From our correspondent,
Washington, Dec 22.
You will
perceive on reading the Message of the President recommending an Embargo, that embraces
other subjects to which he calls the attention of Congress. These will in their
season be for the deliberation of the National Legislature, and will very
probably become features in the restrictive
system which is to hang over this country like a deadly incubus. An important era in the history
of the Senate is about to be developed, and let me inform you, it is here
understood that Executive measures must prevail. Hence an Embargo with rigid
provision has been enlisted, not in pursuance with the judgment of the Senate,
but according to Executive requisition.
The only
circumstance that has happened in the neighbourhood [sic], worthy of remark, is the
death of Mister Stoddert, the first
secretary of the Navy. He was universally known in this country, and is
universally esteemed a great and good man. He died at Bladensburgh [sic] on last
Saturday morning. On the evening before he retired to rest in his usual health
- at 12 o'clock he was seized with what is usually termed a cholic in the
stomach, and died about 1 o'clock in the morning.[1]
Transcribed by John Peter Thompson December 29,
2013.
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