Portland gazette and Maine advertiser., 1809-03-27
SENATE rs. THE PRESIDENT.

The rejection the of Mr. Adams minister
Rssa indicates spirit of honorable independence in the Senate
But that nomination. could only been calculated
Mr. Jefferson from ndebe disgrace in OF his
appointment of Mr. Short by holding the idea thai such
appointment necessary although the who was rst
might improper M having been for
twenty years Frenchman rather than an American, which Mr.
other and the intended NOM
aon of Mr. Gaatn Secretary of State which Withdrawn
from prudential considerations aonespeak language loud and
omnous, in respect disastrous influence which Is evidently
exercised by the late President the present Mr. Giles
lc his honor. manifested tie utmost rdgnation at the
attempt force Mr. Gaan into e Department d State lie
exclaimed that the country already Sufficiently dissraced by
the foreigner the control of the fnace and that
place diplomatic relations such hands wou be perfectly
ntoerbe Both the Senators Vermont, and indeed the
ministerial Senators generally in,imaed strong dislike to the
and little held decide upon the propn
ETY. causing be limited the President the nomination.
persisted in would be rejected, in ORDER by this 10
unpropious collision between the President and Senate
in the first of the administration. AT length both Mr.
Madison and Mr. Galaun given TO understand IN some way
that The thing sH aH and, appearances
given thai Mr. had been offered the appointments but
declined it. One and all then natched eagerly The nom
OF the respectable American, Mr. Smith, although doubtful
capacity for station. 1ndee the contrast between that
gentleman his predecessors Jefferson, Pickering Mar
SHALL and Madison point of talents particularly diplomatic
talents great in the Even Edmund Randolph
ADLER Secretary of State than Mr. Smith will De, and
Office has been flied with little ability, except during
PERIOD of andamns when the famed anS ever
famous lawyer and civilians Li Lincoln heretofore Auor-
ney the United States Author of the Law OF Iea
sor, Aguer Of Sugar Cause, and Chic Magistrate OF
Massachusetts, with little very brief authority, was invested
(rel Gath-record the psrshabe page Of
history -with sublime functions of Sereory Of Saf Of
United STATES Of .d,neric, .lFrs JArnat
RandohTh who has been the pride and boast of
republicans, who has heretofore been the ministerial
pieces, the file leader and champion Of the democrats
phalanx Congress- dubbedby gentry with the
odous and opprobrious epithe of federalism enemy 10 his
county, anda lover OF British godFormery lie cried
up statesman, of profound and universal
sciences and the hen) abe speaker the floor OF
But now orsoot blessed consistency because he eannot in
conformity with his duty an honest and independent man,
chaun baous orgies celebrate the pboopaic empire of
democracy " and has taken bold and determined stand agains
this hydra OF faction and anarchy he declared be destitute Of
talents of political honesty princpen whom CONFIDENCE
ought be placeda actuaed by impure motives,
operated upon by British ifaencethis is the hue and
of the present day.
The fact is Mr. Randolph has been guilty Of exerting lis
talents to proven, the destroying angel ofwd and hesnos de-
from ovespresdng country with It's ben ELECTS
opposed principle of AFFECT and degrading SUBMISSION 10
any foreign power. He has opposed that deoned ann Of
Jacotnsm conceived in sin and brought forth ~ nqui,5 -
the Aabargo He opposed going all lengths Hiih te y
ninions of the present time serving adnn Eos csc
has he been dnouncea bataemocas @al sonsent
ina eSEacacy.