Phenix gazette. [volume] (Alexandria [D.C.]) 1825-1833, 1826-05-03

and Dickerson-such snarlIns misanthropes as
FORSYTH and Floyd-such mischievous, neffabe
blockheaos as Mitchell, Of Tennessee, and
Weems, of Maryland-such memberships as
Kremer and Lacompte-and such prosttuted,
black-guard Press as the United States Telegraph
-(thank God there is none to match it)-when
we are brought in contact, we say, with such
crew, what folly would it be to rely upon argu.
ment, or measure our language. The weapons
that cut keenest, are those that should be used;
and the bleeding sides Of the junto, prove that
we have adopted the right ones.
The Editors of the Patriot do US but Justice
when they say we were warmed by what we con-
sidered an imputation upon our honesty as re-
porters of the proceedings Of Congress. We
certainly were. We were warmed, too, and are
yet, by the foul imputation of having sold our
selves to the Administration and by the pitt
full sarcasms levelled at US by factious dema
gogues in Congress. The billingsgate attacks
Of Duff Green never did warm u.s. We turned
upon him because we were apprised Of his base
commission, and knew that his mangrove
shrieks would vibrate horribly in the ears of
his masters. With respect to MEEHAN, we
were actuated solely by desire to unmask hy-
pocrisy. He is no Christian, unless to retail
unless he is an illustration of the mysterious
text-"The trees Of the Lord are full of sap"
We trust we have justified ourselves in the
eyes Of the most fastidous. If we have not
we despair of doing it, and shall iearlessly fol.
low the course which our best judgment has
dctated-preferring in that course to make
friends rather than to lose them-but to lose
them rather than to purchase appreciation at
the price of our independence, or to prelermt
wha, we believe to be seryiceable to our coun-
try. These latter remarks are intended for
home consumption.
The following judicious remarksfro the Nor
folk Beacon OF Monday, give another incontes-
tible evidence that Mr.. RANDoLPH's outrageous
conduct in the Senate is rapidly sinking him
into well earned contempt. The Editions Of
the Beacon will soon find that Mr. RS speech
as much exceeds the Philadelphia sketch, in
point of vulgarity, detraction, and nonsense, as
the first is greater than the last in point of
length
"It is far from being our disposition to pam
der to vicious appetiles, by giving currency to
the malignant aspersions of character which
are often unguardedly introduced into the pub
lie prints. They not only serve to bias unj Just
ly the public mind against the individuals ira
duced, but they foster and inhame heart burn
ings ard resentments among persons who are
frieRds; ofteDtimes producing enmi-
ties not less permanent than surely subversive
of The great purposes of social life. In the a.
bove remarks will be found our reasons for not
copying into this mornings Beacon a commu-
nication from friend in Washington, to the
Editor Of the Democratic Press, Of the 25th
ult; purporting to give the substance, and, in
many respects, the language, of recent speech
of Mr.. John Randolph in the Senate of the U.
nited States, in which the President Of the Uni,
ted States, the Secretaries of the Treasury and
Navy, Mr.. Giles, Commodore Barron, Mr..
McLane, the Editors Of the Democratic Press
and Richmond Wing, the Representative from
this diStrict in Congress, and the Collector of
this port-are loaded with the most opprobr-
GUS epthets.
"Could we believe it a true representation of
that gentleman, on the occasion alluded 10, we
should feel disposed to weep over, rather than
expose, the prostration of reason which it
would so strongly indicate.
"We confess we have long had misgivings
that the mind Of this distinguished but eccen-
trio man had SO far wandered from that orbit
which men of common (the best kind of sense
would prescribe for its sentative exercise, as to
render its labors worse than useless. But while
we lamented the obliquity Of its range, we hop
ed we might trust to those associated with him
i'll the public confidence, 10 restrain it from out.
rage upon decency, and preserve the proper
dignity Of the National Councils Still we can
not, without further testimony, be induced to
believe that the empire Of reason was so entire
ly overthrown, as the imputed speech pro-
claims-nor can we believe, if it were, that the
greatest deliberative body of the nation could
be so unmindful of what it owed to its own cha.
racter, as TO rermit such TRADE of invec,ve.
of personal defamation and nonsense, TO be pro.
nounced in its presence. We hear but one SEN
timent expressed upon the SUBJECTIVE either
the letter is gross libel upon Mr.. R., or the
Senate is disgracing the nation by giving coun.
tenance to the most unbridled RIGHTEOUSNESS in
its members"
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