Phenix gazette. [volume] (Alexandria [D.C.]) 1825-1833, 1830-06-05

"lleve that it will diminish his popularity, will
hail his veto of this bill"
His VETO of this Bill! The naked truth then
has come out. Gen. Jackson's pretended =. de-
fenfion" of the Light House Bill is admitted to be,
what we have commended that it really is, 4 Teto.
Ihis Is an era of Petos as well as of Reform; and
more OF both may be expected from Gen. Jack
son, until the people have an opportunity of eX-
employing their ideas of Reform bv putting their
VETO upon him.-Naf. Jour. of Friday.
-oSe
The East Room.-On g~lanclng over the Rich
mond Enquirer Of the 2Sth ult. we perceive that
Mr.. Richie, after being for a long fine =. mute
and silent" as Mr.. Calhoun would say about the
East Room. has at last ventured to touch that
painful subject. In noticing some remarks of
the able and spirited Editor Of the Lynchburg
Virginian, MIR. r. says: :
"But the Editor is pleased .sto reciprocatc our
kindness" and return our advice. He asks us
why we did not acknowledge the gross imposition
practsed upon us in the case of the East room ie
fer-and call upon its writer to make due renera.
ton to an abused public. We i~i6oih-and We
have called upon the writer, both bv private and
public appeals. to make the amende honorable to
the public. And has he not tone so?"
Now thisis surprising eftronterv. What s.. a.
mende honorable" has the author of the East Room
letter made to the pubic for that despicable and
Infamous falschood? ~None-eXcept first to pre-
tend that he had mistaken another room for tn
East Room: and when iris was shown to be a H.
by the fact that there was no room in the Presi-
dents House III January, 1922. answering to the
writers description of the East Room. by SAYING
that he was not there himself. as his letter asserts,
but that another person was there whom he mis-
took for himself. This tissue of silly falseho,ds
is what the Enquirer calls the 0meade honorable.
Perhaps Mr.. THos. IL. BENTON can explain what
s'h0nOr0tie'' means in cOnnexion with the East
room letter.-U,d.
A letter from Washington City saws II need
not say, that the nomination of Mr.. Randolph en-
cites much surprise. We can conceive IF no
apology for it. certainly he is not a man of buSi-
ness talent, whatever other talents he may pos
sess, and no man supposes. that ne will make a
better foreign minister than Mr.. Middleton, the
gentleman whose place he is to take at St. Pc
tersburg., at IN expense to the nation of S22, 500.
Mr.. Randolph, if | am rightly informed, is "A
miserable invalid. lie made a speech a few
weeks since, near home, and admonished his
auditors, that his excessive debility, a debility
which had been increasing for years, rendered
it improbable. that he shonId ever be able to ap-
pear again in public. His anxiety to go to Pc
tersburg is unquestionably one of those singular
whimS. BY which his whole life has been charac-
tcrized. and our good Presidcnthas not the conr-
age TO refuse The qualification of his whims how
ever burdensome they NAV be to the dear people.
When Mr.. Adams entrusted the transaction of
a little public business to an invalid, ID. p. Cook
YOU may perhaps recollect how stunning a clam
or was raised BY the adherents of our present Ex-
%ecutive. But old things are passed away"
-sgyTSo