Alexandria Daily Advertiser

PRECIOUS CONFESSIONS.- On the passage of the army bill, Mr. Williams [S. C.] made the following observations to this effect : "We are about to raise this army of 6000 men, and by what means are we to support them? The pecuniary resources of our country are stopped --we are without revenue--without means--the present policy of our government has divested us of those means! I call on the gentlemen who compose the committee of ways and means, to inform us how, and from what current we are to maintain this army? Yes, sir, I challenge them to convince this house to demonstration, how with a treasury nearly exhausted, we are to feed & cloath such a body of men ?. You, sir, have on your table a bill nearly approaching a sedition law; an alien law is in embryo, " but its mother's milk is pricked, and I hope it will never arrive to maturity !" and now a standing army is to be raised ! What will be the consequences of these measures, if they should go into operation ? Let me premise, sir, persecutions. distress. individual misery ; and what of all in most to be dreaded, feared and lamented, as inevitable, a National Bankruptcy !"

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