Phenix gazette. [volume] (Alexandria [D.C.]) 1825-1833, 1831-02-07

The National Republican party were scd!ce!y
more fortunate, las the result demonstrated IN
their arrangements. Their opponents BAD so man
aged, that terrible threads were made In their
ranks, and at some points where 1t was niue eX-
pected. With clear majority OF 'ouilee" votes
in'the two houses, the neutrality-suspicious. nave
failed to elect their candidafe-a respectable Por-
ton of the party, not merely within oldns their
suf'sayes from him, but absolutely voting with
their 0pponents as the alternative Our own i'm
preston is, that If Robert UickfJe had been the
sole candidate of the party andit had been so un-
derstood in due season, he would have been e.
lected. But early in the year, long before The
.Qugust election. for reasons, Doubt satistacto
ry to himself, he became peremptory In his refu-
sal to be a candidate. This we kaOW. 10 that
man-(we speak disinterestedly. for we have not
been favored with his particular friendship late.
those who belonged to the old court party in It's
time, those who now compose the opposition
generally, feel that the State owes deOt OF graf
itude, which the people would take pride and
pleasure in partly paving, by honorng him with
seat in the Senate of the United States; where
his boundlcss ornlation-il arranged, at pres
cnt, though it may be, and his gigantic talants-
unpublished and rough, as Jumps of golden ore,
though they may be--and whece. above all his un-
compromising, unyleldmg political integrity,
would find proper field, anda proper time now,
for their exercise, in the defence and support OF
the rights and interests of this state, and OF our
common country. TO the people the question is
who shall be the States Senator, is now most
alphabetically presented, in the selection Of their
representatives for the ensuing year, they will not
fail to attend to it. They will be able we trust,
:. to defeat The ends of political management and
see that the Republic sustains no injury";-
and whatever decision may come g from the pure
hands of :. the people," it will be the duty of all
to acquiesce in.-Frmkfor Comment.
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From The ST. Louis Republican,, JAM s..
eft is the very error ofthe moon."--Nhakspears
The Legislature of Illinois have passed resolu
tons approving the Administration OF General
Jackson, and recommending him as candidate
for reelection. In the Senate, the resolutions
passed by majority of ii to 8, and in the House
it would seem no opposition was made. though
but little more than One-third of the members vot
ed in favor of them.-Several of the members al
forwards entered their protest on the Journal OF
the House against the measure. We confess we
do not understand these things. The same sa-
picn body have resolved to memoraliZe Congress
to surrender the public lands in the State-and
also that the Cumberland Road should proceed
from Vandaia via Alton to Jefferson City. But
what have they to do with the Cumberland Road,
and even if Congress should feel disposed to pro-
coed with it, where is the guarantee that the Pres
ident will not put upon it his veto; and the me-
morialsts have just resolved that the veto prnci-
plies are such as they approve. They are declar-
ed to be perfectly satisfactory, and even to con-
tain abundant evidence that their author is dis
posed to favor national Improvement.
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The following paragraph we find in the Centre
vile Indiana Times is just commentary on the
Inconsistency which marks the conduct Of those
politicians who. whatever the folies, mistakes
Or vices of an administration, are ever to be found
on their knees before the shrine of power:
so Consistency thou art JeweL"-In 1927
a resolution passed the Kentucky Legislature.
unanimously, instructing the Senators and Rep
resentatives IN Congress frcm that state to urge
upon the General Government the Importance of
an appropriation to construct Turnpike Road
from Lexington to Maysvilie, and not voice in
the state was heard to intimate even a doubt
against its constitutionality. In the last Con-
sress. every member except one from that state
voted for the said appropriation. and the one who
did not so vote was burned in efigv by the friends
of the President, because he had abandoned the
interests of his constituents. While all this was
sun Icsli ileihUeiS WIN 'otcu JO| tc
appropriation mounted the stump to sustain the
Presidents veto against the bill, in the face of
what they had done under oath; and the late
Kentucky Jackson Convention passed a resolu-
ton declaring that the President - is entitled to
the gratitude Of the nation, for the rejection of
the Lexington and Maysville Turnpike Road
Bil''! If this is not holding to the tail of the
eel of pariy, we know not what would be.
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Special term Of The u. s. Circuit Cout.-A
special term of the Circuit Court of the United
States, for the Southern District of New York.
will be held in this city, commencing on the last
Monday of the present month. His honor Judge
Belts will preside, in the absence of Mr.. Justice
Thompson, who will be detained on the bench
of the Supreme Court at Washington-the
law of the last session of Congress having made
provision for two extra terms of the circuit per-
annum, in this city, to be held by the District
Judge The pirates who came ashore at Graves
end, are to be tried at the term now near at
handy. T. Com.
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The business of stealing appears to be thriving