Phenix gazette. [volume] (Alexandria [D.C.]) 1825-1833, 1828-01-25
From the New York Daily Advertiser.

MIR RANDOLPH & COL TRUMBULL.
A short time since, : re. olu'io was introdu.
ced To the House Of Representatives # ,h- L.
States, the oajec, Of which was 10 employ Mr.
Als,on, the painter, To make picture OF the
Battle # Ncw Orleans, for the use Of the ma
,ion. This gave rise TO debat". in which MIR
Randolph took par ami in the course OF his
remarks he was severe upon the national
pain, nes executed by Col. TruThun, aud now
D eed IN the Capi,>l a, Washington. Colonel
Trumhull was then, aud still Is a. Washington
It is no, surprising that he frl, d'eply Injured
by he wantonness and aerimony Of he attack,
especially as Mr.. Randolph was member OF
Cougres, a, the time tn resolution passed., by
viii, II Col. Trumbull was emp oy~d 10 execute
those splendid works, and advocated the mes-
SUR He has changed sides. As the attack
was made IN a place where hr cnuit' not defeud
h;..sss h. ass fasxsslss 10 i: 4, e, -
seen by those who reed il, tia, age ha, not
blun,ei the fee ings, nor impaired the faculties
Of cur highly esteemtd end respectable friend.
WA,HINGros, Jan. 18th, 1923.
T. Dwight, Esq. New York.
D ar Sir-1he newspapers will haze shewn
you, that in the memorable Battle Of the 9th.
the mangled bodies Of all he painters strewrd
the bloody field; Alls'on, Morse, and myself,
all fell, but we fell glrriously bv the side of the
immortal Hero Of the Day. You vii! see tha,
], in parIif ular, was mos, barbarously ioms-
han k.d and scaired ny the uBIcleniing hand Of
TIE hal breed chief of Roanoke-anG saddesr
of all to say, b, tie fai,hle,s hauu Of h,m who
had once been nv friend
To sptak seriously, it was nv fate to BE- Sc
lcct-d IN hat o"cason, by the H John Rsn.
dplph Of Roanoke, as the bun OF his mcreiIess
sarcasins.
But. when Mr. Randolph, in lis exordiun,
assigned IS the cause Of MS taking a D at IN the
DEBATE. 1.-THE nisrepre sen,alion Of me obscure
annuary published in Philadelphia in which il
was erron"o'sly stated. that h. h d bern partly
Instrumental 10 procuring those wre'oted spe
cinens Of the state Of the Fine Ars In his
he, unfor unareIy for kimsrIf, gave
demons ration OF fact OF " hich tue world was
not before aware. Ii is evident that his body
Is in ate of decav; bu, i; rem*ined FOR HIM
self 10 give he melancholy buttirr. si,t Die evil
den,e OF renal d-orepitrde: The loss IF memo
~ is one Of the most unhappy proofs Of the ra-
pid approach Of that sad hour, "when IL will
be a, # he had lot been, and been most witty"
The e. ntlsman had forgotten ;hat The Ma |
'ional lntrhigencsr Of the 2svh January, 1917, |
alter stating the arguments on The subject Of
'"' Fou Paintings, records his name, .Hr. Ron
doiph, among those who spoke in favor Of the |
work, as well as in favor of employing me TO
perform it. |
Toe gentleman also forgot that persons are
still living who hrard that debate, and who re-
lain fresh and vivid recollection Of the bril-.
liant and beautiful eulogium which he then pros
,ouno.d upon tive small picture Of The Dec lara
ion Of independence, the prototype Of that large
'ne which he now so sneerrngy abuses.
The gentleman forgot what some others most
distinctly recolieci-uhat he then called the at
option Of the House to the portrait Of Richard
Henry Lee, (whose shins are the mos, conspi-
:uOus shins in The picture, y and pointing to the
lgure, he exclaimed, "Smaii as this picture is,
seem 10 see that venerable man sitting in per.
ION before me, in all the sober dignity Of Sc
lator oil ancient Rome, in that elegant attitude
10 haoitual 10 him, and 80 well remembered By
ne: the right hand laid over The leli, conce al
ng SO happily and SO deIicately is mutiated
Mr. Randolph forgot, that copy Of the Ma
i"nai lnteliigencer was at ths, momen, in The {
Library ot Congress--where il nov lies open to
he inspection # every one; eonvic,ing him Ell.
her OF loss Of memory, OF of something incom.
'arably worse. That human memsry should