Gazette Of The United States

Now that Congress have entered on the subject of amendments to the constitution, says correspondent, and as the avowed purposes of amending it are still further to secure the rights of the people, and to remove the fears of those who are dissatisfied with it in its present form, one important amendment which has not yet been suggested might be made--Instead of leaving it in the power of Congress to fix their own wages, let the constitution do it for them. Let them be allowed a reasonable compensation for their services; but suffer them not to riot on the ruins of their country, or to draw from the treasury enormous sums, such as are inconsistent with republican economy--inconsistent with republican liberty--and such as are glaringly inconsistent with the honor and justice of the United States, while the services of her citizens, in the late war, are suffered to go unrewarded, while her foreign and domestic creditors are not even paid the interest of that money which they generously lent her in the hour of distress.--If none of these reasons are sufficient to come in competition with the Epicurean entertainments of gentlemen in Congress let them survey that poverty which pervades every part of their country.