The Virginian. [volume] (Lynchburg [Va.]) 1822-1829, 1828-02-28
rWHNrInTrx CONGRESS.
Nh. RAYDoLpHs Speech.

I
After MIR. Everest concluded his remarks
which have heen already published
Mr.. Randolph rose aud said, | cannot make
the promise which the gentleman who has
Just taken his seat made al the outset OF his adj.
dress but will make promise of different
nature, aud one which. trust, il will be in my
power 10 perform--I shall NOT shy with mole
good faith than the gentleman from Massachu-
sets, but more TO the letter-ay, sir aud more
+ TO the spirit, too. Issall not, as the gentle
man snid be would do, aei m mere self defence.
shall earry the wal into Africa. shall mol be
content with merely pafryne--no, sir--d
can, sohelp me God, will thrust also because
my right arm is nerved by The cause ofthe Peo-
pie aud OF my country. listened To the gen
ileman with pleashre--I mean 10 the general
course of his reiparks--with single exception
and 10 TINT part of his speech stened viii. The
utmost loathing and disgust Bnt dssI.stis too
feeble term. heard him, with horror nitro
duce the Queen Of Franee--and IN answer 10
what To handbnl-a placard--an election
eeriag hrebrand and IN the presence Of whom
OF those who never ought To he presenfin a the
atre where men contend for victory aud empire,
Sir, they have no more business there than they
have in field of battle of another sort. Wo-
hen, indeed, are wanted IN the camp but wo.
linen of very different description What mai
den, sr--nay, what matton--could hear the
gentleman, without covering her face with her
hands, and rushing ont of the Iluuse But for
some Of the remarks of the gentlcman from
Massachusetts. in allusion to newspaper publ
cations, | should have hegun in AT least as low
a key and rs temperate a mood as he did. 10
thai key | win now pitch nv voice have
been absent from the House Tor several days
| requested my colleague Mr. Alerdnder TO
state the cause ofthat absence, which he did. et
| even this could not be reported correctly As
| this may be the las, act of public duty which
shall beable TO periOrm---at least, during the
present sesson-and as | have given "p myself
Il sacrifice to its performance respectfully ask
the House to give their attention 10 whatl hate
now to say. | understand that during my 90
sence, have been replied 10 by various genfle
men tsome of whom have not the honor 10
know by person. on different sides ofthe ilp,se,
in a manner which do mol doubt was perfectly
satisfactory, AT leastto the speakers themselves.
| certainly do not wish TO disturb their sell
complacency, de miHiHlls non cltrdi. whether OF
persons or of things. The gentleman rom u
bio, Mr.. Vance with that blunt piainntss and
candor which, | am told, belong TO HIM, ana
which ! admire in proportion AS they are rare
qualities in these days. like him thu better
for his surlv honestly hope lie will take no
offence AT the term, for can assure him that
none is intended--charged me. in my absence.
| $50 my friends have Informed me with what
believe he would not hesitate 10 have charged
10 my face. and 10 which ] have no oblectiod,
except 10 the authority ON which hc relied hut
protest against any gentleman's producing,
as proof OF what ! have, AT any time, said Il
newspaper, or any thing purportng TO be he
! gister ofr)rbates, unless endorse it, aud more
/ dyaku - debates
another body, which, in regard 10 me, are pa,'
tcularly uniaithial. shall stew TO the House,
not such matter as the gentleman from Massa-
chusetts stirred, TO the injury Of every moral
sense, of every moral being. ! shall refer to
| a matter ofrecent notoretY that VIII test the
correctness otthesc reports. In the debhie on
the motion ofthc gentleman from South caro-
; lima, MIR. Hamilton respecting a picture OF tho
battle Of New Oaloans, | did state. as distinctly
rs could ariiculate, thai had seen a monu'
ment erected 10 the memory OF Andfe, the BIZ
fish Spy in Westminster Abbey that II was
| nutiIated-the head of General Washington,
aud arm q think ofAndre. having been broken
! of The Generals most probably, by some
Tory boy, from the nclghbonng school OF
| Westminster, and that of Andre probably, by
some Wing boy in retaliation. The name o'
Hamilton did moi escape my lips thought
|
Hamilton-the gentleman from South Carolina
But. then. parliamentary usage does not permit
us to speak Of one another by name. Now, SIR
/ ! can shew YOU on the same authority which
twas relied on by the gentleman from Ohlo-
| though acknowledge thai the reports OF thai
paper, so far at least ms am concerned, lrVt
! Q 'nerallv been more accurate this year thah
have for long time known them 10 be before
thai am represented as saying that the monn'
mcnts in Westminster Abbey were INITIATED IN
the same manner as the lonlbs Of Hamilton and
Wellington had been mutilated here. The
! word tomb never escaped NV lips on that oeca-
/ sion. Sir, this would have been "alpnbe
"a school Where is the tomb of Washington :
! There is no such thing in this country, nor nave
! yer heard that tomb has been erected Ia
! the memory of Hamilton but ! suppose that
the nexi thing we shall hear will he. that the
| Quarterly, or some other Review, comes ont,
aud observes with sncer, that, a- Roger Sber-
n,an said rho vote was the monument so a gen
teman from Virginia had, by a speech in Con-
| gress built up tomb foi Nashlngio
| =" constructive" tomb, that existed no where but
in his eccentric Imagination. sir. the tombS OF
Washington and Of Hamilton might stand any
where IN this country Misunderstanding m'eht.
indeed be liable 10 injury from the beast OF the
field or from some iuvldious foreigner, but the
hand of no American would ever muiilate them.
Sir in the course OF another debate. it seems
That rendered to a gentleman from New York
Nr Storrsl the homage which his abilities de-
sprvrd-and God forbid that the time should e.
ver arrive when refuse to do justice 10 an adj
vcrsary--when | shall disparage ANY merit
because il is found in the person of an opponent
When that time shall arrive, may never receive
mercy from that fountain Of IL ia which alone
we all must look if we hope for forgiveness here
after. said, would not like him. pronounce
palinodia. neither am | now going TO pro
nounce palinodia in respect TO the gentleman
from New York. ] shall not take back one ipt Of
praise bestowed npon him. With whatever
views he introduced il, the doctrine has always
been mlne--the strict subordiuaion of the mill
tsrv TO the cvIl authority scripture is scrip
nre. by whom or ioi whatever purpose II may
be quoted know Nothing Of the private hab
its Of that gentleman, Nh. Storrs but | know
that he ha- too much good taste not TO agree
with me- that time may he much better spent
than in reading the Documents piled up here.