political.
Mr, Randolph's Speech, -Wis regret
extremely our inability to lay entire be:
fore our readers, the masterly Speech of
John Randolph of Roanoke, on Mr.
Chilton's retrenchment resolutions, re
cently debated in Congress. The Speech
has been published in pamphlet form,
with notes by Mr. Randolph, and is al
so inserted at large in most of the news
papers. Wc give the passages only,
which have a direct bearing on the alle
ged understanding between Messrs.
Adams and Clay, previous to the last
Presidential Election:
Mr. RANDOLPH rose and
said: I cannot make the promise
Which the gentleman who has just
taken his seat (Mr. Everett) made
at the outset of his address; but 1
will make a promise of a different
nature, and one which, I trust, it
will be in my power to perform
I shall not say with more good
faith than the gentleman from
Massachusetts, but more to the
letter ay, Sir, and more to the
spirit, too. I shall not, as the
gentleman said he would do, act
in mere self-defence. 1 shall car-
i i i i Ti.nfprnrv that 1 nrove this! The j Jackson, in the end, proved t
the hare and many friends. I he cessary uiai i muo ftWpct;anv otHer mm " it Gau 0
ennsn of nil this is to be found inching proves itself. The object any otn man it Allows cieaN
ry the war into Africa. Dclenda
est Carthago! I shall not be con
tent with merely parrvinji no, Sir1 dented nrcdicnmnntl
-it l can, so Help me Ood, 1 will pens it, that they alone, ot all the
cause of all this is to be found in
the manner in which they came
into power the cause of, this
' p r e m at u r e' ' o p po s i t i o n 1 i e s t h e r e
and there mainly. I would defy,
all the public presses in the world
to have brought them to this pass,
had there not been a taint of ori
ginal sin in their body-politic, and
which cleaves to them even as the
sin of our first parents taints our
fallen nature and cloaveth to us
all. The gentlemen refers to
those who compose the party who
are called the Opposition, and
says, It is formed of very discor
dant materials. True. Sir: but
what are the materials of the par
ty which upholds the Adminis
tration! Nay, of the Administra
tion itself! Are they perfectly
homogeneous. I know one of
them who has been raised to a
higher station than most men in
this country Was that because
he opposed, or because he espou
sed the election of the present
Chief Magistrate!
Permit me, Sir, again to ask,
how comes it, that this Adminis
tration are brought into their pre
sent vcrv curious and unnreee-
II ow hap-
. i. rtf t mnwrfiRS v w in nnv othnr mnn
was 10 uriug in unu ui rwnv. v ...Ull wtis, v12,
to the compact, whom the Consti- one other man iV est, myself, (,;
tution subsequently wuuu.u..-,
r ...... .....rMA frti tlm other. House J
A gentleman, (Mr. Clay,) then of But, bir, as soon as this g0 '
i tt onrlilntn. was nut nf t lip. nno.sti nn ..
tins nousu, was uumuuutv, p - i . " c oi the
trt tlm lnQt hmir. cast manva feouth lost all our influent
loiujinff, although not lingering "we ot the West gave us of th
look, with outstretched nccK,-to- oouin ims very jonn uuincy
wards Louisiana jttgulo quccsita
ncgatur to discover whether or
not he should be one upon the
list. Sir, it is impossible that he
could, in the first instance, have
looked to the elevation of ano
ther, or have designed to promote
the views of any man. but in sub
serviency to his own. Sir, com
mon sense forbids it. But, Sir,
all these calculations, however
skilful, and Dcmoivre could not
have made better, utterly failed.
Mr. Crawford most obstinately,
and unreasonably, I confess, refu
sed to die. It was certainly very
disobliging in him. I saw him
before I went abroad. And I
thought it was an hundred to one
that he could not survive the sum
mer: he was then dead to every
purpose, public or private. Loui-
siana refused to vote as obstinate
ly as Mr. Crawford refused to die:
and so the gentleman was exclu
ded. It was then that Mr. Ad
ams was first taken up, a3 a pis
allcr, which wc planters of the
feouth translate, a hand plant.
Sir, I have n right to know; I
had a long while before an inter
view with this very great man,
(Mr. Clay,) but not on that sub
ject: no, bir it was about busi-
thrust also; because my right arm; administrations which have been',
is nerved by the cause ot the peo-jin this countrv, find themselves in
pie and of my country. the minority" in each House of
The gentleman, with much gra-! Congress; "palsied by the will of
vity, with some dexterity, and with their constituents;" when the ve
grcat plausibility, but against cer- ry worst of their predecessors
tain principles which I have held kept a majoritv till midnight on
in this House, ab avo, and which the 3d or 4th of March, whichev
I shall continue to hold, vsquc ad er you please to call it! Ay, Sir,
mala, till I lcave thn
" ivvu.-i) fc?JVlY. v.vVl lllb UVilllllZIli lltlOll H.J I ! I U I I I J M.My, K.M lb lHO ULIHUl UUOl
of the headlong commencement of I allude, there were none of those ness of this House and he solar
the Opposition, before the Admi- compunctious visitings of nature, descended, or I should rather say
!unI. ..1.1 .i i . . I r
iiisirtiuuii cuuiu give reasonable at the attacks made on private
cause of discontent. 1 have now character. We had no chapter
no palinodid to sing or to chant of lamentations, then, on the rav
upon that subject. 1 drew from aging and desolating war on the
that fountain which never failed fair fame of all the wise and vir
an observing and sagacious man, tuous and good of our land,
and which, even the simple and i Sir, 1 have much to say, which
inexperienced (and I among the neither my own weakness, nor my
rest) may drink at it is nature (regard to the politeness of this
and human life. I saw distinctly,! House, will permit me now to say.
from the beginning, that, if we As 1 have tixnr:itpd tlm nrlnm.
permitted this Administration if j pal in that weighty affair of the
billiard tab e. 1 a so
we had listened to those who cri
ed to us "wait, wait, there is a li
on in the path," (and, Sir, there
always is a lion in the path, to the
sluggard, and the dastard,) and
which cry was seconded, no doubt,
by many who wished to know how
the land lay before they ran for a
port on which side victory would
incline, before they sounded their
horn of triumph. If wc had thus
waited, the situation of the coun
try would have been very differ
ent from what it is now.
But I wonder it never occurred
to the gentleman from Massachu
setts what could be the cause why
such a hue and cry should be rai
sed against an Administration so
very able; (permit me in this, how
ever, to differ from the gentleman
dc gustibus non est) what, I say,
could have been the cause why
Acteon and all his hounds, or, ra
ther, why the dogs of war were let
slip against this wise and able and
virtuous and loving Administra
tion; these patterns of political
friendship and consistency; and
have continued to
till they lie panting and gasping
ui urtaiii on thn in
exonerate
him and his Lieutenant from eve
ry charge of collusion in the. first
instance; and, if it is in order. I
will state the reasons for my opi
nion. When the allianrn u n firt
patched up between the two reat
leaders of the East and VVost
(Air. Webster and Mr. Cla0 nei
ther of the high contracting par-
tics Had the promotion of the pre
sent incumbent at a I in vimv.
Sir, I speak knowingly as to one
of these parties, and with the
highest degree of moral probabili
ty ot tiie other. Can it be ne-
Aftcr my arrival in Europe, I saw
in the newspapers Mr. Webster's toast,
given, ifl forget not, on the 4th of July
-"Henry Clay, the orator of the west,"
&c. &c. 1 quote from memory. N. B.
Mr. Clay was then the rival and decla
red enemy of Mr. Adams. Mr. Clay,
in the debate' on the Greek motion of
Mr. Webster, and in the affair of Mr.
Ichabod Bartlett, (a name, of omen,) was
ostentatious in redeclarations of friend
ship and connexion with Mr. Webster,
whom he gratuitously assumed to have
been assailed by the said Ichabod! that
he might manifest his devotion to his
new friend. 1 then looked unon Mr.
Clay as laying an anchor to windward
some, and the man of unshaken firm-
ui urea i on the highway unt and eastivard ami in 7 r i ' " nMC characteristics unite in
hey realize the boamitulUle of bll person, ennot be oper.ted.cn
of so vcrv irreat a man. condes-
o '
11 1
ccnueu, as to electioneer even
. I I
with inc. lie said to me, among
other matters, "it von of the South
will give us of the West any other
man than John Uuincy Adams for
President, we will support him."
Let any man deny this who dare
but remember, he then expect
ed to be a candidate before the
House himself. "If you will give
us anv other man! tSir, the jren-
iieman in question can have no
disposition to deny it. It was at
a time when he and the present
incumbent were publicly pitted a
gainst each other, and Mr. Adams
had crowed defiance, and clapped
his wings against the Cock of
Kentucky. Sir, I know this to be
a strong mode ol expression.
d'.d not take it literally.
I understood the meaning to be
that Virginia by her strenuous
support of Mr. Crawford, would
further the success of Mr. Adams.
"Any other man, Sir, besides John
Quincy Adams." Now, as nei
ther Mr. Crawford nor General
I
1 thought
person of Mr. Webster, while at the
same time he proclaimed his strength in
that quarter as the ally of Mr. Webster,
and the powerful party of which he is
the leader and mouth-piece. If the
maxim be true ars est 'celare arlem
then there lives not a less artful man in
the world than Mr. C?.y, His svstem
consists in soothing by flattery, or bul
lyingthese constitute his whole slock
in trade and very often he applies both
to the same person. The man of delica
cy to whom his coarse adulation is fnl-
nnd the
iiiia lur x rusiuum, anu rccpi
from him the 'very office, which
being held by him, we of the
assigned as the cause of our
port, considering it to be a sort of
reversionary interest in the IV;
dency. (Seethe letter toMr.F
ISrooke.) it was, indeed, 'rats,
bane in our mouth," butweswaj.
lowed the arsenic.f
I will take the lettnr tti.
President of the Court of Anni,
in Virginia (Mr. Clay to.Mr,F
lirooke) and on that letter, and
on tacts which are notorious
the sun at noonday, it must bees-
tablished that there was a colk
siwij and a corrupt collusion, be
tween the principals in this affair.
1 do not say the agreement was a
written or even a verbal one I
know that the language of the
poet is true that men, who
"meet to do a damned deed," can
not bring even themselves to
speak of it in distinct terms they
cannot call a spade a spade bit
eke out their unholy purpose with
dark hints, and inuendoes, and
signs, and shrugs, where more is
meant than meets the ear. Sir,
this person was willing to take
any man who would secure the
end that he had in view. Ha
takes office under Mr. Adams, and
that very office too, which had
been declared to be in the line of
safe precedents- the very office
which decided his preference of
jI r. Adams. Sir, arc wc children!
Are we babies! Cant't we make
out Apple-pie, without spellinj
and putting the letters together
A, p, ap, p, 1, e,ple, ap-ple,p,i,e,
pie, apple-pie! Sir, the fact can
never begot over, and it istliii
fact which alone could make this
Administration to rock and totter
to its base, in spite of the indis
cretion, (to say no worse,) in spite
of all the indiscretions of its ad
versaries. Sir. there are crises in which
suspicion is equivalent to groot;
and not only equal to it, hut more
than equal" to the most daranin?
nroof. rrhnn is tint fi husband
here who will not ratify this dec
laration there may be suspicion
so agonizing, that it makes u'c
wretch cry out for certainty as a
relief from the most damning tor
tures. Such suspicions are en
tit has been sujrsrested to mc since th
above was spoken, by one whoouspn'
know a good deal of New-York poli105'
and to whom it occurred while I was mi
king this development, and in conse
quence ot it that Mr. Adams,
could not be blind to the game that
playing between Mr. Clay and Mr.eJ'
ster, caused the votes which Mi'- Craw
ford got in New-York, to be ffiren.,
him, then no longer the most tortnw'.
ble onnonent. for thn pvnress nurposeUi
excluding Mr. Clay from the House,
ensun ng ivir. Crawford s return. 1 " .
the biters mp.rp hit. nnd Messrs. C'3,
3nd Webster had to make terms
Mr. Adams, who, in requital or
vote of Mr. Clav and his i'nods, Sl
ciously received them into faror.