Phenix gazette. [volume] (Alexandria [D.C.]) 1825-1833, 1830-06-17
From, The National Journal.


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From the National Journal.
To HIS ExcELLENcY JOHN RANDOLPH,
Or Enroy Extraordinary aad 4Hiaisfer Piea-
iDote qiiary 10 The Court Of Russia.
| am amazed as | write you down these titles.
l. seems n dream; for have you not all your life
! ben a~ssalling those in Office; flashing the whole
nerd who feed at the ''public crib?' have you
no. been forever PLAYING the character of stern
parrot, wishing to pass yourself oft for a second
fletcher of SaltoIn, above office, scorning Office;
Keeping alooI that YOU might the better pounce
upon the harpies who thrust their hands into the
Treasury? have YOU not labored to be the terror
ofthe whole race of : lazy vermin." as you have
called them. who fatten in Offices where they have
no'hing To do. whilst the poor honest planters
and farmers had TO work for their iivings have YOU
n0t denounced such ~TrecteS, ano .lerO Of sonr ia
yo.ite terms, "a, ain aud again: have YOU MOI ~afect-
ed 20 hold in special disd4in al gho would wuc-
! kle or compromise with power. have you not
made kings and their courts.aud foreign Ministers
TO, when Won con.d not get to be one, the objects
Of Won, derision? have vou not done all this. and
more, uader I'll he forms that ,pite could dictate,
sree. ing al them. Snlriilg at them, biting at them
! whenever thew came IN vDur way, al Jour lie
iOhS? Yet y4u are now a yer'tabie dipi"matst.
Jpu are gpirg off To a cart; ald N a paDllc ship.
put afoat for yoa WITH the pe0p!e's money! above
all. to the court of ihat very "auiocrat' so
often the theme of Your %virtuouS, your republican
abhorrence. Yes Ii is even so! | design 10 write
a farce upon it II IS the finest ;nciden' for one
that hasPVer occurred. wlli match Oncet' .or
Garrich. Awestern hunter, who dSda an Old grudge
against an lndian, shot az and bafly wounded !dm
a, he was climbing up i tree. On being brought
before the court. he was acquitted, on making
oath that he took the Indi,n for a bear. The in
dian said, if You took me for a bear climbing up
d tree with a rifle in my hand. and red leSSlngs
on. I'm dane. So say |. 1t you pass tor "A patriot
aav longer I'm done. Robert Smith, when Mr..
MADISON would have sent him to Russia. would
not bulge a step. Not so with You. You are
for pocketing the eighteen thousand dollars,
upon any terms.
If Won had zone tot,nglanG or France YOU would
have had claim, TO attend to, negotiations to carry
on. protocols to draw up, letters to answer from
, me~-han's aud others, a legion of consuls to SUI
periutead, .heir accounts TO inspect.ln short, aCork
to do. in a treat variety Of ways. At either of these
courts, YOU might have had an opportunity OF
showing your extraordi nary talents as a man OF
business: of rendering an equivalent for your hire.
But in Russia you will have nothing to do, what
ever your superior, Mr.. Van Buren,, may tell
YOU. You will not wrife Il despatch once In a
month. Your predecessors. Me-. Middleton and
| Mr.. Campbell, have not written as often: they
have had no business 20 write about. YOu will
have to write how many bows YOU make to the
..autocrat," to describe he hlrfus pe1loiFS OF The
old winter palace, to detail the gosslr OF Tar
| sko-zsip. to inform US how the great Chamberlain
and the maids of honor behave, or, rnsltNciv,yo
will have nothing at all to say. A. - the navl-
ration of the Black Sea, unlr,kily FOR your ia
Tents as a negotiator, the treaty Of Adcianople
threw that open to all IA ions last SEPTEMBER so
that, in effect. Ter all listen TO me. you Randolph
IF Roanoke, the ,.isinterested Randolph, the In
aexibie Randolph: Acknowledgements very
proudest son. her patriot, her iumlnary, her ora
tor. ner toast: the ..hish minded" Randolph; the
economical Randolph, ever fighting back the
ls. hes that suck the peoples bioQd. through their
pockets; the Randolph there let Momps listen
hat has been watching at the Treasury doors any
time these thirty years, fastening his fangs upon
MIR. Jefferson. Mr.. Madison, Mr.. Monroe. Mr..
Adams. whenever they dared to open them tor
any BODY; YOU. this same Randolph, are going TO
dance attendance upon an '.autocrat!' you, this
same Randolpe. have absolutely taken a sinecure.
Am | dreanings IL not, again | say | will write
, farce about it all. Sloman shall! do ''Roanoke,'
and he will manage the heroicks admirably. l
r;ot IN the anticipations of what can make OF 1t.
WHY. your retrenching President might have a.
h,,;shed this mission since the navigation OF the
Black Sea has been opened, without the slightest
da,r;ment to the nation. but really with advan'
taoe TO it. Yet. this is your mission, this your
son The most ungovernable ANIMALS may be
tomad At last. bv provender; little matter as to
fine quality, if there be but enough. In the bril-
liant and important mission to London and Pa
ril vou see men who were in the nursery long
.Hfs Won began to vapor in the world; placed in
them. TOO, over your head, by your OWN President
1t appears, that to as, the navigation OF the
p,.cl Sea. ia NOT extended so that Mir. Il. car
-, 18th &C a diplomaust on that head.