Phenix gazette. [volume] (Alexandria [D.C.]) 1825-1833, 1832-08-22
ALEXANDRIA, Cd. c.
,v.oyrsnsY MORNING. AUGUST %. 1852.

hmm of ribaldry with as much apparent ease as
they gorge the treasury pap and seemingly IN
,bs vein of D'Israeli, who fell in love with his
e,ne;ss AZ he wrote and finished his work con
ouaore, only sorry that he had no more to say.
We are led to this remark by reading the COM
ments, in Yesterdays "Oficial Government
Jourual.n on Mr.. Isaac Hills speech and in re-
NV 70 some observations made in the Intellisen-
Ger On the same production. The comment IS
worthy the text Of the Orator; and the Editor IS
both naired and matched with the Senator: Par
Mobile frdtrum.
Fortified by having passed through a regular
course of medicine, zee read the speech OF the
Hon. Senator; and to that circumstance alone do
we attribute our escape from the bad conse'
r,epces which, it seemed rational to suppose.
would have followed the effort.
1t is a low, miserable, jacobinical farrago.-
Destitute Of any graces of style, beauty of lam
suage, aptness of expression. or scintillatIon OF
wit, it is a dull newspaper trade against MIR.
Clay and Mr.. Webster, and generally against
the opposition in and out Of Congress. We care
not whether the reader Of the speech be for jack
son or Clay, if he is a man of a good heart, he
will fling it down in contempt before he finishes
II.
We will state, for the especla! edihcation OF
our townsmen, that the act for the benefit OF our
Canal ia mentioned by the Hon. Senator, IN his
speech, as one of the '.damning sins" commit
ted at the last session. o.! worthy sage, how
,rnronriarely ant thou written down "iSack
hill!
This is the speech which the Globe praises;
and for the truth Of the description we give OF it,
we appeal to any honest Jackson man within a
thousand miles Of Us.
The Pr resident Of the United States had not
arrived at Nashville on the 9th instant. A pub
lc meeting Was held there on the 9Th, when a re-
solution was adopted for the appointment OF a
committee to make suitable arrangements for his
reception, and inviting him to partake of a pub
lie dinner. The Mayor Of Nashville presided at
the meeting, which was not large. No speeches
were made at it, little enthusiasm eyinced, and
but one resolution passed.
There is much truth a, well as homes, feeling
in the following passage. which we extract fro"
a Speech recently delivered by General Dear.
born, at the Dinner given to Mr.. sprague and MIR.
Holmes, at Portland:
"The people are always generous, always con-
iding. In electing Andrew Jackson To the Pre-
sidehcy, they elected an imaginary beins-an
imaginary Patriot. an Imaginary Statesman. A
military frenzy put hun where he IS. and the gov
eminent now reels to its foundation. An attempt
Is made 10 destroy the best men and the best mea-
sures. An attempt is made to array one class OF
society against another, the poor against the rich,
and the rich against the poor, by appealing to the
most unworthy prejudices. Your greatest men
are denounced as aristocratsw when they have been
the makers of their own fortunes. Who was
HESaY CLAY, now standing on the elevated
height of Craftsmanship, and admired by the
Whole Union for his talents and his patriotism!
Let tine motto over yonder arch respond, which
SAYS. "IhtG only infancy. Indulgence, ant tg-
noraace for my heritage" Who is DANIEL
WEBSTER but the son of a New Hampshire farm
err, s%pringing from the lOins of honest industry:
Are such men as these TO be tainted and t~rampled
upon. because they have found their way to the
IuIlClsS VI llCi NoNAiN ~ u'o e'N - Nt"S
rich harvest of renown? The nature of our in
s%titutious is to raise the poor, and to distribute the
fortunes Of the rich. And no man, or no mans
son. who has the intellectual power, is forbidden
or prevented from aspiring with confidence to be
some day or other laundering in our national
councils with the sloquenee of Demosthenes or
a Chatham"
That part Of the conversation OF the President.
before referred to. which relates to Nit. Webster,
is thus noticed in the Boston Daily Advertiser OF
Wednesday last.
"He is reported to have said. among other
things. that he had no doubt it would De discov-
cred. If sutiic lent investigation were made. that
many Of the prominent advocates OF the Bank
Bill, were bribed for their support; and Particu.
larry that the Bank had recently loaneJ Mr..
Webster ten tholsand dollars, and had accepted
him also. as endorser for Messrs. Gales and Sea-
ton, for a like SUN.
..In answer to this SANDER, and in addition
to the mere scorn and contempt which 1t e~y>ltes,