Daily Richmond Whig. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1828-1831, 1830-07-14

and May. time was afforded him to learn more OF his
character; IN that interval, things occurred, which
brought Mr. Tazewcll into contact with INN, and
which we're rs q window through which lie the
blackncss within Is it any wonder, that he changed
his opinions, Is there inconsistency in the change?
Not shadow. 1t is objected to him ns criminal,
tint the affair of Miles King, his personal friend oc-
casoncd the Revolution in his sentiments. Nothing
is likely. nothing more homo, BILE to Mr. Taze.
we'll. Persuaded of his friends innocence-persua-
ded that there detestable effort to sacrifice him.
IN which Kendall tho instrument, nothing was
moro natural than that it should lead to a change Of
opinion as to Kendall; nothing more honorable. than
his refusing to surrender his convictions to n po.
cul idol or to party discipline. If this be derogatory
to mr. Tazewell, let his enemies mako the most Oft
With regard to the private letter addressed by Mr..
Tazewell to the Presdent-if 'intended for the eye
of the President alone"--wh what propriety can
Webb not only defend, but applaud the President for
violation of confidence, in first showing it to Others
and then publishing it to the whole world, Did
Webb learn this sort Of honour, in the army Of the
U. States' BY whose fundamentally, has private
letter, intendcd for the eye of the President alone
found its way to the columns Of public Journal, For
what purpose, was this breach of social regulation
committed With the intelligent read we leave IT,
TO decide upon the merit of the act which consiens
prirofe letter to the universal publicity of newspa-
per- and that Of right, which appau DIS the deed
without seeming even to have caught q glimpse OF
its improperly.
The Lieutenant charges NIr. Tazewell with Hrea-
ening the President in the following sentence of the
private letter to him: "And lastly (says Mr.. Vaze-
we'll the decision given in this case, if adverse las it
now is to the present applicant, will surely be brought
under the examination Of another Department of tho
Government, tThere abundant proofs are hourly er-
hbted, to inform us, that every thing belonging to the
case will DO sfcd, with view of bringing odi,p,
upon all those ,oho hare had any agency ia its dec-
sion."
This sentence is construed by the Lieutenant as 4
threat, that unless the President re-considered King
case he Mr. TazewelD procure investigation
before The Senate, with view bringing sodium on
the 18th Auditor (Kendali) the end Comptroller,
(Hil the Secretary of the Navy. and the President
himself"
Now so fur from intending to convey any such
threat, we affirm without the possibility of being ms
taken, that Webb himself kaoros-knows to n certain
ty-thot Mr.. razewells meaning the very oppo-
site OF threat-that it friendly odnonition
to the President No man of common sense not dc
ternned to misunderstood his meaning can fail to
sec, that the sitting alluded to, by the political
opposition to the tration--that Mr. Tazewel
apprehended this opposition would seize upon Mr..
Kings case, as political expedient to bring ''odum'
upon the administration and It's subordinate agents
concerned, and that be addressed this apprehension
as persuasive argument" to the President, to in
duce him to reconsider Mr. Kings case and render
him justice. Can there be two opinions about his
meanins'
This blunderbuss, Webb in his silly attempt to in
]ure Mr.. Tazewe has adduced conclusive proofs of
his superiority to the base Vaccinations OF party, and
elevated claims to the respect and admiration of his
country. Mr. Ta1ewell was a Jackson man-repre-
senting Jackson Statedisposed TO yield the Jack
son administration the warmest support-eren, in his
ZEAL prepared to raty the worst Of the adj
the appointment of Kendall He chan
ges this last determinations and ,Ohy does he change
it, Has he any interested motives to do so' Does
ambition pon, that ways Precisely tho reverse By
the change he oends the great idol of the dominant
party, and throws himself into a minority What
then is the inevitable infsrence1 Certainly, that Mr.
Tazewell acted from the best motives. Will it be
suid that King and Randolph his private friends
and that sympathy for them changed his resolution,
Is il then reproach, that friendship is more
powerful than political favor and patronage Mr.
Tazewell did cling to his friends, TO his honor
be it sald through The fires of persecution: and wha
is his doing but the strongest proof of his disnter
estedness, and his conviction of their innocence?
Even if mistaken in this belief, which Vir-
GINA is not yet ready 20 admit or credit,
even if King and Randolph should be proved delin-
quents, Mr.. TaGewell's adherence to friendship
against party and interest, is proof of his virtue,
and of his superiority to that dcbascd and grovellng
spirit which assails him, and wckedy and preposter-
ously, erects party as a standard Of conduct
We have postponed notice of this outrageous
and most reprchensIbe attack upon Mr.. Tazewell,
in the hope and the expectation, that it would have
been repealed by Press whose duty rather than
ours, 1t seemed more particularly to be, and coming
from which, II would be attended with moro effect,
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