The Patowmac Guardian, And Berkeley Advertiser

A representative, who says on the floor of Congress, but per letter [denies it?], such man be trusted. He is unworthy either of public or domestic confidence.

As for the savage clause, 'till a stenographer shall be hired, it is a mere delusion.

The proposal to hire was withdrawn some weeks ago; and it is regarded as not only dead but buried.

Of the house of representatives, that it may be so thoroughly counted by a very large majority.

By imperfection, he could be nothing more or less arrogant. Salary proposed, of four thousand dollars.

Such an officer had been appointed, with the [in this] house six hundred and thirty six dollars per [annum?]; and thus, after pay to make speeches, we are to pay four thousand dollars, as a whip to the reckoning, for a person.

Purpose of electing a stenographer; The jackdaw [would] misrepresent them.

This is the true meaning and he was stripped of borrowed feathers. The advocates [of] excluding publicity are afraid of appearing in [print].

In now.

The people of America are so widely scattered over a boundless continent, the post roads are in so many instances so greatly interrupted, that it [is] hard [to get news]; and the channels of intelligence are,

From one [end to the other], contains an immense number [of people]. The summit of the mountain, or the [valley], in ordinary cases, very difficult to rouse general [attention]. They are satisfied with knowing that the [government] care[s] yet less about the measures of govern[ment]. [Merchants?] and farmers, who know very little, and [care for little else but] priles, and the corn grows, that every man who [is] able and willing to work, may find plentiful em[ployment], and good wages, and that he who hates [exercise], may, by a small degree of skill, defraud

Hence it becomes the peculiar duty of those, whom chance has cast into the focus of observation, to [look] with a diligent eye [on] the measures of Congress, watch the young idea while it shoots, and by a timely disclosure, to nip in the bud, the first bloo[m]

Of legislative encroachment. The most dangerous usurpations have often been disguised under

[Pre]titles of prerogative and privilege.

In defense of this exclusion of printers, it has been urged that the sentiments of members are often

[Mis]taken by the takers of debates. Gentlemen, in that house, are eternally mistaking and misstating [the say]ings of each other. Is a reporter alone con[demned]

to be infallible? Have not the printers of [Phil]adelphia been always ready to publish correct[ions].

And they have so, and the circumstance is perfectly known. What then are we to think of a legis[l]a

[tor], who desires a privilege of making speeches, [w]hich he is ashamed of owning, when they appear in print, who wishes to put a bridle into the mouths [of]

their constituents, and, with more than Vandal barbarity, to crush the divine art of printing.