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

public expenditure; no official tamperlns with the
press. to perpetuate the dynasty; no SELECTION OF
members of Congress for Offices of profit. Pub
lie expectation on these topics has not been rea-
lied. | excuse a generous co.hding fresldeht'
and hold the willy subtle Minister and his suDaI-
terms liable for the failure. will pay portion
Of nv share of the debt by putting my veto ca
this appointment.
Sir, we are told, If we reject the nominee we
shall surely make him Vice President, ana sucn
is the substance Of letter before me from one OF
his confidential and favored editors. NO one can
mistake the object Of the Baltimore Convention;
ii is to nominate him in any event Look al tne
source whence it originates; observe the douo'e
delegates from Ohio gotten up under the central
influence here. do not. however, regard IT ot
any sort Of Importance, whether lie be MADE vice
President or not. shall not resort to the com
mon pretence Of eft.handed friendship, and place
my reasons for voting Oh the ground that he Is TOO
useful to be absent. shall do what Is my duty,
and let consequences take care OF themselves.
In closing my remarks, ON this somewhat ex-
citing topic, permit me to express my acknow-
Judgments to the Senate for their consideration,
while have stated in a hasty, imperfect. and un-
premeditated manner my opinions of the claims
of the nominee to public confidence. and the rea-
sons of my refusa! to vote for his confirmation.
Extract from M. Marcy's Speech.
IF any honorable Senator has reason to believe
that the person whose nomination Is now under
consideration. is chargeable with improper con-
duet, and will introduce resolution specifying
the charge, and asking for inquiry, he would give
it his support as readily as any member OF that
body; that the resolutions offered by the Senator
from Maine. (Mr. Holmes,) were OF an exception
in
directly if it may be so considered. the lntegrl-
,y of the President, by proposing to ask IT he had
stated the true reasons for the dissolution OF his
late cabinet II will bring before the committee,
! if it should be adopted a mass Of matters, very
difficult to be inquired into, and not at all con-
nected as he conceived. with the vote TO be given
on the nomination of Mr.. Van Buren,. No com
u,ittee to which these resolutions will be sent,
will voluntarily enter into the various matters
which some gentlemen may suppose to be within
the scope Of the inquiry into the causes OF the
dissolution of the late cabinet. and the Senate
ought to impose that labor on them, unless 1t be
proposed to shoy that Mr. Van Buren, had an
agency in that AFFAIR Ii is not pretended-cer-
tainly not. BY the resolutions-that he was con.
neGted with the event. 1t is true that the reso.
lutions, after the Introduction of much valent
matter. propose TO inquire whether MIR. Van Bu-
rem had not participated in practices dls9racelul
to the ma iona character. &c.
| Let any Senator, whn believes such practices
ever had. in point Of fact, any existence, put
them forth specifically in resolution, aud he
would he said, vo,e 10 send it To a committee for
investigation. and if they were found to be true
let the nominee be rejected. The designation for
nsfences by the terms of ''practces dlsgracetul
20 the national cbaras ter was very vague-qute
too vague. The nature ard character of these
practices should oe defined. that the Senate may
know the duty they impose, and the committee
The duty they arc required to perform.
The proposed resolutions, as now shaped, make
no specific charge. and give no certain direction
10 the inquiry. He therefore felt himself called
on to vote against them, to vote for laying them
on the table: but when case for inquiry was pre-
sented he would vote for going into II. Indeed he
wished to be distinctly understood as inviting in
quiry; but in fairness, it should be on specified
charges.
As to some of the practices intended probably
| to be embraced in the resolutions, we have. he
said, the solemn public denial of Mr. Van Buren,,
| accompanied with challenge to all the world for
proof and no man had vet been found to accept
that challenge and come forth with proof. Those
who best know the charact ter and conduct Of the
| nominee. reel tlP Iullest COn1ueilCe tidt
dishonorable or degrading in the slightest degree.
can b. substantialed So far, therefore, from clos
ing the door of investigation. they are willing to be
instrumental in opening 1t.
Er,ract from Mr.. Ewing's Speech.
| The Hon. Senator from North Carolina has
said that the treaty negotiated by our Minister
| at London, under the instructions which are now
the subject of animadverson, is splendid trea-
ty-that it has yielded and will yield a golden
harvest to our people; and that it is the success
of the negotiation, casting all others in the shade
which has excited envy and animosity against
the parties concerned in that brilliant transac
ton. Sir. said Mr. E. it is the common resort
of all men when brought to answer for mis-
demeanor. to retort the charge of envy or enmity
against their accusers. Pretences OF this kind
can always be advanced-though not Arrays sus
tanned; and when supported by evidei ce, and
not resting on mere assertion, they are entitled
to no weight, except in those cases in which the
accusation to be repelled, rests tor ts support
upon the eridence of the envlous and malignant
accuser What has it to do with the question