Richmond enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1815-1867, 1825-07-15

into bitterness and may he, above all Ind 90 other
friend, like himself, TO proclaim it, to the world,
torture it, into crime, in order to discolour his
motives, and to impuse 10 him design TO over
throw, with jacobinicsl violence, the constitution
of his native State.
MIR. Leigh had right TO know che opinions OF
MIR. NJ. on every subject Of common or personal
interest: but he mistakes. if he supposes, that he
ever heard Mr.. NJ publicly express, not often, as
he AYERS. but, at any time, whatever, any opinion
Of the freehold qualification OF suffrage MIR. NJ.
both voted for, and supported with ZEAL the files
of the Enquirer may possibly testify the enon
bill, which passed the House OF Delegates, and
was rejected by the Senate, in 1914 1t also
proposed, but the question was not discussed, so
far as Mr. NJ can remember, by any man, 10 ex-
tend the powers of the limited convention, then
contemplated TO an enlargement of thi. right; and
MIR. NJ. may have voted against this extension If
MIR. Leigh will examine that vote, which he can
conveniently do, he will probably find some OF the
most decided opponents OF convention on the side
OF this particular enlargement of the powers of the
convention Their motives DO not require an ex-
positions: is this fit occasion to enter farther
upon this question; which. never having been of
the least importance TO the friends, foes of
vention, few weeks will put defnitively TO rest.
OF what consequence Mr.. Ms opinions, past,
present, or to come, upon this question: except as
regards hin,self9 If any importance could have
been attached to them by Others, Mr.. Leigh has
ascertained, and proclaimed if he did not OCCASION
It's total annihilation.
OF as little consequence, except TO Mr.. MERGERS
character. is tie charge for which the uncha,t cred
banks are conjured up from the grave, against his
6 steadiness or safety as public man. Unwilling
witnesses they would prove, if all that Mr. Leigh
has averred OF MIR MS ~" career in relation to
them, were true: but impartial enough, if their bio
graphy be correctly given. as to those banks, it is
TACT, notoriousi in Loudoun, where two Of them
existed, that Mr.. nj. neither subscribed to their
stock, approved of their unauthorized establish
ment, as 1t is that he dissuadcd his friends from
participating in them After they had been estab-
lisiied, and an attempt was made, in the House OF
Delegates, 10 stamp criminal character on pro-
ceeding, which had received the sanction of many
| OF the best, and some OF the wisest men in the
Commonwealth, Mr.. NJ. vindicated the moral
worth OF the parties TO them, and earnestly and
zeaiously, as became representative of Loudoun,
demonstrated against the unconstitutional means
by which 1t was, at frs. proposed to crush them
he called those means, he well remembers absurd
and monstrous." So FAR he has preserved his
consistency. He still thinks they were uncon-
stitutional, as did soundcr lawyer than himself,
MIR. Dodrdge OF Brooke, with whom, Mr.. Leigh
himself need lot be ashamed to be drawn I'm
comparison. The violence depicted in one of Mr.
Leighs essays. the side of the friends Of the
proposed bill, which, after many modifio ations.
retained, still, form which Mr.. NJ. could not ap-
prove. Mr.. MS report on the policy of multiply
ing the banks of the Commonw ealth; ON the ex-
pediency and justice OF putting down fo so he re-
commended) all unchartered banks; and the ne
cessity OF promptly enforcing the resumption OF
specie payments by them all, is, fortunately for
him, spread on the journal of the House of Dele
gates
Mr. Leigh willing, in his first essay, to
consider this, the only act of Mr. Ms public life
lie, it be so regarded. The report is probably de-
tective, in many particulars The subjects of il are
not free from intrinsic difficulties to saw nothing OF
those exiraneous ones, which every where cncom-
pass them. Among the merits of Mr.. Leigh, in
tellectual and moral, and he had not friend, by
whom, they were, once, more highly appreciated,
than by Mr.. NJ. the latter never very highly estima
ted, though he, by means condemned, his acquire
ments IN political economy. He and the intelli-
gent ana able gentlemen, who acted with him, sus.
tanned BY all the weight of The first Bank of Virginia
and OF its numerous branches, once contended at a
former period, that there should be but single
Bank, with its branches, spread over the Common
wealth, and rendered by the constitution of lis
Board OF Directors, subservient to the views Of the
General Assembly. They may have been right
though they Jailed OF success; and Mr.. NJ wrong
nul Is The question OF convention, fit occasion
to discuss topic, itself involved great difficulty
II.
and, by the present uppropitous times, in all the
gran-selling states, surrounded with the stronees,
resentments and prejudices? Leaving the full bene-
INT OF all those feelings, 10 be enjoyed and turned
10 the most profitable account, by Mr.. Leigh, Mr..
vi. VIII be content to croud one or two facts into
note, for those, who choose 10 pursue this in
quiry.S Since it is now used, to initiate against
his capacity for any public trust he would remind
the surviving members of the Virginia Legislature.
who served with Mr.. Leigh, and himself, and the
friends, who may yet remain to him, at Richmond,
OF the era to which the cronicler of these facts
back, to sustain his charges. Tenipora n,utn,,ftr
Mr. Leigh understands Latin, and has proved
himself fully equal to the task eftranslating the line.
oil which these common place words make the in
PRODUCTION.
1t is true, and he is glad to have fact to ac.
knowledge, that Mr. NJ. reioiced, at the sue
cess OF the Senatorial District Bill of lSI6-I7
AT that time, more than $4,000 freeInen west of
the Blue Ridge, had the same eight in the Senate
OF Virginia, with some hundreds; more titan a
twentieth part OF that number, ihinly scattered A.
long the seaboard That bill remedied this Injustice:
though not without powerful resistance II gave
10 the country west of the Blue Ridge, whose
policy has ever favored the Improvement of the
Commonwealth, more than twice it's antecedent
influence in that branch of the legislature where
ITS hopes had before, been often Disappointed
he act creating system, and providing fund
Tor internal improvement, which passed the House
OF Delegates, by large majority, had been carried
with all the eloquencc of Johnson to sustain it in
the Senate, BY solitary vote only; ard the bill
providing system OF education founded on the
necessities OF the country and The wants of the peo-
pie; in support OF which, the same Speaker, shed
tears of patriotic feeling, while lie drew them
copiously, from other eyes, as well as mine. was
lost by tie. But does contenf,nent tcifh such
gam in l816-17, require like contentment
with the present condition of the other branch OF
the legislaturel Or. having made one crent i'm.