Phenix gazette. [volume] (Alexandria [D.C.]) 1825-1833, 1826-06-12

substance; while promises to pay dollars, imply
neither ability nor inclination TO pay cents.
have another objection to make to the pc.
sition advanced by the gentleman from North
Carolina, towards whom | .feel no unirlenoly
sentiment or wish; it is this: hope that he will
pardon me, and | hope for the pardon Of the Sc
nate--at least feel that you, sir, ought to par
don met is this: the unreasonableneSs OF the
gentleman from North Carolina, in attempting,
at this time of Gav,to alter the form OF our Gov
eminent, "aS established by the practice under the
ConstiuHon.' Now, sir, the practice under the
Constitution was settled, in the two first instan-
ces, in this way: That the Vice-oresident sue
coed the President. At that time the President
| opened Parliament Cor Congress) by speech
from the throne; but, since thal time, the prac-
tice has been settled another way Since the
revolution Of 1901, the practice has been set
tied, that the Secretary Of State shall succeed
the President; hence il is that the Secrctaryship
of State has beer the apple of discord under all
administrations succeeding that Of Mr. Jefier-
| son 1t was the bone Of contention between
Mr. Gallatin and Mr.. Robert Smith. There
are more here besides myself looking at Mr..
Macon that know it. 1t has been the apple Of
discord, aye, and of concord too, sir, since-t
has been the favoriIe post and position Of every
bad, ambitious man, whether aposlate tederalist
or apostate republican, who wishes TO get into
the Presidency, per taS art per nefts-rem quo
cunquo m0do, rem--recte So posts 'hOaeStly II
| they mug; co,yupiiy if they must" II has been
| that which Archimedes wanted to move the
world: - - (pou sio)"a place to stand upon
ave, and to live upon too, sir and with the lever
| Of patronage TO move our little world. Now,
e. e.
extremely unreasonable as TO wsh-he will
bear with my reProoF, hope-as to wish
| to break the lineal succession of our monarchs,
and 10 reduce us TO something like the barba-
| rism of Russia, where they haven't vet perfect
ed themselves in The A B & oflegtimacy; a re-
guar indefeasible succession of tyrants; al
though they claim the head Of the Table of the
! Il oily Aliancc-where there is hardly one in
stance Of the linea heir succeeding TO the throne
without regicide and paricide, (Which the case
| implics) from the time when Muscovy first be-
came an European power--from the time Of
Peter AleXivitch, Cor AleXiowitz, as | was taught
in my youth TO call him) who was the slayer
| of hts sen, and who transmitted his power to
Catherine, the Ly0ian peasant girl, first his
strumpet, then his Chamberan's; then an EN-
press; whom have heard more than once con-
| founded with her namesake Catherine Princess
Of Anhali, the secotd OF that name, who by the
murder Of her husband, Peter Sd, usurped the
throne. With some ''variation Of the mode,
not Of the MEASURE it is the case in this our
| day of Constantine Casarovilch--whch means,
believe, Fitz C9sa'--as It was with his father,
| Paul Petrovitch, and with his father Peter, the
son of somebody--nobody knows who--who
went before Paul, not by the same instrument;
no, sir. In the Case Of Peter, the red-hot po
ier-the actual cautcrie---supplied the place
Of the new Pdlsea-ts Of the twisted cravat--a Ia
! Pichegrn--and it vas only the day after the
news arrived OF the deliverance of the world
from the autocracy Of Alexander the Delivercr
las well as remember the date---I know that
| it was on the 9Th of February days be-
fore the unavoidable departure Of my colleague,
| that endeavorcd, and, as then thought, not
| without some show Of success, to impress the
Senate with the important bearing Of the re-
cent event al Taganrock (recent as 10 us) upon
the new, wild, dangerous, AMI, as fear, fatal
policy, now, for the first time il not announced,
attempted 10 be practised upon by this rash
ard feeble administration. Elizabeth and Bur-
leigh were cautious and powerful. The Stuarts
and the Buckinghams profigale, feeble, and
rash. Ii was then that ! forwarned the Senate
that the red-hot poker Of some Orloff the b.
G0rc or Oroh, the other FAvoRirE--(it was a
regular household appointment Of Catharine la
Grande - somewhat irregularly FLIED &C.
| casionallya la Cossaque) 1t was on that day
that suggested TO the Senate that poker or the
bowstring of ZuboH,, CT the something else Of
somebody else---somc other Russian or Ruff
fan in oB---the instrument and the mute nearest
at band in the Capen styes Of tyranny and lust
Twas ready 10 despatch this new successor OF
the TsARs---of the Consantines---of the Byzan-
tine Caesars.
But, sir, |, the common lbeler of great and
good men, did injustice to both of these iegiti-
mates; 10 St. Nicholas and TO Casarovitch.
thought too ill of one of them, and too well of
the other. l thought that Commodus would
"show fight" But, sir, let us not despair of the
Russian. In spite Of Montesquien's sheer, he
scan feel" for brother, al least, even although
he be not tlaysd alive; except now and then, un-
der the autocracy of the knout He has not,
indeed, yet learned "io make Revolutions ,cah
Rose Water"- that is, the political philosophers
stone, which is yet il the womb Of time, to be
brought forth by some modern .Acconcheur-re-
former. But he shows signs Of capability that
are quite encouraging: He cannot, indeed, re-
deem his paper, neither can the Bank OF Ken
tuchy redeem its paper; but the red-hot poker is
replaced by box Of sweet-meals-the bow
string by medal hung around the neck--,he
b,,l,.a ~, - no,,b In, IF ;Jicc, onJ ri