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We are not the first to have kaIlen un- der the proscripsve baa of the Senate. The saine hand that has lifted the axe for oar immolation, was raised. in 1882, against one of the pufest and hest men in the land; thea the representative of his country at alforeign court, and always its ornament aMd pride, whether at home Of abroad. Not his emi- nens public services lR the councils of his native State a0d of the nalion-not his un- sullied purity as patriot, nor hIs disiin- guished powers as a sistesman---nat the ex- eellence of his private life, nor the bFilliAncy of his public career--noi his consistent de- vosion to the great truths of republication. nor his answering loyalty lo the Union nor his regard for the rights of the Soulh--- not all combined, could exempt him from the fiery tempest Of animosily and ambition. By the fiat (the casting vosel oe single man that man (and we deeply regfe, lD the same who has assisted in this paItry crusade against ourselves--lhis patriot was recalled from his foreign mission, and passion gaun- ted itself anew in lhe fact thai 1t had impaled aud crucifed an opponent

 Little, however, did the senatorial umpire suspect thai the mark of his vengeance, in~ stead of resulting in the destruction of its victim, would prove sure and speedy pass port 10 popular favor. Little titd the ePpe- nept imagine that the hated would so soon be elevated above and beyond him. Litlle did the reflector dream that the rejected would so soon become the corner stone of the building. Little did the digger of the pit anticipate that he was himself 10 taIl there in Locking only to the immediate immo- laiion of victim, such was the phrenzy of the execulioner, that he never once paused to inquire whether it might not be hts own neck that graced lhe block.

 Another senatorial analhema which the same hand, now raised against us, heleed the then Federal leader to launch, crowds into our remembrance. Even the hero of New Orleans who had periled his life in defence of his country, and who. whether in van- quishing foreign, or deiectiag domestic enemy, was alike snccessful--did not escape il. Even against hiin--the terrible in battle and the wise in council--was the hand that has condescended 10 strike a, us. upifted.-- He was pronounced, by the deliberate and recorded judgment of the Senate, aa usHrper and rioiafor ef' the consultation of his coan- iry' Mos. shorl-sighted and impo.ent per- secutioni

 Where, now. are the fruits of that dis graceful drama' So overwhelming has beea the resribution, that the very page which con- tains the sentence carries with il the recorded shame of its authors. Iu lines black as the purposes which dictated ii, and red as the fierce indignation which expuaged il, ii stands on the siatute-book- an erased picture, |" prove only it's own iniustice, bat a picture set in an unique and curious frame work. that tue scandal of the Iimnef may not te lost, but perpe,uatedl The history of the world, perhaps, furnished no patallel where the fierce passions of he heart have been so eiiectually turned into engines of torture against the men that have cursed them.

 We derive some consolation, some en- couragement from these "reminiscences. They prove thai the purpose of disappointed am- biiion are always sure, in the end, 10 defeat themselves, and that conscious integrity has nothing to fear. 1T Jackson and Van Buren survived the proscriptiye edicls of the Senate surely we have no reason to consider our selves demolished.