Phenix gazette. [volume] (Alexandria [D.C.]) 1825-1833, 1830-02-25
sess. commend him to prudent husbandry

But; sir, the coalition. he coaHlioh' hyei
{" the murdered coalIuon!" The gentleman
asks, II ! were led or frighted into inns dsoa'e
by the spectre Of the COALITION" was u the
ghost OF the murdered coalition, nc eAc'a'hs'
(which haunted ,hr member from Massachu>
sets; and which, like the ghos' OIL bShquo'
would never down." "The murdered coai>
toni" Sir, this charge Of coalition, IN re'er.
rnce 10 The late a Administration, Is mol or'9ih'i
with the honorable member II cid NOT spring
up in the Senate. Whether as u iac', as an ar
gumeni, or as an establishment, u Is all Dor
rowsd He adops il, indeed, from very low
origin, and still lower present cohoi'ioh, ~ -
one of the thousand calumnles w'th winch inc
press teemed, during an exclled poii'icai eau
vass. IL was a charge OF which mere was MOT
only no proof or probability. but which was, In
itself, wholly impossible 10 be rue. NO man
Of common information ever brheyeo syhaoie
OF It. Yet il was Of that class oil ialsehoods,
which, by continued repetition, through all the
organs Of de,raclon and abuse, are capable oil
misleading those who are already far misled,
and Of further tanning passion, already kindiing
into fame. Doubtless, it served It's day, AID,
in greater or less degree the end designed ny II
Having done that, il has sunk into the general
mass Of stale and los,hed calumnies 1t IS the
very cast-off slough Of polluted and shame
less Dress. Incapable OF further mischief, II
lies in the sewer, lifeless and despised. 1t Is
not now, sir, in the power OF The honorable
member to give it dignity or deceney, by al
tempting to elevate ii, and 10 introduce II into
the Senate. He cannot change 1t from what II
is, an object Of general disgust and scor". On
the contrary, the contact, ii he choose y 'ouch
il, is more likely 20 drag him down, down, 10
the place where il lies i'selt
But, sir, the honorable member was not, Tor
other reasons, entirely happy in his alluslon to
the story Of Banquo's murder and Banquo's
ghost. 1t was not, think, the friends, but the
enemies of the murdered Banquo, at whose old.
ding his spirit would not dswn. The honora
BILE gentleman is fresh in his reading Of The
English classics, and can put me tight, II am
wrong; bu,, &C cording to my poor recollec lion,
il was al those who had begun with carPsses,
and ended with foul and ,reacherous murder,
that The CORY locks were shaken! The ghost
Of Banquo, like that of Hamlet, was an honest
ehos, It disturbed no innocent man. II knew
where its appearance would strike terror, and
who would cry our ghost! Ii made Itself VI
sibe in The RICH, quarter, and compelled the
gully, aud The conscience -smitten, and some
others, 10 start, with
"Pr'ythee, see there behold! To-
If I stand here, saw HIM"
Their eye balls were scared (was it not so, sir!)
who had thought 10 shield themselves, by con-
cealing their own hand, and Iaying 'he imPu-
ta,ioa OF The crime on low and hireling
g.noy in wickedness, who had vainly a'temp,>
ed 10 slife the workings Of their own coward
c sciences, by circulating, through white lips
and cha t-riog teeth. thou cansI not say |
did it !" have misread the great Poet, If it
was those who Tad no way par.akcn in the
deed Of the death, who either found that they
we're, or feared that they should be, pushed from
their stools by the ghosrs Of the slain, or who
cried out, TO q spectre created by their own
fears, and their own remorse, "avaunt! and
quit our sight J"
Thcre is another particular, sir, in which
the honorable members quick perception OF
resemblance might, should think, have seen
some Thing iu the story Of Banquo, making it
no, altogether subject oil the most pleasant
c onle Hplation. Those who murdered Banquo,
wha, did they win by il? Substantial good !!
Permanent power Or disappointment, rather,
and mortfic ion--dus and ashes-the
common fate Of vauiting ambition, overlapping
itself? Did not even.handrd justice, ere long,
commend the poisoned chalice 10 heir own
lips? Did they not soon find that for another
they had filed their mind ," that their am
bilion though apparently for the moment sue
cessfnI, had Blu, put barren sceptre in their
grasp? Aye, sir,
"a barren sceptre in their grippe,
Thence to be ,prenrhetf By unhnedl hand,
''No son Of theirs succeeding"
Sir, need pursue the allusion no further
leave 'he Hon. gentleman 10 run il ou, at his
leisure, and TO derive from It all the grati6ca-
ton it is cal ua,ed 10 administer. If hr fnds
himself pleased with he associations, and pre-
pared to be quite satisfied, though the parallel
should be rn''re, comple ed, had almost
said [ am satisfied also blu that shall think
Of Yes, sir, will think Of that.
In he course of nv observations ;he other
day, Mr. President, paid passing tribute
Of respect to very wor by man, Mr.. Dane Of
Massachusetts. Ii so happened, thai he drew
the ordinance of 1887, for The government Of
the Northwestern Territory. A man Of so
much ability, and SO little pretence; Of so
grea, capacity TO do good, and so unmi1ed
a disposition 10 do it for lis own sake; gen
Far