The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1860-08-14
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Randolph of Roanoke.

Randolph Of Roanoke.
IfLord Byron was 'proudcr of teinga
descendant Of those Byrons who accom-
panied William the Conqucror into Eng
land, than Of having been the author of
Childc Harold and Manfred" John Ran
dolph was certainly proudcr Of being g
descendant of Pocahontas than of all his
Congressional speeches, diplomatic papers,
and conversational repartecs lie first
saw the light at Cawsons, the estate Of his
maternal grandfather Col. Bland, Prince
George County, Virginia; was noted u21l. = ..
child for his l2-e-e-s-tlre l2-e 9 III plays of SHIK2z
-pcare. the essays of Addison and the fairy
legendary tales of any author who hap
pend to fall in his way; received his cdu-
cation ut Princctown, Columbia and Will
liam and Mary College, and then took to
rcading Coke and Blacl1rtonc with his un-
Gle, Edward Randolph. in Philadelphia.
In 1794 he rctu.ncd to bis native State,
and in 1899 was candidate Of the Rcpub-
lcan party for Congress, in the Charlotte
district, and spoke at the hustinss in op-
position to . speech Of Patrick Henry,
who was the Federal candidate for the
State Legislature. Beth were successful.
Now f.lri:- lauached upon the sea of
politics, Randolph was -NaSto mold his
place in the National House o. n T'Tcscr-
tativcs for twenty flour out of the next
thirty years.
Upon his ccccntricities as a statesman,
his fierce and often repeated assaults upon
the .gcntiemcn IN tl4e opposition" his
bitter rctorta, his attacks upon " Mr..
Speaker and especially the tnrrovol<cd
and fa@rant Insult which it WAS feared
would result ia ball in Mr.. Speakers
side it is not oar pynposc 10 i;ager. Of
no other man il The country, saEc Wash
ington, are SO lnaiy anecdotes current;
no mans witty rctorts arc SO often re-
pcatcd or so wclr remembered. In q cir
Gle of convivial friends VIC might perhaps
venture to rccitc some OF these sayings,
trusting to the ignorance or forgctlulness
Of some of the company, and the charita-
bic silence OF the more Intelligent or moro
rclentivc; lut TO write out catalogue OF
familiar bon motS for the public, with the
prospective risk of telling ct each turn
thricc-told tale, requires Il larger amount
of courage than we can conveniently COM
mand.
Randolph was opposed to the embargo,
the war of 1872. the Missouri Compromise
of 1920, and the Greek sympathy resnln--
tions.
In 1920 he took his leave of Congress,
refusing to permit his name 10 be used in
the ensuing election; but soon afterwards
,ec find him actively engaged SIS q mem
Der of the Virginia Convention for the
revision Of the State Constitution, and in
this body he made one Of the most famous
speeches: (for future amendments) Of lis
public life.
In the next year $3.50 he accepted the
mission to Russia but finding the climate
un>u;tcd to lis health. he returned homo
in October 1881 Ii the hope Of restora-
ton lie determined to Try another voyage
10 England; but it was not $50 written;'
his disease increased in violence, after
starting for the place Of embarlzation. and
he brcathcd lis las, at Philadelphia, on
the 10Th of May. 1882, in the Congress
Hall Hotel. at Third and Chcsnut streets.
There were some interesting circum;
stance, connected with lis last momcntsy
narrated to us by one who watched BY lis
bedside during the " inevitable hour, but
upon thi, VIC hall not linser. lie died,
we doubt not in the full belief Of those
..rea, tluth. ct Christianity which. after
,Irc:.rs ozpsrience Of the chilling soph-
i'm. ct iu.i.ic!ity." he had cordially en-
!r:.ra.I. vixen lis reasoning powers were
IN their prime.-fif3~. Elelo'f.r.
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