Phenix gazette. [volume] (Alexandria [D.C.]) 1825-1833, 1826-06-15
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almost resolved 10 lay aside my pen, enerrat-
ed as am by the extreme heat Of The weather,
and actively, as can be, engaged in other pri-
vate avocations, till should feel Refrigerated
by more pleasant season, and relieved from
my urgent employments: but however reiuc-
family, must trespass on your polittness and
the indulgence OF the public, again. lhave will
lingly rested from the Extraordinarily as
sumed, it is true-of exposing the delormed
path Of the Vice President during the past win
ter-bis derection from solemn dutes-his
crimes against the body over which he pre-
sdes-his unfitness for the station which he
disgraces BY his political proAigacy
an ADLER pen than mine has assailed his conduct
with power that he cannot repel, and laid
not dsturS. A writer in the Naliona! Journal,
"Patrick Henry" with precision of style,
power Of argument, and excellence of illustra-
ton that cannot rival, has saved me most
laborious task. His letters deserve to be- read.
They speak for themselves. Whilst he CONT
nues in the course he has entered upon, with
the same boldness, energy and truth which he
now susiains, shall leave the path open TO
him, rejoicing in the success Of his JEALOUS ef-
forts. When he ceases TO hold up the hideous
'eformties Of the "coali,ion" and their leader,
promise to be ready TO strip off any remnant
Of covering he may have left them. | shall deal
IN facts, and the most direct and obvious infer
ences from them, whenever the time may ar
rive, which Heaven avert,-to prove that this
coalition stops at nothing-that its head is.
more proAigae and corrupt than Mr.. Randolph,
in his wild vagaries, ever charged man with be-
ing.
"Patrick Henry has, and he deserves my
most cordial thanks for ii, gone over, in extern
SO, the very ground which had measured for
my own course. He has fully explored it; and
though my labor has not been in vain to me in
dvidually, ] cheerfully, nay, gladly destroy the,
notes Of survey had made. He has left but
one point untouched, which he ought not, in
Justice to the subject, TO have passed over, after
having so decidedly removed the shadow Of a
foundation for the very extraordinary doctrine
in which the yigils and anxieties Of the Vice
President have resulted 1t was not sufficient
for the ardent zeal of Mr. Calhoun, for the ex-
tension and preservation Of the utmost freedom
in debate, that he should limit himself to the
mere machine placed in loco hominis, but he
found it useful, if not necessary, to encourage
BY his conduct, and even in his conversation, the
visionary wanderings which he should have
depressed. He presided over the Senate, as
umpire" constantly afording his approving
nod, or grati6ed smile, to the relentless malig
nifty and bitter personalities CT Mr.. Randolph.
Had he confined himself TO the p!tiful charac-
ter, which he is pleased to give to the officer
second in dignity in the United States, and
strictly pursued the course which he labored so
vainly to define, much less Of opprobrum would
have been cast upon him. But he has chosen,
upon all occasions when the propositions of the
administration have come in collision with the
efforts Of its opponents, to depart even from the
positive rule prescribed by himself
If Mr. Calhoun pretended to possess merely
appellate power, or to sit as umpire alone-if
he did not possess authority to " recall the dis
cussion from the undue extent TO which it had
oceeded, to its own bounds"-if he did not
possess" right 20. call to order Tor words spo-
ken in debate"-he is guilty Of uslrpation in
railing Senator 10 order at all; and when
member rises to discuss proposition, even
contrary TO the express rules Of The body, he
must be permitted, unrestrained by the machine
in loco censoriS, to proceed, although neither he
ror any one present can possibly say what the
subject matter pending is. But when the chair,
for the officer is out Of the question, approves
and applauds, it departs from the limited pow
ers it has, and is guilty usurpation Every
one who was present, at any of the vagaries in
which Mr.. R. was INDUCED, or at the reading
and offering of Mr.. Benton's celebrated patron
age bill, must have been struck with the facili-
ty of Mr.. Calhoun's conscience in accommoda-
ting itself 10 the emergency of the case; and
every one who heard the unhappy contest be-
tween Mr.. R. & Mr. Lloyd musthaye been dis
gusted and shocked at the speedy revolution ef-
fected in Mr.. Calhoun's mind of the principles
upon which he professed to act 1t is most