Phenix gazette. [volume] (Alexandria [D.C.]) 1825-1833, 1831-02-23

bat do not believe 1t Will be perpetual. am
. speakiny now Of what Burke would call high
matter. l am not speaking to the sroundings,
to the tyros and junior apprentices; but to the
.grey-headed men of this nation, one of whom,
3 bless God for it. see is now stepping forward,
sas he stepped forward in 1899, to save the Re
'pubic. l speak of William B. Giles. speak
to grey heads; heads grown grey, not in the ''re-
'ceipt of CUSTOM at the Treasury, OF the Peo-
piles money; not to heads grown grey in lnIqul-
sty and intrigue; not to heads grown grey IN pac-
ting PENNSYLVANIA avenue; not grown grey IN
wearing out their shoes at levees; not to heads
grown grew to use the words Of the immortal
Miss Edgeworth, the glory and the champion ct
e her lovely sex and wretched country in plough
inc the Four Acres. Am understood? There
lis little court, sir of the ''CASvLE" OF Dublin
scalled the Four Acres; and there, backwards
and forwards do the miserable attendants and
satellites of power walk, each watinshls turn to
receive the light Of the great mans countenance;
hoping the sunshine; dreadng the cl&'dy brow.
Spcncer has well described the sweetsUf this lite
and technically it is called ploughing the -Four
Acres. Now, when certain character, IN one
of her incompatible novels, Sir Oc-l have for
oot his name, but he was a McSycophant cOur-
tier, pIaccmaD, pensioncr, and paraste-uP.
braided that kind, good hearted, wrong headed
old man, King Corny. with his wretched system
.of ploushing, the King of the Black Island ("ev-
.ry inch king'O replied that there was one sys-
TEN of ploughng worse even than his: and that
was poughing the four Acres. This was set
tier to the McSycophant.'
Was mind like This, thuea and Prouided, and
regulated for the labours of the Statesman and
great diplomatic Minister? Sir. when this gen
tleman was at the zenith of his intellect and his
most lucid years, Mr.. Jefferson had adjndged
him unqualified for such services, as this appoint
ment, had it been made for public purposes, called
Oh him to perform.
Sir, if not for the pvo..a srrvice, then he must
have heen appointed to preserve the vaccinations
of the Secretary of State, and the administration
carried on by him under the Presidential name,
from the hoSti'u of this ancient adversary of all
former administrations. TO illustrate, and con-
firm this important, and deeply interesting fact,
permit me to give rery brief sketch OF the poll
teal life of this singular man.
At the commencement of Washington's adj
ministration. he was school boy. 70 prove this
fact, and also to lay open the very source and
fountain of his bitter hostility to the next Presi-
dent, | will read part of one of his speeches
from Gales and Seaton's Reg. vol. q p. 599-
Now sir. John Quincy Adams coming into
spower under these inauspcious circumstances,
and with these suspicious allies and connexions,
has determined to become the apostle OF liberty.
sof universal liberty. as his father was about the
time of the formation of the Constitution, known
to oe the apostle of monarchy. 1t is no secret
was i'm New York when he first took his seat
as Vice President, recolcct-forl was a school
bow at the time, attending the lobby OF Congress,
when ought to have been at SCHOOL, remem-
Der the manner in which my brother was spurn'
ed by the coachman of the then Vice President,
for coming too near the arm bIazOned on the
.scutcheon Of the Vice Regal carriage. Perhaps
NAV have some of this old animosity ranking
in nv heart, coming from race who are known
never to forsake friend or forgive Toe
From this, the waters of bitterness have flown
in a stream, so abundantly on the secondandHm
Presidents of the United States. To overthrow
the first of these. this man joined himself to his
great political rival.
He gre,v into hostility with Jefferson in very
few wears For he has ever been star without
beams, except of maIgn and biighting influence.
Suffer me to illustrate this truth by reading from
his speeches:
FEBRuARY 2Sth, 19O6.-Mr. Clarke, of Vir-
snia moved to postpone until the Sd of March,
Mr. Randolph's Restitution to amend the COnst-
tuition of the United States, so that all the U.
States Judges should be removed by the Presi-
sdent on the ioint resolution of both Houses of
Congress. In reply toa remark made by Mr.
Conrad. MIR. Randolph said, He, (Mr. Con-
rad belonged to class of men which highly
respect. for the plain reason that belong to it
myself. He saws the time approaching when
every man engaged in agricultural pursuits
must be anxious to go home; and. therefore, he
does not wish at present to act on the resou-
ton have laid on your table. True. but when
men, be they agricultural, mechanical. %" OF
any other profession, undertake any business,
it is their duty to 90 through with it at every
hazard. If he situation of affairs warranted it,
| should be willing to adjourn for two or three
months. Bat | never can agree to adjourn in
the present perllous state of affairs. and
leave the country to blind and fortultous
.destnv. must first see something like land.
some foot hold. something like certainty. instead
sof political Chaos without form or body. Be-
fore consent to go hume, must see something
like safe and honorable issue to our differen
'ces with foreign powers; and must see--"l hope
sanother thing-something like an attempt to
bring the constitution of this people back to the