Edwardsville spectator. [volume] (Edwardsville, Ill.) 1819-1826, 1826-05-27

Say ~, oH'-oui, my hiS ioE M nS "Cns
like Nicodemus, in the dark-fn the
dark, sir, villany always seeks the oarks
sir reading. sand when Giles said
this, he added, all this I sasv."-He saw
it did he Yes the see-er and the see-ee
1T | may be allowed to make word
were both alike, sir, precious pair Of
sceundrels, sr-But, hosy did he see p.
was he behind screen? Did be peep
through the key-hole WAS he hid in .
closet ?-(Tims, seme more porter -
reading again. When spoke to You
OF MIR. Adams twenty years ago, and en-
pressed my belief that he was an honest
man, and would faithfully support the
---."-Ay, sir, he was
a lad, then--the writer of this letter was
a boy, sir--jpst returned from an eastern
college--tatnted, sir, as all our southern
young men mus, be, who are sent to tho
east to be educated. Sir, l would not
let any son of mine 20 to any college
north of the Potomac, sir-I hadrather he
should not know how to read and write,
sir. Reading and wiring, you know,
sir, as Dogberry says, come by nature
but good sense-by education. No, sir,
l would have no young man educated az
an eastern college--lt corrupts them,
sir-(where's that porter y readine1
" You replied, "-thst's me, sr,--I re-
plied--I bad forgotten the words, sir
they had escaped my memory-no-they
were in my memory, but not in my re-
collection reading You replied, you
are mistaken in him, sir" Why, sir,
this very word /" SIR" sir, is worth a
thousand dollars Ereadne "you are
mistaken in him, sir-he is ahyhocrite,
and will betray bis country, it he an
have chance" knew him, sir,---ne-
yer was deceived in my life.-zDo l say
never was deceived ?-Yes-why do
say never was deCeived?- Because l me-
yer act upon suSficion,sir-I always look
fer the proofs, sir-Wby had negro,
sir, whom suspected for three years.
| never limited my suspicion, sir-I wait
ed for proof, sir--it came at last, sir,-I
caught him in the facl---and said to him
-Cuffee or Mngo, or whatever his
name was--Did l ever tell you that
suspected you---no, sir--did you ever
see any thing in my conduct towards
you to make you think ina, l suspected!
no, sir.-No, sir, never act upon
susffeion--I knew him, sir; | watched
this ]. Q. Adams, sir--l knew he was
hypocrile, sir--he was Men--is noav--
and will be, to the day of his death, sir -
Hear--O Israel-Listen ye gentlemen
of Boston--Wbat, this--what shall call
him, Ahostate ?-Ycs--ihis apostate
John Quincy Adams says Of you. He
says you conspired to divide the Union
10 join the eastern states to Canada. Mr..
President, you remember the famous
plot--yes, you and | were on the com.
mittee before whom the famous Count
Critlon appeared, and before whom tho
equally famous Henry did not appear.
Why, sir, there never was so villainous
plot since the world was made-I do
not speak extensively 10 my friend from
Boston--I beg his pardon-lhe Senator
from Boston--no, nor to the federal par.
ty--among whom are some very honest
men-but say oyou gentlemen, if you
can support this hypocrite, this traitor,
this apos,ate, after what he has said Of
you, why-you deserve it, that's all.
III put him down, sir--l'll put him
down, sir-or il l don't III leave the
country, sir-1'll go 10 Europe, sir, and
console myself among the slaves aud
serfs of the other continent. Virginia
is up in arms. sir. Up in arms did say,
sir Yes Blu, what do mean by arms,
sir i! Do mean that she has rifles in her
hands mo, sir; we do not take up
and rifles to kill .feas, sir--to
shoot mosquitoes, sir. No-we brush
them off, sir; we brush them ofl--Poor
Virginia I! she had the honor oil giving
the last President-lhat thing yes, sir,
The thing, James MoDroe--I say, sir,
she had the honor--but what was her
hroGs, sir!--Why, like the cobler's
the parish.
The Richmond Wing, sir ives that
young pro,ege Of Henry Clay-Henry
Clay !--Pshaw--Thc Press 10y sir,
s. Democratic Press" and abby tho
way, is this said Col. Binns, the same
Col. Binns,--no, Colonel, though at
Assizes --- who was offered 10 me DO.
dy and soul, by old M'Lane, twenty
years ago, when l quarrelled with JEFF
ferson, to publish any thing and every
thipg,I might choose to wri,e!-,I thought
so---why, sir, l would not have him then
II said then, he was too great a rogue