Richmond enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1815-1867, 1828-03-04

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the newspapers Mr. Webs:cr's toast. given, If
forget not, on the 18th fully Henry CLAW the
orator OF the west Sc. sc. quote Gom memo
ry'-N. Is. Mr. Clay was then the rival anil de-
clarcd enemy o. Mr.. Adams. Mr.. Clay in the
debate the Greek motion OF Mr. Webster and
IN the affair of Sir. lchabod Bartlett "a name of
o'ncn,) was ostentatious in his declarations of
! friendship aud connection with Mr.. w, whom he
g"lluously assumed TO have been assailed by
the said ichabod that he might mantle ), his devo-
/ ton 10 his new friend. then looked upon Mr.
Clay aS laying an anchor 10 W;ndward and east
war;, and in fact, Offering his Establishment TO
| N England in the person OF Mr.. Webster, while
1 at The same time lie proclaimed his strength
IN that quarter as the ally of Mr.. Webster.
and the powerful party Of wlsch he is the lead
| or and mouth-piece. IT the -.axirn he true
0TS est cefdTe dFteDtthen there lives less art
iu man IN the world than Mr.. G. His system con-
ssts in soothing by tlattery, or bullying--tlicse
constitute his whole stock III trade-and very Of
ten he applies both 10 the same person. The inau
oi deicacy 10 whom his coarse adula,on is tai
| some, and the man of mistaken firmness, when
these two characteristics unite ia the same person
cannot be operated on by him.
| Mr. w. and the rival of Chilly Mcintosh were
put on the y. Is. Committee 10 run down Mr..
| Crawford. too, though in Baltimore when Mr.
| Floyd (uy colleague) moved to raise that Commit
tee, was put upon it. | not then the political
friend or supporter of Mr.. Crawford. His poli,i-
cal principles on the United States Bank and some
other questions were TO mine nearly although not
quite, as obnoxious those of his competitors |
never took sides with him unit! he was prosecuted
Mr.. Macon and Mr.. Floyd both know that on nv
arrival from Baltimore, peremporiiy declared that
would not serve that Committee. believ-
ed it TO be (as it was) for me a snare from
which providentially escaped. Mr. VS. true
character first developed itself to me then; as at
the same time, told Mr.. Tazewell. At the ear
nest persuasion of Mr.. Macon, and enrcaty OF
Floyd, reluctantly agreed to serve. Mr.. +.
being taken violently i'll and confined to his bed
abandoned my seat in the Committee and went a.
broad for health.
Note C.-Some of the members of the
Richmond Adams Convention CT like to call things
by their right names) have had, am told the
modesty to say that 60 it the most august body
that has assembled since the Congress that decar-
ed lndependencel' The same declaration, in the
very same words, was made in the Senate CON
corning another g august body" the Hartford
Convention, by Mr.. Otis, member of said 'saugust
BODY
This moderate hyperbolc, suspect, must have
come from some wiseacre, south of Appomatox or
OF Roanoke, who was at once his own constituent
body and Representative. L know many very
worthy and respectable members of the 90 august
body; two of them, in particular, excellent and
sensible men; my own good friends and constitu-
ents; whose names, own, surprised me, when ap-
pended 10 such manifesto. Others, no doubt
are equally respectable. But what shall we say
not to the Sceretary-no, il is needless TO say any
thing OF him. His name associated with that of
Chapman johnson, must be grateful to that distin-
guished lumnary of the bar and of Virginia. In our
part the country, still retain the old fashioned
prejudice against the three degrees of borrowing
begging, and stealing. We still believe, in Char
iotte and L rlnce Edward that every honest man
pays his just debts. If were to go to Oakland
(where hope soon to be and were TO steal one of
my friend VIM. h. Johnson's plough horses, value.
perhaps sixty dollars, should subject myself to
| the pententary. But wouli he not rather be
robbed of a work horse, than that any man should
/ buy MEDLEY or SALLY Wake Err OF him for some
thousands OF dollars, and never pay hin Su,tHa
Ctaque tribuito--is still held in respect with us;
| and we pay small Difference to the opinions of
Judges, even in the last resort, whose creditors
cry aloud IN vain for justice against the dispensers
OF justice-a Judge who finally and conclusively
determines between meum and tttun,, who pos
r, sesses nothing If we do have a Coavcn-
tion trnst that the corrective will be auplied TO
THIS and some other abuses of the only privileged
/ class among US.
We have no faith, the south side of James
! River, in the President who called or him who
presided over the Richmond Adams Convention
| the successor, in form, of Pendleton and Spencer
Roane Lchas welding the club of Hercules
a man who does not endcavour to make up by as
| sinuity aud study for the slenderness of his ca
pacity, and his utter want o! professional learn
ing.
"Tl.fre i 4 tide in the affairs Of men,
Wh'ot, ,aken at ne food, lead, to Foriune.o
Mr.. c. is as strong an instance of this as Shaks-
peare himself could have adduced Hardly Sc
i cond rate lawyer at the County Court Bar of Am
Governour Of Virginia. Happening then TO bc a
member of the Assembly, Twhen very obnox-
ious character was held up for the oicel -possess-
ing good temper and amiable manners, and most
respectable and powerful comeNons-the unity
ing of q member shoe caused him to be pitched
upon to keep out the only candidate With that
! exception, the Office was going a-begging. Con-
Quoting himself most unexccptionably and inoifhn-
sively as Governour, he had a county and one of
the finest too in the State, named after him. and
was advanced to the Court of Appeals, of which
he bids fair TO be President; Court in which, if
he had remained at the Bar, he most probably
would never have obtained brief.
My venerable friend Mr. Macon, has more than
once observed to me, that, with the exception OF
North Carolina, no State, not even Virginia. had
called county after or done honor to the Presi-
ident Of the first Congress, who, if he had lived
and the day had gone against us would, with ano-
thcr Virginian, have been singled ont as the ring
leaders OF the REBELLION, and made examples
Of, accordingly IN tCTF0TeHI of all future Offend
ers
have seen the Lord Chief Justice of the Court
Of Common Pleas, Sir William Draper Best, and
Sir John Bayey (both very inhrm menu sit, dav
after day. the at Nisi PTius s. the other on the
Crown side, from nine in the morning until five in
the afternoon, aud despatch more business i'm one
day, than any -four courts i'm Virginia transact in
a week. have seen Judge in Guildhall sittin o
in court with his teapot and bread and butter be-
fore him, taking his breakfast, while counsel wore
pleading, that business might not be DELAYED The
Judges in England, Ohere arc but thirteen for
that great Kingdom, where each of three coun-
tics, that could name, contain more white peo-
pie aud inconparably more wealth, than our poor
Old Domnon0 work harder, and are worse paid
than any other officers of that government
| How ia IL viii ne in VIRGINIA No GuJ NO..