Constitutional Whig. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1824-1832, 1826-03-14
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TUESDAY MORNING, MARCH, IA, 1926


TUESDAY MORNING, MARCH IA, 1896
| Nh. Rdnd0iPh.--We this day publish MIR. Ran
dolphs speech in the Sena" of the United States on
his Botirar Resolution. We had declined doing so at
ALL but as the morbid appetite Cor reading his speeches
has seized upon some of our readers in common with
others, change first pun pose to CRAFTY them.
Among many things which he says 10 amuse, and
few 90 instruct, will be found others which neither
amuse nor instruct, unless deractiou from what the
people of this country deem most sacred Just and beau
tul, be considered instructive or amusing Mr. Ran
doph some years ago. gave TO understand that he
had early "unleaned his metaphysics" We sorry
to that he has also learned unlearn his humanity
and philanthropy. Speaking OF the abolition of the
slave trade, which lie Conrives connect with the
subject before the Senate he says-'Frorn INV early
childhood, all my feelings and opposition
TO slavery every shape 10 the subuga of mans
Will to that OF another, and from the time that rcad
ClaTlSson's celebrated pamphlet, was, am afraid as
mai-as CIarkson himself read ysclfntO this mad
ness, as have read myself into agricultural i'm
proycments but, with these last worked myself ont
of them so also worked myself out itn Tie plain i'm
port of which is, that he has liberated his mind from
its early prejudices against slavery and the African
slave trade lie would now think with Duudass old
George Rose, and the Goree merchants that the trade
God had peopled that great continent for the special
benefit of Europe and European descendants. Every
man has right TO learn and unIearn what he pleases
but wish that the Senator from Virginia the State
which, though cursed with slavery, the first of the
American Commong eaIths TO denounce the slave trade
and whose whole history proves that necessity,
with inclination, hos continued evil which interest
and humanity would ian discard had kept his
opinions to himself Sure are, that the Repre-
sentative of Virginia. he had right to promuge ;hen
as hers. Sure are, that not Virginian in one
hundred, will acknow ledge them.
After this extraordinary declaration, after his ridi
cule OF the labors OF Carkson and Wlbcrorce and his
secession from the principles of the slave trade abo
ton, nobody will be surprised at Mr.. Randolphs pro-
nouncing the Declaration of Independence, which the
pride mised and misjudgng Virginans and Americans
have been accustomed to the nobIest nonu
ment of human genius 'fanfaronade clustering
sense of distractions" and containing the pernicous
fasehood," that all by nature free and equal.
The reader viii invoiunary pronounce the Indian ex-
clamation "Ilugh." (See Last of the Moicans ~
Mr. Rando pin has unearncd his metaphysics and given
his philanthropy TO the winds denounced Bolivar,
Fayctte, the South american continent, and the high
and ancient Arabian blood that flows in the veins of
Spaniards. Why need be surprised that he has
forgotten his respect for the Declaration of Indepcn
dence' We know but few things left that he holds
sacred respectable. Burke, mot Burke the whig,
but Burke the tory made tory By his fears of ReVo-
luton, his horse, pointer, .4ctesE and hope the
Bible.
The design of Mr.. Randolph'5 speech is deep and we
think insdious To enable him to address the public
indirectly question, the Panama. wbicA under tue
secret deIberation of the Senate OF the United States
and which, therefore, directly, he had right to dis
Cuss, he moved Resolution calling the President o.
the United States for information to Boyar's view.
of negro emancipation 1t must be apparent VIC think
10 every mind, that this call could have been bona
file one that Mr.. Randolph could not have expected
10 obtain the information which he sought from the Ex
ecuve-that if Bolivar any of the South American
States held such views, they confined to those
countries themselves, as matters which did not come
within the sphere of foreign advice or communication
and With which we certainly had nothing to DO. Blu
tie resolution gave Mr.. Randolph opportunity o
forestang the public mind in relation to the Panam;
Mission and that consideration induced him to offer il
To succeed in this design, he has conured up the mos
extraordinary phantom I'VE should say that haunt
cd crazed imagination if we Gov think that MIR
Randolph believed in its reality himself But it is i'm
pos bic thai he can believe in it. Tic fancy 10 ohe
than that Great Britain Bolivar and our own Genera
Government plotting universal negro emancipation
not in South America and the British West Indie
merely but Virginia and all the States south Of MasoI
and Dixou's line! lie has mnde The discovery that vii
bororcc and the aboltionss Of the slave trade in Tn
gland held concealed views, W hch extended much far
thor than their avowcd yiews--that these last wer
merely TO abolish the slave yadc but that the forrne
;i- aIlo ~,
world-tbat they accordingly held Que language as
one class Of these views cotcric and another languag
as to the other class tccolcc words which being IN