Alexandria Daily Gazette, Commercial & Political

ALEXANDRIA.
WEDNESDAY MORNING, April 29.
"TO SHEW
THE VERY AGE AND BODY OF THE TIME
HIS FORM AND PRESSURE."
Thinks I to myself -now suppose every federalist in the United States should determine in concert, not to subscribe a single stiver to this eleven million loan :--two alternatives only would present themselves. Restrictions must be taken from commerce, or direct taxes must be laid : either would help the good cause. If our riders resort to the former-- good ; if to the latter, the people would wince grow restive and throw them: that would be good, too.
Thinks I to myself.--Is it characteristic of grave Legislators, who have their country's good at heart, to vote a bill to its third reading, when they do not intend to vote for its final passage ? This thought was suggested to my mind on listening to the ayes and noes. on the question of passing the bill, reported by Mr. Wright, " for the relief. protection, & indemnification of American seamen," to a third reading in the House of Representatives on Monday last A more preposterous proposition was perhaps never brought before a deliberative body, and yet, absurd as its principles certainly are, it has been entertained in the assembled wisdom of the nation, till it has gone through the regular forms of legislation
Thinks I to myself, when [the bill has] gone through the regular forms of legislation, [if the] gentlemen will so far descend from the elevation which they occupy as guardians of the nation's honor and welfare, as to give their countenance, even in an incipient state, to the frothy ebullitions of a political fanatic, calculated to render the acts of the government contemptible in the eyes of all the world, then do I indeed despair of the commonwealth.