Gazette Of The United States And Daily Evening Advertiser

A writer in a late Maryland paper says.

It is to be wished therefore, that the legislature would only amend, or so model our laws, that every public security may be given to protect property, to encourage and favour credit, to promote industry and oeconomy, and to induce and entice foreigners to settle in the state and bring their wealth among us.

These are objects deserving, and seriously calling for the deliberations of that body. There are reasons for it which possibly may have escaped their observation. The Congress of the United States will in a few years take possession of the district of Columbia, where they have a separate and exclusive jurisdiction. Can it be doubted, that body will not establish such a government, such laws, and hold forth such allurements to all descriptions of persons within their district, that unless we meet them, or rather anticipate them by similar provisions, our state government, and the state itself, in every other part of it, will be materially affected: even your best citizens and all men of property will emigrate to Columbia; and in proportion as its influence increases, the weight and influence of the rest of the state will sink and become contemptible. But the direct reverse will happen, if by a wise and prudent conduct we avail ourselves of the opportunity, while it yet remains, of improving the advantages which local and other circumstances may contribute to render us a flourishing rich and happy people.