Constitutional Whig

FOR THE WHIG.

Buckingham, Dec. 3d, 1832.

Messrs. Editors:—In looking over a stray number of the Enquirer, which came into my hands the other day, I observed that some one had recommended to the Legislature to appoint John Randolph of Roanoke, to the seat in the Senate of the U. States, vacated by the resignation of Mr. Tazewell. I presume this good gentleman has done so on his own responsibility, or he would scarcely have had the temerity to venture on such a step, otherwise than anonymously. Had he chanced with the writer, to hear the Orator's celebrated speech to his "dear old Prince Edward friends," shortly after his return from Russia, in allusion to his ejection from that body by Mr. Tyler—after sundry pathetic ejaculations most plaintively delivered, he told a long story about the astonishment and grief which the first annunciation of the intelligence caused among the assembly of his friends at Washington—how old Fabricius Macon well nigh shed tears on the occasion—how all his friends were chagrined—nay, how his own was perhaps the only dry eye in the room—how he walked into the house the next day with indifferent phiz, determined that his political enemies should not overawe him. Finally, how one of his friends, suspecting foul play in the matter, suggested as some reparation to his wounded feelings, that he should consent to a re-nomination for the next vacancy. "The Virginia Legislature! said he, (and here his Indian eye flashed fire,) "the Virginia Legislature! No—I shall account that man my enemy, who shall dare to present my name to that body, for any purpose whatever—a vile nest of intrigue and corruption—a set of adventurers, and broken-down lawyers, who are here to-day, and gone to-morrow—this year in Virginia, and the next in Missouri or Mississippi. No—if I must have a master, it shall be somebody whom I know. It shall be either you, fellow citizens, whom I know, or General Jackson, whom I know," &c. This he spoke with great venom; and it is not the first time that the lady has discarded the gentleman. Yet, who can tell whether in the event of his election, he might not prove the same "incorruptible patriot, who never accepted an office, till one was offered him?" You will remember, that previous to his late call at St. Petersburg, he had a similar horror of being "at the tail of the corps diplomatique, and of ploughing the four acres."

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