured
our peace to this day, or if war had
not been averted, might ere this
have , given you Qutbcck, if you
wanttd it ; and have providcd,aV
much food for the attention of tW
British ministry in keeping posses
sion of UasKterree, and Pon lloyal,
as they now seem to hud, in procu
ring and retaining, that of ' Ca'line,
aud Wew-Orlcans. ..More than this.
Uiw.i it may find
prucunug, with some
that part of iu capital.
Nor will any adequate advantagQ '
ariM to the puoiic credit liom tha '
hbcripuou ol- Trv-aautv Notea.:
t he actual issue of the nou s ucr- .
ly eqraiU, at prcscut, and wili sooa '
ctceed the amount to b: subac' iocd ,
to the bauk. ' , ,-. '
Tiie direct effect of this operation' '
is simply to convert u oiultons
Treasuiy NotvS inio fifteen ro.iiiutia'"
ot six per cent stock, with tlur cal
lateral effect of promoting on addi-
tionai oeiuaau lor ucasuiy nu.s,
beyond wiut might other u be uu-
gouablc. - ,
Public credit might iadecd be ex- .
pectedto derive auvanuge front the
cstabH&huicnL tJ a natiou.d U-nk.
without regard t the fornutiba ot
its capital, if the full a, id co-operation
ot the institution wcrfc 'secured
CONGRESS.
directs the storm, for a successful
issue to that contest, which their hon
est endeavors could not avert, man
fully meet the issue and a struggle,
thus unavoidable, with the uudivuhid
energies of the country at the com
mand of die government I should
anoag which was the queniiui as to
th right cf MrUlcdsoc, to a Vote,
which was decided in the ncgitivc
I he Senate resumtd uie cuude
ration of the am.iidiucnts to the IJauk
have a humble but firm reliance, it bill.
would neidicr be a long ndr a doubt Tlie question on Mr. Hibb't mo
Jul one. 1 i f
lint you will akk how ii all this to
be effected I answer, great us tlie
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work may tw, with an houttt Hal,
his s) sum would lure made us feci lit Is the work baly of a fw month.
ww were a people, a band ol bro 1 lie Legislature of the Union U how
then, 'hat we.filw had a country to ia scsshi that of your du n slate u,
love, and a rr putation to cmb!a.oii or or ill he shot Uy, at will be those of
di. grace, Hal he built upon tlie most of tlie sutes. Let Viiirtnia
sandhis qwa missions to France talc the lead and promptly adopt
the great shade in his presidential es; these ametwlmcnts let her faiUduliy,
culchccHi, paralixed the public lc and tairiy, ue her influence with hi r
ling, apd weakened the toundaiions family eoune xions to follow her i-a
if this goodly edifice, while die m- ample let her irnurst h r im.itui
cyciopKjiasts 01 tne uav, the vol-land rcprchentaiiftsat liiugton,
to the government duriog the war.
and duriog . the period ot its , fiscal
embarrassments. Hut the bnak pro-
IN ahNA 1 h, trulaijy Jan. 20. 1 posed will be tree trout all kgal ooii
Alter disposing ot otiicr business, I gatiou to co-operate With the public
measures ; and whatever be the pa
triotic disposition of its uiivciors in
contribute to die removal of ilusa
iini)irrasincm, and ta luviiroratd
the prosecution of the war, fidelity to
the jKCUUury'uiHl (-tneral lutcresi of
tne tuiktiiutioit, uccot uioir 10 their et
a -iaftil f
ttii to postpone to Uie 2d muiMiay in I tunnte 01 it, migia oblige Hum to
March fto reject; Die further const-1 dciinx a connexion of Tihcir opera
dir-iiou of the suiijeit, being Vet uu- Itiuus with tlnh of the national tiea
dtr cotuiueriittDu
Avery tXU ai.d highly in tm sting
debate toak iltcr, ia the course ot
which Mr. llill, Mr. Ta)lr and
Mr. Jloinrrts supported tho nfliinis
lite, uriil Mr. Giles the restive side
The iiusiioi .av decided at a
lite hour at follows 1
sury,duiiDg the coniiurhnce of lho
watt and the ditricoliits (And. lit to iu
Temporary sarrificcs of uttciest,
though M'ctbalaticrd by the future '.
and feimaiiciii pr ofits of tic Uoiut, '
iwtU iitg rcquir.ible ol liht iu bs--half
ol the J ublic, mtglii nut' be graa
tuiKiuJy inde j and tlie buik Would
rca the full Inucfit cf ihe gtint,
whilst lUc 1 ublic stouli lose the c-
Vr7 pintuiuit- Mesr. An
tit 1 soil. ; p.bb, CouJit, Gailtard, Hew
ell, Kerr, IicocL, Morrow, lUSrfU, I qviiv.lcut expectrd linm iu l'nr it
Smith. TavLr. Turner'. VArriuru I mutt be kcK in t ic . tli.i ihr itA lie
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tatrcf ,ttve Uosieius.VK Diderou, and I to baye them aubmittei by congnss I Walker. 1,4. , duccmvuto such graut, on Uie par'.
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