Alexandria Daily Gazette, Commercial & Political

A Federal Fact.—On the 27th of December 1809, Mr. Gallatin made a report to the Senate of the United States, on the subject of the direct tax, laid during the presidency of Mr. Adams, shewing the payments which have been made by the respective states, together with the sums unaccounted for, &c.

Two States, and Two States only, have settled their accounts with the nation, on this subject. And which States, would anybody imagine those two to be? Why, none other than Connecticut and Delaware. Yet these two despised and calumniated Federal States are the only ones which punctually pay their taxes. South Carolina owes more than $33,000 of her quota, and Georgia more than $27,000 dollars of hers. And yet the noisy gentry which these States send to Congress, the Troups and Smelts, and Bibbs, etc. undoubtedly are considered by our administration, as the representatives of much more genuine republicans, than such men as Dana, Vandyke, etc. The difference between Federal republicanism, and Democratic republicanism, is fairly represented by each in hand, and being in debt. Federal States pay well, and fight well.—But they won't go to war to gratify the spleen, or the revenge of a French party, nor to uphold the stateliness of Democratic dignity.

[Conn. Mirror.]