Winchester gazette. [volume] (Winchester, Va.) 18??-1826, 1822-04-06
MIR. RANDOLPHS vALEDITORY.

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10 tie FreehOlders Of Charlotte Bucking
har., Prince Ed tcord arG Cumberland.
My Friends For such have proved your
selves to be, through good ana through evil
| report throw myself on your indulgence,
/ to which never yet appealed in vain. Ii
! Is now just five years since the stats OF my
health reluctantly compelled me to resist
your solicitations, backed by my own wish.
! e',) TO otter my services to youg SURFACES.
The recurrence OF similar calamity obises
me to retire, for while, from the field of
| duty, and If | shall find it iDpracticao.e to
return by December next, my resignation,
| (already w.ittep,) will be rendered to the
Governor IN time to prevent your being IN.
| represented IN the next session of Congress.
| IL would be offered now, but that the ap-
preaching close of the session would render
re'elec'ion nuSatory 40 TO present purposes.
The state OF my affairs, las is we'll known
to some OF you, requires my presence at
| home-but self preservation impe seriously en-
joins q suspension of all business whatsoever
aud indeed, with all my deficiencies for
The station in which your partiAIity ha, been
pleased to place me, have never We, post.
Pone6 your interest to my owo.
Should the mild climate of France, and
will again find me a candidate for your indie,
pendent suIfrageS next election, U625.)
| have an especial desire TO be in that Con-
gress which will decide (probab!y By indi.
| rectiOR) the character of the Executive go
vernment of the confederation for at least
| four yrars-refhaps forevcr--since now, FOR
the first time since The institution of hi, go>
Vernmeni, we have presented TO the people
the army candidate for the Presidency in
the person of him who, Judging from pre-
sent appearance, will receive the support Of
,he Bank Of the United States also. Fb.s
is an union of he purse aud the sword with
a vengeance one which even the sssscity Of
Patrick Henry never anticipated, i'm this
shape at leat'. Let the people look to it, OF
they are lost forever. They will fall into
that gulf which, under the artificial military
and paper sy,tems Europe, divides Dives
from Lazarus, aud grows daily and hourly
broader, deeper, and more appalling. To
this stale OF things we are rapidly approach
ing under an administration, the head of
which sits an incubus upon the state, while
the lleutenants Of this new mayor of the pa.
lace are already con'eudiog for the success
sion, and heir retaioers AMI adhersnts are
with difficulty kept from coming to blows
even on the floor Uf Congress. We are ar
rived at thGt pitch Of degeneracy when the
mere iusl OF power, the retention OF place
| ana patronage, can prevail net only over eve
ry consideration of public duty, but s.iHc Tic
suggestions of personal honor, which even
the ministers of the tecaycd governments of
Europe have not yet learnt entirely 20 dis
regard. Should God spare me, YOU .hs II be
inlorIued how it has come to pass that af.
Ter settling the Florida question at the ex
pense OF a vast sacrifice of territory south
of 36 and bali of north iaiitsde''-we are
yet e'nnroiled with Spaiu- and in passing,
1t may be as well 30 recol'ect that the com
mand of the River and the Aa,kansaw, the
| gates OF New Or!eans,) will have TO be CON
| tested, not with the imbecile and puny GO
| vernment OF Spain, but with young aud
rising. and therefore ambitious Republic.
| Should ii, however, be His Will that we
| never meet again be that Will done OH
| Earth as it ia Heaven-amen.
! JOHN RANDOLPH, of Roanoke.
On board the steam boat Nautilus, under
way to the A,nity, Saturday, Mar. Is, 1922.
! p. 5. did rot leave my seat until I. e tate
OF the bankrupt bill Ito which my mite was
contrlbuted) was asceFtaned. In case OF
need was ready to vote on tbs Sd reading.
| j Il. Of Il.
| Letters VIA New York, 10 the care of the
Post Master, will reach me. Ny address Is
''caFe OF John and WIN. Giiliat. London"