Phenix gazette. [volume] (Alexandria [D.C.]) 1825-1833, 1830-12-16

1t is difficult TO READ the paragraph concern
inc nr. Raudoi ph without IA smie. lhe 'aieto-
dinaran is mentioned as II lie had sacrificed his
health in the tolls of the field Or the cabinet-in
commanding fleets and armies. Oh directing the
measures Of civil policy at home and abroad. we
must regret that his constitution has been I'M
paired; but j: this is the case. through any PAD
lie efforts, it must have been IN railing al presi-
dents Jefferson, Madison, Monroe aud Adams.
Possibly the mischief may be consummated ny
warfare upon President Jackson. on his return.
We cannot conceive the practicabihty oil ms con-
tinuina, from London or Naples. the desirable
intercourse with the Russian Cabinet, through
the Secretary of Legation at st. Petersburgh.-
The friends of the youthful Secretary will have
to compliment him in the sense of Horace's line
cum tot sustineas, ct taata neg0tia sohMs. "A
game of Chess may be PLAYED at any distance,
but not that of diplomacy
The Presidents Message is of inortinate
length; like Millions Le,iathan. extended
long and large" it lies floating many a rood
A considerable part of its contents might have
been reserved for some other channel or occasion
of PRONUNCIATION. 1t would have much more
advantageous effect abroad. If it had been framed
upon smaller scale, and with less attention TO
domestic party feelings and topics. We might
remark as another of its main faults, that 1t IS
not all i'm character. as a composition, lar Gen
Jackson: con.ruity has been wholly neglected.
with re.a,d to his modes of of thinking, reason
in~ and expressing his ideas. The old soldier
has. no doubt, adopted the performance, AMI
thus made it his own,-but it Is not like him Ill
the least. So much nice, traverse pleading, gen
eralizing, philOsophizing, sermonizing,-so much
rhetoric and senimentaty To our apprehen-
sion. nothing is communicated as he would have
conveyed it: the settled reasonings. far fetched
considerations, fancful illustrations, the various
general maxims, variously and IN some instances
sophisticaIly applied. are too evidently from
different source. All the messages OF his prede-
cessors bore an original stamp: the individual
appeared and spoke in them as the Chief Magis-
trate; in every case the country had its own con-
ceptions and language somewhat enlarged, per-
haps reduced or qualified, according to the sug-
gestions of his intimate cOunsellors, but not 50
modified as to loose their senuineness and lden-
tity. This was coniormable 10 the design OF the
the Constitution. by which the President is the
responsible officer, primarily efficient and the
Immediate reliance of the nation lid.
Notwithstanding the MANY complaints flat are
matH Of the length of the Presidents Message,
American nations. with whom we have import
ant ipterests-snrely less arguments to secure a
second election. ard more statements Of facts
would have better become an executive message.
u. s.. Gazette.
This document fills the mind with alarm. II
is at once the ,u0st extraordinary, and the
most dangerous, publication. considered in re-
spect of the source whence it emanates, that was
ever spread before the American people. 1t Is
extraordinary, not merely on account ct ITS wea-
risOme length, but from its manner. The various
schemes Of the executive mind are not only pre-
sented TO the consideration of Congress. but the
President, VIGOROUSLY incompetent to frame his
own Message, has allowed his Ministers to make
the Arguments of the questions, and intcrspcrse
them with the most artiul, and most insldiOus
appeals, not to the good sense of Congress. bur
to the preudices and passions OF the people. Ii
is dan ger0us in its tendency because it's doctrines,
SO far as they can be extracted from the mass OF
verbiase with which they are encountered, strike
a, the very foundation Of every thing sacred and
valuable which has been established, and as the
people have been for more than forty years taught
to believe, settled, by the patriots and sages of
former days, under our happy constitution-nay.
the doctrines here avOwed. will, II unresIsted,
utterly subvert the constitution itself, and that
within very short period OF time.
". I. Com. .4dv.
Were we to express our opinion of this docu-
ment in few words, we should say that it was
unnecessarily enthusiastically inferior to the
last as a piece of composition. altogether too
controversal-and hence undisnitied, as we'll rs
by its half concealed illusions to the leader of
the Opposition. and the studied omission of the
names of the Adamses, where all the other En-
Presidents are mentioned. These last items we
regard as NANTES, breaches of courtesy. and can
only account for them BY surprising they are the
promptings of some hot-headrd partisan. who is
permitted to exert an influence with the Chief
Magistrate of the Nation which he has no claim
to possess. Like the former Message from the
same source, the present document hetrays the
different hands by which it was constructed