Phenix gazette. [volume] (Alexandria [D.C.]) 1825-1833, 1832-02-02

80; ,h. ,,,s massaoe of the President as atfOrdlng
indications of a change more favorable than here
tofor. to the principles maintained" by them
This. it is hoped, will operate against him IN the
other States. The Columbia school OF politics
would do honor to such master as Machiavelll."
submit whether do not stand jus titled in the
opinion of the Senate, in pronouncins this wan
ton and unwarrantable calumny. Look at the
message It's skillfully framed to please the
South with general phrases, suited to the tar'n
interests. Look at the Treasury report in winch
a seesaw is established on the bank with the mes.
sage; and NAV ask where is the strongest proof
of Machavielism to be found in the federal papers
or the State resolutions? Here Mr.. Miller read
extracts from papers iron Pennsylvania, to show
the message was understood there as in South
Carolina. Sir. the present administration seems
DISPOSED to test Indifferent and vel! secured sup
porters, BY rule resorted to among farmers or
hunters. TO select from redundant kennel what
supernumeraries eau be drowned by holding up
bv the ear For nv part. | am determined not
to place myself in the power OF such political
friends as will attribute my support to lear, ana
not TO principle. As soon as vote Tor the n0ml-
nee, shall be told dare not to otherwise, your
friends at home attempt to break down the Presl-
dent bv praisns him, and they dare not do 1t
onenly. and they vote for Mr.. Van Buren, to in.
lure him, not from any principle OF attachment to
the President, but because you want to make the
tariff States believe he is aDtl-tarf, and thereby
break him down upon the Machavielan plan. We
are told we dare no, oppose the President, Sir,
the people that represent dare DO any thing th@
Jrare and generous men dare do; aud standing
here dare speak the truth and vote against the
principal, who uses such agents to represent them
at the court of St. James l believe. Sir, the
statement read by the Senator from Mississippi.
as the nominees reason for the dissolution OF the
late cabinet, to his friends in New York; be-
ieye he did say that it was owing toa conspiracy
formed by the Vice President. Secretaries IT the
Navy and Treasury, and Attorney General, to
exclude virtuous woman from society, and do
believe that in making this statement he did not
speak the truth
believe, moreover, from the information be-
fore the public, that heplanned. was the beginning
aud end, the Alpha and Omega, If the breach IN
the personal friendship between The first and Sc
cond officers of the Government; his trail may
be found IN the circumstances, and the motive
was palpaLle and manifest. Who else had any
interest in raking up these by gone transactions
In which YOU acted your part honestly and faith
fully, both to the public ard General Jacksoh:
Sir, recollect something of he Seminole war.
1t was in this dark and difficult hour OF the Pre-.
s,dent's lite, that first saw. and frst had an OPP
pOrtunity fn manlfesting my friendship TO him,
at time when the sedatc and venerable fathers.
such as Macon, Barbour, and Smith. o South
Carolina, !uwred and spike in dark hiuS of CEN
sure and reprobation; declared my determine
ton to sustain him right or wrong. felt CRATE
full for his military services, and would not con
sent while he was the exponent of our Govern
ment in quarrel with Spain, to censure him.
| recolect to have heard the doggrel verse about
William Fell, affirmativeIy applied to me by the
honororabe Senator from Kentucky, then Speak
err of the other House, who hen, as we'll as now,
stood forth openly and boldly IN opposition to
him. | recolect also the part my TREND from
Mississippi took in that debate, He was the noble.
eloquent, and accomplished advocate Of his mill
tary fame, and when he concluded was cheered
from the galIeries-but where was the Senator
from Georgia?
If mistake not, Cobb. Crawford. &c led the
VAN of attack. After all. this matter was ra-
ther excused than justified. 1t was the generous
attachments Ut Young men. and not the sober
Judgment Of the old, that sustained the conduct
of the commanding general in the Seminole war;
and | am al a loss for any good reason to resus-
citate II, except to enable parties to change posi-
ton. With all the hazard of differing from the
Senator from Georgia, declare my determine.
ton in the execution of the appointing power.
to hold any one as criminal who buddy, openly,
and indecently invades public sentiment and pub
lie morals As the guardians of female charac-
ter, must sustain the majesty and supremacy
of female virtue. For my part, am ready to
put the seal of condemnation on him who shall
attempt, knowingly, to narrow down the distance
in society which separates the suspected from the
modest woman, and upon such information as sa-
ts6es me believe the nominee obnoxious to such
a charge. The gentleman FROM Georgia has, in
bold aud eloquent language asked for the nomi-
nee, at the hands of the Senate, justice. Sir,
will give him justice; the measure meted to 9TH
ers, will mete to him. With cold and Sardo.
mic smiles, he dismissed from Office the most faith
full public servants, without any reference to eco
nomy or the public interest. He prescribed the
Carolinians--recaled popular Minister from the
Russian court, the son of one of the sgners Of
independence, aud sent the Roanoke orator, re-
lying on his influence in the good Old dominion
to further his pretensions. He recalled Mr.. Poin-
sett, an accomplished gentleman, from Mexico,
and sent frontier character, a rambling states