The Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1837-1867, 1839-04-30


feel compelled to allow to its whole extent "Brave
men lived before Agamemnon," and great rognes
before Lew Woodbury.. injustice TO the Secretary
cannot deny that his pets are the first Etheves
on record and give him Joy of the able defence
which his friends have extracted from this remark
able circumstance.
And now, Mr. Chairman, what do you think of
this Secretary of the Treasury (? OF his episolary
talent of his capacity and fitness for the station
he occupies He resembles much, both in man
at et TGe nGy .od
rejoced in the name of "Mrs Margery Lobkins,"
more familiarity called "Peggy Lobb.''
His correspondence with his subalterns cannot
fail of calling 10 your recollection the exquisite ad
monitions Of honest Peggy to "eetle Paul
Thus moralzed, not levi, bat the kind hearted
dame
"0lind thy kittychisin, child and reverence old
age. Never steal Especially when any be in
the way. Be modest, Paul and stick to your siti-
walton in life. Read your bible and talk like pi-
Gus un People goes by your 'oords more than by
try and do without it ; and. if you cannot do with
out it, take it away by nsinivaton, not bluster.-
They as swindles does more and risks less than
they robs."
Yes, sir; "people goes more by your aoords than
by your actions" Well has the President studied
this maxim, and cunningly did he practise upon it,
made penentiary offence. Paggy Lob placed in
leeile Pans hand the sum of five half pence and
one faIihlng There, boy" fquoth she, and she
Levi carosses his subordinatcs) t'you does right
not to play for nothing it's loss of time but play
with those as be less than yourself, and then you
can go for to beat 'em if they says you go for TO
cheat" ....
Ay, and it has not been long since this the
doctrine OF these in power and 'to go for to beat
those whosay you go for to cheat" became the
watchword of the party. l recollect well, and my
honorable friend who sits near me (Mr Wise) rec
objects still better than do, those days of terror,
when he had to legslate, as he told the other
day, with "harness on ); when the best argument
was the pistol, and the only law was club law. 1t
was the time when "Hurrah for Jackson consti-
tuted the "Open Sesame" of power, which gained
free admittance into the robbers cave, and par
ticipation in the plumber.
Then General Jackson had but to whistle, and
sInstant from copse and heath arose
Bonnets, and spears and Bonded bows"
up IN every direction, ready and eager to perform
his bidding. He had but to point his finger, and
fierce bloods hounds buried their muzzIes in the un-
fortunate victim OF his wrath
Then were the saturnalia of the office holders
and, like the iocusts of Egypt, they plagued the
land Few dard to whisper of corruptions de-
uication and bold man was he who proposed 10
investigate them, for 1t was sure to bring down up
on his head the rage which never relented, and the
anger which nothing but furious prosecution could
assrage
not before General Jacksons frown, and who dar-
cd to propose an investigation into frauds and
ruptlons which had become SO palpabe and gross
as to be an offence in the nostrils of tho commune
ty. He occupied, al that time seat in the other
end ofthis buding,as Senator from my own State;
a State upon whose laws and institutions his tall
ents and genius are indelibly I'm pressed The DO.
itical history of Mississippi is illustrated by his
name, from its very CONNIE ncement. He served
her in all her departments and as legislator, judge
and governor, advanced her prosperity, and added
10 her character. What he was as Senator you all
know. He stood proudly among the proud, and
ofty among the loftiest at time W hen the Senate
Chamber contained the garnered talent of the
country; when its intellectual giants shook the
whole nation with their mighty strife when, sirit
enclosed within its walls the most transcendant de-
lucrative body that ever was assembled upon this
,arth. The floor of that body his proper a
'cna To correctness of Judgment, which
would have gwen him reputation even without the
capacity of expression, he joined power of debate
which, for parliamentary strength aud effect,
To all this added stern, uu-
fielding attachment to his political principles, and
IN indomitable boldness in expressing and sustain
ng them
DO you not recollect, sir, when General Jackson,
ike Charles L. strobe to the Legislative chamber, 81
hrust among the Senators deposite edict,
insulting than if he had cast at their feet naked
word 1t was that fierce message which COM
nenced with breaking down the Independence and
character of the Senate, aud finally resulted in that
than elon act, the desocraton of its records
But the mandate passed not unopposd or unrebuk~
VIXEN it burst, like wild beast from his lair up-
IN the astonished body whose degradation is con-
emplated, and IN the end accomplished, most of
he distinguished Senators were absent, but he of
whom = speak was at mis- post; Single handed,and
Ilonc, like Coolies at the head of the bridge, he
ield at bay the Executive squadrons, and for
whole day drove back the Mamelukes OF power;
i'll at the sound of his voice. the sound of
rumpet, his gallant compeers, the champions of
reedom, the k,ighs--not of the black lines, but
IF the Constltution--came focking to the rescue
Sir it noble see ne, and worthy of the best
ime of the Roman republic. A Senator of the
United States, IN bold and manly pride trampling
inder foot Executive insult, and protecting, at the
ame time, the honor of his country and the digni-
y Of his high station. There was moral chival-
" about it, far above the heroism of the field. Ey-
IN now, the contemplation of it makes the blood
brill through the veins, blush the forehead to the
,ery temples.
. need not tell you that this mans name was
Jeo. Poindexter-a name that will long and hon
'rnbly live among the lovers of independence and
iaters Of tyranny. But he dared to propose an In,
,estigaton into the frauds and corruptions OF
he Government and from that moment his doom
vas sealed The deep, turbid, and resistless cur
ent of Jacksonism swept him from the State in
hose service the best part of his life had been ex