Phenix gazette. [volume] (Alexandria [D.C.]) 1825-1833, 1826-09-05

would do SO, he would here again be met with
the stern opposition Of Mr. Randolph, for that
gentleman no longer ago than last winter, threw
the Generals friends into CONSERVATION, and
induced them to nail the bill they had reported,
to the table, by declaring that he would vote
with no man who should support measure SO
unconstitutional in It's character, so unjust IN
ls operation, and so demoralizing in Its ten
dency. Of this bill, Mr.. Calhoun, and his asso-
ciates, Hayne. Eaton, cum n1uhis ALAS, are the
most jealous and energetic advocates. NOW,
we ask, how can this opposition De expected 70
cohere9 Does it not contain within ltseH the
seeds Of its own destruction? ltmay, indeed, De
here urged, that Messrs. Adams and lClay are
not whit less Objectionable, on this score, than
Gen. Jackson. Admit the fact, and what toll
lows. The people are called OH to eject them
from Office. not on account OF their obnoxious
principles, because the same principles woIld
continue TO influence the administration OF Ge-
neral Jackson; but because, as man, they pre-
fer rhe Soldier to the Statesman? They are
compelled 10 admi! that they have ceased to re-
gard principles and that their design is solely to
Dull down one individual that they may exalt a
mother! The American people are too cnlight-
u,
worthy and unmanly spirit of prescription
They will teach the opponents of the admins
tration that while they are prepared cordially to
unite with them in advancing to the Presidency
anv properly qualified statesman who will en-
deavor TO bring the nation back 10 the long a
bandoned, stigmatzed, and almost forgotten
principles of 9S, they will not lend their aid to
advance views and wishes engendered partly by
personal hostility and partly by ar nnholy ambl-
ton. The opposition, we are perfectly aware, is
strong in numbers and intelligence, but we trust
to the sober reflections of the community, tor
its ultimate defeat All opposition parties Will
contriye to render themselves formidable, by
constantly imputing corruption & dishonesty
10 the 'powers that be- even without the sha-
dow of cause. They rely upon the duclility
of the public mind, too frequently disposed to
believe i'll rather than good of public officers,
and too liable to receive on trust, assertions
which the mass of the people have neither pa
thence to investigate, nor means to dlsprove-
But, let not the opposition triumph IN this TACT
Before they are aware Of it they may expert
ence fate similar to that which awaited the
exertions of the "teSselated" opposition that
over,hrew Sir Rir Robert Walpole, that "great-
est, wisest, meanest of mankind" 1t has been
eloqueHtly asked, "when that minister fell, what
became OF his opponents.9 Why, their iall was,
if possible, still greater. Within one short
month, Pultenev, their leader, from being the idol
ofhe nation, became one Of The most Insignificant
men IN the country Instead Of union and conf
dence among those scho had lately acted in so much
harmony nothing ,cas TO be seen but dissensio and
distyust Mutual and incessant determinations
were heard on all sides: broken promises, for
gotten pledges, deserted principles, formed the
burden Of every mans complaint. The discor-
daat ingredients of aohich the late opposition ecas
composed, became once more indiUiduaEsed; the
black spirits and white, red spirits and grey,
resumed thei own colors, and fell asunder from
The union in ,ohich they had so long been blended
Bv and by, however, in the universal scramble
for office, all party distinctions founded upon
principle, were again lost sight Of; not that
parties, numerous and bitter, no longer divided
the state, but they were formed, not much
from any similarity Of principle, or any unity of
purpose, as from accident and passions. Indeed,
it would be difficult to name a period at which
parties. seemed 10 have been actuated by mo-
lives so little, to have engaged in intrgues SO
mean, to have been divided by distinctions so
petiy nayro.c aid personal, and so totally iadpen-
dent ofeuery thing like principle or patriotism. =
Let the opposition view in this portrait deli
neaion of their own character, and dread, If
they will not anticipate, "a similar end to their.
tolls and labors