Virginia Argus. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1796-1816, 1810-04-27


publican and very niable man.
+ STANLEY GRIswoLB. Esq. late Sena-
tor OF tue Ualted 5 ates froal the state OF
Ohio, has been appointed by,tae same a
Judge Of the llIiHois territory.
For THE VIRGINIA ARGUS.
To the Hon. JOHN RANDOLPH.
SIR,
1t is natural that man should hate
his enemies. IF you had ever been
suspected of cultivating the Christian
virtues, it might be charitably presum-
ed that you mad, in some degree at
least, corrected the imperfection of hui
manity BY the salutary discipline of
religious exercises but when we find
you indulging your spleen and conti-
nuIng to rail at every man who has
had hrnness enough to resist your
pretenslons 20 an elevated situation Ia
the commonwealth, We must give you
up as the voluntary victim of that ORR
glnal sin in which you were born, and
relinquish all nope of your ultimate
political salvation.
Yon are, unquestionably, the author
of IKltius. There is more positive
proc sof the fact than that which the
styLeiofthe production affords for the
piece assails with acrimony every man
whom you dislike, winch could not
well happen ifMutius were any other
person thanS yourself. YET even the
style of the Performance is more pre-.
sumpsive evidence that you are the
w 1t r. Who, bat a fe1eraiist in a
mask, would address the President of
the United Safes 10 the langua re of
reProach un Ter IN: pretence OF admo.
nishlng him OF danger? Who, except
a man blasted in his hopes of political
Preferment, would degr 4de the moral
character o. his native state, by etail.
ing In public newspaper vulgar sto.
ry OF the sagacity of negro boy and
the drunk ness of Virginian Colo
mel! Who, but the honorable Tohn
Rdndolbh, could skreen himself be-
hind Roman name, and vilify, in that
concealment, his associates in Con.
gress? Guilty of political suicide,
having assassinated your own former
reputation, you are haunted by the
ghost OF your murdered fame; and
bearing about with you distempsred
mind, whether you speak or write,
whether you expectorate your morbid
phlegm on the floor of the representa-.
tive hall or resort to the quackery of
a non-deseript journal, your frantic and
periurbed Spirit is manifest to the ma
ton.
Ii there is an individual in the Uni
ted States who doubts the complexion
Of your politics, the third number of
Mutius must remove every thing like
scepticism. | quote you from your
favorite print, the Spirit Of Seventy
Six I; you are speaking to the President.
/" Without pretending to instruct,
C much less to dictate or prescribe TO
6 you, sir, may / be permitted to sue-
6 gest whether the most lofty language
g and preten,ions comport with the |
6 resources of 2nd and Sd rate pow
g ers; whether circumstances ought |
9 not, and will not Tin spite of all we |
s can do) govern as, instead Of our
s governing them; whether there are,
: orr dsnbe any rights SO absolute
8 as not to b limited and m )difisd by |
the posture of affairs and the exist
ing state ofthings! La other words,
sir, whether ia the "gestioq" of our
concerns with the other naions OF
the earth, we should look TO our own
$ re ources and to theirs; to the ac-
tual situation of the world or turn
to the statute book, or to the mus,y
authorities on,national law, for our
rule of conductp
This language is qdits ineligible.
The Staaf-which tie United States
AVE mile in yibaication of their
1ghts, islby youHdenounced as the
most lefty language aad breteaf
MS" and this great nation declared
: q Sec01lI or third r1fe mower - Tier.