Phenix gazette. [volume] (Alexandria [D.C.]) 1825-1833, 1832-02-07

of late administrations, from this adherence TO
the example Of General Washington. But there
was one Cabinet Council called to set OF I.ady's
renut.tien. Indeed: and this Mr..Van Buren, Is
ais, apswerabe for; and is It true, Sir, that the
&,norable members of the late Cabinet. who re-
maiaed SO TRANQUILITY at their posts enjoying all
their condiments and honors with becoming gra-
tification Suffered themselves to be deprived OF
their accustomed rights of seat and voice at the
Council Board Of deliberations on great matters
of vital interest the public, and yet obeyed the
beck and call Of Mr.. Van Buren,, to set upon
Lady's reputation! f~hat stuff were they made,
that they did not distinctly ascertain if this re.
striotion Of claimed right, and this insulting call
upon them to step out Of their appropriate spheres,
was the work Of Mr.. Van Buren, or the act Of the
President. If the first, why did they not demand
his dismission. and. if refused, Indignantly throw
their commissions in the teeth of the Chief Ma
sstrate The omitted Cabinet Councils. and the
SIMPLE call, were no such dreadful offences until
obliged to follow Mr.. Van Buren's example and
resign. The history Of the last year establishes
the wisdom of the President in calling no Cabl-
net Council to deliberate, as there could have been
no harmony in their consultations and on the sim
gle question said to have been submitted the Ex-
Cabinet have shown themselves incompetent to
decide on Lady's reputation. for they threw out
!! of view, on the question Of how she should be
. treated. her guik or innocence will not con.
descend further to refer to the trash with which
the public press has been loaded and polluted for
months, and unless the Senator from Mississippi
has better evidence than the public has yet seen,
the hope of duplicating Mr.. Van Buren, in the
disturbances that proceeded the dissolution OF the
Cabinet, is forlOrn. Let US SEE the next crime
in the catalogue of the Senatur from Mississippi
(Mr. Poiudexter); Mr.. Van Buren, intrigued the
dissolution of the late Cabinet, takiDy care pre-
yiously to secure safe and prominent retreat in
the Mission TO England. |, is known to every
well informed man in this District that Mr.. Van
Buren,, by his admirable temper. his conclliatory
manners aud unwearied exertions, kept the Ca
binet together long after its dscordant materials
we're 50 I'll ascertaned that its dissoutlon sooner
or later was a matter Of common speculation. SIR,
nobody, doubted that the parties could not get on
together. and the only surprize was. that the Pre-
sident did not proceed to restore harmony by the
removal of those whose disagreements produced
the discord But Mr.. Van Buren, had the unpa-
ralleled effrontery to resign on motives ol deli
cacy and disinterestedness, and as this mode OF
conduct was so unusual IT has excited vast deal
of surmse and wonder. The Senator from Mis-
sissippi (Mr. P has however Satisfactorily to
himself solved the mystery Mr.. Van Buren,
ranged himself into prominent place before
he resigned, and new Cabinet to suit his ambl-
tious views Now Sir, as to the proof Of this
preconcerted arrangement for his accommodation
and elevation. The President told somebody
who was late Secretary. that Mr.. Van Buren
was 10 go to England. and named to him The Sc
cretarigs. who were come in; but this was afer Mr.
Van Buren, had resigned In The in;eryiew. 1t is
acknowledged that Mr.. Van Buren's letter of re-
sisnation was handed to this volunteer repeater
of confidential conversation with the Chief Ma
eistrate. But the Senator, says it was before has
letter ,oas publshed-thence he concludes MIR.
". b. had made a cats paw of the President,
for the promotion Of his own views: most iogl-
cal inference. truly. And this new Cabinet ar
ranged to further Mr.. V. BPS unholy ambition.
Is there man, woman, or child in the country, who
does not know and feel that the change has been
beneficial to the public, that there is now more
strength, more virtue, and more harmony than
there was before? Is there any man VINO will
hazard his reputation, by asserting that the pre-
sent Secretaries are capable of being made the
instruments Of any mans ambition, or so subject
to the undue bias of individual influence, as the
late! Partizans are not substituted for pure, dis
interested patriots, and let me say, Sir, that
more parrizans have gone out than have come in.
But this mission to England was not sought BY
Mr. Van Buren,: his friends know that it was press
ed on i'm BY the President, and that it was re.
luctantly accepted at the earnest solicitations oil
friends who were satisfied it would promote his
own reputation, and rebound to the honor and
welfare of the nation. will not follow, further
the Senator's lead.
Long known to me as politician and man,
acting together in the hour of political adversely,
when we had lost all but our honor-a witness
of his movements when elevated 10 power, and
in the possession Of the confidence Of the Chel
Magistrate. and Of the great majority Of the PEG
pie, have never witnessed aught in Mr.. Van
Buren, which requires concealment. palllation. or
coloring-never any thing to lessen his character
as patriot and Manufacturing which he might
not desire to see exposed the scrutiny Of every
member Of this body, with the calm confidence Of
unsullied integrity. He is called an artful man
giant Of arti6ce--a willy magician. From HON
does he receive these opprobrious namess From
open enemies and pretended friends. In the
midst Of all the charges that have been brought
against him, IN shapes more varying than those Of
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