Constitutional Whig. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1824-1832, 1830-07-16


/ friend.
l Ii not with truth, it is entirely compatible with Mr.
fazewelfs honor and dignity, TO admit that he went
to Washington ptcpossessed in KcDdall's favor and
disposed to ratify Ess nomination. Between January
and May, afforded him TO learn more of his
lcharactes; in that interval, things occurred which
brought MIR Tazewel into contact with him, and
which we're as window through which hc saw tho
oiackness within Is it any wonder, that lie changed
his opmonss Is there inconsistency in the changer
Not shadow. 1t is objected to him as criminal,
mat the affair of Miles King his personal friend oc-
casloned the Revolution in his sentiments. Nothing
LIZ more likely nothing more honorable to Mr Taze-
We'll Persuaded Of his friends innocencc-persua-
ded that there was detestable effort to sacrifice hi.
III winch Kendall vas tho instrument, nothing was
more natural than that should lead to change of
epnlipn as to Kendaif nothing honorable, than
MS refusing to surrender his convictions to politi
cal IDOL or 10 party discipline IF this be deroratory
TO DIR Tazewcil, let his enemies make the most of it,
! with regard to the priUate letter addressed by Mr.
fazeTeel to the Presdcn,if intended for the eve
OF the President aionc"--with what proprety can
Webb not only defend, but applaud the President for
violation confidence, in first showing it to Others
and then publishing it to the whole world. Did
u States? BY whose fundamentally, has private
letter. intended for the eye OF the President alone"
found its way to the columns of public journal? For
what purpose, was this breach of social reeuIaton
committed? With the intelligent reader we leave it.
TO decide upon the merit of the act which coosons
private letter TO the universal publicity ola ncwsna
per- and that sense of right, which pppauds tho deed
without seeming even to have caught GLIMPSE Of
its improperly.
The Lieutenant charges Bfr. TazewcI with Area-
tenin the President the following sentence of the
private letter to him: "And lastly (says Mr. paze-
we the decision given in this case if adverse fas il
now Isl TO the present applicant will surely be BROUGHT
under the examination of another Department of thu
Government, tohere abundant proofs are kourfy e,,
htbited to inform that every thing belonging to the
case will be sitted with view Of bringing odiuo,
upon attHose toho huce had any agencD IL, It's 6cci
Sion"
This sentence is construed by the Lieutenant as
reaf that unless the President re-consdered KInns
case he Mr. Tazewell you'd procure an Investigation
before the Senate, with view of brineinn sodium nm
the 18th Auditor, (Kendali,) the end Comptroller
(tiiil the Secretary the Navy, and the Presiden,
! himscf'
| NOW so far from Intending TO convey any such
threat, we affirm without the possibility of being MIS-
taken, that Webb himself haolys-knogs to certain
iy--thst bar. Fczewclps meaning was the very oppo
site of threat-that was friendly a1nnonif;on
to the President No ulsn of common sense, not de-
fermaned to misunderstood his meaning, can fail to
see' that the sitting" alluded to- was by the political
opposition to the admnistration--;lat Mr.. Tazewell
apprehended this opposition would seze upon Mr.
hings case, political e1pedient to bring oduua''
apon the administration and It's subordinate arents
concerned and that he addressed this apprehension
as persuasive argument" the President to in.
duce him TO e-consider Mr. Kings case and render
hin, justice. Can there be two opinions about his
meaning?
This bunderbuss, Webb, in his silly attempt TO in
Jure Mr.. Tazeweli, has aldced conclusive proofs of
his superiority to the base Vaccinations of party and
elevated claims to the respect and admiration of his
country Mr. Fazewell was Jackson nan-repIe-
senting Jackson Statc-dsposed to Weld the Jack
son administration the warmest support-euen, in his
ZEAL prepared raify the worst measures of the adj
ministra,ioD, the appointment of Kendall He chan
ges tbs last determination, and why does he change
1t? Has he any Interested motives to do SO. Does
ambition point that way: Precisely the reverse. By
the change, he otlends the great idol of The dominant
party, and throws himself into minority What
then Is he inevitable inference? Certainly, that MIR.
Farewell acted from the best motives viii it be
said that King and Randolph his private friends
and that sympathy for them, changed his resolution.
; Is 1t then reproach, that friendship is more
powerful than political favor and patronage? Mr.
pazewe did cling to his friends, to his honor
be it said, through The fires of prosecutions and what
his doing but the strongest proof of his disnter
estedness, and bis conviction of their innocence?
Even if mistaken in this belief, which Viz
GINA is not yet ready to admit or credit
even if King and Randolph should be proved deln-
quents, Mr.. Tazewels adherence to friendship
against party and interest, is proof of his virtue
and of his superiority to that dobaseJ and grovelng
spirit which assas him, and wckcdly and prepostcr-
ousIy, crccts parfy as a standard of conduct.