Virginia Argus. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1796-1816, 1808-04-29
Diratnta Nr0,ts.
R 1 C II NJ o N ID:
FRIDAY, APRIL. 90, 1903.

Il
or the mass OF important documents. connected
with the PRESIDENTS message to Congress of
Marcii 22d has been SO grea that we could nnt
permit single line to be occuoied bv Tr,,otbv,,
eloquent production hswever DESTROYS we were
to Crafty our readers with it as a bon ,,oyeecu.
ana however conducive 1t would have been to
the COCO OF inc Republican cause, by showing,
s,;reyi'aertaHy, how TAR Federal extravaganza
and folly would go We shall endeayor in the
oeSt Argus to redeem the time we have lost
by presenting that letter as a precious sample
CT the rRurH, cANpoR, HoNEsrY and p1s-
cIETroS OF the ANGLO FEDERAL party and
also, as monument Of their elsctioreerirp sI;N
and address.
We confess, nevertheless, that we are more
particularly tempted to do this for the sakn or
introducing with propriety Mr.. JoHg o. A.
pAMs's excellent answer, which shall imne
diately follow it; document which. fwitho,t
irony or Jesung,) we pronounce to be worthy
OF being read sud atentively stu,l;ed h., oy,.rv
true hearted American. We do not = sree v,;,b
Mr.. 4Gams in one Oft the opinions expressed bv
MN Viz that which relates TO the cxpediency
and practicabiiity of raising navy sufficient to
protect our trade ; but his observations on that
subject are expressed with great modesty, dis
playing 4 disposition truly ingenious and Drsixe
worthy. On every other point his arguments
are purely republican, and altogether clear, CO.
gent and irresistible. We believe that scarce.
ly man who mas read it has failed to acEnov--
ledge, either secretly, or avowedly, the ration
al pleasure, as well as information, he has re-
received FROM This a,,mirable performance.
We recommend TO the special attention
of all the friends of their country, the re-
port OK the Senatorial committee relative
to foreign affairs, which appeared in the
Icst, and Mr.. MADIsoN's letter to Messrs.
MoNEoE C PINKNEy, in this days Argus.
They emphaticaliy contain the true poll
t.cal vaae niecum for the present times.
Delegates chosen 20 ,SerUe in the cnsr:in Or
General -fssenrbiy Of this STATE.
Anherst, David S. Garland and Joseph
G. Cabell, Esqrs.
Hanover, VIM. Brockenbrough and John
Bowe, Esqrs.
STATE OF TIE POLL,
For Brokenbrough 276.
Bowe 268,
J Starke 100.
Mccall 60.
SENA1 f..
For Jones a1s
T. Starke 16e.
Washington SIS.
w K nave received from Mr.. CLoP-
TON, our faithful representative i'm Con-
gress, a very able and interesting view of
the principal features of our exterior reIa-
tions, in letter addressed to his constitu
ents. It's great length prevents our giving
y this day-it snail, however, appear ON
Tuesday-and will well repay an attentive
perussl. ==-1=
The votes for Governor of the s.ate of
had been received at Boston
on the 18th inst from 4o2 towns. These
gave, For Mr. Sullivan, 41,169
Mr Goie, 1929
Present maj'y for Sullivan, 2,44o
There are between 90 and 20 towns vet
to be heard from (says the Chronicle) which
will increase this majority considerably.
Did, on Wednesday last, after few
weeks severe illness, MIR. WILLIAM
NICE, for many years a respectable inha-
bitant of this city.
writer in Baltimore paper has st..
tackled the political conduct and speeches
of Mr.. John RaHdoLfh another writer IN
the same paper, by way of reply, insists
that Mr.. Randolph is man of talents, and
calls for the publication of his sheeches to
prove it. We apprehend that the writer's
on both sides, for and against Mr. Randolph,
mistake the queStion--admit Mr. Randolph
to possess all the talents that the warmest
friend he possesses, will claim for him, and
what then--.Uhat are faLents zvasted, or
worse than 7oasted, employed to inculcate
IN the same day, often the same hour, the
most preposterous notions OF foreign policy.
and the most perverse practices of domes,
tic policy; whose talents are indeed dis
played in eloquence, but obscured by passi-
on and prejudice.
Mr.. Randolph once held high place in
public opinion--is that the case noqvP what
has been the cause of this declenson-tne
same cause that ever will sink any man.
however splendid his talents, the sacrifice
81 the fHohe inferesfs to fersonaL anfiha-
fAies.
1t is not saying too much to assert, that
MIR. Randolph has had credit to the fuller
tent of his claims for talents it is saying
the truth that he owes the decline Of his
Standing rs p politician to his own conduct
"a conduct, by the bye, which by no means
20 to sustain the refutafion for talents
which public feeling is always ready 10
confer on genius however moderate, and
IN talents wheR fairly, openly and literally
exercised. The letter of Mr. j. O. .Hd,aDIs
s a structure more severe on Randolph's
peeches in congress on British affairs, than
'ould be uttered even by man possessed
# Mr. Randolph's powers Of rhetoric
The same writer who attempts to cover
Ne. Randolph's political errors under the
held Of his talents puts up the buckler of
1r. Ciinton's name, in order that he shouId !