Phenix gazette. [volume] (Alexandria [D.C.]) 1825-1833, 1833-07-29

We are well assured that no fioal resolution has
been taken, the one way or the other. An
agent has been appointed by the Secretary OF the
Treasury, under direction Of the President. to
ascertain from the State Banks in the principal
cities, on what terms and in what manner they
are willing to perform the services now rendered
BY the Bank of the United States, it The govern
ment should think proper to remove the dePos.
ites But this measure is not to be understood
To Indicate a determination to take that step
on report of the Agent The whole subject
will then be open for consideration, as il is now
Globe.
Detention of Letters. -'rhe Thomaston Repub
lican mentions recent trial before the Supreme
Court Of Name, Of a case, where the plalntItf
claimed damages against the defendant, post
master, for the alleged detention Of letter by
one of his clerks. 1t was held by the Court.
that If letter arriving at any office Tor an nd.
vidual. is withheld from him when he applies for
it, he may maintain an action on the case against
the Postmaster for the damage sustained in con.
sequence of such omission. 10 this case, the
plaintiff recovered $3.50, Dos. Daily Adu.
LiJeraliiy-There is much preaching in this
world upon iberaty, Often the most bi.
gotted partisans 10 religion and politics. talk the
loudest of liberality. The "i6eral" christian,
for example, libeaIly condemns the iHberat'
christian, IN language so offensive and bitter,
that requires uthf eye to see that the critic
is bigot and fanatic Often 50 with the ''iOerdl'
politician. He can seldom virtue or patriot
ism in an adversary. There is nothing right,
nothing honest which does not square with his
views:--and hence, full of liberality as he pro.
.fesscs to be he condemns and vituperates all the
opinions and acts of an opponent So 1t is easy
to see, that man protesting liberal creed, may
be as much of fanatic as he who is fastened to
creed illiberal and proscriptive. Ii is not then
the name of the party which we belong to, which
makes us liberal men, but the manner in which
we sustain It. There are fanatics aud blgots in
all parties, their influence often is such,
that party at first liberal, becomes at times yio
lent and proscr,ptive.
True lIberality when interviewer with our cha
racter, manifests itself on all occasions. 1t is
charitable to adversaries, humane, generous IN
the construction OF motives, and cautious IN the
exercise of power once obtained. Excitement at
times may affect even such liberality but it 1t is
thrown off Of it's poise, it soon returns to its ma
turaI position. On the contrary, Iiberality is al
ways snarlng, always captious, always seeing
with an evil eye. always putting the worst con-
struc,ion on ali acts. 1t can see no good which
does not meet its idea of good. II can see no re-
lision, no honesty in creeds that do not III its own.
1t can allow no man TO be honest unless he IL
man Of their faith The moral which we mean
to draw from all this, is,-judgea mans libera'l,y
Of character not by his opinions, SO much as by
his manner Of supporting them Portland COar.
Srange!-rhe following. extract from Con.
nectcut paper. has bern spoken Of 10 "fribule
to Andrew Jackson!"
"IIe travels unarmed and unattended, but by
his household, by day or night, through land
where every house he sees is his home and every
man he meets is already enrolled as his life
guard"
The remark is weI-and proper. But the
servile stupidity is in reference to it as some
thing extraordinary. The "colar" is manifest!
Nune but a groveliipg slave-a fit subject for
the sultan Of Turkey, would imagine a president
of the United States travelling otherwise-for So
in heaven! always will do. We have seen |
president Adams taking care Of his own bag
gage in the steamboat-and sitting down at the
common table, like any other passenger-and
thus, We hope, that it ever will be. And there
are tens of thousands Of men, who were most
decided in their opposition to the election Of gene
raj Jackson to the Presidency, who would have
risked their lives to have prevented the insult in
flicted on president Jackson by ex.lieutenant
Randolph, had they been present, and foresaw
what was about to happen. And the general
Idea given out in the preceding extract, is as old
as the constitution. We saw general WASH.
lSeros thus proceeding to New York. totake his
first oath as president-apd have seen President
on his return to Mount Vernon -
g unarmsd and unattended. but by his own
Il r
cornered revolutionary hat, and heartily shake
hands with him who was "6rst in war,
first in peace, and first in the hearts Of his eoun-
IS name and fame" will outlve
The pyramids Of Egypt, and be more and more
cherished as time shall halIow their adamant.-
Il is the glory of our country that such things
always have been; and to suppose that they can