Phenix gazette. [volume] (Alexandria [D.C.]) 1825-1833, 1828-01-23
VICE PRESIDENT.

We entertain Out ilttie Qouo'I .na' '"e iioii'
RICHARD RUSH Secretary OF the Treasury, has
been nominated al the Convention which as
ssmb]ed 1T Harrisburg on Friday las, tor the
Office of Vice Presidea,. In This nomination
the friends Of the administration throughout
the urion will most readily concur more
;udicious selection could not well have been
made. MIR. Rush his assembled gradually
through Ill The e. AIDES Of iii, TO his present
elevated station. He has flied the Office OF
Comptroller Of the Treasury Department, At
torney General Of the United SAFES, Acting
Secretary Of State, Minister Plenipoenliary
at London, and Secretary of the treasury
Simple and unosentatious in his manners, ne
has used no art 10 raise himself, but The most
yigilant and faithful discharg" OF every Puolic
duty which has been confided TO him. HIS nri-
vate life has been as pure and uns"iled' as MS
public life has otcn industrious and useful
If he shall be elected, Of which We entertain no
doubt, we shall find him faithful to every du'y
Of the Office, and giving proper support 10
the administration, whoever NAV re al us heaa'
wi hout conees"endIng 10 any fao'lo"s 'iea-
sures, 10 defeat the views Of the adminl,tra-
lion for his own advancement. There Is de-
corum in his manners, which adsPts HIM Peeu>
larly for the Office Of presiding over the S'n .
ate Of the Union, and restoring is eciipsed
honor t. It's pristine d'gni'y.
The asso iation Of Mr. Adams mir. Rush
will revive the collection OF former as,neia'
tons most grateful to our country. heir
fathers, John Adams and Benjamin Kush, TO-
gether signed the Declare ion OF independence
the grea, charter Of our liberties. An act
which entities them TO be considered, II any
act can, as the Conscri pl Fathers OF the Coun-
try. When John Adams and his ooneaSues,
went to attend the Congress o. .775, Benjamin
Rush, with his fiien'ls, went out 30 meet Their
by the way, and to counsel them on The great
struggle ina, was apr oaching. When John
Adams with his pei wa, indicating The great
principles of liberty s. in CLOSE and unanswer-
able arguments, proving that our liberties had
heen violated, and our charter broken Rush
was infusing INFO Thomas Paine those ideas,
which he embodied IN such popular and per-
suasivr language, as to win over the populace
to the great cause to which Adams had alr'a
DIV led the sages Of the land BY MS resis'itss
arguments. Finally is WAS Benjamin Rush VIII"
suggested TO Paine the signature OF Common
Sense" III the principles Of which I've has also
thoroughly imbued his son, The selected candi-
ds,e for the Vice Presidency. as Is obvious
tn ough the whole course Of is political lie,
nut in nothing more apparent h an his 'a'e re-
Dor, When calumnv has assaied him, and
thr shafts Of ridicuIe has been aimed at his Off
cial conduct, he has left his JUS hca ion 10 'lme
whose Judgment Is srldon erroneous; and 20
he Justice OF his counuymcn. which though
sometimes slow, is d, least ,ertain. The more
refined al acks Of the COMMITTEE Of Ways and
Means kare recoiIed on the head Of their late
chairman, at The expense of Half a Million of
Dollars to the Country. O her things being
equal, localities ough, to have much wright.
The great State Of Pcnps,I, ania, The second
in the Union, has never YET h ID either # her
sons elr, a,ed 20 the first Offices Of the country,
and now that it can be done Sd prop:latelv,
the opportunity should be embraced.
ESSEX Leg