Daily Richmond Whig. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1828-1831, 1831-03-16
Nbe Constitutional azlbtG.
MR.. 3
On the Mission to Russia.

Tracts
later . number of quotations from treaties upon
tho laws Of Nations, establishing that Q Minister
non. resident could not be admitted, and was no Min
lister in fact, Mr.. Il. coatinucd:)
SIR. what is the mission invented in this case by
Mr.. Secretary Van Buren,; and what tho diplomatic
character Of the Minister now under consideration,
This gentleman was, by order of the Executive,
carried out from Norfolk to Russia in a national ship,
with every circumstance of high respect, and at q
cost of not less than S4o,o o for his passage. He
arrived at ST. Petersburg; was presented to his I'm.
perial Majesty, the Emperor of Russia; exhibited his
credentials; was accredited as Envoy Extraordinary
and Minister Plenipotentiary Of the United States at
that Court; retired and took his departure from the
Russian territories, all in the short space often days.
1t Is commended by gentlemen, who support this appro-
priation. that he IS our minister. II 80. he must be
our minis'e r nonresident at the Court Of St. Peters
burg; for 1t is too much to say, that stopping 10 days
ut that city, would make him, in legal acceptation,
resident there, but that six months residence in Eng
land will not render him legally a nonresident at Pc
tersburgh. IT, then, he can be our minister at all,
he must be our nonresident Minister. He has been
to 81. Petersburgh, to be accredited there by his I'm
perial Majesty; and by form of being thus accredited,
we are gravely told by the Secretary of State, that
lie has acquired the rights, and powers Of Minister
of the United States, rrhererer he may choose to re-
eide. Sir, will nations admit this kind Of non resident.
this migratory mission, this diplomatic gossipping,
This doctrine Of no iocdiity,' SO essential In the So
cretary's constitutional creed, to tho existence Of q
national road, he will find does not belong to the
charter of a resident public Minister, and really has
no Piace among nations, ost of the cabinet, so adroit.
iy conducted by himself.
Had this gentleman two sets of credentials, two
commissions, and did he exhibit them both TO the
Emperor'-Did he in fact tell his Majesty, Your
sunmer is toe hot; your winter will be too cold. The
fur which has warmed a bear, may warm a Russian
monarch, but 1t can never warm me My c~onstitu-
ton is worn out in The public service. I shall be sick
lam sick. must resi- ie elsewhere, any where, in
England, in France, in n more genial climate than
that of your majesty's capital" 1t is too much to be
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credentials and commission. His ELSEWHERE
credentials and commission we're retained for use
when he should arrive, ] know not where, but GER
tainly elsewhere
Sir, our law has been evaded; the Constitution has
been evaded, the laws Of nations have been evaded;
the President, the Senate and our imperial Friend,
have been deceived; & the Minister himself, suffering
himself to be made a party to this imposifion, has fall
so, out of the country on q mission, illegal, void and
nugatory; and Is now, the deplorable dupe of State
ariLfre, cruising abou; Europe like some contraband
trader, under a doUbe commission, and with tro sets
Of papers.
Will it be contendrd By the supportcrs of this
appropriation, that this gentleman will, after months
OF recess from the pubic service at the Russian Court.
return thither, and by years Of efficient labour, efice
all memory of this interval of idlcness and neglect
What cause, sir, have we to believe he will ever re-
turn 10 ST. Petersburgi? Observe VIVA. the Secre.
tary has told US i'll tn. Message: "If. as i, is to be no.
ped, the improvement of hrs health should be such as
to Justify HIM IN doing so, he will repair TO st. Peters
burgh, a. resume tho discharge of his official duties"
This does not affirm that he will return; it ofirms
that "it Is TO be hoped he may be well enough to do
So According 10 the Message, a want Of health
took him away from that Court. Different reasons
were given for those facts, by the official papers
BY the Richmond Official the summer heat compellcd
his departure; by the Official in this City, the ap-
preaching cold Of the then coming winter drove hin
to seek II more genial climate. In Russia summer is
said to burst from the frozen bosom of Winter, like a
sheet Of flame from Mount Hecla; and to spread it's
warming, blazing, burning influence at once over the
whole region. At times, so immense is the temper
allure, that the pine fosrests take fire from The heat
OF the atmosphere. ] have read a Russian travel
Ter, who says vegetation is so rapid, that. on a soil
thawed not more than one foot deep, the ground il
ploughed, the wheat sown, grown, ripcned and har-
vested in six weeks. Winter comes on the country
ms summer came, cxiinguishing at once the heat OF
The DIR and earth, by throwing down and SPREADING
out one vast sheet Of snow, from Cronstad, to Kan.
tschaika. The genial and Joyous airs of Spring, the
sober and gladstone sunshines and sha AIDES Of Autumn.
known under the Italian skies Of Virginia, have ne
yer visited, and never can visit a Russian climate.
Unless therefore,, this gentleman can visit Russio in
opmiDSr, WiIen ne has been compelled TO leave il; or
in Winter, when he darcs not approach il. ne cun-
not return sgain 70 St. PetersbuTgh. What reason
bad the Secretary for The hopes expressed in the
Message. that the renovated health Of Mr- Randolph
might induce hun TO RETURN Permit mo TO uuo,e
from one OF hs speeches, delivered on this floor little
moro than two years 40:
Sir, what can the country do for me? As for
po"efD "hut Cnnfm can " nave for Que like MAJ
If power had been my object, I mus, have been loss
eagoclous thsn my worst enemies have represented
me to be, If | had not obtained il. =
Was IT office What, SIR, TO drudge in your lsbo,a.
torres IN the Departments, or be at the tail Of your
corps diplomatic in Europe, (Exiled to Siberia y
Alas! sir, in my condition, q cup Of cold wafsr would
be more acceptable. What can the county give me
that j do not possess in the confidence of such con-
stitueDts ss no man ever had beforce can retire tn
my old patrlmoD'al trees whefe may see the sun rise
quo SET W peace shall retire
upon my resourccc-I will 90 back to the bosom Of
my Constituents. And oL.n 7
give up them and this And for what For N.
henrtless omuscnents and vspid pleasures and tar
nished honors Of this abode Of splendid misery. of
shabby %splendoi! For a clerRship IN the War OAco.
OF a FOREIGN MISSION, To dance anend11e,
ABROAD instead n ST HomE-or even n, , nona,,
ment its0f' Sir, thirty years make sad chances IN
man. E a., r
hung 10 ~esi'tense by a single haiy--rhat tho sword o IS
DamocIes is suspended over me-"
WAL this gentleman, think you, return to RussiO
banging to existence by a single hair Will he travel
from region to region Of Europe, with this sword oI
pemocles dangling over his head by n tie equally