Phenix gazette. [volume] (Alexandria [D.C.]) 1825-1833, 1826-05-10

and they blaze out occasionally threatening destuc-
truction far and wide Rut after the smoke, and fire.
and noise, which your angry eruptons OCCASION you
may look around With astonshment and lind there has
been nobody scorshed."
I will give few more extracts from my adj
dres. to you sixteen years ago, and leave you
for the present At another time, | will pursue
your history. I will bring to the recollection Of
the people Of this State, your attempt to dis
tract the country at critical period OF party
and national history, by raising party OF your
own--your persec ution Of Mr. Madison-your
systematic opposition to all appropriations OF
men and money, when the country was IN
state of War, and when men and money could
alone save it from invasion, and possible dis
union and anarchy.
As l have alluded TO your wish to be ap-
pointed Minister to France, l will republish
what said to you in 1910:
ssYour particular admirers say you are great man;
but neither you nor they have prored it. You are not
only not great man. but it is utterly impossible you
should be one You have stabity and without that
there be no greatness There Is mental inconti-
nency about you which makes you fathess to yourself
as well to others and peculiar your intellectual
constitutions that if you to form system ofpoli-
tics today and should be approved by sensible men,
you would pullt pieces tomorrow, because 1t was
likely to be permanent. In this point OF view you re-
sembIe little girl that builds baby house to please
her fancy and pulls it down to please her fancy You
are all Imagination, all passion; and have no possessions
in the world ofreason. You string wltticsms together
like poor children do peach kernels, and you procure
them much in the way; you have no more respect
for the books whence you fitch them, than the children
have for the after they have obtained the con-
tents What principle have you ever traced to ITS
sourcel What law have you framed to guard the
liberties of the people? You trhe with the most seri-
Gus business, and jest in the midst of calamity You
have read Shakcspeares plays the letters OF Junus the
speeches of Lord Chatham Burk and IT may Judge
by the style of some of your performances, you have
read Joe Miller too We accordingly find in your pro-
auctions the quaint bubbles of John Falsa, the pep
percorn of William Pitt the acrid humor OF the man
whose name remains in the shade, and now and then
plagiarism from honest but vulgar Joe. When one con-
sders the books you read, e2cites great wonder
that you brain is the seat of such dro phantases You
have got an oo of puns of sarcasms, of nvectve and
of low Jokes in your memory and you thrust them out
as you Struggled them in, without methods SO that
the original excellence of what you have ched IS fire.
duently lost by being misplaced. The less your favor
ties comprehend you, the they admire you; and
YOU atter them because they acknowledge you the O.
ny Lumpkin of their tiny corps.
s'You were beloved by the republicans before you
attempted to impose on Mr. Jefferson VIII tell you
how you managed that affair." for am acquainted with
the fact In the recess OF former Congress you sig
ned to your acquaintance that you intended to go 10
Europe the story got abroad, and some ofyour friends
had it inserted in Richmond newspaper 1t was sad
that YOU were going for the benefit of your heahh
President Jefferson however, would not take the hinf
and it was thought eypedien when Congress convened
in 1866, to be more explicit 1t seems you were
getting so very that any longer delay was consider
ed dangerous. memorial was drafted (and believe
Joseph Clay. of Philadelphia, can tell by whom was
drawn) stating that the subscribers to understood
there was new envoy about to be sent to certain
court in Europe, and that John Randolph was proper
person to be that envoy. The memorial was shewn to
MIR. Madison then secretary of state, who remarked,
in substance, that Mr. Randolph was man who pos.
sessed talents of certain description, but that he had
not those solid qualities which essential for an am
bassador. Your health, previously very delicate, was
now further impaired by the schsmatic ere and (what
is remarkable in winter,) the inAammatory symptoms
were most predominant in the head You afford the on
y instance upon record perhaps, Of attempt raise
an ambassador by subscription. The conceit was nge-
NOUS cnoughi but as Mr. Jefferson as well as Mr.; Ma
olson considered you in the light of trifmg book, he
would not suffer you to be published either at Paris Or
at London" NUMA.