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108 The Nobth Carolina Historical Commission
an impediment
—
'R. Jersey—no new speaker—^P—a. Mr. Smi-ley^—
a man who was very Popular in the State assembly, lie is
a great Demo.[crat] and taulks tolerable well—^you know Mr.
Scott—^he is a right sensible old man—D.[elaware] all the
oratory of that State in the Senate—M.[aryland] Mr. Smith^
of Baltimore—a red hot flaming Speaker, a good Merct. a
warm Patriot—rather too much fire for a Politician and a
calm Legislator. Va. Mr. Nicholas^—A good voice & toler-able
orator, he is too warm & fond of annexing wrong motives
to those who differ from him—Mr. Harrison,* a pleasant man
and speaks pretty well—IsT.C. oh, ah, yes, true—^you are acquaint
then with the Gentleman I alledge—S.C. Mr. Hunter^ is a
man of sound judgment and a tolerable speaker—G.[eorgia]
Mr. Carnes^ has Handsome talents for speaking, but from
Diffidence or from other causes he seldom says anything
—
so
I have gone through the Continent in the lower House, per-haps
I have not done the Gentlemen justice, but really I mean
not by what I have said to injure one of them—Now Mr.
G[rove] be so good as to step upstairs and take a peep into the
Senate chamber—That mighty conclave where it has been sur-mised
Majestic Majack dwealt, where the illumed minds of
mortals shone so bright as to exclude the rays of light from
Heaven—^where it has been suggested that Dangerous Vice sits
as a minion on a throne, to make the hateful monster aris-tocracy
lose all its proud & surley Features by dressing it in the
garb of Davilla,^ The Deception however is discovered, and
^John Smilie (1741-1812), representative from Pennsylvania 1793-
1795 and 1799-1812.
^Samuel Smith (1752-1839), representative from Maryland 1793-
1803 and 1815-1822; United States Senator 1822-1833.
^John Nicholas (1761-1819), representative from Virginia 1793-
1799.
^Carter B. Harrison, representative from Virginia 1793-1799.
^John Hunter (c 1760), representative from South Carolina 1793-
1795; United States Senator 1796-1798, resigned.
^Thomas P. Carnes (1762-1822), representative from (3^eorgia
1793-1795; a judge ot the Supreme Court of Georgia; a member
of the Georgia commission on the boundary dispute with North
Carolina in 1806.
'John Adams, Vice-President of the United States 1789-1797 and
thus presiding officer of the Senate, published 1790, his Discourses
on Danila, a work which was popularly supposed to reflect his ideas
on governmen't. Monarchist and anti-democratic in its tone, the
work operated powerfully to destroy Adams' popularity in an age
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| Full Text | 108 The Nobth Carolina Historical Commission an impediment — 'R. Jersey—no new speaker—^P—a. Mr. Smi-ley^— a man who was very Popular in the State assembly, lie is a great Demo.[crat] and taulks tolerable well—^you know Mr. Scott—^he is a right sensible old man—D.[elaware] all the oratory of that State in the Senate—M.[aryland] Mr. Smith^ of Baltimore—a red hot flaming Speaker, a good Merct. a warm Patriot—rather too much fire for a Politician and a calm Legislator. Va. Mr. Nicholas^—A good voice & toler-able orator, he is too warm & fond of annexing wrong motives to those who differ from him—Mr. Harrison,* a pleasant man and speaks pretty well—IsT.C. oh, ah, yes, true—^you are acquaint then with the Gentleman I alledge—S.C. Mr. Hunter^ is a man of sound judgment and a tolerable speaker—G.[eorgia] Mr. Carnes^ has Handsome talents for speaking, but from Diffidence or from other causes he seldom says anything — so I have gone through the Continent in the lower House, per-haps I have not done the Gentlemen justice, but really I mean not by what I have said to injure one of them—Now Mr. G[rove] be so good as to step upstairs and take a peep into the Senate chamber—That mighty conclave where it has been sur-mised Majestic Majack dwealt, where the illumed minds of mortals shone so bright as to exclude the rays of light from Heaven—^where it has been suggested that Dangerous Vice sits as a minion on a throne, to make the hateful monster aris-tocracy lose all its proud & surley Features by dressing it in the garb of Davilla,^ The Deception however is discovered, and ^John Smilie (1741-1812), representative from Pennsylvania 1793- 1795 and 1799-1812. ^Samuel Smith (1752-1839), representative from Maryland 1793- 1803 and 1815-1822; United States Senator 1822-1833. ^John Nicholas (1761-1819), representative from Virginia 1793- 1799. ^Carter B. Harrison, representative from Virginia 1793-1799. ^John Hunter (c 1760), representative from South Carolina 1793- 1795; United States Senator 1796-1798, resigned. ^Thomas P. Carnes (1762-1822), representative from (3^eorgia 1793-1795; a judge ot the Supreme Court of Georgia; a member of the Georgia commission on the boundary dispute with North Carolina in 1806. 'John Adams, Vice-President of the United States 1789-1797 and thus presiding officer of the Senate, published 1790, his Discourses on Danila, a work which was popularly supposed to reflect his ideas on governmen't. Monarchist and anti-democratic in its tone, the work operated powerfully to destroy Adams' popularity in an age |
