Phenix gazette. [volume] (Alexandria [D.C.]) 1825-1833, 1832-07-24
"None bit himself can be has parallel"
From the Dela,oare Journal.

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some time aga was clerk in the General Post Of.
hce, and distinguished himself by writing let
ter to Postmaster General Barry, filled with the
most fulsome adulation Of the said Post Master
General and the Hero; to which letter Mr. Post
Master General replied. eulosising the said Mr..
| Gwinn for various excellent qualities, among
which his "devotion to the President" was par
ticularly extollrd This correspondence was
published, with an appropriate flourish, in the
Globe, and the whole circle Of hireling presses,
as proof positive of the virtue Of the adlninistra-
ton, and of the excellence and purity OF MIR.
Barry aud the Post Office Department. a few
days explained the object of this sentimental cor
| Respondents The Post Office clerk was look
| ing for higher Office, and his diSiterested at,
tachnent to the hero and MIR. Barry. was re-
warded with the appointment Of Register OF
Land Office in Mississippi. with salary Of
about $4,000 per annum. Mr.. Pondexter, the
Senator Of Mississippi, when the nomination
came before the Senate. denounced 1t as an In
suit to his State that Post Office clerk, who had
never been in the Slate, should be sent from
Washington to fill one of the most lucrative 9th
! ces in it, merely because Of his "devOtiOn to
the President" The Senate rejected the nom-
nation by vote Of more than two to one. The
subsequent proceedings in the case lave come to
our knowledge in consequence Of the removal OF
the injunction of secrecy upon the proceedings
in the Senate. an the last day OF the session.
Gwinn. it seems. had endeared himself to the
man who was :. born TO command, - By his let
ter to Mr.. Barry; and he was enraged at the Sc
nate for daring to resist his nomination. 1t was
a small matter. ipleed-but our hero is accustom.
ed 20 shine in small matters and he set his heart
upon carrying Mr.. Gwinn through the ordeal
G~in's father was sent TO Mississippi to travel
three IN the State and obtain recommendations
for ats son. After beating about the State for
Fl months, the nendicant collector obtained
list of about two hundred petitioners;-
men. who like Falstaff's ragged recruits, were
obliged to get other men TO write their names;-
and upon the strength Of this respectable docu-
ment, the Hero re.numinated Samuel Gwinn to
the Senate. Gwinn himself, the interesting ob-
ject of all these hopes and cares had been further
recommending himself to favor, in the meantime,
by abusing Mr.. PoIndeyter in scnrvy Jackson
paper in Mississippi. The Senate, indignant at
this fresh insult on the part of Jackson asd being
apprised of the circumstances attending the case.
refused, by large majority to take any notice Of
the denomination, further than to lay upon the
table, with an understanding that it should not
be touched again. The g conqueror Of conquer
ors" was enraged-he was, as Col. Johnson said,
like {" roaring lion''-and he swore, that he ne
yer would fill the vacancy with any citizen ct
Mississippi, let the Senate do as it would. Ano-
Their opportunity, however, presented Itself Tor
display of the magnanimity Of the Hero. As on
former occasion, he had taken advantage OF the
absence of certain Senators, to smusgIe Major
Noah through the Senate, it;was now determined
to practise the same trick in relation to Gwinn.
In the last week OF the session many Of the Sena.
tors who voted against Gwinn had gone home,
and MIR. Powbatan Ellis, Senator from Mssis
sipp, was persuaded to move the reconsideration
OF Gwinn's case, and to secure his fidelity-a
work of superogation-Mr. Ellis was himself no.
minated as District Judge of Mississippi. Mr..
Senator Ellis part Was to have G~inn's nolnina-
| ton called up before his own. He made the mo-
ton accordingly, aud he and Mr.. Moore Of Ala.
bama, stated, that the President had told them,
that he would make no other nomination than MIR.
Gwinn.
THIS reiterated instance of insult and per6Jy
excited deep sense of indignation in the Sc.
nate. Those who had opposed his nomination,
declared, that if this violation Of the pledge for
merly given, not to take up this subject again,
should be persisted in in the absence of Senators
| who had gone home with that understanding,
they would also 90 home and leave the Senate
without quorum, and not only let Mr.. Gwinn's
nomination remain unc0nfirmed, bit Senator Ell.
lis also. The President pro tenn. (Mr. Taze.
weIl) and Messrs Tyler aud Mangum, it is said,
expressed their indignation at this attempt Of the
Executive to trample the Senate under foot, and
their determination to vote against the appoint
ment under such circumstances. The result IS.
that Mr.. Gwinn still sleeps upon the table Of the
/ Senate. This is a long story upon small
subject-but it rs important to show the petty
motives, the patty tricks and the ungovernable
passions Of the man who, the official paper says,
is 'sborn TO command" the American people.
Fumigaiion.-W learn, officially, that the
Surveyor of this port is being fumigated at
Providence. Mr.. Van buren, underwent the
same process in Germany. All great men do
not like to be smoaked; and, however Major No.
ah may relish the operation, we are told that the
Ex- Minister demonstrated Justify against the per.
formance; and that the Executive is highly in
diguant about tn Y Com.
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