Richmond enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1815-1867, 1828-05-02
From our correspondsnt.l

,r w AsHINGroN, April 18th.
ne news oil the spring elections have lust ar.
rived from the western counties OF New YORK. and
the cablnet IS overspread with dread aud couster
nation The Adams men from the west who have
| been peddling away 2i votes OF New York &c
Gay, the wholesale dealer IN such articles arr
seiled with fear AID astonishment One OF the
greatest GstOniSiees at the success of the Jackson
tickets at Bufiaio and elsewhere, was the Honora-
Die T. l.. Trocy, the worthy coadiutoro OF THurio,c
y,l0FS0a - eea editor par creeliance of the .qnti-
1H0S0atc Enquirer. lie was struck dumb for
; Two whole hours On recovering his speech, he
with uplIitcd hands, invoked the ghost OF Morgan
10 punish the JacksOnites for their lemeriy in ia,
'elhnS INTO tbs brc,her Qi5erts domain. BY one
oil nose pretty oatlis, which the Gnti-Hs0soaicS
haze Invented during the LAST wear he s,yore ne
would not believe the news fi6n buffalo and the
"e5l, which the Jackson men bad the audacjtv TO
can signs IL was ali a masonic trick, and had
too inurh incrcdibility tor him 10 trust.
Al! would not 90, however. a day or two urov-
ca tue . signs from the western counties of New
York 10 be no triiling matter. Never were men
III greater dilemma than some of the Adams
members are from these districts hitherto sworn 10
be Tor the coalition. should not be surprised if
some Of them were TO make d complete somerset
Deioie The termination OF the session.
MT randolph made his appearance again last
week mucn TO the relief OF the few fashionable OF
both sexes, who have most heroically determined
20 SIT As long rs Congress does. Aiier the tedious
ness OF a month : dry siege upon sheep, molasses
hemp and whiskey, the re-opening of his moutl,
was the opening OF a honey-cCmb; il was much
Fellshod by the members themselves. On Friday
ia5t he made two short speeches each of them
delightful IN their kind. | believe both were de-
hYered on aqJestion Of order-tie admssibility of
a certain proposition 70 amend which had not been
proposed ~ the committee OF the whole and
which could not, therefore, be given in the House
re offered two suggestions on the question, and
some good logic that was not bad legislalion He
iHstanced one oil tue thousand and one psances
when men who follow words bEndly like the
man following an ignlS Jafts,S, soon reach the
comfortable centre Of morass. 9 [ receive (saiI
hr kandOlph) eight dollars a day and il is the
pest business can follow; it IS much better than
iaboring on plantation. Eight dollars a day will
Duy me more IA meal malt and four lhan when
we had the famous yearly compensation" He
sdd nc was very happy 70 edge these and other
things into his remarks.
But the reply which Mr.. r. gave to Tristram
Burgess Of Rhode Island, was one Of tie most ex-
quisite hits of the Session. Tristram was. be-
icVe, one OF the famous midnight Judges manu-
i1ctured by John Adams at the close Of the 'reien
% teifOE ID course he Is a very reverend look
ing old gentleman, and has a portion of " all the
talent at the responsibility, and all the wealth"
which was Tire boast Of the old fedctalists ln
conjunction wits Nc-sr5. Gorhan, StorTs, Martin
dale, &c. he is reyi ing the exploded doctrines Of
the od 9 federal system under the mare of the
" American System, for as the ArstOcrats in the
days Of Jefferson, covered their dangerous projects
with the abstract term, " Federalism" so 10 their
heirs and successors in the days of Jackson at
tempt 70 hide The same designs beneath the word
" American"
ludiscoursing on the question Of order. Mr.
buygess went into tlorid haraugue in which he
worked into bis spirit, al the figures all the tropics
'' ihe metaphors, and Az tic circumlocutions Oft
master OF rhetoric. Wooilcu cloth, Old aud New
England, tiannciS, bazcs and the revolutionary
var were IFS principe. topics. tic then closed
WIN violent philippe ag8in5tall ioreiguers,alions,
va non, women and children Of ulat description.
mr. randolph got up with great deliberdtion. He
-ui nc had listened With some establishment % "a
phhpWc, too diatnbe, against aliens He rose 10
plead guilty OF bias towards aliens; and IL vas not
Oi short date, for IL was no less than Of fhirfy
YtqTs standing. II the gentleman from X Island
siIi nr, Randolph, wishes TO put Die alien on tbc
$50 oil prescription, Jet him propose tJ enact de alien
Jaw Oh John Adams. Ec (Mr. Rl ackuowlcdged
that hc had bias ~ favor OF aliens from One day
lc heard Hle cloguet and learned gentleman from
Louisiana (hdwmd livingston deliver "a speech
against uiat la" Jhe alien and scdidon laws
were ihe Castor and Pollux OF Chat administration.
--''-Bui see. continued Mr. R. whence comes
the gall -ihe bitterness 1f lie gentleman from b.
Island, against iIe aliens. II vs. tie ghOst of the
oTarfcf alien fa'c. ne, yotr Mc Secgud. hare
"Dt9HRer ne i1sM t0TeNiDgc tie 0ticBs ouf NJ tie
eoHtf'y at an neil Why. 5 say, does not the
tenuemau move TO Io-cuact flo hHen-i8wi lie
a-r' - bad TOO much respcc, iof hisag 20 treat
h.Hl win hars1nrss OF 4 want Of courtesy. bui n
hi' Dofst 81 ceiling aud indignant ag W.; the poor
7hens' lo bad tsown tas reias loose r7o,r r.e