Constitutional Whig. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1824-1832, 1826-05-05

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Sir: After lapse of sixteen years, again summon
you to answer al the bar of the people, for your violations
of deconcy your abuse of the generous but undeser-
we'd confidence OF your native State, your caumnies
against all that the people your political incon
sistenccs, and your evident design overthrow the
Union OF these States Things have greatly changed
since addressed you last Then, sir, you were at
the nadir of the political worId-hated by Republi-
cans-detested by Observation-Disclosures By Virginia,
and odious to the whole Union. This was the pass
TO which you had brought YOURSELF during the first
twelve years of Jour political life And was it not de-
served Did you not enter Congress, under auspi-
ces most HaticriDg TO your feelings as a man. and
your talents as politician? Was not the confidence
OF the Republican party lavished on YOU and full
proportion OF merit for the of the civil Revo
luton OF 1901 awarded you? Did you not in 1906,
INST try to wheedle and then TO bully Mr. Jefferson
INTO appointing you Minister to France? When dis
appointed IN this, did you not ueanly desert YOUR
party, oppose what you had before approved, and
abuse whom you had before commended Did YOU
pay the smallest respect to your political friendships
or TO your pledges to the Republican partv the Con
sttution and the country? You did not sir Justly
were you disliked BY the Republicans, whom Won had
hrst betrayed and then sandered and Justly were Won
abhoTred by the Federaiss, who nevertheless loved
your treason, while they hated you. Justly did
say to you them
I"' you are the principal cause of all the discard
la' mas taken place among the republicans. The ma
lonai business went smoothly the people were han
by and satisfied the friends of civil liberty met one
another IN confidence and cheerfuly consulted toee.
ther Tor the general welfare till YOU turned cossin and
oy carrying tales backwards and forwards introduced
Suspicion where before there had been none You
nave acted like bad member OF society," who SETS his
he'9hoors TO wranging and makes mischief in order
tlat ne may be talked about 1t requires very slender
aollties to behave you have behaved but YOUR
quot she'rs that you have very vicious heart Your
nead is loo weak to conceal the foul passions which
deyour you; and they blaze out occasionalIv threat
ening destruction far and wide. But after the smoke
ana ire and noise which your angry eruptons coca
SON. you may look round with establishment and find
there has been nobody scorched."
| VIII give few more extracts from my address 10
you sixteen years ago. and leave you for the present
At another time, will pursue your History will
bring to the recollection of the people of this State
your attempt to distract the country at critical peri
Cd OF party and national history, by raising a part,
OF your own-YOur persecution of MIR. Madison
/ your systematic opposition to all appropriations o
2ien and money, when the country was in state O
! War, and when men and money could alone save i
from invasion, and possible disunion and anarchy
rs have alluded to your wish to be appointed
Minister to France, I will rcpubIish what said +,
you in 1910.
our particular admirers sag you are a great man
but neither you thew have I,yoreI if Eou .rs
not only not great man bet if is utterly r,,ossbI
you should be one You have stability; and witho,,
'Aat 'here can tie no greatness There mental in
CONTINGENCY about you, which makes you faithless f.
Yourself as well as to others: and peculiar is Won
intellectual constitution, that vOu were TO form srs
TEN OF politics to-day and it should be approved b,
sensible men, you would pull pieces tomorrow
l,I.ol,t l. -
OF view you resemble little girl that buiIds = bafr
house to please her fancy, and pulls il down TO pease
heF iancy. You are all imagination all passion; and
nave no possessions in the world of You string
'"ticsfns together like poor children do peach ,er
neIS and you procure them much i'm the same vrav vo
have no more respect for the books whence Won lcL
then' than the children have for the stones after tbcv
nave obtained the contents. What principle have rn,
ever traced to its source? What law have Won eyer
framed to guard the liberties OF the DeopIe3 Yo tr;
lie with the most serious business and lest in the midst
o calamity. You have read Shakespeare's pavs the
letters OF unus the speeches of Lord Chatham Rnr
and if may Judge by the stvle of some of vonr ner'
iorinanccs you have read Joe Miller too we accor
DINGHY ilnd IN your productions tue quaint bubbles Of
John faistaf, the pePPercoTl of William Pitt The
acrd humors Of the whose name remains in tl,o
shade, and now and then plagiarism from honest
but vulgar Joe. When considers the books Won
Fead' eNcites no great wonder that your brain is te
seat OF such droIi phantasics. You have got an oIo
Oh PunS, OF saTCasIs, OF nvectyes and of low io,cs
N your memory and you thrust them out as Won synp
ged them in, without method; so tIat the original
excellence OF what you have fchod is frequently lost
by beng misplaced The less your fayores coinpre
bend you, the more they admire you; au; YOU nattcr
them, because they acknowledge you as the Tony
Lumpkn of their tiny corps.
You were beloved by the republicans before YOU at
tempted TO impose ON Mr.. Jefferson. l will tell YOU
how you managed that affair for am acorainad ,.y
the tact In the recess of former Congress YOU sig.
nhed 10 yonr acquaintance that you intended to go 10
Europe the story got abroad, and some of your end
n"u II inserted IN Richmond newspaper It was said
that you were going for the benefit of your beaUL
President Jefferson, however, would not take the hint
and 1t was thought expedicn when Congress convened
IN 1856, to be more explicit. 1t seems YOU were
getting so very III that any longer delay was consider.
B.! ca dangerous. memorial drafted land believe
Joseph Clay Of Philadelphia tell by whom il was
drawn stating that the subscribers to ii understood
mere was new envoy about to be sent to a certain
court in Europe and that John Randolph was proper
person to be that envoy. The memorial was slewn to
MT Madison, then secretary of state who remarked