Phenix gazette. [volume] (Alexandria [D.C.]) 1825-1833, 1831-03-05
ALEXANDRIA,, ID. &.
SATURDAY MORNING. MaRcH 5. 1881

day until near FOUR O'C'oCk :. Va
are exceedingly annoying and vexat'ous' ana put
our merchants to great Inconvenience. U.S.
they are source of great trouble. cannot ne
Postmaster General be prevailed on to make some
arrangement for our convepiences AS Things are
at present, we are liable to great imposition FROM
SPECTATORS abroad.
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We have been much gratiied by 2 visit to the
Iron foundery established in this place by Messrs
T. w. SMITH & Co. The location of this es-
adjustment will render it convenienrfor the far
mers, millers, SC. in the adjoining counties,
while it will add to the resources OF our town.
Every variety Of work is turned out here.
-2NeS
The recent conduct of the Virginia Senators
has called forth the most unqualified praise. even
from presses opposed to the general political
course of those gentiemen.& will doubtless elevate
their characters, in the eyes of the people OF that
state.
The Richmond Wing says:
ssThe high and disinterested stand taken by
Messrs. Tazewell and Tyler, is worthy of the
Old Commonwealth, which has ever postponed
interest to the honorable, but sometimes unprofit-
able. and sometimes thankless duty. OF protect
ing the Constitution in its purity, and imposing
restrictions On lawless power. 1t has been our
misfortune not always Z agree with Virginia in
her construction of the NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS.
to think her righteous over much, in her COnsti-
tutiona religiOn-but we bow in admiring defer
ence to the Roman spirit which has ever erected
itself against encroachment, and which, when
her voice was OmnipOtent to command, disdain-
ed to profit from the power, and preferred 10 re-
main in honest poverty to enrich and adorn her
self at the expense of the Constitution.
"Contrast the conduct of Tazewel and Tyler,
on this OCCASION, with that of others-with that
of Mr.. Van Buren,, the counsellor of the Turk
ish mission, whose shoes worn when he assailed
Mr.. Adams on account of the mission to Pana-
ma, he may be wearing stll-with that of Ber-
rien, Eaton and Branch, all of whom were mem
bers of the Senate, and all of whom were scan
dalized at the stretch of power in accepting the
invitation to. Panama. without the concurrence Of
the Senate-with that of the 'SecOnd Jefferson"
hims'lf who came to save and rescue the Consti-
t'ton from violence-we lay, contrast the condu t
of raze ell and Tyler, with. that of these men,
srasping the very power they denounced only
four years ago-and let every citizen OF Virginia
feel an honest pride in the devotion to principle
observed by her representation.
"When the Panama question SO deeply asl-
tated the COuntry-when Van Buren,, Berrlen,
Eaton and Branch were representing it as an au-
dacious exercise of unlawful power-when the
Hero at the Hermitage was cOndoling with
them on the violation of the Constitution by
Mr.. Adams--when the indignation OF the
country was invoked to hurl Messrs. Adams and
Clay from power for the very acceptance of the
invitation to Panama-could any man in his
senses, have possibly imagined, that in four years
thereafter, these identical persons, then IN au-
Il no Iou
power. commit pecisely the same violation of the
CONSTITUTIONS Could it have entered into the
imagination of man, that apostacy so fragrant.
regeneration SO frontless, was to be found on
the face of the earth. much less among men
clothed with the character of Senators? Yet so
is The Panama affair has not only been act
ed over again. but exceeded"
The Norfolk Herald says
"Mr. Tazewell has displayed degree of con-
sistency and independence in his opposition to
the Executive respecting the Turkish mission.
which does him infinite credit. WepreteRd not
to enter into the merits of the question:: but GER
anly that which he considered to BE- reprchen-
siDle in Mr.. Adams, (the appointment of Minis
tiers to the Congress of Panama. without consult
ing the Senate and accordingly denounced with
all his ability. he could not, as an honest and in
dependant Statesman, overlook in General Jack
son, Or any other president; and it will be seen
by our extracts, that he has asserted the rights
and dignity of the Senate in the recent case, with
no less energy than he did i'll that of the Panama
Mission which resulted from an administration to
which he was hostile. 1t must be said for Mr..
Adams, however. that he did pay the Senate the
respect of asking their consent to what he had
done; though he qualified il wit. the remark that
he considered it to be within the constitutional
competency of the Executive to dispense with
thai formaity; but we have not heard that even
this slight recognition of the rights Of the Senate
IN relation to the appointments OF the Turkish
mission, was Observed
lNSH
Extract from " An act to reduce into one the
several acts establishing and regulating the Post
Office Department
SEC. %. find be ii further enacted, That If
any person shall frank any letter letters, other
than those ,criten by himself or by has order, or
on The business Of his office, be shall, on convic.
ton thereof pay fine OF ten dollars, and 1t shall
De the especial duty of Postmasters to prosecute
for said offence"
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