Phenix gazette. [volume] (Alexandria [D.C.]) 1825-1833, 1831-02-14

branded as false fom and dirty; ANA let the mem
her who quotes from their pages the history and
impress Of the times. be reproached as bockhead,
BLACKBOARD. slanderer-and what more could
the Secretary of State desire, which he would
not he sure to obtain? Sir, such consumma-
ton would have saved to Charles the throne
of France; and to the patriots Of that country,
their revolutiun.
did quote for the secret article, in the Turk
ISL Treaty, from the newspaper: dares the gen.
tleman question the truth of the quotation! Had
drawn bow with more advised aim, could
the pigeon on the pole have Hu,tcred more mani
testify? The gentleman has, Notwithstanding
all these assertions, accused me of drawing my
facts from perjured Senator. Has it come to
this? Was it found necessary not to commit our
first treaty with the Great Disciple of Mahomet
to the Christian Senators of the United States,
until their lips were sealed with the solemn'tles
of an oath? 1t is "a new formula in the executive
department of the Senate; and will appear by the
published journals of that body to have had no
place in their proceedings until the present ses-
sion. When a treaty 10 1895 was published by
Senator against AN injunction OF that body, VINO
accused him Of perjury The gentleman whose
mission is now under consideration, did on this
floor, pronounce IA studied eulosium on Stephens
Thompson Mason, the Senator who published
that treaty. Woud he eulosise perjury: Sir, the
secret article published before the treaty was
announced to the House, or sent to the Senate
The correspondence on the West India question
was published in the same manner. Has Tue
Secretary of State adopted this method, anu PUT
out his feelers, to take the national pulse!
| do not ask what warranted bat who author
lied or instructed, encouraged the gentleman
to connect perjury with that venerated word
which desonates the members of National
Council, the most dignifed and honorable on
earth:
How could shun insult, when such men are
revileds do not ask by what statesman or
gentleman, but bv what apology for a man: In
what other assembly On earth, has .'the hoary
head" been used as a term of reproach: Has the
gentleman passed SO far beyond the yig0r, and
bloom and mcdesty of juvenescence, that he has
forgotten the amiable instinct OF our nature which
warns our youth to pay in advance that cOnsid-
Grafton to age which it may come to desire for it
self? Though grey hairs have been held in re-
spect BY barbarans in all countries, and by even
the most prohigate and unmannered in all ages,
yet knowing that (abovo al pumas) am not dis
appointed in the language or demeanor of the gen
tleman from N. York. Men, better than | am,
have been revicd in their age by men no better
than he is. Washington was calleda ''hoary
headed incendiary.' by vasabond of Almost
unparalleled mendacity and impudence. The
6 bald head" is, assure the gentleman, no
joke; though he seems to be original in using it
as such. Thi, Inconvenience, or if you please,
imperfection, has been suffered by some very
great men; but quite rarely, if ever, mas It been
experienced nv any very little ones. Caesar is
said 10 have been more grateful to the Roman
People for granting him the right to wear the lau
rel crown than for any other of their gifts; be-
cause the wearing it enabled him to conceal the
exterior badness of his head. If it be true, as
Shakespeare tells us it is. that what nature has
scanted men in wit. she has made up TO them in
hair, then the gentleman believe, should he
win laurel crown, ould never like Caesar
have occasion to wear it, for any lack of that
commodity.
Who reviled the prophet, returning from the
blazing translation of his master, with cOunte-
nance bright with the glories of opening Heaven
and wrapt in the mantle of Elijah-who, sir, re.
viled the prophet for his "bald head?" Profit
gate yoang men, boys, children as they are call
ed; the scam and s'ceepings of the city, and as
we find by the historians, fl only for food for
those animals which are fed on ofai.
The gentleman is equally out in his ornitholo-
gy, as in every thing else. The bird of Jove,
not the vulture is the soaring wonder, by men
Ciueu te ~ Ddiu EaSit, aHo, SIT, never was
that /" soaring eagle, in his pride of place, hawk
ed at and brought down by the housing OWL"
-sGGoG5es.-
GEoRGETowN, I'D. C.) February 10.
Another of those dangerous blasts, which have
so often threatened destruction to portions of our
town and its inhabitants. was made on Tuesday
afternoon, about O'CLOCK, from the neIghborhood
of COngress-street. The fragments of rock flew
in almost every direction and fell in the streets
which were at the time thronged with passengers,
horses and vehicles. 1t is a most miraculous in.
terposition of Providence that no lives were lost
although one black man had very narrow es.
cape; he was sitting on the step of the door of a
frame house on Bridge-street, recently occupied
by William Dant, Tailor, and which had only
been vacated few days; stone weighing IA
pounds struck the front door, bursting it open &
grazing the arm of the man which it slightly
bruised; after entering the house it glanced side
ways until it came against the partition between
that and the adjoining house, also frame, occu-
pied by Mrs. Clark, Miliner; the glass doors of
her show cases were shattered to pieces, and the