American watchman and Delaware advertiser. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1822-1828, 1822-04-02
MIR. RANDOLPH, vALEDIcroRY.
70 ne Frcehoiders of Cn ylo1r, buckingham, Primo,
Edzpard and CAmbsrland

Edqvard and C4mbsr.and
My FRIENDS; For such indeed you have provet
yourselves TO be, through guod and through e,l
Ireport-fl throw myself on your indulgence, t.
which have never yet appealed in vain 1t is now
Just five years since the state OF my health reuc
family compelled me TO risst your solicitations
(backed by my own wshe y to offer my services
10 your sutirages. The recurrence of similar
calamity obllges ME to retire for while, from the
field Of duty, and il shall Gud it impracicable To
relurn by December next, my resignation, (already
writlen) will be rendered to the Governor in time 10
prevent your being unrepresented in the next ses.
sion OF Congress. 1t would be offered now, hu'
that the app oachng close OF the session would
lder reelection nugatory as to present purpose,
The state Of my affairs, (as is we'll known t. some
OF you,) requires my presence at nome but sell
preservation impcrlously enoins suspension Of IL
business whatsoever--and indeed with all 'nv de
fcencies for the station in which your partially
has been pleased TO place me, have never yet post
poned your Interests to my own.
Should the mild climate Of France, and the change
of air. restore my heath, you will again find me
candidate Tor your independent sufgages, at the
next election, C823.)
have especial desire to be in thai Congress
which VIII decide iprobaOly by indrecton) the cha
racter Of the Executive government OF the confed
Grafton iora at lest tour years-perhaps forever =
since now, Tor the first time since the institution
this government, we have presented to the people
the ARMY candidate for The Presidency in the perso
OF him who Judging from present appearance will
receive the support Of the Bank OF the U States
also This is an union Of the purse and the sworc
with vengeance one which even the sagacity o
Patrick Henry never antlc pated, III this shape
least. Let the people look TO it, or they lost for
ever. They will fall into hat gulf which unde
the artificial military and paper systems Of Europr
divides Dives from Lazarus, and grows daily ant
hourly broader, deeper, and more appalling IL
tins state OF things we are rapidly approaching
under an administration, the head Of which sis An
INCUBUS upon the state, while the lieulenants of thu
new mayor ol the palace already contending TO
the su esson, and their retainers and adhcrents arr
with difficulty kept from coming 10 blows even oil
the tloor OF Congress. We are arrived al hat picl
OF degeneracy when the mere lust of power thu
retention Of place and patronage can prevail no
only over every consideration OF public duty, Blu
s'itle the Suggestions OF personal honol which eve
, the ministers OF the decayed governments of Eu
; rope have not yet learnt entirely to disregard
i Should God spare me, you shall be informed no,
il has come to pass that after settling the Flord
question at the expense Of vast sacrifice Of terri
n tory "soUth OF So and half OF north lattude"-w
o are yet embroed with Spain-and, in passing.
may be as well to recolletl that the command of ii
), Red River and the Arkansaw, Uhe gales Of Ne
e Orleans,) will have to be contested, not with I'll
:. imbecie and puny COVE nment oil SPAN bui with
d young and rising, and therefore ambitious Repul
r lie.
n Should it, however, be His Viii that we new
Ii meet again-be that will done on Earth as it is
l. HeaVen-amen.
di JOHN RANDOLPH, of Roanoke
On board the steam boat Nautilus, und
of wayto the Amy, Saturday, March 16 1892
'e p. S. did not leave my seat until the fate
al the bankrupt bill (tu which my mite was contrib
e ted was ascertained. In case oil need | was rea
10 vote on the Sd reading. ]. II. of X.
ii Richmond Enquirer.