Phenix gazette. [volume] (Alexandria [D.C.]) 1825-1833, 1826-08-15

down, SC. After some further remarks, ad-
verse to the claims of soldiers BY profession TO
particular respect, he went on to discriminate
between them and volunteer soldiers, adding as
follows: | shall vote for Andrew Jackson NJ the
next election, whoever else shall be nominated .
He is the man who is the first military man IN
the country, and the man by whom the present
incompetent, insufficient self-sufficien all-sufh-
cient, Administration can be put out. Ii he
were not the man he is--if he .were not man
Of irreproachable moral honesr!: it he were
pFoaigate, instead Of being what ne is, should
support him on the same principle that would
have marched with Aaron Burr to Point Levi
10 put out Sir Guy Carleton. Arnold and Burr
put themselves out, and saved US the trouble:
as every man will do in this country, whose in
ordinate ambition and vanity shall prompt him
to seize on that with left-hantcd wisdom, by
trick. bargain, barter, sale, brihed press, hire
ling writer's: why do talk about bribed press?
The press is at this moment bribed: ii is in the
hands of some of the most prohisate men Of
this country. The administration have almost
avowed the principle OF buying up men. |
never read certain paper bat once, and then
a very good natured friend brought ii to me
TO show me something in which my name had
and anonymous letters, never read.
/ agree with gentleman, who does not sit
far from me, that nauseous, fulsome aduation
and praise is Us much worse than its abuse, as
rancid train oil is worse 10 get off the clothes
than mud in the kennel-grease, as my friend
flom North Carolina calls this stuff As re-
CARDS the letters, pocket them that may,
by similarity Of hand writing, detect the assas-
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letter, or who win write an anonymous piece in
the newspaper which he is afraid TO own, would,
il you would give him the opportunity, put pol
son in your drink. i will go farther, and say,
that any man base enough--there | come back
10 rira rOce vote and freehold suffrage, stable
as the foundations of the earth: any man who
puts a ballot in, leaving Mr.. a. b, Federal
gentleman, to infer that he mas voted for him,
and Mr.. c. D., a Republican, to infer thar he
has voted for him, and MIR. E. F., Federal
Republican, 10 infer that he has voted for him:
j say that man, so far as free suffrage may be
referred to, to maintain him III his independence,
cannot be made independent: you are making
him scoundrel greater than he was, you are
fomenting this very vice under pretence OF
thus making him independent. That fellow,
the moment he claims the privilege of doubling
up a paper and putting 1t in the box, he says,
"man you are my MASTER" and hurls defiance
at the Most High: and this is called defending
the independence and privileges of a citizen,
If Governments deal with averages, Govern
meuts have nothing but averages to depend on.
You must fix on some average, say, taking one
man with another: eoDmamibus hOminibus, that
twenty one is the age 10 vote. Fix it where
you will, you will take many that are incapa
bic, and you will exclude many that are more
fit, you are not dealing with distractions and
projections, but with man as he is. If you
have field to pillow you must pillow the part
that is stony, and the part that is good: you
must pillow and plant the whole -
There our reporters pen failed him, from
illness which caused him to leave the city IN
search Of health, and the remainder OF his
ste,ch Of this ,Speech and Of other Speeches
are in characters of which he alone has the key
Whether he will ever be able to return to his
vocation, is question which we wish we were
able 10 answer in the affirmative