Phenix gazette. [volume] (Alexandria [D.C.]) 1825-1833, 1827-07-07

We arc persuaded the London Editor wrote
the following for our opposition.
We feel no surprise al the acrimony which
has infused itself into the new opposition, be-
cause it is in human nature, that men who are
deprived, no matter by what means, Of that
which they covet, should rail at those who get
what they have lost And this feeling of ira.
tional resentment rs the strongerin proportion
as it is accompanied with the stings oil self re-
proach at the consciousness that they have only
their own folly to thank for the plight in which
they find themselves. They are like gamblers;
who no, only deplore their losses, but in bitter.
ness of heart, curse the weakness that betrayed
them to their ruin. These paroxysms, however,
though severe, are commonly of short duration;
and after little frantic writing, and few pas
sionate calculations, the patient becomes toll
erably composed. At this point OF exhausted
tranquility, those persons seem to have nearly
arrived above violent sufferings during the last
three weeks, have attracted so much public no.
tice. We were, Of course, prepard Tor all they
have done and said; but we were not prepared
for that bastard evaporation, that spurious
sympathy, which some of their followers have
displayed, who care not one straw about them,
and who, in playing the part oftheir echo, "ytll
out syllables of dolor, with most amusing grav'
ity.-At first they were in a state of whimsical
perplexity, and did not know whether they
should laugh or cry; whether they should
mourn or rejoice; but the moment they had
their cue, they burst forth in one concerted
strain of gr6ans and excavations such as
showed that they had at least been disciplined
We are abiding not only to titled and untitled
Senators, but to those among our contrmpora
ries who, in the space of a few short days, have
swung round from the super loyal to the sub ra
dical. There was no gradual preparation OF
their readers for the charge. II was, all at once
transition from double refined honey to double
distilled vinegar, and heaven help us! what wry
faces there must have been! Imagind dry-nur
scd politician, accustomed TO receive his morn
ing meal of unctuous loyalty, suddenly sutloca
ted with dose Of pungent radicalism! This
barbari;y has been, in particular, committed
by one of our contemporaries, who used always
to provide their probations Of the most harm
less kind, but who now prepares, in the furnace
of his Indignation, beverage, compared tc
| which the birthstone broth with which we are
told his Satanic Majesty solaces himself, mus
| be as refreshing as glass OF iced lemonade
| We profess not to understand the mystery o.
| all this. We do not comprehend how the ioo
| of today can become the fiend OF to morrow
how unchanged, himself his worshippers, ano
they too whose devotion was the most ardent
should become wholly changed. Yet we have
heard the miracle called consistency. Were
we, however, required to give it name, we
should designate it the basest species of apps,
tacv. because produced neither by private fee
lings on one hand, nor by the shew Of public
principle on the other; but springing from
sordid though short sighted calculation OF sell
| interest.-Ne,o Times