Phenix gazette. [volume] (Alexandria [D.C.]) 1825-1833, 1831-02-14
MR.. burgess,
In reply TO Mr.. Caab. elsng.

IN rfplq 10 IuT. CuHO
We extract from Mr.. BURGESS speech his Sc
we're and cutting retOrt upon Mr.. CAaBRELENG:
The Gentleman from New York has thrown
his ponderosty into the scale of panegyrie. there
by to render the weight of eaogy on the Russian
Minister overwhelming-scrap iron increases the
weight. not the value, of gold. He does admit
some sort of talent in speaking, to the parliament
tary riyalsof himself in eoquence-to Lown'ies,
IN CLAW. and to Webster. Cicero took his tamil
ly name from bean on some part oil MS race;
and doubtless MANY a c0xcOmb has believed MN
self 10 he an orator, because like Cicero, he had
. ,yart nm his nose Somebody has said that
Man, of all the animal creation alone, Is en-
,,owed with vanity" Who ever saw the Cock
Sparrow measuring his wing IN Hight with tne
Falcon? | believe there are gentlemen in tins
Uouse who could give US good reasons why the
eIoouence of the Orator Of Roanoke is so well
recollected by the gentleman from New York. -
No worker Oh the Roanoke plantation has better
reasons 70 remember the elOquence OF the over
seer Much as that eccentric man loved his
90 and sarcasm. he loved his fame more; and
would have spared the lash on that occasion,
couId he have suspected it might bring him into
the Door condition of enduring praise at the hands
of the gentleman from New York Such re-
VENICE for such cause, is said to be peculiar TO
that gentleman. and one species OF one other rare
among Us. :.
Has the gentleman so long been mere adjec-
tive TO the Secretary OF State, ihat ne thnks II
slanderous TO associate the name Of that Poiiu-
cian with any OTHER accident? Children. in these
scientific times, who have advanced somew That III
IN the mysteries of chemistry do, after beating
up soap and water together in basin, amuse
themselves with clean pipe IN blowing up
bubbles and sending them OFT from the bowl IN.
fated and plittering, to sail away moment, and
then hurst aud vanish into their original nothing
NESS. For aught | know the Secretary may be
amusing himself by the same innocent expert
ment. Who would interrupt the sentimental
harmony of political friendship. For all which
he is distinguished, the character oil the Secre-
tary is fixed; it cannot be elerdfed by any laDors
of the prutege--it cannot be lotcered by the ef-
forts of Others. God forbid that should throw
straw in the way of any mans advancement
Their friends are daily carrying and laying at
the cate of the Treasury, those who have eUery
thing to recommend them crcept the paety and
GOOD ,oorks of the beggar in the parable; and
WIN. all alike. desire to be fed from the crumbs
which fall from the tables of those teashng it'll
in. s.uope DEFERRED we find, does "not make
every heart sick" Gentlemen, doubtless, have
assurances that each political Lazarus shall be
served in his turn. The next basket OF broken
meat brought out may be sent to New York, and
amply satisfy the appetite, sharpened by a two
years want oil H.
The gentleman accuses me ola departure from
the question to bring into the debate our late
treaty with the Sublime Porte. Sir, every thing
rendering our Russian relations Important, comes
into any question concerning them do not our
new relations with the great European rival OF
Russia demonstrate more strongly our need of
AN efficient mission at the Court of st. Peters
burphs The Secretary has told US III the mes
s,re. that the black Sea has been opened to us
nv our treaty with the Sublime Porte. The gen.
tieman dces know full well, that the swords OF
onr brave Russian friends not only hewed their
wav through the Balkan down to the plains OF
AdrianOple, but that by the treaty of that city
they, for all purposes of navigation, wdened the
Bosphorus 70 a breadth equal to the Heiiespont,
and thereby united the Euxlne, with the Esean,
Leyant, whole Mediterranean, the Atlantic, and
all other seas aud oceans. What may our Rus
sian imperial friend say to us from receiving for
the Turk as boon, to say nothing of our pro-
mise in return, what his valor, blood, and treasure
had conquered for US and all natiOns? Omitting,
therefore the secret article. does not the opening
the Euxine. either BY the Russian power or by
the Turkish treaty, nightly enhance the impor
lance If this question, and call imperatively on
the Executive for an eff, lent mission at the
Court of ST. Petersburgh? If the gentleman
cannot perceive thus, he IS less statesman than
he would seem to be-; and even much less such,
If that were possible.
But drew my facts from unprncipled parti-
sans and newspaper rumor! said So before-I
drew part of the truth from the Secretary-the
treaty. The other part. the secret article. from
the newspaper.
Sir. il has been the labor of the Secretary's
life to cstobHsh newspapers, entitled to no credit;
and TO diScreGH all Others. lie has founded
school, and is at the head Of it. In that school,
the great axiom is. "every thing IS fair in po-
litics;' and to him are not politics every thing:-
Let him 90 on to improve the condition of the
Press. Let him extInguish the light of truth
wherever he can extend the finger of power. Let
linn do one thing more-aidedby his minions, no
matter where-Let him persuade the people
that the honest the Independent papers Of this
country, are vehicles Of falsehood, and mere ru-