Daily Richmond Whig. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1828-1831, 1830-03-22
Ntct11IottO 1Da
MONDAY MORNING., MARCII &c, 1880.

subject a. best, so disgraceul to the country, thai
We would wish that it might speedily sink into obi
Aion. we should with our correspondent, be dispo
sed 10 doubt, and rs some Of our contemporaries de
doubt, the statement of the Telegraph, that II. Lee
was recommended TO tho President, by Judge Mar.
shall aud other gentlemen Of high moral and polit
cul standing were we not well acquainted with the
constitutional weakness which influences many Of the
best mon in setting their names to recommeniatory
letters The motive is well understood, but it is
what wo have called it, weak ness. We therefore
fear it may DO true, and disposed to tread lightly
ill further light be thrown tn statement of tn
Telegraph. Rumour here is disposed to deny the
statement as to one Of the distinguished individuals
at least.
Wesimoreiand County, March 10, 1890.
TO THE EDIToRs THE WING.
bave inst seen Gen. Green's notice of the reec-
ton of H. Lees nomination by the President of the
the u. 8. rs Consul General for Algers.-lt is GER
tainly strange publication, and one which no doubt
was sanctioned by the President, for the purpose OF
scYeening himself fiom the blame, for great an
sniff offered to the moral worth Of an enlightened,
and yirtuous people, This rebukc Of the Senate (by
an unanimous vote must doubt be sorely felt by
the President, and by those who did recommend Lee.
The President, well as they, must have known
cvery thing relating to Leos character as to Judge
Marshall, have too high an opinion of him. IA man
with whom am well acquainted to believe he ever
mendatory of the Exc Consul; nor can 1 believe that
Phil Barbour is the Mr.. Barbour alluded to Duff
Green's publication. These TWO gentlemen, trust,
will be enabled to satisfy pirgindns, and their friends
in general, that they never did recommend Lee
Rives should be recalled, and Stevenson expelled
from the House of Representatives, and exiied to
some remote Of Tennessee, for thus justying
the President for dong an act which he knew to be
tbrong, g. which he never would have had the courage
to hare done, but for these recommendations. He
comes out with his Justification and even pretends he
asnot. appraised ofthe considerations which led to his,
Uees) rejection by the Senate, and says whatever
they were, however, it is gratifying to know the Pres
idenf cannot be made responsible for Mem, &C. &c
YVES in Washington orS days before Lees nomi-
nation was acted on: it was then believed, that 1t
would be rejected, together with many others
Swortwout's and Ogdens certainly will, as was in
formed that many jackson Senators expressed them
selves freely the subject. trust you will call the
attention of Virgnians to the said recommendations
of II. Lee, in order TO give those gentlemen who did
recommend him. an opportunity to justify themselves;
they can, g. others who are said to have recommen-
ded him, to deny the pIsoRAcEPUL rHARGE.-Your
friend, friend to virtue, and in principle
" We have recently seen lithogra phic portrait
ofJudrc Marshall at the shop OF Mr.. j. B. Martin,
the work of that ingenious artist of our city.
Vocal the attention of the curious in these mat
tors with pleasure, to this production Of Mr. Martin,
and feel assured they viii be much gratiiied.
we understand tha, the Senate has confirmed
the nominations Of james Il. Hamilton, of New York
10 be United States Attorney IN the State of New
York in the place of John Duer; OF David Porter,
10 be Consul General at Algies; of William b. Devils
to be Second Auditor; and of several Collectors,
&c. Nat. Journal
Tho importance attached to the splendid speech
of Mr.. WEBSTER is well known: but 1t was scarcely
suspected that the apprehensions felt by the Jackson
% bo people
were so great that it would be deemed expedent 10
put such constTuciion-a construction heretofore
. unheard of-on the Post Office law, as would check
its isson by the mail, in the manner IN which
all the speeches of members have uniformly been,
and still are circulated throughout tue country
Such, however is the fact. The Postmaster Gene
rail- probably under higher direction, has put new
construction on the law, by which tho speech OF Mr.
Nyebstcr is prevented from passing to the public, in
its separate firm, under the ffanklng privilege OF
members Of Congress In order to restore the old
and beneficial construction of the law. which prevail
ed before the ruge of reform had cvcred the veins VI
so larpe a portion of the Commonwealth, the Post
Office Committee Of the House reported yesterday,
by Mt r. NJ Johnson the Chairman, bill, the effect
of which was 70 restore that construction lhere
TO be considerable majority in favor OF TINS
bill until some Of the friends OF Mr. Huyne rendered
themselves conspicuous among the opposition, when
the opinions Of the House seemed to wheel round as
on pivot, and the bill was finally negatived by
vote of lO7 10 65. a higher compliment was never
paid to the speech Of any human being than that
which was thus given by the rejection OF this BILL to
the speech Of Mr.. Webster. There is 30 deep, so
peryadng an awe, Of the effect of this speech on the
pubic mind, that both the executive and legislative
influence are combined to suppress 1t. But although
this influence may provo successful, to partial OK
tent It can never succeed in any considerable degree
The speech Of Mr. W. will be read by millions, and
be referred TO, ages hence when posterity will only
be reminded OF the existence of the present Admins
tration by tho awful monuments of evil which they
will have let behind them. This, however, the Ad-
rninstration little about. But this speech will
also be read by the present oge, and they who reck
oxpounds will be doomed yet to feel it's effects up.
on their living fame; and the fair prospects which
their ambition may have sketchod in its moments OF
| intoxication--yNat. jour.
ChiG.-The New York Mercantile says, that when
the Florida len Lima adyces had reached that place
from Valparaiso TO the first week in December The
,ovince IF Concontion had dcclnrad itself indcpen-