Phenix gazette. [volume] (Alexandria [D.C.]) 1825-1833, 1826-11-23


partment.
1t is not without good reason, therefore, that
the people, looking for the most capable OF their
public servants, have so often cast their eyes to
the Department Of State for successor to the
Chair. 1t is proof OF the selfish and ambitious
disposition OF the JaCkson-men, that they would
make the possession Oh the Department of State
disqualification for the Presidency. Had their
candidate been a statesman, their scruples on
this-point would, probably, have never been pro-
mulgated.
Trimming. of the most difficult charac-
tiers 10 sustain is that of poitica trimmer. a
plain honest man should never make any at
tempts towards this chef d'euure, because plain
ness and honesty can never be made TO SKIP "a
bout the compass with versatility and address.
During close political contests, trimming is a
business very much in vogue man not know
ing exactly which way the wind will blow sits
watching every political flaw, from which he
may have chance of drawing his prognostica-
tons. Among the many curious scenes which
the last election brought out, we never observed
one more so than that which certain characters
exhibited during the doubts and uncertainties
/ Of the election. During the first few days, those
gentlemen who have called themselves buck
tails heretofore might be very wary about their
conversations and place into which they might
occasionally drop in of an evening. The Shaks-
peare was the place of rendezvous just after the
election closed, but when they were caught
| there by some old Tammany man, they would
instantly hustle up, and say, sweIl, just step.
ped in to see how things were coming OIL, but
can't find out here" Having themselves Off
ces, perhaps, at stake, which are in the power
of the Governor to nominate, they put their sa-
larry into one hand and their old political prin-
cipies in another, and glance their eyes back
wards and forwards upon them, as a boy does
when he is about shopping spelling book tor
whistle. The salary and the whistle both
gain the day. When our trimmers found tina:
the returns looked rather black against Mr..
Clinton, they then made their appearance at
Tammany, drank their glass of ale, smiled to
their old acquaintance, and asked questions "a
bout the arrival of tie New Philadelphia. No
man who has not great deal Of wit and hu-
nor should enact the character Of trimmer.
Gravity and dishonesty are about as bad mix
ture as sour ale mixed with brackish water
Who could drink it without making wry face!
NeoD- York Nat. .adv0cate
The following happy specimen OF eloquence,
is part of an address pronounced by j. u.
Garter. Esq. before masonic body in Ply.
mouth, Massachusetts. The sentiments il ex-
presses do honour to the heart, as the style re-
fleets credit on the head Of the gifted orator.
and we may be permitted to add that in few
places, more than in that where The eulo3y was
pronounced, have the fair sex deserved the com.
pliment paid to them:
"There is one topic, however, intimately
,al ,t., o,l docl e
christianity, and subsequently with the revival
Of Europe, which the occasion strongly sug-
gests, and which | cannot forbear briefly TO
touch upon. ! allude to the new and more in
teresting character assumed BY woman since
those events. In the heather world, and under
the Jewish dispensation, she was the slave OF
man. Christianity construed her his compan.
ion. But as our religion gradually lost its pow
er in the dark ages, she sunk down again TO
her deep moral degradation. She was the first
to fall in the garden Of Eden; and, perhaps it
was judgment upon her, when the whole hu-
man character was now low, she sunk the low
est, and was the last to rise again to her origin
al consequence in the scale Of being The age
of chvalry, indeed, exalted her to be an object
Of alteration. But IL was proiane alteration,
not founded upon the respect due 10 being OF
immortal hopes and deSlinies as well as man
1 his hISh character mas Deen conceded 10 ner
at later period as she has slowly attained the
rank ordained for her by heaven. Although
this change in the relation Of woman 10 man &
TO society is both an evidence and conse quence
of an Improvement in the human condition, yet
now her character is cause operating to pro
duce still greater improvement And IT
there be any one cause to which we may look
with more confidence than to others, tor hasten
ing the approach Of more perfect state OF So
ciety, that cause is the elevated character OF
woman as displayed in the full developeinen, OF
all her moral and intellectual powers. The
coniugal confession of Eve 10 Adam,
God is thy law, thou mine; to know more
Is womans happiest knowledge and her praise,
has grown TO be obsolete. The influence Of
the female character is now felt and acknowl-
edged in all the relations of her life. speak
not now Of those distinguished women, WHO in
struct their age through the public press
Nor Of those whose devout strains we take up
on our lips when we worship. But Of a much
larger class; of those whose influence is fel, in
the relations Of neighbor, friend daughter, wife,
mother. Who waits at the couch OF the sick
to administer tender charities while lie fingers,
or to perform the last acts of kindness when
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