Phenix gazette. [volume] (Alexandria [D.C.]) 1825-1833, 1831-05-12
ALEXANDRIA, ID. C.
7Uv9sDaY MORNING. MgT 10. 1881

ProGgacy. Talgarity and Lowness.-it was
with feelings of loathing and scorn that we reaa
the editorial article in yesterdays Globe, which
will he found below. Duff Green, in his vilest
days.-when he was the habitual contemner OF al,
most every thing good s. virtuous-never penned
more brutal. vulgar paragraph, than this ema-
nation from the official Government Journai. -
When the Editor of the Globe came to Washing
ton, we hoped to have found him able to conduct
his paper on honorable principles. and that he
would have sustained the character Ut genie
n,cy, as well as a politician. We perceive that
we are to be disappointed. Wequote the article
below, that the people every where may see to
what mean, contemplate, dirty arts the opponents
of HENRY CLAY resort. Every hi9h-lninded no
norable man, no matter to what party he may
belong. will blush for the Administration when
such an article is allowed to appear i'll the Official
Journal And is HENRY CLAY to be harm
ed by such assaults? Is the first Citizen in the
Republic to be put down by the ribaIdry OF pen.
stoned parasitesl Is the disgusting vulgarlty OF
hreling lacqueys, who have not the sense or feel
ing properly to appreciate his character, to lnJure
him in the estimation of his fellow couatrymen!
i-No!-all this will rather elevate than depress
him. Let them continue to wallow in the slough
and mire of their own baseness, but let them
cease to attempt to bespatter him.
Once again, however, we turn to the article
from the Globes and apologize for its insertion by
repeating what we have already stated-that our
the s.Official Government Journal descends.
The odium of this article must attach to an adj
ministration which can recognize such paper as
&C Official'':
cit is somewhat singular IN dispute bout a
fact, :. in,! he combatants on each sale in the
right A I'd 'hr paradox becomes passing strange,
when Mr.. CIay's ron,acing biographeI OF the
louisville Journal, and his erratic messenger OF
the Richmond Wing, both unite in vouching the
fact on one side These gentlemen insist that
Mr.. Clay's father was Baptist preacher. The
Frankfort Argus asserts that he was a dancing
master. Now the truth does not lie between
these contested points. these opposite extremes
but actually covers both OF them Mr. Cfdy's
father ,Uas Dancing Master and Baptist
Preacher. In the first capacity this gentleman
figured with much eclat, until great revival OF
becoming questionable, Mr.. Clay the elder sud-
denly turned a somerset, and took his position
in the pulpit. The son of this nimbie and grave
gentleman has shown equal versatility of genius
in politics He was Democratic leader for
nearly thirty years, spurned the opposite faction
of ssolling the carpet on which he stood when,
all at once, he shook off the principles and habits
of his life, and leaped into their arms. In this,
however, he initiated his father only in the sud-
denness of the metamorphosis; for he reversed
the good example. The father turned from bad
to good calling. The son went from good to
bad. 1t Is a singular fact, that while orr polti-
clan has inherited his fathers propensity to change
from one extreme to another, none of the pccu-
| liar apti,udenerS .dispasitions, in which it was
displayed Sfhe "a xs6ded down torthe
SON. The statessfSa has no ear ferznfnsic or
sense of religion, & "a cannot distinguish Yankee
Doodle from Gad Saye the King, or the chant of
TIE Deum. Theklkhcing faculty of the family
has run off in collateral line. and the inheritance
rests at present in a,Mr Henry CLAY, who is a
cousin of the once Honorable Secretary. This
lively relative, who bears striking resemblance
to his distinguished kinsman, is an admirable
dancing master, and exceedingly expert at Drag.
He facetouisIy insists that there IS no difference
between hi, talents and his namesake's. except
that makes his flourishes with his head. while his
own abilities are exerted in his heels"
We omitted through inattention, to thank our
correspondent in Virginia for his interesting and
graphic sketch Of the capture OF the PIRATE, pub
lished in Tuesdays Gazette. We shall be glad
TO hear often from him.
&SSS
The London Literary Gazette of March con-
tains an account of one of the most curious disco
vcrcs that has been effected in the useful arts dur
ing he present century-thato of procuring alcohol
or ardent spirit from fermented paste, such as
i, commonly used for making bakers bread, IN
lieu of making an extract of malt or corn, for the
special purpose of raising vinous fermentation
as now pra, tised by the corn distillers. This
mportanr discovery has been made by MIR. Ro-
bert Hicks. a gentleman in the medical profess
SION We question whether the art of distillng
liquor can, in any sense, be now termed ''use-
full one though doubtless this discovery will
have its advantage.
Some speculatons are INDUCED in by the news
papers relative to young Napoleon. "The son
of the Man" is an object o. interest, we expect,
only from the circumstance Of his being that son.
He is of an age, now, to give some proof of his
talents, if there are any in him. The compare
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