Martinsburg Gazette And Public Advertiser

John Randolph, on the floor of the Senate two or three years ago, ventured to question the character and motives of Bolivar. "What was prophecy then, is fact now. Bolivar's schemes begin to be seen into—and in the estimation of a large portion of the liberal part of mankind they are ambitious and designing. People are too apt to award the meed of praise before it is due.—We, in particular, are shouting hosannas to every Military Chieftain who fights in defence of his country, forgetting that his next step may be to trample upon the liberties which he has preserved. Let no man's name hereafter be inscribed with our Washington's, until, like him, he shall have consummated his fame, first, by wisely and temperately using power, and secondly and chiefly, by resigning that power when it becomes no longer necessary to exercise it."—Alex. Gaz.