Phenix gazette. [volume] (Alexandria [D.C.]) 1825-1833, 1831-05-23

bnet is part Of scheme planned by MIR. Van
Buren,, anu the contamination OF which ne ua'e'
as far forward as 1884. when he hopes TO oecome
the incumbent of the Executive CHAR, III co,ise-
arence of the disabling influence OF age on zen
Jackson. He will then have time TO perfect nus
grand plan of party discipline previous 20 lne
next Presidential campaign. ms idea VI Sc
tiuo hold Of the highest office without encounter
ine the risk of an appeal to the people IN the
first instance, is bold one: but it Is to De sup
posed, that the people, warned in time, Will not
he accessory TO a plot which looks to their own
virtual Acknowledgement, until the Magician mas
obtained his object.
The resignation of the Cabinet has male the
whole community s'pedlbrs III politics" Inc
{. little bald-healed man. from New York has
certainly achieved for himself an immortality OF
some kind or other. To be caricafurcd IN the
print shops, abused by the opposition presses
and all that sort O. thing" is nothing. Eve
ry s.magnanmous and patriotic" statesman must
expect that. But then to have written such
letter as did the "dapper" Secretary in discfos-
ing his "reasons for resigning," renders his
fame at once imperishable; because it is and Will
be unlike every thing else but, perhaps, his own
immortal letter. which is truly erer beginning
nerer begun. ergo, without end. Nothing more
resembles the Secretary's letter than the follow
ing specimen of the Duke uf Grafton's % taking
in pu5Kc.''-Salem Gazette.
"My LoRps-When ! came into the House
this day. l protest did not think it possible
indeed I had formed IN my own breast resolu
ton to the contrary,--but, my Lords, really
thought it impossible, that should be compelled
to trouble your Lordships with my poor thoughts
upon the question before -four Lordships. ne
YER do presume to trouble your Lordships at any
time without feeling pain, an internal regret
"a degree of uneasness which, can with trut'
assure your Lordships. land | fatter myself thai
shall find credit with every noble ord who
hears me- il is not easy for me to have the no
nor of describing to your LordslIps. My Lords
I am called upon, as humbly conceive. and
appeal boldly, not only to the candor OF noble
Lords, but to your Lordships' severe Judgment
whether am not compelled to- declare my sen
timents, as explicitly as | now do, upon the mo
ton upon your Lordships' t"be. Upon thu:
| ground, my Lords, meet the noble Lord with
out fear. though respect his superior abilities
and pledge myself to your Lordsnips for tht
truth Of what l assert. Otherwise, my Lords, I
facts we're not as have stated them, where vii
your Lordships draw the liner My Lords, an
ought not to be astonished. The question ha:
been handled with so much ability by other noble
Lords, that shall content myself with this sim
pie, unadorned declaration of my opinion. Ye
could quote cases, My Lords, which | acct
dentafly met with this morning in the course o
my reading, which, doubt not, would convince
your Lordshps, if conviction were the question
But fear that have troubled your LordShip
too long; shall therefore return to the leadin:
proposition, which had the honor of setting GU
with, and move for an, immediate adjournment
The administration papers are insisting upor
it that the resignation Of Mr.. Ingham and Mr.
Branch were voluntary. because they were only
inrifed to resign. This reminds me of an anec
dote Of Gen. Cooke of Tennessee, so well known
and probably remembered by all advocates o.
reform. While some of his brethren of congress:
were descanting upon the hospitality of the inhab
itants of Washington, by whom they had been &c
often invited out, general G. remarked that he
had never met with any such hospitality; for he
had been invited out but once since he had been
in Washington, and that was by Col. Tatum,
who called at his lodings, and told him, that il
he would rome out he would give him hors,
,rhipping, for some offence he had given the CO.
lonel-Naf. Int.
| -seH6as-
Mysterious Disappearance. drover from
Duchess County, Of the name Of Hurd, IA bro
Their Of General ]. N. M. Hurd, of Albany,) wa:
lit to a bed at Lewis Tavern, in Washington st.
Albany, about four weeks ago, since which time
no trace Of him can be found. He had $4,000
in his possession, and had taken his seat IN Mess
Thorp & Sprague's, but did not 60. Painful sus
picions are naturally e1cited.-.albany E. Jour-
-sxae9oee~
New, enlarged and improved editions of the Rat
ting caricatures, have been successfully brought
out at Philadelphia, in one of which IA friend in
forms us) our learned contemporary OF the Enqu
rer, has been added to the Dranaafis PensonS.
He is not quite so sleek and fat, as the four, but
to atone for his lesnness, the artist has munIfi
Gently provided him with two faces-one at the
head, the other at the tail With one, he is con.
tenplating the hero descending the ladder, with
very equivocal expression-in the back ground
the words "tyrant" and ''curse," are barely legi-
BILE; as you approach the ladder. ''OId Farmer Of
Tennessee" "Saviour Of New Orleans" 'Hero''
and ..Second Jefferson" shine in conspicuous
capitals. With the other face, he is watching
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