Daily Richmond Whig. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1828-1831, 1830-04-24


Constitution, are still open.
"Upon my soul Ills uue-.wharn you lay us lie"-
MAJoR LoN0Bow.
Whoever remembers the incidents of the last Pre-
sidentul Canvass, may renemb(D among other dis
gushing particulars, pamphlet published by Isaac Hill
against Mr.. Adams, which with other things charged
him and Mrs. Adams-than whom more refined and
elegant lady does not adorn American suciety--wth
having minsterod pinsps to the RIGHTEOUSNESS of
the Emperor Alexander, when Mr.. Adams was envoy
at st. Petersburg. We never saw the vile pamph-
let, and God forbid should; but this charge
we understand, preferred in terms US broad and
coarse, as the malignant vulgarity of the caumnia-
tor could devise This pamphlet and this charge,
were subsequently, in the Spring of 1925 spoken of
in Congress-upon which occasion, John Randolph,
his political inyeeracy overcome by OF truth,
honor and justice, which often obscurcd BY his pas
sons, still ut intervals, shines with pristine usire
ON that occasion, Mr.. Randolph set upon the fore
head of the slanderer. blazing uark OF nfamy,
which time, nor ocean, unguents can ever cxtin.
guish, erase.
The Senate OF the u. States to their immortal no
nour, when Hill came before them the nominee to an
honourable and responsible Office, remembered the
sandor The President, the second Washington
the benevolent of countenance--had rewarded Hill
with an Office scarcely inferior to Head Of Depart
ment. lie had done his work faithfully and tho
Tennessee Farmer looked no further. All that he
could do, was done, to consecrate the SANDER and
honour, and distinguish, reward and dignity the
sandcrcr He was not ashamed to heap honours,
and lavish his personal favor and attentions upon the
man who had thus bascy traduced the wife of his
yybo J.c,. L..
amiablc conduct,it may be truly and unhapply pre-
dicated, that it opened the road the future for
tunes of Gen Jackson This was Mr.. Adams re-
,card, from this cruel old man. The Senate howe.
yer, did got choose to identify itself with the feel
ings of the Hero They consulted their own and
countrys honour, and they rejected Isaac Hills nom-
nation We proclaim it, that for years that exalted
body has done single act, which meets with SO
much warmth of satisfaction from this community,
and all Virginia, far as our information extends in
all directions, and from all parties. Let the Pres
don't reward Isaac Hill, with the Office of Assistant
Post Master General. We care not-he dessyre,
reOard from him-the country is EXEMPTED from the
reproach The Senate of the L. States, repre- sent
ing the People and tho States, have washed their
hands ard the honour of their constituents clear of
the stain.
Whether the above circumstance had influence
with the Senate, nobody certainly knows but egerv
body believes it had. Be this it may it is SO UNI
derstood, and Hills colleague, Duff Green, has en-
tered upon his defence. He does not DENY the fact
of the SANDER against Mr.. Adams, but 1ustifies
The first defence is that Hill did not write but only
published land circuated) the pamphlet The and JON
athan Russell suspected of connecting il between
them.) The second defence is, in the words of Duff
-"We have understood that the writer heard Mr..
Adams himself relate the story as an evidence Of his
dipiomacy."
That is to say--make the MEANING reader Duff
Greet says he tmdci,tands the writer of the pamphlet
heard Mr.. Adams relate an eviceice of bis dipio-
,nacy-tbat Mrs. Adams, Of course by his assent
and connivance acted as pimp and procurcss to the
Emperor of Russia. That he Uhc writer) heard
Mr.. Adams--a of all others the most remarka.
bic for caution, reserve and taciturnity that he
heard him make confession, which, if true, dycs
his wife On himself. with the blacklist disgrace;
confession which the most hardened and profcssod
pimps, whose chosen portion is public contempt
couo with difficulty. be brought to make. For
Whatever men or women may do, few can be found
so utterly abandoned as 10 boast and make mort of
infamy. Yet this eonfcsson--the confession Of his
wife's netting as procuress--a crime next TO that
without Il namo-thesc abomnablc wretclcs have
the frontIcss nudacfty TO ascribo to man who
has been President of the United States, and
who, however politically accused or sinning has
received from every community in which he dwct,
concnring testimony Of his moral and social OK.
CcllcnCc.
In Tho greatest heats Of party strife, this communi
~ would have rccoiled from tllis transaction. Now
when those heats have subsidized. to mention il is to
sink deep in their hearts, unuttorable deicstaon Of
its authors, aidcrs and obeltors. We thought had
latcrly seen in Duff Green, symptoms Of wish to
repair in degree tho mischiefs he had conribu
ted to jnflict upon social harmony and good fcclug
but the publication Of thus charge, and the credcnco
which ne affects give it, plungcs him deeper than
ever in tho profound Of self abandonment.
EDITORIAL CORRESPONDENCE.