The Rhode-Island Republican. [volume] (Newport, R.I.) 1809-1841, 1831-03-03

Secretary for the hopes, expressed in the
Message, that the renovated health Of Mr..
Randolph, might induce him to return
Permit me 10 quote from one Of his
speeches, delivered on this floor little more
than two years ago;
"Sir, what can the country do for me
As for power, what charm can it have for
one like me |? If power had been my OBJ
ject, I must have been less sagacious than
nv worst enemies have represented me to
be. if had not obtained it. y
was il office What, sir, to drudge in
your laboratories in the Departments, or
be al the tail Of your corps diplomatic ia
] Europe? (Exled to Siberia.) Alas sir,
1 in nv condition. a cup Of cold ioater ioould
be more acceptable What can the country |
rive me that do not possess in the conf
/ dence of such constituents as no man ever
had before? ] can retire 10 my old patri-
monal trees, where may see the sun rise
and set in peace.
shall retire upon my resources--I will go
. back to the bosom ofmy constituents. **~
And shall give up them and this? And
for what? For the heartless amusements
a nd yapid pleasures and tarnished honors
of this abode Of fsplended misery, ofshabby
splendour? for clcrkship in the War Or
fee, or a FOREIGN MISSION, to dance
Attendance ABROAD instead Of AT HOME or
, even for a Department itself? Sir, thirty
! years make sad changes in man.
feel that Ihang 10 eristeace bya single
kair-that the sword Of Dnmocles is sus-
pended over me-"
will this gentleman. think you, return to
f Russia, hanging to existence by single
A hair? Willie travel from region to re.
] gion Of Europe, with this sword OF Damo'
d Giles dangling over his head by tic equal.
9 ly aitenuafed? Never, SIR, never; aud, IT
i lie never do return, as he most certainly
y never will, when does his mission end il it
y did not end when he left the Russian
). Court? II this mission eve. had legal
= beginning, when, or by what acts may it
!. lbe ended? Vattel has told us, page $50,
,f that all missions end: first, when the Min
ister is recalled; second, when he 10 dis
d missed; vhiyd,i when he has finished the
e business on which he was sent ;-and
81 fourth, in word, whenever he is obliged
It 10 go away, on any account iohdferer. ms
: functions cease. BY the laws OF nations
ID which we cannot control, his mission was
at an end when ''he iDent G,cay" from the
= Cour. and country, to which he was ap'
8 pointed and sent; and neither the mandate
= of the Secretary, nor Congressional enact
is mcnt, can continue him Minister one mo
e n,enl after he has, by the la,rs Of nations
is ceased to be one. Can we then uppropri
I ate money for the salary of such minis
Ie ter. Not unless we make ouryefres partie.
10 10 this imposition and, in the name Of tho
&c nation guarantee this fraudulent diplomacy
m Gentlemen may place this SALARY on the
is ground Of quanium meruit, and tell US
D Mr.. Randolph is entitled to receive it, ant
4, laye are bound to make the appropriation
because he has performed services at Rus
|. sin for which he dexerres to have this com
II tpensation. Whnf services was il INTENDED
IN he should perform; what in fact did he per
10 form: what, in so short time, could he per
ar form? We are told by the honorable
Chairman Of the Committee on Foreigl
m Relations, /Mr. Archer) and no man eve
ne doubts his candour and correctness, tha
k. Mr.. Randolph did not perform what he wa
e. sent to do. However meritorious thu
H. might be when done, he surely does no
=" deserve any compensation for not doing
Of How did this gentleman represent, whe
e presented at that Court, the form and bod
3 of our national character, by his appear
'n ance, his manners. conversation and inter
r. course with thelmperial Family, the Court
Q and Foreign Ministers, then and there rep
resenting the various sovereignties Of Eu
n. rope and Asia? could give the hstor,
a. Of this ten days, this, which will, in ou
ne Russian Diplomacy. be called the time o
ge Randolph; II could give it from the most au
II. thentic testimonials; not from rumour, bu
is from the voice Of honorable intelligent men
Of who, being there at Tie time, have since re
oil turned to thiscountry, and from letters witt
I'd which the Russian correspondence Of on
,e Atlantic cities has been crowded. Al
9, these speak but one language, express bu
b. one feeling-the irrepressible feeling o
$. wounded and mortified patriotism. AL
rs these, instead of finding merit in this man
IN diplomatic achievements, look on them will
ic ,nutterable anguish; and have no consola
h. ton under the gibes and jeerings Of for.
20 eipn Nations, but the memory of the pasi
ID when the dignified character Of our Repub
3. lie was represented in Europe by Franklin
b. Jay, Adams, Livingston, Jefferson ant
in Pinkney. Nothing, sir, but national pride
'e has withholden this narrative from the ea
Il Of abe world; -for who would give q tongue
il to obloquy against his own country? Twill
s. in silence, pass over the doings Of this gen
IS temsn's ten days Of diplomscy; nor woult
Is I have alluded to them, did not his fiiend
.. draw on these very doings as .. fund Of mer
.. Il, emitting him TO this compensation. Th'
m dongs of ten days! What, in that tim'
N the discipline Of the Russian taylor coult
|y scarcely have reduce the. rigid outline, o
al this man into the erleTov Of diplomacy
in He performed services, for his country il
m ,h hr;af ncviodl Cnsay with thc Es oil