Constitutional Whig. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1824-1832, 1829-01-23

Is force call'd physical / say
Nor is your wide assertion sound:
Was compromise in Cromwell found;
WAS 1t i'll Buonapartes dynasty,
You sec your sweeping words were hasty.
SMALL CoyNrY.
lou may be sir a great logician,
But dony your proposition,
That those who count the noses NEST
Must have the right to rule the roast"
"I'is nottnherent right mt NIL,
But only right, conventional;
IT'S only theirs, when consent
70 live beneath their government.
] could move oit--admit the fact,
Gould reject the prcfier'd pact.
10 show that population white
Is not alone the rule of right,
Take Powhatan and Prcston-sampIas
Of what I'd prove by more examples;
Three thousand whites can Preston show,
Whilc PoWhatan can count but two;
The last, four thousand dollars pays,
While haF as much must Preston raise;
Now If most noses, rule the roast,
Ills plain enough, and needs no ghost,
10 tell us Preston puts the taxes
Where most old Powhatan it wakes.
LARGE COUNTY.
But if the sanction of this right
lie kept most steadily in sight,
argue thus-you can't resist It,,
How much soever you may twist it:
What's in the whole community
Must be in ev'ry part dye see,
Now wealth has no force physical.
And thus It's syllo-gistical
10 say, to rule, it has no right:
If not, good bye, old Stagirite..--.
But sir, your words are very bold,
1 swear 1t makes my blood run cold
10 hear such doctrines now promulged,
Tile like was ne'er before divulged.
Tower!! not vested in the Peoplc!l!!
Rlng, ring the bell from yonder steeple;
Such during words might do for Aliens.
But here we have punctuD, SntienS5
The right to rule himself, not mon's!!
Why sir with us tits pu,,etum SLAMS.
SMALL CouNrY.
Think not my learned friend, to throltIs
Plain common-sense with Aristotle;'
Nlrsnians love the good old Bacon;
Who was, a literary kraken.
Until your facts are all made cut,
Move not step, upon your rout.
You have assum'd that clubs are tr,infps,
And govern all by means of thumns;
From this you know have dissenteh,
You cannot rule till I've consented
And then you take as if for granted
What by the major part, is wanted.
You're fighting now your shudow too;
| have not said, aud never do,
Phe people are not powers source:
] say their rights spring not from force,
But when they entered into pact,
1t was a compromise in fact.
All men you say are free when born,
And yet the son Of Ham, you scorn.
The Bill of Rights, says naught, wccm,
about an Ethiopean's skin;
You first turn women all to mcn,
And then unseX them straight, agailE
The children too must all be counted,
Then from your hohby-horse dismounte1.
LARGE County.
Cease, cease, you cannot nue. begulc;
Cease viper, for you bite a fiIc.''
our argument has naught of force;
A slaves no better than horse,
Ne must be held a simple nullity,
Excluded from our civil pelity;
And women are i'll ''auranCe vile,''
'Pis theirs to rule by sunny smile;
Our Pollys shan't be Polly-Ticiu1s;
Who could resist their soft petitions!
And children they are like their mothrrg,
Held III subserlance unto others.
SMALL County.
] ve sheWn your ''dIcehs a1 abSU5-dual,'
Some other things, (pcrhaps you hcard'cb,0
Were said in that self same debate,
To prove I've not misrnled the state.
What have you ever prythee wanted,
W hlch have not iustanter, granted:
Perhaps you now regret my bounty
In cutting up each nonstrous county;
Since you've grown dabs ut politics.
You've multiplied your lunatics
A Hospital, quickly built sir
Put up your dagger to the Hit sir.
Like old Macbeth's, It's drawn i'll air,
a Loylandcr, you cannot scare
Uho draws most money from the fund
T. improve the children and the ground
Go to yourself-and try the trick
Of paying all, you'll soon be sick.
You'll tell me, but tbs idle pirate,
That to the people I'd dictate.
Pray when you say that five or f0ur
Shall be elected, and no more,
Do You not bound the peoples viii,
BY Senatorial Districts stilE
In short, great mountaincer, the more
turn the matter, am sure,
That they have nothing in the Hall
To do with roe at all, at ALL
The people only have the right
Il" undo themselves, with all their minJIf,
"To frame, To alter or abolish"
Or any other thing that's foolish;
But if they send men here to vote
For what mayhap may cut their throat,
Each one who comes from me or you
Should do Just what his Lords would do.
y 4 =
Hiatus maxine deferdusl!u
BY this the Houses gath'ring hum
Struc; Large and Little County dumb;
The town-bcll, high in ether swung,
Groon'd twelve o'clock with iron tongue;