Constitutional Whig. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1824-1832, 1830-02-12
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TIE VIRGINIA SENATOR'S
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THE VIRGINIA SENATOR'S.
q correspondent of the Political Arena frmu
" ashington, expresses the belief, that both Mr.
iazeweii and Mr. Tyler, @il go to confirm all the
PRESIDENTS nominations, Hill, Kendall Lee-aH
without discrimination. Nobody expected much
independence from either and nobody will there
'ore' De much disappointed yet were it worth while.
we would ask the latter gentleman, if he remembers
MS earnest and reiterated professions to the party
VINO put him into the Sepate, three, years aooa
" men lnterrogated by the friends of tlIe then AID
unistration, by whose powerful and concentrated
suffrage he elected Mr.. Randolph--a deed, by the
oye' which We believe every of them has liyna
70 repent-When Intercepted by them what his
course III that body would be, has he forgotten his
dhs0er? That he would go all occasions for t,;s
Pf'nctPtes-that is to say for the Virginia doctrses
as they are calied-but that he would avoid all ex.
'renes, that be abhorred the spirit of personal poll
tlcs' and would support nothing which he did NOT
peeVe right IN itself Denial of what is not sprer
aoie, is the fashion of the tirae-but we have foa
much confidence in Mr.. Tyler's honor to fear t:,ae
ne VIII deny this. The repc alton of the friends
OF the Administration was in the same frank snyFn
ihey told hin they did not wish or expect Iarpl
70 apostatlze from his principles-tbat they wrrd
the principles of the State, and he could not aa
her Representative. abandon them with honor -.
TOW mas MIR Pyer kept those fine promises? What
member of the Senate has been truer TO the ore.,
1uggernaut-u,ore thorough, more ndiscrimnate.
In support of extreme party measures? Amono tbe
nfst OF his votes was one declaring Duff Green cleo
ted Printer to the Senate under Eaton,, f.,,.i
resolution, in the teeth of an impossbiIitv- s.;
impossible that "a should be majority of a.
measure than which, the records of marry c.n,,oe
produce one more exclusively personal. and ipdefer
slole on principle. Is it in accordance with ,bs.
principles, about which Mr.. Yyler made such ffour
ish at the period of his election to sanction the.
policy of prescribing men for not choosing 10 sim.
port particular individual for the Presdencv- .,J
on the other hand, to approve the principle of 70.
warding EG.tors who controul the Press and r,en,-
bers OF Congress whose official situation enables them
to eectioneer with efficacy because thew did ron.
port that individual Is this one of his principles
one of the vi ginia doctrines-which when he wax
elected, he talked so much about
Let not that gentleman suppose us to be iuHan,e,r
by personal animosity towards him. It is far from,
the case. We like, nay love the nan-.and r,,,.ot
deeply that one privately aiable, should be 10.
itlcaIy, SO nfirm, and afraid of doing right. wa
are aPprised Of the principle upon which he has re-
by the late Administration party in tif. General Az.
sembly of 26-27-a strength of 10 or so. ont or
49, and fraction of the Jackson party. Tha
ladder having answered its purpose he soon kicked
it away and set himself to proptate the party, d
majority in fact, whom his election and the circum
stances attending it, had offended. This perEans
was natural, but we did not expect it from the noon
of the little stratagens he has employed to efaes
this ooleet and the twts and winges it has been bis
pleasure TO give to the friends of Adams and Clay,
IA violation OF The maxim, not to abuse the bridge
."a' carried you over safe-he is conscious. This
mas resulted in what perhaps lie cared little about
the total alienation of the political affections of the
minority, indeed, but the respectable minority bv
whose aid he was elected. Whether the other re-
suit Will be conformable his OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES
ne has succeeded in gaining his foes, by the course
which has lost to him his friends, the election
Of 1892 will show.