Phenix gazette. [volume] (Alexandria [D.C.]) 1825-1833, 1826-06-01
For The Boston Patriot.

For The Boston Patriot.
"THE SENATORIAL CALUMNIATOR."
As he has Justly been denominated in the
Centinei, appears to have arrived almost to the
acme of folly and insolence, in his attack on our
Senator, Mr. LLOYD, gentleman whose de-
meanor through life has been marked with hon
orable traits OF prudence and proprety. Mr..
Randolph could hardly have exercised his char
acters,ical propensity 10 scandal and abuse
more unlikely for himself than by assuming
James Lloyd, man who is as far from offering
an afiront to gentleman as he is 10 pat up
calmly with one Intentionally given. His char
acler being known, il is no wonder that the
Eice-c President felt particularly mortified at the
occurrence; Tor of the Senators, he must feel a
double portion. of The national disgrace, seeing
our newspapers are read beyond the bounds OF
the United States.
As Americans, while we are mortified at the
diminished iustre Of the Senate, BY the idle,
pe,uant and useless, long tails, tor they merit
not the name OF oralcns, or speeches, we derive
some consolation when we contrast the charac-
ter and conduct of the man ofRoanoNe, with the
Senator from among ourselves. II we contrast
the crazy harangues of the one with the solid
addresses of the other, and if we consider the
LLOYD was chairman being the result Of an in
qaiy INTO The erpediency Of providing by la,o for
The emD!o NQeaf of APrRgNri CESS ON board ships
concerned m our foreign commerce, we Shall feel
satisfaction and degree of pride in rejecting
on the character and conaucl OF the Massachu-
sets member, when compared with The drum
of Faction from Virginia, a mere noisy instru-
ment OF furious party, that sounds load by
reason OF its emptine Yes, emptiness; Tor Mr.
Randolph in his premature 'oE5e, or second
childhood, is like sprighly Gold in It's FrSt;
It's little brain is Iul OF brllian, ideas run
ming through il without the control OF
steady reason, and seems now, as then, To
have a leak in his skull, directly over his vouble
tongue, SO that whatever idea strikes the brain,
il drops on that unruly member aud runs
RAPIDLY off through h $ ieverish lips | here Cam
not be greater pest to village than to have
a person, whetaer man or woman OF this DIS
Dosition, and with this constitutional railing
and habi,ual practice But in dclibcrauve as
scmbly, and in the confidential council OF the
Executive oil ne United States, II Is Indeed
larnentable calamity. 1, is stopping The heels
Of the government, and, according To the doc
,rine of Mr. Vice Presiden, Calhoun, ], is ca
lamity without a remedy; for The machine, when
once wouad rp, must not be stopped, but suffer
I'd 10 run on, unul its .eaden weights touch the
q Of, and the machine, of course, ceases Its an
noyunce
Iye believe Mr.. Holr,es may have gone
considerable way towards conci!ia'lng, and
sno3hing down the rufhed feathers OF his con-
s,i,uents BY his propositions or resolutions to
BE- considered at the next meeting OF Congress,
bcin, an effort TO restore the lost, or at least,
the greatly diminished responsibility OF the Sc
nale. We trust the honorable Senator from
Maine will find, when he gets home, that an
OPPOSITION to the now Presidtn, ct the United
States, will find no advocates In New-England,
or next TO none; and that both he, and the
member from New-Hampshire will probably
think it prudent to retrace their steps, or sGti'r
the modification incident 10 unpopular repre-
sentatiyes.