Richmond enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1815-1867, 1825-11-08

which threaten US are likely to be consummated
The work OF consolidation il gradual: it may BE-
that not even those who are most actively promot-
ing that result, suffer teir minds to dive upon the
oojeet. I" Memo tit repente turpissmas'' --but the
tue Is maaiiestly setting that way, and if raise
not BARRIER 10 repress 1t, 1t will overn helm us all
Were uttering my last words, and could my voice
he Le'rd through the country, | would call upon
t"e friends oil the Constitution to rally at tins time
Fuuhu us banner; " now l. the acceptable tme;'
tHe Easlet Il young in its nest the administration
Is not possessed OF the 'coutdeuce of the people
the liberal policy which Great Britain has lately a.
dcpied, and The additional evidences which the in
dividual states are every day giving of their ca
Pacity To affect within themselves eveiS desirable
o'jeci OF Improvement, have already laid the axe
10 the root OF the two lie ding measures by which
The constitution has been violated. This then is IA
crisis IN which concert aud energy in the friends
OF that sacred instrument will inialhly rescue it
from usarpaion and abuse. To you. then, Gentle
men, the sous of Virginia Patriots of 10 the sue
eessors OF those OF '9S. Your country looks in
tins hour OF Tal, she calls you to exeron she de-
mands at your hands Senator worthy TO be asso-
ciated with her raZewell in the work OF reforma-
non; she enireats you TO discard every private feel
Tug, every personal attachment, to immediate ON the
Altar oil Patriotism, your passions and your pre-
JUDGES, to select Tor her, from her old and tDel-
tTted servants, champion who had worn her ar
perience as lamp to his feet devotion TO the
principles OF 9S, his impulse, and ala attachment
TO the rights OF man, as his motive may fearlessly
ald ln rescuing the constitution IRON The hands o.
misbeiiererS, and restoring TO his na.ire state her
i,,St toelgM an the onion. There ,as time when
Virginia could proudly point to the Congress ofthe
United States, and shev the moral Influence OF her
patriotism and her virtue, on the deliberations oil
that body, when her sons stood centinels on the
outworks, watching with seepe~s vigilance the
most distant approach TO the Temple of their LIZ
berties hen trick, intrigue, lad corruption would
as soon have obfuded Themselves on tie sightless
justice OF the AreopaSus stand in the presence
oi lie hIgh-Inlnded purity OF Virginia Principle,
or come within the whitening influence OF her scru-
uny. But alas How are the mighty iallen The
watchmen have slept on their post, the Sacred Tenn
pie has been polluted with the footsteps of the
Spoier, and the Palladium from its Pedestal
IS nos In the hands OF The invaders. the fatal st IS
erected at your Portals, and the infatuated muti-
tude cry aloud tor lis admission, 80 niser qua tan
Ia insania, Cives!'
Where Is now that Principle once irresistible as
truth, on which II was based? Alas! given 20 the
winds and derided merpedienH Where now
are those doctrines which your Jefferson taught :;
your Madison and your Giles eXpounded, and en-
forced! They have passed away as the visions OF
the dreamer, they Knocked, as the idle theories
OF the Utopean. But shall waste our time in
idle wangs for the glories that are faded; shall we
told us In our roes and wait with inactive dignity
the ruin that approaches? The IrUlsQIpine GauI
has already slroked your boards contempt lei the
sceptre oil your Senator fell him to the ground.
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