The Virginian. [volume] (Lynchburg [Va.]) 1822-1829, 1826-01-26

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pass without recommending it 10 their 10.
ice. We cannot speak IN favor Of thu
work from our own knowledge. but the
concurrent testimony of all who have pc
ruscd IT not excepting the Reviewers and
Critics. proves II to be worthy of public
patronage.
Congress Of Panama. Senate Of
the United States has sanctioned the mis-
sion to Panama. (recammended by Mr..
Adams, in his Message, after ssrions op
position, which We cannot but consider
strange and unwarrantabie. Men, il IS
true, of different Compartments, may differ
about the expediency and policy of mea-
sures and even as to the means of effpcting
aay object which they in common sane
tion and no imputati0n should be cast on
their motives. But, wnen, in case like
the present hen we know that there is
a numerous party in the Senate determin.
ed 10 throw obstacles in the way of the
adminlstration-when We are led to be-
lleye that this party now for the first
time has exhibited Any thng like an
embodied opp0sltlon-that, instead of be
ing decided upon its merits, and with an
eye to its enlarged national character, the
question was made one ofparty, aud deed
ed upon party grounds,-and when it is
further pretty generally known that the
principle was sanctioned by many who vo
ted against the measure, we cannot but
believe that opposition TO 1t was the result
of faction and intrigue. We had never
expected 10 have occasion to peak thus Of
the Senate of the United states OF 10 hear
it thus spoken of by others but truth
wears no mask. Such results are the ne
cessary consequences of the appointment
Ia office Of such young and inexperienced
politicians as M, Hayne Of S. Carolina, and
such political ,nad-caps as Mr.. Eaton OF
Tennessee to say nothing Of the amb
lious leader and Instigator Of the oppols-
ton, Vi, Vice President Calhoun 1t is
known that he is the master spirit of the
organised Congressional faction, which is
determined, At every step, 10 thwart Mr.
Adams, from the pitiful feelings Of person
al hatred aud political rivalry: expecting
tn ride into the nigh office Ia whica ais am
bition soars, in the tunllt raised by his in
trigue and artfice. Cuul we expect our
voice to reach him, and, if il did, could we
hope It would have any Influence, we would
advise him tO pursue a mere open and
manly course-we wNuld tell him that he
has been hitherto regarded as mad who
united hsnor with ambition, and talents
with vanitv--that, if he thus continues IN
work the wires, behind the scene, and
thrust forward his satellites 20 do his bid
ding, he will lose that ch racter, and with
il the e.timati N il which he has been hrldi
that many men, and, among others, one
who filled the very station which h" nov
fills and sat in the very Chair which h.
now occupies was rnined by oor pa
tennv waiting for the expression Of public
sentiment in his FAVOR and by arasPins at
shaduwy crown--we would warn him
To beware of that sort Of ambition, which
O'treaps itself
And falls on tothrr side"
We hope that the Injunction of secrecy
which generally wells the Executive pro-
ceea,ng of the Senate from pIhc scrutiny
NAV in this instance be removed, that lhe
American people may know the men who
outraged the public sentiment "f America
by refusing their assent, from personal and
political enmity to its ptoposer, to one oi
the grandest schemes ever suggested, 10
secure thu permanency of national repose
in every quarter ofthe globe, and more par
tieularly to guard the freedom aud indie