Phenix gazette. [volume] (Alexandria [D.C.]) 1825-1833, 1831-06-27
From the baltimore Chronieie.

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From the baltimore Chronicle.
The letter OF Mr.. Berrien to the President,
rendering his resignation, Is such as might have
been anticipated from so polished aud talented
gentleman; and must make the President feel his
own littleness aud ,nsignlfcance. Mr.. Berrien
explicitly declares that he is IS totally ignorant Of
any want of harmony" in the cabinet, which
either has, or ought to have impeded the opera
tons of the administration, and that he resigns
his office SIMPLY IN obedience to the Presidents
will. We thus have the testimony OF Messrs
Branch, Insham aud Berrien, as to the fact that
there was no discord in the Cabinet in reference
to PUBLIC measures; and yet the President, in his
reply to Mr.-Berricn, reiterates what he former
iy stated that the dissolution dictated by pub
lie considerations. Il will only add" Says he)
that the determination TO change my cabinet was
dictated by an imperlOus sense of public duty"
Again: s'perceiving that the harmony 4 feeling
SO necessary to an efficient administration had fail!
ed, in Il considerable degree, to mark the course of
this &c. Now the people desire to know, s. ought
to be informed, in what this want of ''harmony in
feelings" which the President alleges existed, but
which Messrs. Branch, Ingham, and Berrien de-
ms, consisted. The President has borne testi.
mony to the correct manner in which the three
gentlemen named discharged their duties, nor has
he suggested any disapprobaton of their princI-
pies or measures. For what then were they dis
misseds Not surely because the public interests
required their discharge. For what then, we
again ask, were they dismissed? The President
mast speak, or the people will speak for him.
They will say, that the true reason tor his reno
val Of men whose fitness for the Offices they held,
he acknowledges, was, that they would not per-
init HIM 20 regulate their domestic concerns, and
force their families into associations at which they
reyolted They will say this, and they will say
more-they will say that this interference was un-
becoming his station and Notwithstanding
the governor of harem, bit not to be tolerated
in the President of free people. And
they will say right-for the man who dares
attempt to force disreputable females INTO res
pectable society, or presume To controui the in
tercuurse of Families, stands degraded In the es-
tima,iun of every honorable man, and should not
be permitted to pass the Threshold Of any repu-
table house We care not what his station may
be-his elevation should only add to the con.
tempt and scorn with which he should be treated,
as it adds to the insult he offers.
Degraded as the country is by the conduct of
the President, the American people are not yet,
thank God, SO lost to all feeling of self respect,
as to permit him to intrude into their d'miccs
and to destroy all distinction between virtue and
vice. No they are not prepared for thls-when
they are, General Jackson may play the tyrant
with IMMUNITY, and quarter abandoned associates
on whom he pleases; for then will the people
have become so debaSed. as to have lost all re-
gard for virtue, morality and religion.
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y We Iearn from one Of the visiters Just return
ed from West Point. that the examination OF the
students at that place. for the present year, with
the general conduct of the institution, has given
the greatest satisfaction. Every measure appears
to be adopted by Col. Thayer calculated to pro.
mote the interests of the country. in preparing
the Young gentlemen there instructed for the
course Of public duty for which they are design
ed.-Pem. Inquirer.
Prosperity ofihe West.-A new steamboat is
building in Portsmouth. Ohio. by Capt. Green OF
the Belvedere. We understand that thirty ne1O
boats are building this season between Louisville
and Pittsburgh, some few of these will supply the
place Of those worn out
This is gratifying evidence of the increase of
business on the western waters. The present
season has been remarkably profitable, and we
have no doubt the next will not be less notwith-
standing the additional number of boats. The
opening OF me Ohio canai VIII immediately create
business of this Kind to much greater extent,
than has vet existed. The productions of the in
terror will find their way South, through this a
venue, which will bring back an increased amount
Of cotton, sugar, coffee. &c. The trade of the
western and southwestern States with New York.
will then hud direct, erped,fious, sgfe and cheap
channel. We do not regard the usual objection
to this route, that of the length Of time the lake
remains closed with ice-.as affording an obstacle
Of much consequence; for all mercantile men
well know how easy it would be to anticipate that
occurrence by providing supplies beforehand.
Portsmouth Courier.