The Massachusetts spy, and Worcester County advertiser. [volume] ([Worcester, Mass.]) 1825-1831, 1826-04-26


honor OF his personal acquaintance was late
y paid by the gentleman in the Chair, the re-
alainder OF the old federal party against
whom the gentleman from New. York, AIR.
CAMBRELEsG,) says his city had to throw
The shield Of the country in the last war. But
never heard it suggested, that those who
proposed, or those who acceded TO this ar
raDgcment, had sacrificed their principles. or
did any thing unbecomins of honorable men to
propose, or to.GO. They gave their support
70 the candidate they preferred.
Besides, sir, consider the necessity of the
Gaze. The candidates for the Office are nu-
mefous; and but one, of course, can succeed.
Is It not necessary, that he who succeeds
Should take to his confidence some OF those,
who, in some stages Of the controversy, have
been his rivals and competitors, or the active
supporters OF his rivals and competitors! III
the distinguished citizen, to whom no man in
The country feels greater gratitude than !, the
nero oI 4heN-OIireit!s, ON,
more heartily, more enthusiastically sppEeci-
ate--if he had succeeded in this high conten-
ton, would he have driven from MS cour ellis
ersry one who, in any stage of the canvass,
had been a competitor, or aAeading friend OF a
competitor, OF ii he had acted in concert with
any one who had at first been his competitor,
q
gainst them both And If, to avoid the suspi-
cion Of corruption, he had driven from his con
tidence, and excluded from his councils. every
one ofhs four competitors, and all their leading
friends, would he not both have stopped the
wheels OF the country's progress, and acted in
direct opposition TO that manly advice, which
so honorably to him the gver, so honorsbly to
HIM who was the object of it, the gentleman
near me, (Mr. DRAYToS,) he pressed upon the
late President some nine years ago.
While am on this topic, | Will beg gentle
men to remember, u.at there is diversity OF
opinion on all these matters. OF political
questions We may, with special propr;ety,
hold witt Sir Roger de CoveTiy, that great
/ deal may be said on both sides
/ The gentleman from South Carolina says it
is universally admitted that the ayourite OF The
/ people was not chosen at the late election.
The gentleman from Virginia, Mr.. ARcHER,)
] says that the people universally demand this
amendment. have only, or the other hand,
to say, that is universally admitted that the
! favorite of the people was chosen; (and
trust some gentleman in this debate will
bring forward the facts which believe to ex-
/ ist, though am not in possession of them, to
prove that, as far as plurality of votes is the
index. the faYorltc OF the people was chosen
! have only TO say that the people call fo- nc
amendment whatever. What docs it all
prove? That the gentlemen think one way,
and that am unfortunate as 10 differ from
them.
Before this case of compatibility is made
out, the gentleman ought TO take into consid-
GRAFTON one element of political responsibility
to which he alluded at large in another part
OF his argument, bat which he seemed wholly
10 omit here where its most direct application
| eXlsts-l mean tie responsibility Of tho Rep
Preventative to his constituents. This is test
from which no man can escape pledge of
| the integrity of every leading statesman, at
least beyond the power Of any Executive pat
ronaseto countervai. Coming from the peo-
pie, must he not go back TO them9 None is
SO high that Can be raised above this standard,
and none is so obscure, that he can stink away
and creep below it. He must come up or
Come down TO il, as the case may be. If a
Representative of The people, a member of
this House, on trying and a critical occasion.
has detied the will, and bartercd the interests
OF his constituents, think, sir, of the return OF
that man to his own home. Win not shame
( sit upon his brow, and heayiness weigh on his
heart, as he goes 10 meet the people whose
will he had resisted, and whose rights he has
sold? Will the trappings of Executive pat
ronage save him in that awful hour? Will
they not press him down, with ten fold heay-
mess, to the dust which he degrades while he
treads on it? But il, with the same influence.
| IN the like critical junc;ure, he has done
what he thought his duty to the Republic.
unawed by menace, and unseduced BY blan-
dishment, his homeward march will be a
march Of triumph; his constituents, as they
come out TO meet him, will exult at the sound
OF has Wen Known voice; and he will receive.
! at their hands, that reward which is beycnd
all the pride and power of oifce-the hearty
welcome Of the people who created--the
people who sustain-the people who approved
LOT the people who send him back, with adj
ded confidence, to the service of his country.
Sir, de.y the power and application OF
this whole argument Of corruption. | will
speak on this subject with perfect plainnoss.
care not what inference may be drawn from
what say. | say the administration of this
government, at this time, is one under which
any honest man may take office. TO the
councils Of the nation any man is free to go,
with honor, who eau contribute any thing to
the administration of the public affairs and,
as practical proof that this is so, point to
the honorable and honest men-men Of all
names and all parties, who have taken Office
under the present Observation-Disclosures who
are as pure and as free from s1spicicn as any
other men in this House, or out Of this House,
or in this country. M
And, then, as to coalition, on which the
honorable gentleman from New York, CHR.
CAWBRELENc,) was so learned-of which lie
had such an abhorrence---an adherence
which he endeavored TO communicate TO this
House. Sir, the gentlemen should be eau
tious in giving us his authorities for and
against coalitions. II he arrays Chatham,
Burke, and Fox, on one side, and Sheridan,
(who, by the way, was 10 all the coalitions, )
Mr.. Moore, and even himself, on the other,
the House may regard it as a case Of the
.uati1 srrars. know not what standard The