Richmond enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1815-1867, 1825-10-25
To the Editors Of die Richmoud E,,ouiy,r

To The Editors Of hc Richmond ENQUIRER.
There is no subec, that seems at this lime tc ex
cite more general interest than the apnroacbino
election OF gentleman TO succeed MIR Barbour in
the Senate OF the United States. A catalogue of
respectable names is presented the public expec-
tation IS aiVaSened and geaerll call Tor an able
eDscscRt man Is made in every quarter Tie hour
OF trial Is come. and all are sensible that uDon the
energy OF our next Senator will greatly depend
the weight and Influence which Yirsinia PriRci-
pies and Virginia Doctrines arc likely TO posses, in
the further developments under the General Go
vernmeit This then, is no time TO bestoy the
once oil Senator as Precipitation 10 wounded
price and htiul jealousy. No, not even though the
State may again be upbraided with the unendesripa
appeilaton OF " step-mother.' Nor is it a time
when mere good nature and urbanity, nay The vho,e
catalogue OF private virtues, should entite man
10 station OF so much responsibility. Every viii
age has IT'S grea, man. and every state has its net
bantlng, and it may be well enough at times TO fall
IN with the within, but the present is crisis too
momentous Tor irfiing the constitution is bleeding
at every pore, and we want physician whom no
slcky sensiblli'ies will prevent from probing the
wounds, and no consequences will deter from APP
plying the remedy. Throughout Virginia there is
but one sentiment In relation many OF the measures
auopteV by The last administration and advocated by
'ie present There Is not man of intelligence in
The state who does not believe that the constitution
mas oeeh grossly violated, that its fences are bro
ben down, so that all who pass by the way do pluck
1t; the Boar ont on the wood doth waste it. and the
wild beast ofthe field doth devour it, And with
THIS conviction resting minds, we are now
soiemnly called upon TO discard every private per
sona feeling, and to look out for Senator with a
single eye to his efficiency of character and his ad
heS,on to constitutional doctrines The partiality
OF private friendship, erroneous estimate of char
acter and perhaps even the acknowledged talents of
some, have bi ought many names before the public
but there is in the state 10 y. hom the crisis
points distinctly, and that man is TtIliaal b. Giles
his name known, his hand is felt and the exer-
Ton oil his peculiar talents is called for h the occa
sion. He may, it is true, have his faults; he may
not have rounded his periods quite TO the taste of
"lode'n politicians. Amidst the many plain truths
which he mas lately been telling US, there NAV be
some which 1t would better suit certain gentlemen
10 nave lett untold had he been more selections 10
acquire character for authorship, than to enshteD
his fellow Citizens he might perhaps have bestowed
more time on the phraseology of some recent Dis
quIsi'lons Be it so; the vigour of his mind no
man doubts; the orthodoxy of his constitutional
views no FTsinian questions, and to his boldness
ana deHlerty IN pressing those views, the history
OF his public life bears ample testimony VIM. b.
GILES Is then emphacally the man to whom, the
crisis points.