Phenix gazette. [volume] (Alexandria [D.C.]) 1825-1833, 1826-06-13

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now show one. We have no Faro Bank, no
Cot too good 10 run races---but we are not TOO
good to embezzle the money entrusted to us, or
10 do any thing that is covered up under the
garment OF religion. Hypocrisy is the only sin
that walks abroad that Cannot be discerned, ex.
cept by the eye of God alone; yet, when you
see mans whole conduct at variance with his
religious profession, you will not be defective
in charity alone if you do not come to the con.
clusion that, like Manuel Ordonnez, he is pref
ty much Of cheat.
find, sir, that the regular speech had been
preparing for the Senate has not arrived at its
due term Of parturition. But. in due time, l
:rust it will make its appearance will tres
pass no longer on the time and patience Of the
Sena.e-but there is more bchind-come oyt
it shal-redeem the pledge will will show
that this Panama mission is a Kentucky Cue.
koo!'s egg, laid in Spanish American nest
| will show that the Presiden, of the United
States and his ministers have Jonathan Russell
ed the Congress OF the United States-that he
has held one language at one time, on the same
subject, to one House Of Congress, while 10
another House he has held different language
on the same subject. | will not bring il here
in nores. will have the letters printed in pa
rallel passages, that they may be compared with
the style Of the Department Of State, whether
the Department OF State be, 10 this case, the
President Of the United States, or whether it
be the officer who presides over that Depart.
ment; it will show sufficient to satisfy any man
Of common penetration that these things were
manufactured here, and that this Don Saazar,
or whatever he is, had just as much hand in it
as the Grand Inquisilor had in the commission
with which Don Raphael and broker Ambrose
de Lamela, in company with Gil Bias, made
visit 10 the Jew, and riaed his Golfers | will
prove TO any man-they may write what Spa
nish they plcase-carry il to an Indifferent trans
lator, and there shall be no similarity in style,
grammatical construction, or any thing else,
between the letter they write and the letter
which il is alledged they have written, and
which has been translated and sent to US WHY
were not the originals sent? Is the name of the
translator given? No. They are not sent as
purporting to be translations.
This is strange word-the man who is
whistng over the furrow, at the time he is
turning in corn to give bread to his wife and
family, knows no more Of what is doing here
than man in South America. He does not
know that they who never did plant corn, or
never shall plant corn again, are to take the
best part Of his crop. lie does not know,
while his horses are poor because he cannot at.
ford to keep them fat, that horses are driven in
this City that are fed out of his crib-he does
not know this, because you get the money from
him tarifcaHy-he is tarifed, as we say in tir-
ginia. He is taxed for all the real necessaries
Of life-and how does his money 60? | wish he
could come here to see. II every man in the
United States could spend one day in Wash
ington-if every woman could spend one hour
here-and God forbid that my wife or daugh-
ter should spend more-then you would have
salvation for the Republic. II must be some
special interposition of Providence, though
working by secondary causes, that will snatch
this nation from the downhilI progress il is
making, not merely to bankruptcy, but to per-
dition. We may Aatrer ourselves as long as we
please, and think, and talk, and brag, and BOAST,
in 4th Of July orations and others, Of being the
most enlightened People under the sun-we
may be all shat, and yet be radically ignorant.
We are going the road that has ruined nations
before us--we are copying, as far as we are a.
BILE, the worst parts Of the British system,
leaving out the best, and who are we that we
should be exempt from the law which the Au-
thor Of the being Of all mankind has imposed
on them? What is the history Of man, and
what is he? The young lady who thinks so
highly Of her Philander, her Werter, her Syl-
vic, who will so with him to certain point
who will go with him to the bottom of the
garden, and listen TO the nightingale and the
mocking bird, and talk sweet sen,iment-bntif
she goes so far as that she is lost-she had
much, much better go 10 her grandmama, and
not to Philander-So it is with a nation--thc
man who says, this is but trihe--a peccadillo
Il was absent for few days from The Senate,
bu, none will think Of it--c'est lie premier pas
qui coute--the moment a man leaves the path Of
religion or virtue--:he moment he takes Paley
and the Jesuits to ascertain how far he may 60
on the border line of villany without overslep.
ping it, that man, or woman, is lost. Our 81
tualion is awful beyond concepticn--we are in
a state Of utter ignorance Of ourselves, and per-
haps may be supposed al this time worrying
the patience of the Senate, when they would
rather | should take my seat. 1t is my duty to
leave nothing unGone that l may lawfully do to
pull down this administration. see it, and
only wait till the Sd of March, ls29-this
month three years-and if the people do not
step in to correct the procedure, am much
mistaken if ever take their part again---and
why, sir? do not think the honor of daugh-
ter is TO be preserved at the expense Of bars and
boIts---(or, here the mind is poIluteJ, what
care who has the worthless possession Of the
body! He who goes out amino fuyandi is thief,