Herald of the times. [volume] (Newport, R.I.) 1830-1846, 1831-02-23


\ leave it to the nation to compare Ru-
fus King with John Randolph; and the
mission of one to England with that of
the other to Russia. Let them also COM
pare the recess of Mr.. Brown, Minister
to France, after years Of service, and af-
ter sending home his resignation, let them
say, run the parallel between this re-
cess of Mr.. Brown for a few days to the
south of France, or the Lake of Geneva,
and the Heigra of John Randolph, after
a ten days visit, from St. Petersburgh to
some place, no one can tell where, in
England. The people will do justice in
all these cases.
The gentleman from New York has
thrown his ponderosty into the scale of
panegyric, thereby to render the weight
of culogy on the Russian Minister over
whe helming--scrap iron increases the
weight, not the value of gold. He does
admit some sort of talent in speaking, to
the parliamentary rivals of himselfin elo-
qucnce-to Lowndes, to Clay, and to
Webster. Cicero took his family name
from bean on some part ofhis face; and
doubtless many coXcOmb has believed
himself to be an orator, because like Cic-
ero, he had wart on his nose Some
body has said that "Man, Of all the ami
nal creation alone is endowed with vani-
ty." Who ever saw the Cock Sparrow
measuring his wing in flight with the Fal-
COM | believe there are gentlemen in
this House who could give us good rea-
sons why the eloquence of the Orator of
Roanoke is so well recollected by the
gentleman from New York. No work.
er on the Roanoke plantation has better
reasons to remember the eloquence of
the oversccr. Much as that eccentric
man loved his joke and his sarcasm, he
loved his fame more; and he would have
spared the lash on that occasion, could
he have suspected it might bring him in
to the poor condition of enduring praise
at the hands of the gentleman from New
Y ork. Such revenge for such cause,
is said to be peculiar to that gentleman,
and one species Of one other rare among
us.
/ Has the gentleman so long been
mere adj djective to the Secretary of State,
that he thinks it slanderous to associate
the name ofthat politician with any other
accident? Children, in these scientific
times, who have advanced somewhat in
to the mysteries of chemistry do, after
beating up soap and water together in a
basin, amusc themselves with n clean
pipe in blowing up baubes and sending
them off from the bowl inflated and gilt
tering, to sail away moment, and then
burst and vanish into their original MOTH
ingncss. For aught know, the Secre-
tary may be amusing himsclfby the same
innocent experiment. Who would inter-
rupt the sentimental harmony of political
friendship? For all which he is distin-
gushed, the character of the Secretary
is fixed; it cannot be eIerafed by any la
bors of the protcgc-it cannot be lo'cered
by the efforts of others. God forbid that
should throw a straw in the way Of any
mans advancement. Their friends arc
daily carrying and laying at the gate of
the treasury, those who have erery thing
to recommend them ercept the piciy and
good acorhs ofthe beggar, in the parable;
and who, all alike, desire to be fed from
the crumbs which fall from the tables of
those lcasting within. Hope DEFERRED
we find, does "not make every heart
sick" Gentlemen, doubtless, have as
surances that ecch political Lazarus shall
be served in his tun. The next basket
of broken meat brought out, may be sent
to New York, and amply satisfy the ap-
petite, sharpcned by two years want of
| it.
| The gentleman accuses me of a de-
| parturc from the question to bring into
the debate our late treaty with the Sub
lime Porte. Sir, every thing rendering
our Russian relations important, comes
into any question concerning them. DO
not our new relations with the great Eu-
ropcan rival of Russia demonstrate more
strongly our need of an efficient mission
at the Court of st. Petersburgh? The
Secretary has told us in the Message,
that the Black Sea has been opened to
us by our treaty with the Sublime Porte.
| The gentleman does know full well, that
the swords of our brave Russian friends
not only hewcd their way through the
Balkan down to the plains ofAdranoplc;
but that by the treaty of that city, they,
for all purposes of navigation. widened
the Bosphorus to a breadth equal to the
Hellespont, and thereby united the Eux-
inc, Levant, whole Mediterranean, the
Atlantic, and all other Seas and Oceans.
What may our Russian imperial friend
say to us for receiving from the Turk as
a boon, to say nothing of our promise in
return, what his valor, blood, and treas
ure had conquered for us and all nations,
Omitting, therefore, the secret article,