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Gazette Of The United States
New York, New York County, New York
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Report from Fayetteville letter dated December 6, published in Edenton on December 17, details North Carolina House of Commons proceedings on November 24 censuring U.S. Senators for poor communication with the state Executive. Dr. J. Leigh opposed the resolves, which passed the lower house but failed in the Senate. Legislature opposes Congress on debt assumption, refuses treasury checks to Loan-Officer, and proposes using certificates and funds for state debt subscription.
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Extract of a letter from Fayetteville, dated the 6th December.
"You will observe in the proceedings of the House of Commons of the 24th of Nov. some very curious and extraordinary resolves, severely censuring our Senators in Congress. It seems they have not regularly corresponded with our Executive; and this alone, as far as I am able to learn, is the cause of the acrimony and malevolence shewn them. Our friend Dr. J. Leigh, of Tarborough, who, though a young member, seems to take the lead in business, and I think has given a striking proof of what his country may expect from him in a political capacity, opposed them with that manly and independent spirit, that I know not which most to admire, the talents of his mind or the virtues of his heart—they, however, were carried in the lower house, but rejected in the Senate. They seem in general to be violent against Congress, on account of the assumption, and refuse to give up the checks in the treasury to the Loan-Officer. They propose also to empower the Treasurer to subscribe the whole amount of the debt assumed for this State by Congress, and to employ the certificates now in the treasury, which have already been liquidated and punched, for that purpose; it is said there is nearly a sufficiency. The deficiency they expect to make up, by employing the money now on hand in purchases in the market, under the direction of the Governor and Council."
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Fayetteville
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24th Of November
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resolves censuring senators carried in lower house but rejected in senate; opposition to congress on debt assumption; refusal to surrender treasury checks to loan-officer; proposal to empower treasurer to subscribe debt using liquidated certificates and market purchases.
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House of Commons passed resolves on November 24 censuring U.S. Senators for irregular correspondence with state Executive, opposed by Dr. J. Leigh of Tarborough. Legislature shows violence against Congress over debt assumption, proposes using treasury certificates and funds for state debt subscription under Governor and Council direction.