Virginia Argus. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1796-1816, 1807-05-06
1865
56,e4O
36,3O9
Republican majority
The same towns last year
Mr.. Strong
Mr.. Sullivan
Federal majority

Tie Chronicle adds" Tie election is
drctded--and zohat does tile result hrope.
. 1st. IT PROVES that all the charges
and allegations against Judge SULLIVAN
are, IN tie opinion of a majority of the
qualified voters, false, malicious and scam
,kalous.
"2dly. IT PROVES that the leaders of
the federal party, together with the mno-
rIty OF the last General Court, have lost
the public confidence, and worn out their
characters with the great body of the poo
pie OF the state. For if their, repre- senta-
tNes had been accredited, the majority
could not have voted as they did.
Sdly. 1T PROVES majority (and a much
larger majority than appears by the votes)
10 be IN favor of a RefreseRfatiUr Demo
crecy: IL proves that ours is POPULAR
GovERNMENT. IN other words, that il
vas made By the people and far the peo-
pie, and :hst the will of the majority must
and viii govern. Mr.. Gore and Mr.. Otis.
and their followers, if they hate such 20
vernment, ought to retire from IL. Whe-
Their they do or not, they may rest assured
It viii never be in their power either to
direct on defeat k
Strange as Mr.. Kings conduct was to
Mr.. Irenor, and other Irish emigrants.
x
traordinary. The fact that he "reallv
had no authority to give or refuse permis-
sion" to foreigners to go to the United
States is indisputable but the reaso which
he assigns for the want Of such authority is
most wonderful, when we consider the
grade of intellect that is claimed for him
By his trlends-These are his words--Hthe
adDHsSEoH and residence of strangers in
that country being matter, that, by a
late law, (the alien law erciuSivcly be-
longs 10 Rie Presidcnf." Examine this
law and you viii find no such au,ho-
rity given to the President of the United
States. 1he admission of aliens is in no
way prohibited or restricted Nor is the
residence of strangers in the United States,
so completely under the control of the
President as MIR. King declares il to be
1t only gives him power Z" to order all such
ahenS as he shall judge dangerous to the
peace and safety of the United States. or
shall have reasonable grounds to suspect
are concerned in any reasonable or Sc
cret Vaccinations against the government
thereof, to depart" &c. Was MIR. King
ignorant Of the contents of this celebrated
law, or did he Intentionally misreprcsent
them ifcharity compelsus to disbelieve the
latter, we must yield to the former opini-
on, and admit the purity of his motives
only at the expense of his understanding.
Mr.. Jay was ignorant Of the growth of cot
ton in the United States when he formed
his celebrated treaty but his apology
was that he was neither merchant nor n
planter. But what apology can Mr. King,
WHO'S lawyer, offer for boldly declaring
that to be law which is not law?
We shall not enter the wide field of ar
gument, which this topic has opened in the
prints of New York The patriotic citi-
zens OF that state have done IL ample ius-
uce,it we except that view which we have
deemed 1t our duty to present they have
gone into it fully they have pai ted in
coiors no less true than glowing, the politi-
cal iniquity of the alien act, and OF the
times that gave it birth They have over
whelmed MIR. King with the INDIGNATION
which long since deprived those in place
OF their power and popularity. They have
demonstrated that no man can, or oueht tn
possess the confidence of republicans, who
hoids such sentiments as he avowcd. on.
who commits hmselfby such conduit "a he
purso9d--Naf. Lfci.