Sunbury American and Shamokin journal. [volume] (Sunbury, Northumberland Co., Pa.) 1840-1848, 1843-10-07
From The New York Mirror.
RccoiIections OF John Randolph,
OF ROANOKE.

. tanning enough To keep HIM busy reading during
a voyage round the world. asked him why
he had brought 50 many with him
Il want to have them bound in England, sir
replied he.
Bound in England exclaimed l. laughing,
! why did you not send them TO New York or
Boston, where you can get them done cheap
! or y
What, sir replied he sharply, patrouize
some of our Yankee taskmastcrs; those patri.
otto gentry who have caused such heavy du.
| ty to be imposed upon foreign books! Never,
sir never! will neither wear what they
make, nor eat what they raise, SO long as my
tobacco crop will enable me to get supplies
from old England; and shall employ John
Bull to bind my books until the time arrives
when they can be properly done south Of Ma
son and Diron's line >
The next day being Friday, we had Goldfish
for dinner after the soup.
Mr. Randolph said the captain, let rrc help
you TO fish
No, sir; it comes from New EngIandr was
! the reply.
Twas very much amused with the extent Of
his sectional prejudices. Sometimes he would
condemn all the northern people en- maSsc but
at other times, forgetting his antipathies, he
would unconsciously praise some northern man
! whom he had known and esteemed. lie u ,ed
on such occasions, however, TO wind up his Gu
| lcgum thus:
'Mr--, is the cleverest man know
north of IL" Pctomacr This was always the
saving clause. and his Coincidence seemed re-
licvcd when he uttered it. The supremacy of
! Virginia being thus retained, be could then
aford to be generous to the great men of the
rorii.
have mentioned that Mr. Randolph did not
admire too much familiarity where he had
taken no fancy 10 the person Offering it.. In
fact, he wos very fas,dious in this respect he
had all the feelings which we generally alti.
butte TO the English aristocracy on this point
but where he did take a fancy, the rank Of
the person never seemed to we gh with him
! for moment. He admired especially those
| who never pretended 10 more knowledge than
they actually possessed. but aho understood
! Thoroughly what they did know.
Oneofour Yorkshire passengers was plain
mattpr-ot.iact man, cloth manufacturer, who
! was thoroughly versed IN all the mysteries OF
his calling, but who cared neither for ltera.
ture, mets physics, nor politics, save and cXccp,
that he was good tory by inheritance. His
manners were so unpretending, Mr.. Randolph
sought occasion to converse with him, and he
entered into all the minute Of his buaincss, Jus,
as if he md some mixing himself after the
woolen uade. One day was pretending 70
sa,on which was passing between these two
and was quite amused by the animation with
which Randolph carried on the converse ton.
should mention here, that Randoph's English
ancestors were from Yorkshire, and he was
giving this piece Of information to Mr.. d., for
the frs, time. He then exclaimed, in fllnili-
ar, oratical style
well, sir, Isay the 'West Riding for ever .
being Yorkshire on one side. ! 90 the York
shire weavers against the world. TO be sure
sir your poor operatives are not half so well of
as our Virginia s'arcs ; but they are ,Chite,
sir and hence your philanthropsts do not feel
bound in conscience TO look irno their misery :
but that's their affair, not mine, sir. SO long
as John Bull is willing to work for us. and tsko
our cotton and tobacco in payment, - r.,
giving him monopoly Of al the ,,ys or,h,
system. never want TO r.o o,r hors on,
So ','"N" 'N'' w. IN" Il, turned into spinning
leh"eS --h,ere r..achines, sir, mere machines
W. - every nation TO its taste Englant
choosc-s the workshop; America ought to pre-
'.er the open fields and agricultural pursuits
c and there should be no Jealousy about the mere
f question of exchange. This modern balance
Of trade sir, is puzzllng the brains ofour would
! be sta,esmen When | was boy, sir, the de
t parture OF a London trader (as we used to cal
!. the ship from Virginia was an affair of fno smal
i consequence TO the community-egual to
i presidential election NOWADAYS. In my "a
d theirs family, sir, the whole household wa
+ called together; frst my mother (God bles
" her y put down list of the articles she wanr
to ed from London next, the children. accordin
ID to their ages; then the overseer. and inall
is the domestic slaves, our niammy a, the hea
/. of them down TO the young ones who lived
I'd bout the house--not a single Individual was
r. mitted, sir. Then after the ship was Lone, N
. weeks and dnys and finally tho hou,s ,,o