Phenix gazette. [volume] (Alexandria [D.C.]) 1825-1833, 1828-02-14

these topjcs and numerous others have beeD
touched o. IN This very debate we are hen told
to keep very cool. mo body has attacked US.
From the New.York Daily Advertiser.
NVe.do no, believe there ever was poorer
set Of leaders aud managers Of a political par
| ". Than those who coduct the concerns and sn-
perin,endcd he in,eres,, OF Gen jackson, i'll
the present Congress Finding they bad a
SIN Ill m ,in,i in both Houses. they Eel, infla-
| ted with the idra e giving tone 10 the nation
al business, and doubtless haltercd thems Ives
wi h The notion hat they should he ab'eto bend
every thing to the accomplishment OF the great
obieci they had in view. A very little expert.
ence must have c"nyin' ed them NOT on'y OF
the folly Of rendering themselves responsible
for lhr trans ,ctions Of The SESSION but Of their
own incapacity for conducting the great con
Germ ir which they had engaged. The faculty.
of speech in the party is sufh ienly rx'en i've
being common to a greal pc potion of The
! wnole mum ,er, and is possessed alik' by Mr.
Kremer, Mr. Wick if, Mr. Chiffon, Mr. Ham
lion, Mr. Living on, Mr.. Randolph, SC. Those
Of Judgment and discretion are much more
| rare: so much so Indeed, that j, would be dii-
| fculr to know VIII r. to look for them Mr.
| Hamilton, and his immediate friends from The
south, apparently consider all talents as COM
! nrl,ed in FIRE; and from them we have nothing
! but spontane US combustion. No marer what
the subject Of discussion may be-no mater
what the result Of the debate may hold out to
| their vicw,--vchemence, passion, and 'lrulehce
are the e and substitutes for fact and logic, *
they calrula for su cess only according TO the
degree of violence which has been manifest
in discussion. The logic of the western oppo-
sitionsts is ola more warlike cast. Their dis
cussioms are generally graduated by the s'an-
dard Of aclua hos iiities and Instead of The cool
results Of svogrsic disputation, they look
more at he cohclusivcness Of pistol Logic.
AIR. Randolph, body and mind, j, monde
script, and Of course never Was, and never VIII
he reduced to any Common stand OF character.
! He is good for nothing any where. He was
ne, err Of the least service 10 the country, he ne-
yer as we recollcct, originated and accomplish
| ed any important national mt asure. Indeed. II
he were ever so far to forget himself as 10 start
one, and ge, it fat ly underway, the probability
s,,hat before it got III orugh he would be found
IN GlrecI Opposition To it. He knows nothing
. bu' opposition He opp SEES his foes, and he
opposes his assoria cs, lior friend, we presume
he has nonr,) and he opposes his party. lie
is good deal Ike mnsquito-he makes u
small humming noise, which is quite annoying,
and whenever he Scto e>une~,-hp bite. anh
sings. He opposed Mr.. Jeffe son; not, as he
Saws because John Q. Adams joined him, for
he opposed him long before tina, union took
place,-bur because he could not help il; he
| opposed Mr. Madison; and ne opposed Mr..
Munro. Mr.. Randolph Cannot b. OF any last
| ing al vantage to any party on he contrary,
his aid ough. TO BIZ readed, & his service avoid.
cd; for he has always gone far towards the e.
vrrru j destruction OF all combinations wild.
whom h. has associated He Can ul'er a sar-
easm with great fore, he can deal lavishinly
in bitter invecti,r, but he capnot reason, nor be
consistent Whoever viii take the trouble 10
trace hi, poli'ical course from first to last, will
mud i very much like ,ba of river upon the
maps formerly calculated fof speculaIi'Es in
Yazoo and>-long, tiresomc, dark, crooked,
| and delusrry.
The proceedings connected with the report
OF the Committee on Military Affairs on the
| case of the Miiliameu, are calculated 10 arrest
the attention Of every man. In the first place,
The documents furnished by the War Depart
ment, on the call of Mr.. Sloane, were referred
10 the Committee on Military Aff4irs, and or
dered 10 he printed /, has been the uniform
practice, when such order has been made by
the House, to send the documents TO the prin-
ter, forthwith. In this instance, the papers
were instantly taken possession Of by The COM
mittee No member oui of that Committee
could get glimpse Of them. They were kept
by them about ten days, while the report was
preparing, and the party were receiving their
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