Richmond enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1815-1867, 1828-03-18

1 any sense OF prJ2riety % decoru, accept or de-
cline the preferred honour, until officially notified
OF the proceedings by the President of the Adams
| Convention.
This notification was held back nearly one
month, by the President ofthe Adams, alias Z" An
u-Jackson" Conventions; (yyho 10 our misfortune
IS also President of the High Court OF Errours &
AAppeals,l upon pre.sxt at once frivolous and
false. This trick OF the highest judicial officer
IN Virginia, played Oft to affect pubic opinion s,
the Vermont and New Hampshire elections espe-
cialiy, was worthy of a Newgate Solicitor. II
was done to affect public opinion, ard especially
the New Hampshire election How short-sight-
ed is fraud and ialsehood and folly! They did not
reflect upon the action when the trick could be
no longer concealed"
Here follows the residue of this note, as we
nave already published il, beginning with these
lines:
There as a tide IN the affairs Of men.
'Fhich' taken at the food, isa,t, to fortune.
To that part of this note which speaks OF the
county called after one OF the Judges, Mr.. r. sub
joins this note:
''If it had been called after his uncle. oil Col.
"ii Cabell, OF Union Hill, all would have cried
we'll done! PosteIity, it is to Be hoped, will know
no better"
To subsequent par; of the note, which speaks
oil Magma Charta, he subjons this note:
IL Is imi'oSsihie, even at this day, 10 real the
ancient evidences OF li5eltes, without tirob
OF gratitude to those brave who extorted their
acknowledgment not only from such weak and
worthless p:nccs rs John and Henry Sd, but OBJ
tanned their continuation by Edward the First the
Justinian OF England, wariike monarch and per-
maps the most sagacous and powerful OF all that
wondrous race of kings-thc Plantagincts.
N-.us Hber homo capiatur vel imprisonetnr
aut dlsSelsiatIir de 5eTo tenemento suo vel ber-
atibus, vel liheris consuetudinbus sus, aut u,la
getur, aut exulet, aut aliquo modo destruatur nee
super cum ibiints, nee super InitieInus, uisi
per iegaie Judicium parum suorum, vel per cgem
tcrrc Nuiii vendemus, NULL negabiTnus aut diife-
remusTectnm vel justtam. "-MAGNA CItAR.rA.
confirmed 2S Fiw L.
no free man shall be taken, or imprisoned, or
be disseised OF his freehold, or liberties or free
customs, or be outlawed, or exiled, or any other
wise destroyed; nor we will not pass upon him nor
eeniemn him, but by lawful judgment ofhis peers
or by the law OF the land. We will sell to no man
,ce 'o1 not deny or defer TO a,ly either Jus
tice or Right.
They put the denial and 6e!aq of Justice on the
same foot
Well might Lord Chatl,am, in the greatest of
all his incompatible speeches, say Of these pre-
Gious words. couched in g the rude and sim Re
Latin OF the tines that they were worth an
the Classics!" 'Nolunus legcs Anrlie rnutari''
I'VE are unwilling that the laws OF England be
changed was the answer OF those iron Barons''
70 the Sovereign who wished to introduce the Sale
law OF the Continent in lieu of the Enrlish law nj
descents This change would have deprived En-
gland OF two OF her most glorious reigns-thoge
of Elizabeth and Anne.
The struggle in England 10 supercedc the free
Anglo saxon institutions by the Civic Law, is most
honouraOie 10 the manly and successful resistance
OF our ancestors. Wherever Won see LAWYER
or Judge, that leans 10 arbitrary Power there
you will iind disparager oil that nublest because
surest and safest OF all systems OF Li5erty-lhe
COMMON Law; and an advocate for the CIvr1
| LAW, which is the Code of Despoas,n And If Is
net IN England aione that the civil Law has been
brought 10 bear upon cases, under pretence of il
being an Admiralty case, to the custer of Jury
/ rial; as MIR. Justice - well knows
The pamphlet concludes with the folloyYiaar
POSTSCRIPT, IN LIEU OF a PREFACE.
1t IS unnecessary, perhaps, but caniour de
nands the avowal, TO apprize 1.-The courteous read
er, that there Is much in the foregoing pamphlet
mat was not spoken on the lloor OF the House OF
Representatives. There are some t..inc,s too for
example, page 10, lines - to -; reported not as
the speaker said them; but at the distance of fort
night, under the pressure of other ayocations he
could not co:rcct such parts OF The report y OF re-
coiechns what he did say me fain 20 let il stand
although he was conscious thar he had not sait
what Is there set down. To his friends he i indeb
ed Tor HE restoration ofmany passages which tle
memory hsd preserved aud recalled to Mr. r..
recollection. OF these, he will here indicate Inn
two, relating to Mr.. Jefferson, in pages - and %
ana me page preceding, referring TO OtheUo.
- hls date speaks volumes to the old tried con
sistent Republicans. This day seven and tyyent,
years ago, not two hours after is
the elder Adams took his flight from the CAPITAL
sArouding himself in darkness, from Tie intolera
bic Eight OF day and the public gaze. What shoul,
we nave said, that morning, if il had been predict
ed that the son, without the recantation Of sinol,
p'inclple, with 10 other recommendation hat t6a
winch has been held to be any thing but recon
nenda ion elsewhere; with no other recommends
uon put that OF an APprover, or States Evidence
should In tour y twenty years. succeed that "A,
tner; Sy, & that an august Convention in Va
should recommend & support that son for this higf
ONCE, agailstan uniform, unwaveringTried Repub
mean, who had fought in the war Of our revolution
q shed his STRIPPING blood for his country and who in
Tie I'd war with England, had crowned himself an,
her with inperishablc renown-Iaurels that can
never fade; that viii flourish y grow green in his
tory x in song, while Mississippi shall pay his tri
butte TO the sea!
"Men Of the South Matrons and Maids Of Lon.
!siana! How say you? Do you h4d against vo,I
defender: Repubhcans--of every State and cline
How say yoH DO you find for the sedi,ion law and
Its advocates against tried Republican in the
Reign OF Terror,
~kmenber murehi The des fMarch rere,pheiip
%SnHi' Home SPeak, stIias, r-dfes..p
MARCH 4, 1928.
'on reaching aninn beyond Baltimore. lis said
mat MIR. Adams, walkingup to portrait Of Wash
lington, and placing his finger on his lbs. en-
claimed "li had kept my lips as close az Tia,
man, should now be the President OF tls, United
States.' ''''''