Literary cadet, and Saturday evening bulletin. [volume] (Providence, R.I.) 1826-1827, 1826-05-13

expect from every other citizen. have
heard that you have adopted the rule
never to give explanations. But your
sense of moral obligation ought not to
permit this rule to make you guilty Of
individual injustice. To that sense of
eternal obligation ! appeal-convinced
at the same time, that you canno wish
t destroy the fame of an innocent man.
Relying upon your candor, and c%ontiding
in the suficiency of this explanation TO
emove your injurious impressions re-
specting me, | respectfully ask that you
will make an acknowledgment to that
effect, to be published in the National
Journal JOHN Fl. P~LEAsANTs..
The following is the letter to the edi-
tor of the National Journal:
Mr.. EDITOR: Mr.. Randolph having
DETAINED my private character in the
Senate of the United States, | came to
this place in the hope of prevailing on
him, by a candid appeal to his judg-
ment and magnanimity, to retract his
accusation. With this view ! addressed
him the letter above, instructing the
friend who bore it, to assure him it was
inofiensive in language, and explanatory
and pacific in its object. This precau-
ton was used from n well founded ap-
prehension that MIR. Randolph might OBJ
ject to receiving it. The gentleman who
carried it made two Intellectual attempts
to see Mr.. Randolph: when, believing
that no interview could be allowed him,
he enclosed it, accompanied by a note
of his own, in which the above assur-
ance as to the character of the letter,
was made. Notwithstanding, Mr.. Ran
dolph refused to receive it, or at least to
read it, and returned it by the handssp
a member from Virginia. Defeatedin
the reasonable hope, that Mr.. Randolph
would condescend to hear the defence of
a citizen and a constituent, whom he had
u%njustly assailed, and repair the inju-
ny he had inflicted, ask of you the ia
vor to make that defence known to the
public. Elevated, as he supposes, too
high in rank and character to acknow-
ledge me in any shape, as an equal, to
challenge Mr.. Randolph would only be
to make myself ridiculous. Protected
by his age, station, and infirmities, from
personal violence, were | to seek redress
in that way, | should be called a bully
of the administration, offend national de-
corum, and be laid by the heels by the
Senate for a breach of privilege. All
this Mr.. Randolph knows; and secur in
his Senatorial immunities, he rests on the
slaughtered regulations of his fellow citi-
e None are virtuous enough to es-
cape his unsparing malignity, or obscure
enough to escape the blasts of his wither-
ing misanthropy. Friendship is forgot
ten in the fumes of political intoxicatioIi,
and female modesty itself flies covered
with bushes, from the Senate of the
United States. In the same breath he
scatters the ashes of the dead, and muir
ders the fame of the living-and unites
in the same denunciation, a Jefferson
and all Editor. JOHN H. PEASANTS.
In the Alexandria Gazette Of Monday
morning, we find it stated that Mr.. Ran
dolph passed that place the preceding
evening in the southern mail boat -
1t was certain that his servant and horses
were on board. A Baltimore paper
remarks that the cause of his sudden
departure was, o probably, his diff
Guilty with Mr.. Pleasants.