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

The following eloquen, article from the New
YoRx TINES, contains Just tribute 10 the IN
estimable worth Of the Massachusetts Senator;
vet the Editors ad capfandum remarks on du-
cling, ought no. to induce Mr.. Lloyd TO bear
with indigui,ies from every presum:ng Hot
SPUR. The practice of duelling is muth abus-
a. and too often attended with unwarrantable
sacrifices; but where refinement Of manners
can be effected only by personal checks to the
superciious demeanor of acknowledged gentle
men, the Appreciation of the rejecting world
will continue TO follow the injured man TO tao
field, as it has ever done Since social inter
course and equal rights have been held in es-
teem Mr. Lloyd's character justiEes the be-
LEI that when he appeals 10 arms, his cause
Will be Just; and we venture 10 predict that
such en- appeal will not lose him the confidence
of his constituents.
We read from the Commercial oflast evening,
that before Mr. Randolph left the Senate Cham-
Der, on Thursday last, Mr.. Lloyd caused writ
zen cha!ltnse 10 be put into bis hands, TO which
he returned no answer, but stepped into his car
riage, cracked his whip AND drove Off
We had hoped 10 have been relieved from any
further INCEPTION Of Mr., r. He has, fer time,
cut The cord, which connected him with his
fellow men, except the little circle included
within the planked walls OF the Alexander; and
while we presume, that ere this, prosperous
gales are bearing him over The deep, we most
sincerely hope, that the verdant fields and saln-
brous summer climate of Albion may restore
him to better feelings, and that her shores may
become TO hlm locus pepfeafie.
But Mr. Lloyd. what shall we say OF him, a
name which has hitherto carried with II al
which Rome in her best DAYS, would have de-
lighted TO honor Our recoilections have con-
nccted with it the gentleman OF finished educa-
tion-ehe merchant, whose early einlnsnce and
prosperous adventures, enabled him TO retire
from active business, al period when most men
begin. and to devote his fine talents, and extern
sive mercantile requirements ~ the service OF
his country. Blessed with opulence--hls hos
pitab,e board Tusculum, where learning and
patriotism loved 10 reax-high in the esteem
and generated by all who know him-onee and
again called by the voice Of his constituents to
represent his state ut most critical and deicale
crisis of her own and the national concerns-the
tanning a comparatively respectable standing in
our national councils, and when Virginia. the
Southern states in the late war were arrayed a
sainsr New England, thought it not beneath
him 10 address IN his famous letter OF that day
"a man, who through all the exacerbations OF
party, sustained his position, standing as he has
done. through the previous stages OF our late,
and we regre, to say, not dignihed senatorial
session, like rock Of granite, past which the
q,e of faction has ebbed and f1owed-that Mr..
Lloyd should have so far regarded the waves
which were dashing at his feet, as to lose his
balance, and plunge into the surge, TO seek repa-
ration from Mr.. Randolph--we must confess
excites our special wonder. We well know OF
what materials such minds as Mr.. Lloyd's are