Constitutional Whig. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1824-1832, 1830-04-27
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SATURDAY MORNING, APRIL RI, 1880.

"Upon my soul tits Wha,'n you lay it's lie."-
MaIon LoSGBow.
Whoever remembers the incidents of the last Pre-
sdential Canvass, may remember 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 adorn American society-witl
having ministered pimps to the RIGHTEOUSNESS Of
the Emperor Alexander, when Mr.. Adams was envoy
at st. Petersburg. We saw the vile pampl-
let, and God forbid we ever should but this charge
we understand, was preferred in terms broad anC
coarse, the malignant vugarity of the !calumna-
tor could devise This pamphlet and this charge
were subsequently,, in the Spring of 1926, spoken o.
in Congress-upon which occasion, John Randolph
his political inveeracy by sense of truth
honor and justice. which often obscured by his pas
sons, still at intervals shines out with pristine ustre
on that occasion, DIr. Randolph set upon the fore
head of the sanderer a blazing mark of nfamy
which time, nor ocean, unguents can ever extn.
gush, or erase
The Senate of the u. States to their immortal no
nour when Hill came before them, the nominee to an
honorable and responsible Office remembered the
slonderer. The President the second Washington
the benevolent of countenance-had rewarded Hill
with Office scarcely inferior to Head of Depart
Tennessee Farmer looked further. All that he
could do, done, TO eeaseerute the SANDER, and
honour, and distinguish, reward and dignity the
slanderer. He not ashamed to heap honours
and lavish his personal favor and attentions upon the
man who had thus basey traduced the wife of his
former defender-of whose powerful defence of his
Seminole conduct, it may be truly and unhappiy pre-
dicated that it opened the road to the future for
of G.on.. la
aoard, from this cruel old The Senate howe
yer, did not choose to identify itself with the feel
ings of the Hero. They consulted their own and
countrys honour, and they rejected Isaac Hills
inaton. We proclaim it, that for years, that exalted
body has done no single act, which meets with SO
much warmth of satisfaction from this community
and all Virginia, far information extends in
all directions, and from all parties. Let the Presi
don't reward Isaac Hill, with the Office of Assistant
Post Master General We care not-he deserve.
4c,onrd from hm-the country is exempted from the
reproach. The Senate of the U. States, represent,
ing the People and the States, have washed then
hands and the honour of their constituents, clear
the STAIN
Whether the above circumstance had influence
With the Senate, nobody certainly knows, but every
body believes it had. BE this it may, it is SO un
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 Justifes
The first defence is, that Hill did not write, but only
published land circulated) the pamphlet (he and Jon
athan Russell suspected of concocting it between
them.) The second defence is in the words OF Duff
eve have understood that he writer heard Mr.
Adams himself relate the story, evidence of his
diplomacy"
That is to say-rnark the MEANING reader-Duf
Green says he understands the writer of the pamphlets
Hsdrd Mr.. Adams relate evidence of his dipio
9aae1t-that Mrs. Adams, of course by his assent
and connirance, acted pimp and procuress to the
Emperor of Russia. That he 1.-THE writer) heard
Mr.. Adams man of all others the most remarka-
BILE for caution, reserve and taciturnty that ht
heard him make confession, which, if true, dyes
his wife an! himself with the blacklist disgrace;
confession which the most hardened and professet
pimps, whose chosen portion is public contempt
could with difficulty be brought to make For
whatever men or may do, few be found
so utterly abandoned to boast and make merit o.
infarnv Yet this coDfession--the comic sson of his
7yife's acting as a procuTess--a crime next to that
without Il name-thcse abominable wretches have
the frontless audacity to ascribe to man who
has been President of the United States, and
who, however politically accused or SHINING, has
received from every community in which he dwet
concurring testimony of his moral and social OK
:cllence.
In the greatest heats Of party strife, this commun
{ y would have recoed from this transaction. Now
~1heu those heats have subsidized to mention it is tc
sink deep in their hearts, unutterable dctesaton Of
sts authors aiders and abettors. We thought VIC hat
!atterly seen in Duff Green. symptoms of wish tc
repair in some degree the mischicfs he had contribu
ted TO infict upon social harmony and good feeling
but uao publication of this charge, and the credenct
VIII ch he affects to give it, plungcs him deeper thar
cves in the profound of self abandonment
EDITORIAL CORRESPONDENTS.
WAsu1NGTo~, April y. 1880
Still, STILL as regards Amos Kendall aud Mordcea
Noah, all is doubt, uncertainty and wild CONJECTURE