Herald of the times. [volume] (Newport, R.I.) 1830-1846, 1831-03-09

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er warm me. My constitution is worn
out in the public service. IshaH be SICK
Il am sick. Unjust reside elsewhere, any
where, in England, in France; III more
genial climate than that ofy your majesty, s
capital. 1t is too much to be supposed,
even of Mr. Randolph. lie presented
his AT credentials and commssion.-
His ELSEWH ERE credentials and
commission were retained for use when
he should arrive, | know not where, but
certainly eisewhere.
Sir, our law has been evaded; the Con
stitution has been evaded; the laws OF
nations have been cvaded the President,
the Senate, and our imperial Friend,
have been deceived; and the Minister
himself, suffering himself to be made
party to this imposition, has fallen into
the depices ofthe Secretary; has been by
him got ont of the country on mission
illegal, uoid, and nugdtory; and is now,
the doplorable dupe of State ri,fce, ,cruls-
ing about Europe, like some cOntrabdhd
trader, under Il dOubIe commission, and
with tco sets of papers.
Will it be contended by the supporters
OIL tnlS tndl liiS
will, after months of recess from the pub
lie service at the Russian Court, return
thther, and by years OF efficient labor,
efiace all memory of this interval o! idle
ness and neglect? What cause, sir,
have we to believe he will ever return to
St. Petersburgh? Observe what has
the Secretary told us in the Message.
eff, as IL is 10 be hoped, the improve
ment of his health should be such as to JUS
tify him in doing so, he will repair to ST.
Petersburgh, and resume the discharge
of his official duties" This does not
affirm that he will return; it aifirms that
s'it is to be hoped he may be weH enough
to do so. o."-According to the Message,
awant of health took him away from that
Court. Different reasons were given
for those facts, by the official papers.
BY the Richmond Official the summer
heat compelled his departure: by the
Official in This City, the approaching
cold of the then coming W,n'er drove hlm
to seek a more genial climate. In Rus
sia summer is said to burst from the fro
zen bosom of winter, like sheet OF
flame from Mount !Iccla; and to spread
its warming, blaze, burning influence al
once over the whole region AT times,
intense is the temperature, that the pine
forests take fire from the heat OF the at
mosphere. ! have read Russian trav-
eller, who says vegetation Is so rdp'd,
that, on a soil thawed not more than one
foot deep, the ground is pIoughed, the
wheat sown, grown, rlpcneC and harves-
ted in SIR tceeks. Winter comes on the
country as summer came, extinguishlng
at once the heat of the air and earth, by
throwing down and spreading out one
vast sheet of snow, from Cronstadt to
Kamtschatka The genial and Joyous
airs of Spring, the sober and gladstone
sunshines and shades of Autumn, known
under the Haiian skies Of Virginia, have
nerer visited, and never can visit a Rus
sian climate. Unless, therefore, this
gentleman can visit Russia in Summer,
when he has been compelled to leave it;
or in Winter, when he dares rot approach
it, he cannot return again to St. Peters
burgh. What reason had the Secretary
for the hopes, expressed in the Message,
that the renoratcd health of Mr.. Ran
dolph, might induce him to return: Per-
delivered on this floor little more than ,
years ago:
''Sr, what can the country do for me: AS foI
power, what charm can it have for one Ike me! II
power had been my object. | must have been les
sagacious than my worst enemies have represented
me to be if had not obtained it.
Was it ofice' What, sir, to drudge in your labor
atories in the Departments, or be 1T the tail cf Y0U'
corps diplomatic in EErOpe' lNledt To Siberia, y
Alas! sir, in my condition, n cUp n c0H Tdt',
T0uM be more dccepfdbie W hat can the conn-
try give me that do not possess IN the confidence
of such constituents ever had before
can retire to my old palrlnonl trees, where
may the rise and set in peace.
i shall retire upon my resources Will go bach
to the bosom of my constituents.
And shall give up them aud this And for what:
For the heartless amuSemeuts and vapld pleasures
and tarnished honors of this abode of splendid ms
ery, Of shabby spentour; for "A ccr,shlp IN the
War Office, or "A FOREIGN MISSION, 10 d0nc'
attendance ABROAD inste0d Of At HoME o
even for Department itself? Sir, tlnty years make
sad changes in man.
IfeeI that hang to existence by a single h0j'
that the sword of Damocles is suspended ovc
me-"
VIII this gentleman, think you return
to Russia, hanging to existence by SIN
gle hair? Will he travel from region
to region of Europe, with this sword o
Damocles dangling over his head by q
tie equally ottenuated? Never, sir, nev.
er; and, if he never do return, as he mos
certainly never will, when does his mis-.
sion end if it did not end when he left
the Russian Court? If this mission ever
had a legal beginning, when,or by what
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