Show I The y r r rt 6 I r J i a aJ k I i I G BY tl s J r rate ate ater r to tor r 7 t Py T r BY ELMO SCOTT r E 13 D hundred nn and four ie ears ago igo this tills month there took Place on the Ir lnla side 3 of ot the Potomac ricer rt er one onet I t of ot the he strangest duels In Inthe inthe the history of the Amer icon fenD cod code duello It was as b L Lt tween t n a member of the theIl lie Il L 1 Staled Stater sen ite login HenryClay of or nn and I Clay of or Kentucky of state Bach of the duel la In the conflict be hem between between tween t two t 0 political theorIes those of i President Jom John Qt lacy Adams Adam sup supported supported supported ported L bv bs Clay and those of a n future i President Andrew Andrev Jackson ted b Randolph Hut But the Immediate c tuse luse t or of the duel was a l speech ech which Itan mare maie In the senate enate A 1 The dilute debate which produced thIs If speech was as ft as of minor importance It had to do with Ith a re resolution calling for the production prod of certain docu documents documents ments But Randolph made It the oc occasion cas cation ion for such a vitriolic speech as only he coul could make lie assailed the administration plying paying particular fit at attention to the lose dose In It or of the austere correct and plans pIous Adams with the frequently drunken Ine incessantly gambling la lav m and ind end endIng endIng endIng Ing up with Ith these famous words I Iv is 1 was IS defeated Gorse florse foot and ind cut cut up an and clein broke Ilo down Ilon n In bs lie coalition of or Adams nn and Clay Clay-by Cliv by by tile the combination unheard of till tin then of the Puritan a at with the tIle leg Heretofore Cliv hid had ignored the peung campaign him on his Ills drinking ln and ind Ills his gambling nut hut this was as a denunciation he could not disregard lr lIe He challenged Randolph to a n duel and as ns word ord of tile the affair got out the e excitement In Washington was n tremendous Thomas Hart Benton Centon senator of Missouri ls hy by permission of the r wa was allowed al lowed Io to attend the duel which was as held on the afternoon of April 8 S 1 20 j for his eccentricity and run running fling true to form even e on the duel duelling duelling ling field Randolph appeared for the encounter with i l white flannel wrapper r p tile the tact fact per 0 over oser ar his colt coit Despite that his seconds s had haired burred the trig trigger trigger ger er of his pi- pi pitol tol he lie insisted upon keeping on a n pair of thick bud sl 51 s in would de cle Io es even esen thou though h these stroy hl his liis delicacy of touch and per hips cruse nise him to fire 1 I the word ris 18 given Inn nd that thit Is Ie what hat happened As lie stood holding his Ills pie plc pistol tol muzzle downs ard It ss as 18 Ills charged Cliv's e seconds Immediately protested Clu v silenced them d demanded that his fats opponent he given h ell another pl pistol tol When lien the word ord was wis gl cn h en hot bath h men effect ml 11 fired hut but neither r shot took tool though Randolph's bullet nearly struck 1 Clay Claf b in the leg and Cia Clans Clan's las s 's bullet Randolph s b w sc wilst list I Van Vanton I n to passed close cloe clo c rushed In and tried ton the fi tight fight ht hut but angrily to stop lie hid to nt mike Ile ike ikea gesture nn and was willing to and Imperil II a nand p hl his life lICe to make e It So Su the thet reloaded and a ag themen the then s ere t pistols II The secretary of state put tIred llred men len en through h the senator s co coit o It ItI his hie bullet eh fired hi 1 in III inthe the latter I 1 ut this Ia lay Clays CIlY s head U pr O the air with outstretched for fora aril Cod ms dear sir you rOll rOlle In I I trust hand untouched A After hilt has oc occurred nr are e not hl base e harmed sou ou would I 1 I worlds lie he thousand nn for tor l a thoU me n a copt cart cor t I Mr r Clay m nee 10 plied Ion 1011 ou Randolph owe with lIh n a smile plied 1 nf of is Ie The whole of C for surely ure I Ir v r 1 r John Strang M his the I film 1 e c W n IS of nil time Gc tIme and JI peril hit u a alls rec recent nt i ur f W Joh Johnson linon lCd bs It him Ill I A al ran PIn him him Company nj rails 1 Is n a amole fantastic and 1 perhaps rIe nn ord than either mole e apt s applied 1 to his Is 11 or r 1111 C CI or political I hate and both buth pr primate lie he hS has come down downin Declaring t that It of the time mot mosi i with one in h I s tv or orI Ion attached to un an He I 0 n eser cr cr never i cr Iti 11 lie e who s hot ho ne politician t on 1 or murder murda r or 1 of f out oat that wrote biographer 1 tl 11 eft the II I third of n nhe iC lire life for a hied he be heas Was as In during f tf he r as a 1 du s minor floor century and JeTerson congressman of If I IOU the leader I In D Df DS n if remember om Its IS n a lell t 0 r f I omas as 11 nf f tile the I I J to of oC ii amid nud pe and on many lie he declares s he Is clot mis f s S n Il d tt It for th IC not vot remembered 1 I to M G i d JOHn W f R A COlf- COlf COlf Apy c Rather nather Randolph s reputation lh 11 ll es es because be- be be because cause cauce he lie carried t the tongue that e ever eser cr hung In the held of an cone or at nn an rate In tile the head hend of one who ho had both the courage antI and the wit It to use It Mans Inn Ani Am can remember the theda day da when Invective e with all nil its s sn n of abuse I rilling ecu sure sarcasm and were an nn indispensable part of the equipment of the politician But nut of ill 11 ho ever eser e er used them diem R US is as the acknowledged ledged master Intimates when he lie sass sas No o 0 man since his hits day when attacked In debate b by l i half halt i a dozen Honorable members has lias had ul the superb Insolence Insolence ence once to rl rise e and quote as he ely surveyed the tho United St-itea St House of cs The little dogs docs and all Tray y Blanch and 8 0 Sweetheart See they bark at me meNor or have o we ne since Ince had Invective In as startling startling- as the metaphor which he Is frequently said to halo o used against Henry Chi Cli but which he I really leally ap applied applied plied to Edward Idward Livingston ston Fellow Fellow- Fellow citizens citizens he ho Is a man of ot splendid abil- abil abilities abil abilities but utterly corrupt Like rotten mackerel by moonlight he shines Ind stinks Iris Ills characterization of ot John Quincy Adams ms and Clay as and Black Dlack the George George the Puritan and the blackleg hardly needed the duel which toll followed 0 ed to stamp It upon tho memory of the country for although there was no duel as a result the tho country had remembered the description description tion of Thorn Thomas Jefferson as St Thomas of because as asin a aIn In the other case there was just enough truth In It to make It stick and sting Although John Jolin himself once complained that All All the bastam It d wit It of the countr country has been fathered l on me rile Johnson cites some cone of his brilliant sallies lie once spoke of the glorious pdt liege Ilee of finding one fault fault one sery ery e y dear to the depressed ed d condition of hum humin m nature Of or Robert Wright and John Rea Hll Ra Ita he said that hit the hou house e of cs Ind hlll two 0 anomalies cs A Wright always al nys wrong rong and a Rae Hae i t hL Once a new member elected to till nil a In the house bv by a n death who ho Ignored It at the time Later e cr e cr while discussing n II bill Jill In which Hie lie dead ha hind been heen much interested Randolph ell ed that t tills this bill hili his has lost much ii in the thedo dt do ith of his Ills clear deir friend Mr Ir whose hose seat seit remains When Richard Itu hush h was sins as secretary of the treasury treasure treasur the gentle g gentleman gentleman gentleman man from nia declared th lh tint tt It e cr were erp abilities so much below In bo so ssell ell rewarded re no not when hen llla s horse was made matte Con Consal Consul sal sui Of ot i a certain pedantic ht hl said that hl his mind was as III e i t parcel of land t he poor knew poor poor to begin situ It 11 ind made more h n by Jy too In tenc tence e l Denouncing ln me ate mohe he demanded when hen a friend told him him that n a certain person had attacked attached That la is strange 1 I 1 never did ditl him a or fi One day da he lie met an in III ine ine e n ns non on fin the rhe narrow v sidewalks alls of V sh In ton n q 1 Ilie he min man halted In the time middle of the walk and nd declared I I ne er step out of my m was wi for pup lIes Ales I I Il always Il s do replied Ran Hau stepping aside Pass Pass onI on I Iut Put 5 place In history Is much more I lilt than that of a amere amere amere mere coiner coln r of epigrams according to his hilt biographer who ho declares dot lares that he heas was as the most trust powerful po single te encl in In the South from tilL chic nourishing mother t I if r f hie repute ilL hit Into the Hie frantic opponent of the republic and while it would be fur far too much muth to say sa SO that John lohn Randolph of dl time tile spirit of southern c f statecraft front from the ophy of Jefferson to that of Jefferson On na ls Is It Is income true that he hI ii witnessed It that tran transition and that he assisted It It seems strange perhaps that the man who OK admittedly the first n f t orator In a tint Included Webster CIR and ria has and should ho l o remembered mainly of ot his hie hI violence of or ne Uon und slid of speech For lays ays John of Roanoke w was II a stron man and he contended might might- V Sly lly Ills hum human n opponents were here ere Im- Im Impressive impressive Im Impressive enough enouch for tor or he dared the wrath successively of Thomas Thomis Jeffer Jeffer- Jefferson Jefferson son James H John Marshall John C Calhoun John Quincy Adams Chy Daniel W r r and An- An Andrew Andrew An Andrew drew Jackson He ne asked no quarter of ot the best of ot them and ind no weak man could have hase stood a moment against the least of ot these Certain of ot the elements of greatness John n of Roanoke possessed be beyond ond the shadow shidow of ot a doubt In In- In Intellectual Intellectual In Intellectual keenness and alertness he rl the great Virginians In cour- cour ige cour-ige ago no man among them surpassed him and not all were ere his equals In depth of ot learning he ho was as superior to most of them perhaps to all In per per- personal pcr Integrity not Vi ashington him him- himself himself him himself self was further beyond reproach In addition Randolph possessed po se ed a 11 It ItI which none of the tho stars In Virginia Vir- Vir Virginia Vir Virginias ginia s a political firmament armament shared In Inan Inan any an thing thine like the first degree This quality wa was his sheen his coruscation his sheer blinding brilliance But nut for tor all this he was a man at- at tendel at-tendel tende 1 by fatality the tho heir of ot the louse of ot Usher Born Horn to the wealthy a handsome h youth charming In his personal relations and equipped with a magnificent m mind It seemed upon his entrance Into public life lite that 11 the po powers ers had com com- combined combined com combined to Insure his happiness and hi his glory Flory But nut his fair prospects were ere all Instead lIl of primroses his hie path was strewn with stones and thorns Instead of ot becoming even the stepfather of his country J I mean mem the Commonwealth Common of ho urged herlong her long along a road rond strikingly similar to the one he troll trod trod and which led not to glory Klori everlasting but to madness m and death For i a physical affliction which Itan dolph sustained it at the age of nine nineteen nineteen nineteen teen foil following 0 In an attack of or scarlet fever ferer the whole course of his life and ind him bins an nn embittered frustrated miu mm To the end of hl his dais s she he retained a n curiously boyish appear mince hem less with a shrill hl high h pitched voice Tills This fact coupled Ith the statement that thit lie he was wis the the first orator of Ills his time and his Ills own o State statement ment of I im am an aristocrat I lose I love j ce fon and hate equality only ac c time the grotesque character of the picture of or the mm min who was wis John Randolph of e lien hen lie was a 0 oscr tr forty a n spectator in time the house honce hou was wis IS dumfounded at nt learning that the sl South 30 he lie arts siw s 1 on time the floor loll and whom hom he had believed d to I 1 e about sixteen sl a was the great greit Mr Ir Itan dolph of Ir The result of thIs tills affliction was wis In Inc c Here Here was ac an intensely proud member of i t proud race i a mm elan 10 who cherished his hib above e all hIs material pos possessions a man to whom hom the f v ss vis 1 is not merely i m sacred Jut but i a do downright fi awe e Inspiring thon deprived cd of the lebe of or con hi his writes Johnson Here here was tins i a scornful man doomed to be he the target of the shafts of the scornful Here lore was wis n romantic romant man Iv debarred from from am amorous amorous orous romance HUlac rc litre was ac a n man hoce fine finest t quality perhaps was vas as his Ity Ity for lInh blog ing dc devotion to the time limn dom domestic estic Interests nf or his kin denied the poc of setting up a dome domestic tlc nt of lr his own ossa 0 n It Is In hable hahle tint that this thle fru IlIon profound humiliation should ha e has e failed to tn work ont out In of spirit o n Toh of Roanoke is ho ha hind In him the elements of nf gro Jre just missed fd Jr s If he haul not been heen such sudi a stron strong man Ills his tor would h 10 be a one Olle HI His 11 0 people hu hase remembered him with n a mixture ture of terror pride anti and wild lId delight I t or dark lirk ns ne 1 Is hl his li stun start starton sor on on nn occasion it and sp sparkled RI as does docs that hit of or no other olier 11 of Is le the sto's sto of or a alighting nn any gem ratten n It lighting of the llie b cd 0 or nr d dand and no one who ho Is 1 stirred In ht a n tale of a sam nor who ho lass C about him with witha a right good will cm can fall to be stirred II by It 11 But Hut It lb is above e nil all elsea else Ilie II a fantastic tale frequently upon the UI u 1 the h incredibly lean l gye Wild WM Io DO Quixote to the ll tf hUt but l ut Jolin Jelin R IL own wn were the eyes and the almost f fabuloUS fore with Ith hp hI to transfix II a i i this time ILu string est st |