Phenix gazette. [volume] (Alexandria [D.C.]) 1825-1833, 1833-07-24

yo,ion. Lacedeu,on, at no period Of the history
Of Greece, would have presented more .trium-
phantIy glorious attitude, than this state would
have done, small as she is in population and ter.
ritoriai extent. We should have had. not Bill
| Of Compromise, but Bill Of pleDary Repeal and
Paci6cation.
The intestine dissensions which prevented such
consumma.on are to be deeply lamented.-
Bot do not let US despopd. Letus hold to the
faith that is 10 US. Let us pause, gather strength,
abstain from any unnecessary agitation Of the
public mind, keep our lamps burning and our
ranks firm and unbrokeD. The eternal truths
which lie at the foundation OF our princi.
pies must go on waxing stronger and stronger,
until the plantation States shall exhibit to the
world the seemingly extraordinary paradox which
antiquity has before revealed that slave holders
themselves are the most vgilant guardians OF the
civil and political liberties OF their county
Depend upon it. the day is not far distant, when
all our resources must be brought again into &C
ton. Our antagonist "is scotched, not killed"
Willis. we thus guard the sanctuary OF our
principles, let US always remember with grateful
affection when the hand Of death comes among US,
| who have worshipped at our affairs. the javelin
| Of the destroyer has brought down 10 the cold
chambers of death, within the short space OF
few weeks, two Of our strong men, whom al THIS
moment we could least have spared. VI him,
who has found his last resting place within the
bosom of his and our own mother land, shall
not now speak. This proud, yet painful oihce
will deyolve upon me elsewhere and at another
time. But of him, whose grave is now turned TO
the last rays of that setting sun, whose broad
disk. he is never destined again to see Furnishing
in It's declining beams, I" the blue hills OF his own
Virginia., desire 10 the fulness Of my heart, 10
say one WORD.
John Randolph has left US at a moment when he
was prepared to have served US most. Ii God
had seen fit to have permitted him to have taken
his seat in the next Congress OF the United
States, and to have allowed him to enjoy even
temporary respite from his almost unrelenting
disease, no period of his eventful life, brilliant
as it was,> could have been c0ntrasted With The
spIendour of those closing efforts, which know
it was his design to have made for the liberties Of
our country, or, if this failed, Of rouslns his own
Virginia from her sIumbers, and reminding The
long extinguisbed fires on-her watch.to"ers. Ey'
listing. as there was, between ~ almost on herd
tary friendship, during the whole progress Of our
struggle. | was in constant correspondence with
this highly gifted and most extraordinary man. =.
Whatever errors he may sometimes have suppo'
sed we had committed, from too much ardor in
good cause, he never faltered for one moment in
the strong and affecionate interest he took in our
fate and in the success Of our cause, or In the
deep indignation which he expressed at the atro.
cjous desnotism of the Proclamation, and the time
serving profligacy Of some Of ito supporters. 10
one Of his letters. he remarked to me, I" if can.
| not be booted and mounted for the combat in your
approaching conflict, will at least be borne,
like Muly MoIucb, in litter to the field OF battle
and die 10 your ranks.
| had designed to have sent you letter which
he wrote me few hours after the Presidents
Pro lamation had reached him, when he was
stretched on what was almost his last bed OF sick
ness; but, on more mature reflection, ! have
deemed it advisable to consult mutual friend
both Of the deceased and myself, in Virginia, as
to such parts Of our correspondence as might be
proper to make public, before any OF his Letters
appear. The letter, however. to which allude,
shall see the light Whenit does, promise you
that Andrew Jackson, ESQ. will not have skin
enough left upon his back to determine the color
Of his Epidermis.
To have lost, at this exigent moment. one who,
with such rare and extraordinary endowment'
for the crisis, possessed and exercised such
spell.ike influence over public opinion 10 his own
State, is a calamity that can only be contemplal-
| Gu VIII COhpOoutes WIKI VIC 'ShSS' '"H' "N"'
came at last, to release this bright ehlanatlon Of
the ethereal spirit from broken tenement, long
suffering, sinking, and decaying, from almost tue
first dawn to the last vestiges Of life. Peace to
his names! The South never had, and can ne
YER have, a more glorious. gallant. and highly
gifted champion-one who Was emPhaticaiIy a"
honest man. One who knew no fear IN the cause
of truth, and stood forth in her defence in lawn
chile arnor brandishinp his FURNISHED lance 10
the light of heaven, and rejecting high in rs
bright concave the beams that gistened on rs
polished shaft. II was thus accoutred that he
publicly stood forth before the world as the cham
pion Of the liberties Of his country.
1t will be the more pleasing. il less useful
province of the faithful biosrapher likewise 70
bring US in closer communion with the thousand
virtues which endeared him to those who know
ing him best, invariably loved him most lof'
veal to US his gushing sensibilty, his inbred ten
derness of heart, his romantic devotion TO the dl
ties and Offices Of friendship, his parental kHd'
ness to bis slaves and dependents. whom he seem
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