Phenix gazette. [volume] (Alexandria [D.C.]) 1825-1833, 1826-06-13

10 forgive foe-I am taught to forgive my en-
emies. and do from the bottom OF my heart,
most sincerely, as l hope TO be forgiven; but 1t
is u,u enemies-not the enemies OF my country
for. If they come here in the shape Of the Eng
lisb, i, is my duty to kill them; it they come
here in worse shape-wolves in sleeps cloath'
ing-it is my duty and my business to tear the
sheep skins from their backs, and, as Wind
ham said 10 Pitt, open the bosom and expose
beneath the ruffled shirt the filthy dowlas.----
This language was used in the House OF Com.
mons, where they talk and act like men--'where
they eat and drink like men, and do other things
like men, not like master Bettys. Adams de-
,ermined to take warning by his fathers errors,
but in attempting the perpendicular, he bent as
much the other way Who would believe that
Adams, the son of the sedition-law President.
who held Office under his father-who,. up to
Dec 6, 1907, was the undertaking, staunch ad-
heren1 10 the opposition TO Jefferson's Admin
istration; then almos! gone-who would oell'Ve
he had selected for his pattern the celebrated
Anacharsis Cloots, "orator OF The human racer
AS Anacharsis was the orator oil the hum an
race, so Adams was determined TO be the Pres
ident of the human race, when am not willing
that he should be President OF my name and
race; but he is, and mustbe, till the third day
Of March, eighteen hundred and-l forget when.
He has come out with speech and message,
and with doctrine that goes to take the whole
human family under his special protection
Now, sir, who made him his brothers. keeper?
Who gave him, the President of the United
States. the custody Of the liberties, the rights
or the interests Of South America, or any other
America, save only the u States of America,
no p
put himself, we know, into the way, and say
God send him safe deliveranoe, and God send
the country safe delnerance from his policy
from his policy. Sir, it is we'll known to you,
that up to the period Of getting this message
from Adams, was the champion here OF his
rights, as coordinate branch Of the Govern
ment. was the person who rose immediate
" after the gentleman from New York, and
protested against our opening the doors, for
reasons with which will not trouble the SEN
ate On the question Of call on the Execu-
tive, for other information than The treaties, SC.
I said, the President is co-ordinats branch OF
this Government, and is entitled to all possible
respect from us. 1t is his duty to lay before
us information on which we must act-lf he
does not give us sufficient information, it is not
| our business to ask for more-I never will ask
for more, and 10 be given conhdentlally, &c.
| Mr.. R. here briefly adverted to the history OF
the resolutions in secret session, | did main
tain the rights Of the President, (said Mr.. R.)
but. from the moment he sent US this message
from that moment, did my tone and manner
to him change. From that moment was an
altered man, and am afraid, not altered for
the better. Here Mr. r. read The Executive
Message, Of the 10th February, as follows:
"Ir anewer H. ..-~- 800. ~ ~ osn-
.,e of,be 18th instant, marked (Executive,) &
which | have received, | state, respectfully,
una, oil the communications from me to the
Senate, relating to the Congress at Panama,
have been made. like all other commune atoms
upon Executive business, in onfdence, and most
Of them in compliance with resolution OF the
Senate, requiring them con6dentially. Believing
that the established usage Of free confidential
Communications between the Executive and
the Senate, ought, for the public interest, to be
preserved unimpaired, deem it my indspcnsa-
| BILE duty to leave 10 the Senate itself the deci-
sion Of question (said MIR r. if he
would leave to the Senate the decision Of the
question, would agree with him; bu, the evil
genius of the American House of Stuart pre-
val.d--he goes on to say, that the question
"involves departure, hitherto, so far as / am
Uniformed, without example, from that usage
sand upon the motires far which, not being in
"formed of them, do no, feel myself compe-
tent TO decide" If this had been prosecuted
for libel, what jury would have failed to have
found a verdict on such an mnenGo! that we
were breaking up from our own usage, to graf
ify personal spleen? say nothing about our
movements because he was not informed OF
them; the inuendo was, that our motives were
black and bad. That moment did | put, like
Hannibal my hand on the altar, and sweareter-
nal enmity against him and his, politically
From that moment | would do any thing with
in the limits Of the Constitution and the law:
for, as Chatham said of Wilkes, | would not,
in the person Of the worst Of men, violate those
sanctions and privileges which aye the safe
guard of the rights and liberties Of the best;--
but, within the limits of the Constitution and
the law, if don't carry on the war, whether IN
the Peninsula or any where else, 1t shall be Tor
want Of resources. Mr.. R. went on 10 speak OF
the motions 10 which this message of the Pres
ident had given rise; one o. which described
the nature and character Of the message. 10
the resolution, said he, objected. said,
would have all the naksdness OF the Greek
statute; would even take off the skin, that the
muscles might be developed, and that we might
have-the naked fact After further observa-
tons on the resolutions moved in coDclaVe on
this subject, Mr. r repeated what he had then
said, in reference 10 the message Of the Presi-
dent Who made him Judge Of our usapeS9