Richmond enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1815-1867, 1824-01-29

intellectual strength. You are pursuing
This course too at time when our state
IS rapidly losing ITS rank and It's inlu-
ence in the union, at time when patriotism
demands every eXeriinn for the preservation
of its high character among the confrdp-
rate sisters. Will You by a course of rigid and
unrelening policy blight the iairest blossoms
of the land, or compel them To be- transferred
To bear uxuriant fruit in foreign cline Yon
are about III ostracise your sons, for what ?
Not because they have dishmored themselves
or their country, not because they are un-
willing to preserve their honor untarnished,
hut simply because they have indi ectly mani
tested a piaise-wurthy intention, have impro-
pcrly expressed a laudable determination to
protect their character and reputation.
Sir if this rigid rule is not relaxed, pre-
dict that in less than one-ifth of a century,
you will sensibly feel the weight of those
talents rxerrd against You, which are now
reproachfuy rejected. regard then, TO the
moral strrugth of the state, which il is our
imperative duly to promote, dictates, that
those talents now under the ban of the law
should be received into Ifs service. But say
the enemies tn this proposition, he evils which
would ens'ir from AN amnesty To some of The
offenders would hr much greater than those
| resulting from lpss of their taleHts. SIR
again repeat, fear no evil from granting ex-
rmptiOns to Raber; D.s;;;iia; aud Others
| Had dnpl been artuaiy fought, had blood
been shed, and AN adversary disabled, pai don
would not be asked, il could not be expected.
Sir, if nothing but challenges had ever dis
turbrd the public peace, II nothing but invita-
tons TO fight had h-cn the prevailing practice.
1t M diels had bern fought, You would never
have passed law IN prevent their occurrence
Thousands of challenges might pass every
day, and II NJ combat ensured, the smooth
stream of social intercourse would have lis
surface hut little rufllrd, and you would never
have dreamed of -nacling this law. Tell me
not, sir, that If you grant this pardon others.
will in future be induced Ia fight by a hope of
similar relief You pardon no man VIM has
fought, M man who has ever aimed IA pistul
with deadly intent at the breast of his adj
versary can ever hope for legislative forgive
ness. Then how can it BE- said. that tile hope
of pardon will he sufficiently strong TO coun-
teract the druunciatioDs of the law [? He who
fights duel will still do 81, with the express
understanding, that no matter what may be
the event of the conflict relief from the dis
abilities of the anii-dmeliing act can never be
obtained. | believe il would be a good and
wise declaration on the part Of this General
Assembly, tn say that all those " no are insru-
mental IN giving and accepting challenges
| hut do not perse,err in the fight NAV be- rx
cepied from the disabilities orthe iaw Chal-
lenges are frequently given aud accented ia
moments Of heat and irritation. bat before the
execution "f the hloody purpose, The inter.
| vening time allows the passions Il, calm and
reason 10 exert lis accustomed influence
declaration, such as / have mentioned. wuud
be powerful consideration with men drsrous
ofpublic employment Ia ad jgst their diiieren-
| ces upon amlcable aud honorable. irrns and
| iorbear the rifusiOn OF blood. NV remarks
have been somew hat general, because am
| free To declare that am ready 10 relieve his
and other eases. If have succeroed In
proving that class OF cases ought To be- re-
lleved, that sound policy So far from forbid
ding, requires and sanctions il, then IL does
SEEM conclusivey tn follow that each part
cHar case is in justice entitled 10 the same
| Ireatment as the collective numbrr. have
| endea,ored, as much as possible to AVOID the
ground already occupied by The friends Of
| this hill, have moi attempted "A full elaborate
defence of H. hut have only designed Whit
| have said rs additional remarks.
| The question MAS then taken ON the passage
of the bill, and decided in The ntgutipe-ayes
| 79-noes l20.
letter to the Editors from Annapolis,
hrimgs the agreeable intelligence, thai, on
Thursday last, the bill toincorporatc The Chesa-
Peake md Ohio Canal Compaay passed The
House of Delegates. f0rty-Ihrce votes iu
twenty three, after debate of several honrs.
Ii has yet To pass The Senate. Nat Int.
8PprehenSiremeSS.-A writer of a letter pHb-
lished in The Baltimore American of Yesterday,
dated at Annapolis, Jan. 9Ist, saSs-" The
Potomac Bill has many friends in and Sut of
the House. and Ito &" no further) am appre-
hensiue il will pass" III.
The Season, our readers all know, thus far
has been uncOmmonly mild. But few of them
have seen the evidence of its mdness which
W. now report To them. In garden in the
Western part of this city, there is peach
tree actually nblnom, a branch of which, nth
open blossoms upon il, was yesterd day brought
to our office. ID.
WONDERFUL SHIP.
isrtra,t IF fstter, dafsd Qubsc Dec. %, 1925
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