Weekly national intelligencer. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1841-1869, 1853-07-23

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king any office but that which he was elected and re-
signing his last Senatorial term when it only halfrun
But characteristic trait remains be told Of his militia
ry ifeone that has neither precedent or imitation, he
example OF Washington being Of the line Of compari
ne refused to recevep pay to accept promotion
ana served three private through devotion
70 MS country And all the long length Of his life
conormable to this patriotic and dsinerested beginning
ana thus the patriotic principles Of the future Senator
we're all revealed in early life, and in the obscurity Of
unknown situation. Conformaby to this beginning he
to take any thing under the modern acts of Con-
gress Tor the benefit of the surviving officers and soldiers
OF the revolution and voted against them ALL saying they
had suffered alike, Citizens and military and all been
rewarded together in the establishment of independence
that the debt to the army had been settled by pay by
pensions to the wounded by halfpay and land to the off,
GERS that no military claim could be founded on depre
cated continental paper money, from which the civil
funconaries who performed Service and the farmers
who furnished supplies suffered as much as any On this
principle ne voted against the bill for Lafayette against
oil the modern revolutionary pensions and land bounty
acts and refused to take any thing under them, flor
many were applicable to himself)
his political principles deep-rooted innate sub
ect 70 no change and to machinery party He was
Democratic in the broad of the word as sgnfyng
acapacity in the people for sefgovernment and in its
party sense as IN favor of plain and economical admin
" feueral government ana against
dinaran constructions of the Constitution. He was o
party man. not in the hackneyed Of the word but
only where principle concerned, and was indepen
dent Of party in al his social relations and in all the pro-
ceedings which he dsapproved. Of this he gave strong
instance In the of Gen. Hamilton, whom he deemed
honorable and patriotic and utterly refused to be con-
cerned in movement proposed to affect him personally
though politically opposed to him. He venerated Wash
ington admired the varied abilities and high qualities
Of Hamilton and esteemed and respected the eminent
Federal gentlemen Of his time He had aectionae regard
for Madison and Monroe but Mr. Jefferson was to him
the full and perfect exempfcation of the Republican
statesman His almost fifty years of personal and po
cal friendship and association with Mr. Randolph is his
torica and indssouby connects their names and memo
res in the recollection Of their friends and in history if
it does them justice He the early friend Of General
Jackson, and intimate with him when he was Senator
in Congress under the administration Of the elder Mr.
Adams, and able to tell Congress and the world
who he when he began astonish Europe and Ame
RIGA BY his victories He the kind observer Of the
conduct of young men, encouraging them by udicious
commentator when he them making efforts to be-
come useful and respectable, and never noting their
faults He was just in all things and in that most diff
cult Of all things judging political opponents whom
he would do wrong, not merely in word act but in
thought He spoke frequently in Congress- always the
point, and briefly and wisely; and was one of those
speakers which Mr. Jefferson described DIR. Franklin to
be-a speaker of pretension and great performance
who spoke good while he getting up of
his chair and getting back into it than many others did
in long discourses and he suffered reporter dress
up speech for him. He above the pursuit of wealth.
but also above dependence and dleness and like old
Roman of the elder Oaos time, worked in the fields at
the head of his slaves in the intervals Of public duty
and did not this labor until advancing age rendered
him unable to stand the hot Of the summer-the only
season of the year when Senatorial duties lehim lib
erty to work in his fields. think it the Of
1917 he told the last he tried it, and found the
too hot for him-then sixty years Of age Senator
and the refuser Of all Office How often think of him
when see at Washington robustious going through
scene OF supplcaton trbulaton and degradation to
obtain Office which the salvation of the soul does not i'm
pose upon the viles sinner His fields his Hocks and
his herds yielded ample supply of domestic produo-
tons. small crop of tobacco-three hogsheads when
the season good two when bad-purchased the ex-
otics which comfort and necessity required and which
the farm did not produce. he was not rich but rich
enough dispense hospitality and charity to receive all
guests in his house. from the President the day labor
ersno other title being necessary his house but
that Of honest rich enough to bring up his fam
y 1.-TWO daughters) accomplished ladies, and marry
them accomplished gentemen-one William Martin
ESQ., the other to William Eaton, Esq, of Roanoke, my
early schooleow and friend for than half cent?.
ry and above all he was rich enough to pay he went
and never TO owe dollar to any
He was steadast in his friendships, and would stake
himself for friend but would violate point Of public
duty please obge him. OF this his relations with
Mr.. Randolph gave signal instance. He drew knife
to defend him in the theatre at Philadelphia when
naced by some naval and military officers for words
spoken in debate and deemed offensive their profess
sions yet when Speaker Of the House of Representa-
tives he displaced Mr. Randolph from the head Of the
Committee Of Ways and Means because the chairman of
that committee should be terms of political friendship
with the Administration which Mr.. Randolph had then
ceased to be with Mr.. Jefersons He was above Execu-
tive Office even the highest the President could give; but
not above the lowest the people could give taking that
justice of the peace in his county and refusing that
Postmaster General at Washington He was opposed to
nepotism and all quarterng Of his connexions on the
Government and in the Of his forty-years SER
vice. with the absolute friendship Of many Adminisra-
tons and the perfect respect Of ALL he had Office
for any Of his blood lie refused be can
ddate for the vcePresdency, but took the place Of
eector the Van Buren, ticket in 1886 He was against
paper money and the paper system, and accustomed
present the strong argument against in the simple
phrase that this hard-money Government made by
hsrdmoney men, who had the evils Of paper money
ald meant to save their postery from It. He was OPP