The Litchfield County post., 1827-04-19

alone, that we, who had taught them the first great lessons of freedom, should send to see how they had improved in their course of instruction: but we had interest at stake. Other nations were worming themselves into the affections ofthese new born nations to secure commercial advan- tageS, and 1t was necessary that we should have an eye to our share in these advanta- ges. Ii the President had not complied with the proffered courtesy of these Re- publics, what field it would have been for his enemies but, as he did, they must look and consider what could be made of the other side of the question. Some straw to fight about must be found-and this was the first that presented itself.
 4 simple, moderate, candid Opposition to any measure, would not do. The cam paign must comcnce with thunder, light ming, acind and rain, to terrify the Admin iStration and its adhearentS. Fury, rage, and islander, must take the place of thor eugh examination and fair reasoning. And the sanctuary ofthe Senate was chosen for the theatre on which the drama was to be enacted and Mir. Randolph,o of Roanoke, in Charlotte county, in the commonwealth of Virginia, was to pronounce the pro- logue, and take leading part in the play. He was we'll fitted for the task. By nature he was malignant, by education spoiled child, and by habit cynic and a slander- CT. For twenty years he had opposed eve- ry Administration and every measure which promised any benefit to his country -no man of distinction, no body of men escaped his censure-no matter to him where one was born or how disposed, if he did not for the moment yield full as- sent to his infalibility. At times, he amu- sed the audience by flashes of taste and genius, interspersed in his rawlings. As he scattered his vituperations about him, he loved to seize on the feeble and unofend- ing, to show the length of his talons and the ferocity of his heart. He was allow ed to continue his course until the dignity ofthe Senate was lost, the People distress sed, the country disgraced, and the rever- euce heretofore been felt by the people for this high office entirely dispelled; and nothing is now more coEmon than to pity a high-minded man who happens to be found in the Senate, in the discharge of his duty. This leader now, who had nev- CT been followed before, was listened to with delight by those whose en- mites were ranking in their breasts, and who wanted power to unpluck their hearts.
 They caught theadisposition without the
 talents of their leader, if leader he may be
 called, whose cratic course no one could
 foretell, but who must be followed without
 system or calculation, guided only by the
 instinct of his own vengeance.
 During the last session ofthe Nineteenth
 Congress, it was discovered that the spirit
 had not aDated among his deciples in the House of Representatives, who were dis
 posed to initiate his example, while he was
 exhausted and rebuked by the voice of
 his own State, was silent. It was mis-
 erable failure on their part, for the novel;
 ty of it had gone, and they wanted the tal-
 ents and education of their master. Those
 general denunciations ofindividuals those
 frothy harangues, make all that is meant
 by Opposition. At times, view of Vir-
 ginia policy is thrust in to make show of acting on principle, but every one of the Opposition differs from his neighbour. MT. ! M'Duffie's creed is not MT. Hamilton's 1 upon internal improvements, nor Mir. 1 Hamilton's Mir. Mitcell's.ss, The whole then of the present Opposition, in short. is this ;-The disappointment ofthe South in not being able to elect a President from that quarter: the modification of Virginia in finding that the hour had come,
 when she could no longer supply the coun-
 try with Chief Magestrate the resent ments of a few disappointed individuals who hoped to make President, over whom they were to be Vice-Roys, with their ad- herents and followers; with few. ambi- tious men. from Pennsylvania and New York, who misled the people of those great States, by appealing to their state pride, with a few others who are, by their very nature and dispositions, always in the Op- position: These make up the enemies of the Administration.
 The Government is now administered upon the same principal it has been for ma ny years, and by the same men with few exceptions, and yet there is more violent hostility to it than was ever known be- fore; but, thank God, rage is not always power. The wolf is more ferocious than the lion. From whence does all this vio- lence arise? From the loss of power and influence of some of those who once pov-