Phenix gazette. [volume] (Alexandria [D.C.]) 1825-1833, 1830-06-19

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preservation in the Alexandria Museum. Nj.
For the Richmond Uhig.
THE NEIO.
A NEW DRAMA LATE ~pEnFoRMED IN WASHING
TON Cry.
Scene-.A private apartment in The palace.
The hero alone, smoking and musing. Enter the
Prime Minister.
Hero Complying his tobacco pipe and laying il
! aside. MY dear Premier, your presence inspires
me. This Cd Maysyile Turnpike, haunts
me bv night and day. l can positively dream of
nothing else but Roads and Cansls,-the Tariff
and Internal Improvements. But come, am al
impotence to see the Veto. If you cannot help
me out of this counfounded hobble, | should des'
pair of Old Nick himself's doing it.
Premier.-Your Excellency perhaps ascribes
to me more d~exterity than | possess. The whole
art of Government resolves Itself into one word,
management. To reduce this grand prin ciple
into action | confess requires some tact and ex-
p~crience.
Hsro-Both of which you have, or the gener-
al sentiment beiiees YOU. Now is the time to
exercise YOUR best gifts: and, remember, if you
do not help me out of this internal dilemma
the mantle of my power and popularity can nev'
! er descend upon your shoulders.
Premier.-Distrus me not, | pray your Ex-
| celieucy. NV discernmcnt,--or if my enemies
choose to call it so. my cunning. has befriended
me in six trials, and in the seventh it will not de-
sert me. | have after much and profound de-
liberation. prepared your Exccliency's Peto.
Hro.-You are a scholar, Van: What Is the
literal meaning of the word3
Premier.-lt is a latin word. and literally
signifies .'Iforbit:" but. as in political arithme-
tic two and two do not ALWAYS make four,-sO i'll
the vocabulary of our sublime art of management.
VETO nav also mean - cOnciiiate"-'l yleid'
81 reconcile"
Hero.--Admirable! Admirable!-You give
them a fiat refusal / suspose,-but sugar 1T over
so as 70 avoid all manner of offence.
Prsmier. commence by protesting your Ex-
cellencv's sincere attachment to the whole sys-
tenn of Internal improvements; and | have taken
the liberty to express ''ycar anxious wish to be
:. correctly understood by your constituents in
1.-THE discharge of all your duties"
Hero-rhat may do very well to say. Van:
Bat in tais business Of Removals and Appoint
ment,, the true motive cannot yet be revealed
We nIst still hold out the idea that the puDAc
good Is the object.
Prenter.--Exactlv soeand a little further on
| have expressed that identical sentiment. "All
:. that our responsibility demands is. that the pub
..lic goo! shouid be the measure of our views,
educating alike their frank expression and non
est malntenance.'-Your ExceIieGcy seems to
be entirely sensible of the magical power of
words. Your own expression .'iNiicious tariff
worked wonders,-and | myself have welded
the sceptre in New York by frequent and pow
erful appeals through my organs to 1.-THE Re-
publican party" BY talking much of the 'pub-
lie good"-the public will of course believe that
we have no private ends to serve.
Hero.-It will so. | am fond of the public
because the public has been fond of me. mean
the great mass-the p~Opulace of the country
your real throw-up-cap and hurra boys,-who
understand the merits of a grand battle much
better than your ordinary readers and thinkers.
| believe these men would support me Van, if l
were to cut off every refractory Senator's ears.
They are fond ofnovelty and change, and they
take as much pleasure in seeing an office holder
stripped-and hearing the lamentations of his
wife and childreu, as a party of wicked boys find
in p~inning insects to a wall and listening to the
buzz BY which they cypress their torments.
Premir.-Your Excellency has studied close
ly the great volume of human nature. 1t is
| right that the multitude should be at all times fiat.
! tered and propitiated. When the wave of their
power is agitated, the movement Is tremen-
dous, and therefore must be controlled by pre-
vioas management. The intelligence of the
country must not however be sighted. ".W
| things to all men," the wise have their weak
points as well as the ignorant. Personal attach
ment to your Excellency is the ruling passion of
the many. Attachment to principles is also
p~rofessed by the feW. These various motives of
conduct in others. we must make subservient to
our own plans. Again;-opposite sections Of our
country maintain directly opposite opinions
Both are warmly enlisted in your cause. Nei-
Their therefore must be ofended-whilst each in