Phenix gazette. [volume] (Alexandria [D.C.]) 1825-1833, 1826-04-25

every lIltnQ 10 MS country, anu iOiCloi! leiiihu
rs of the folly Of those, who seek to delame
he present Chief Magistrate, for no better rea-
son then because he comes from New England
MEETING IN FANEUIL HALL
So general is the feeling and so universal the
sentiment, that something should be done torthe
relief Of Mr. JEFFERSON, that we deem 1t unne-
cessary even TO appeal to the patriotism and gra-
titudc Of our fellow-citizenS, TO enlist them In
he furtherancc of the objects Of the meeting
20 be held this evening. Every noble feeling
and every generous sentiment prompt 10 the
adoption Of some plan by which the venerable
and Justly venerateG sage of Monticello shall
Dc secured in the enjoyment OF his hre-slde IN
peace, and at his decease, be enabled to trans
init To his descendants that patrimony TO which
they have Just claim.
Not many days since the Richmond Enquirer
spoke ofits coadjutor, the Telegraph, in manner
that obiquely limited at the well known fact oil
its being edited by Members of Congress. The
telegraph complained, and assAedits friend that
whatever appeared under the editorial head was
written by the Editor "The assurance is suhi-
cien,,e (exclaims Mr.. Ritchic)-"We most
cheerfully correct the ambiguity which the re-
legraph has ntticed"-"We believe its Editor
TO be thcAutht cfhts STRUCTURES, which APPEARED
under the EditofSl head, on The matter Of the metz
Postmaster at NasheMc.'' But what follows caps
the climax: awe cannot Dat admire The inderati-
gable industry with which the Editor wicds his
PEN" Was ev;r concession so abominably hui
initiating? The Richmond Enquirer, at once the
pride and the boast OF Virginia, and the organ Of
her rulers, legitimate and Wegaimate-the cham
pion of the virtuous CRAWFORD, who punished
the RIGHTEOUSNESS ofhs own advocates-and the
sentinel that gave the alarm from the turret's
top, when MIR. Calhoun's York. 7own toast
threatened the introduction Of the Uooden Horse
within the walls of Troy-that same Richmond
Enquirer, "eannot bit Gdmirs he indefHigabte tn
dustry toith which the editor Of the WASHINGTON
TELEGRAPH yields his psn." Can such things
be, without our special wonder?
But obsequious and conhding as Mr.. Richie
appears to be, he is cautious withall He does
not concedc every thing that his brother of the
Telegraph asks; for when he admits the Editor
to be an Author, he expressly confines the ad-
mission TO the structures on the matter Of he
new Post Master at Nashville. 1t would have
been dangerous to so farther, knowing, as Mr.
Richie did, that the Telegraph belongs to Mr..
Calhoun and few of his Congressional friends,
who are Editors, as well as proprietors, and
who, aspiring to the rcins Of government,
make stalking horse, pro hGc rice, of General
Jackson's hoi'5ed popularity.
But when Mr. Richie talks of the Editor Of
the Telegraph, who does he mean? Certainly
not JOINING Baptist, transmitted by the faction
into Judas BcGrjOi-bccause JOHN, poor imbe
Gle soul, aspires. no higher than Printer and
Publisher for the Authors; and has been accused
by nobody Of being the Editor II is true he
authorised Postmasters to give receipts for sub
cription money in the name of the Editor, mean
ing himself, but that was evidently an unguard-
ed expression, which ought not to be taken adj
Vantage of. We, therefore, repeat the question
WHO docs MIR. Richie mean when he speaks
Of the Editor2-Whcn he says, he believes the
ticul7rly specified And when he further says,
that "fs assurance is sufficient" Ifhe means the
Printer, he is guilty Of the most fragrant breach
of sincerity; for he is as well aware Of the utter
inccmpe,ency of JOHN s. MEEHAN, as he is
of the relation in which the creature stands TO
his employers. And if he means the HeSsian
General Daft, which mos, individually he does.
then he knows more about the organization OF
that fac,ious establishment than he processes to
know, and is consequently obnoxious 10 the
charge Of duplicity. Either horn OF the diem
ma is goading one, and hangs Mr.. Richie up
as the willing instrument Of per Jas Ell nefas op-
position-Still we look upon him, however, as
little less than "Archangel fallen"
The Richmond Wing, remarking upon the pi-
tiful misrepresentation of the Telegraph, in re-
lation 10 the late Duel, closes with severe, bat
still too lenient, notice of the course and mana
gers Of ,ha, detestable priA Its conlectured
by the WING that the nominal Editor, (thatis, the
publisher) is "a man of stratc, He is-but not
of unpoll,ted straw; for such was the lnveteracy