Phenix gazette. [volume] (Alexandria [D.C.]) 1825-1833, 1826-06-12
MIR. RAMDolpEs SPEECH.
F,ou the National htslhgencr, June 8.

INTHE SENATE OF THE U. s.MAncu So 1926.
The following preamble and resolution.
submitted by Mr.. BRANCH, OF North Carolina,
some time since, in secret session, and Suhse-
ouen,lv transferred TO the Legislative Journal
for pubIic deliberation, being under considera-
ton, viz:
"Whereas the President Of the United States
in his opening Message TO Congress, asserts,
shat invitations had been accepted, and that
Ministers on the part Of the y. States would
he commissioned 10 attend the deliberations at
Panama, without submitting said nominations
10 the Senate: And whereas, in an Executive
communication of the 26th day of December,
1925. although he submits the nominations, yet
maintains the right, previously announced IN
his opening message, that he possesses an au-
thority to make such appointments and TO COM
mission them without the advice and consent OF
the Senate: And whereas silent acquesc-
ence on the part Of this body may, at some fu-
ture time, be drawn into dangerous precedent
Therefore,
s>f2eSolred, That the President Of the United
States does not constitutiopally possess either
the right or the power to appoint Ambassadors
or other public Ministers, but with the advice
and consen, Of the Senate, except when vacan-
cies may happen in the recess"
And. Mr.. BR,xcH having delivered his sem
timents in favor Of the resolution
Mr.. RANDOLPH rose, and said: rise, Sir,
ior the purpose Of making an apology to the
gentleman from North Carolina, for an uninten-
tional word, T'never'1 uttered, invountariy,
whilst he was speaking, although was happy
10 see that i; caused any thing rather than en-
barrassment to him. i rise also, for the pur-
pose Of expressing to that gentleman my hear
~ thanks for having called up his motion, and
for having relieved the Senate from that emhar-
rassment, under which we have iabored so long
as that motion was nailed to that table. The
unavoidable absence OF the gentleman from
North Carolina prevented its being takenu up &
disposed Of; and the subject was thus put out
of the reach, even Of the Committee OF Foreign
Affairs, and is therefore not embraced in their
report And, whilst am making my acknowl-
Judgements TO the gentleman from North Caro-
lima, will make one more, in which, believe,
sir, another, and not the least member OF this
body, may participate with me, as an almost
equal sharer in the obligation he gentleman
from North Carolina has steered his ship into
action with manliness and decision, frank
ness and promptitude, fearless intrepidity,
that scorns all compromise with the foe, the
common enemy of every true friend OF his
country; that will relieve, certainly, one, and, L
believe, more than one, of this body from some
part Of the odium which has hitherto been
borne almost exclusively by tco. He forcibly
reminded me of that gallant man, (was he not
our countryman by birth, sir?) Hallowel, 'who so
calamity took the Lad in the SwIFTsURE, at the
battle OF the Nile--the most brilliant and sub
lime naval conquest-the most important,
whether in reference 10 itself or its consequence,
that was ever won by man; when the brave but
unfortunate Culloden, the leading ship, got "a
ground; when Trowbridge; for the first time,
performed an important bur unwilling service,
in marking, as a beacon, the channel to the
rest Of the feet. | am glad to find that the gen.
tleman from North Carolina has spoken to this
House with the plainness that belongs to him,
not only as Southern man, but, emphatically,
as a Planter; i, belongs to him as slave hold
er; it belongs 70 him as one who is not bound to
electioneer and to curry favor with the driver of
his carriage, or the brusher Of his shoes, lest,
when he shall have driven him TO the polls, the
one may dismonnt from his coach-box, or the
other lay down'hs shoe-brush, and annihiate
the masters vote at the next election; lest his
servant may give him warning that he may no
longer consider him as his "he!p," and go as a
spy into the family Of his enemy, if he shall
have one, to tell, not only what he may have
seen and heard, but what he never saw and new
er heard, in the family Of his master. MASTER
did say! No, sir, "hs gentleman" This detaior
and champion Of universal suffrage owns no
master-he claims the mastery over you.
thank the gentleman from North Carolina
most sincerely and heartily do thank him.
trust that il will turn out in the end-whether
our adversaries be born to consume the fruits
of the earth-fruges consumers nati-whelher or
not they belong TO the caterpillars Of the Trea-
sury Or of the Law; that, of us, it may be truly
said, nos numerus sumus; that our name, too, is
Legion: for, sir, We belong to the cause and the
party of the People; we do claim to belong 10
the majority of this-'nation?' No, sir, l &C
knowledge no nation--oi this Confederate Re-
public. For l, 100, disclaim any master, save
:ha, ancient Commonwealth whose feeble and
Improbable servant am. Che President HIM
self has confessed that he does not nossess the
suffrage of the majority, or the confidence en-
ioyed by his predecessors. He is even desl-
rous of new trial. He shall have one, and no
thanks to him for it. God send him good