Phenix gazette. [volume] (Alexandria [D.C.]) 1825-1833, 1826-09-22
From The Richmond Whig, Sept. 49,.
COL. BENTON.

The self interested partizans Of Gen. Jackson,
with Col Benton at their head, since the late
election by the House Of Representatives, have
been ever harping on the unfitness Of that body,
to choose the President in the last resort fr Jm
its liability to intrigue and corruption; and the
Representatives who gave their votes to Mr.
Adams have indeed been charged with venal
and corrupt motives, without the shadow Of
truth to sustain the accusation Col. Benton,
before the temptation Of Office perverted his
principles, and at time he entertained dead
ly animosity to Gen. Jackson, upon the subject
of sending the election back TO the people, in
his speech in the Senate in 1924, made The fol-
lowing remarks:
"There are positive advantages in referring
the election to the House OF Representatives: it
is safer depository of the elective privilege
than ANY other body of equal numbers under
the Coutitution. lift is said that there may be
some bad materials in the House, will ask for
the body Of equal numbers in which there is so
little? And | will maintain that the House Of
Representatives has ever been, now is, and while
the Republic lives, it must continue to be, for
talent and INTEGRITY, and for eleuation of charac-
Ter, the first body Of men, of equal numbers, aclich
either exists in our oacn, any other country in the
,O0rM TO my mind, therefore, there is no place
more safe for depositing the right Of the States
TO decide The Presidential election than the House
isl
Now mark the change: In 1925 after his re-
concileation with Gen. Jackson, and the chief
tain had dictated the course to be adopted by
his followers, and the gittering prospect pre-
sented to him of an Envoyshp to Mexico, the
cbo l. l. T.
ing language:
"lt becomes question which addresses itself
to the mind and heart of every lover of his coun-
try, whether Congress, (meaning the House Of
Representatives, can be safely trusted with the
choice of Chief Magistrate Of this great and
growing republic" "The House," says he,
Islands conference.-the is capable of being cor
rupted, and sol being tempered with'-liable
to the influence of candidates-is subject to
violence, and capable of coalitions.
! This is the language of Mr. Benton's cele-
brated report, which recommends that the UNI
pirage Of the House Of Representatives. be dis
continued, and at a time too, when the Const-
tuition not only proved competent to effect the
purposes intended by il, but in manner which
dlffused agreeable surprize over the whole coun-
| try, ana adnlratlOn abroad.
II genuine oae.-A lady in New-York perceiv-
ing her maid, raw Irish girl, who had arrived
only few weeks before from her own swate
land, and throwing the end Of rope into the
cistern and moving it TO and fro, went into The
yard to enquire the cause, and found that she
had lost the pail and was trying to recover it -
| The lady told her to take the cisterp MOLE and
she would soon get it. Och, madame said
she, 81 know better nor all that sure, for on me
passage from me own country, Pat Dougherty
fell overheard, and sue they did nothing at all
at all, but Jist threw the end of rope to him,
and he took a hold directly and jumped aboard
again,