Daily Richmond Whig. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1828-1831, 1830-07-13

Such is tho rejoipder of the ih Auditor, 1, Lieut.
Randolpl's replication.
we do not meah 10 undertake Lieut. Rand olph',
defence because he is competent to make il for him
SELF and because lo has wisely chosen to reserve hi
evidence for a Court of Justice. We wish only &c
attract attention TO the extraordinary course which
has beca pursued towards him by the Government.
Here is man accused by the Government of oreat
crimes--of no less than rohbinr the dead. and dc.
frnndinS the country--crnes which firuc must sink
him to hopeless infany TO establish bis guilt, they
have determined to avail themselves of Court of
Justice. How then ought they 70 have employed the
interval, and how lave they employed it., a Just
Government while Il steadily and inaexbly dischar-
ges It's duty to the public ought to value the char
actcr OF every citizen part of its own WORTH and
itself participate in the pain of tho blow which JUS
ticc compes 1t to strko. 1t WILL if feel ALL feel
leaning towards the accusrd-it will from inclina-
ton and duty allow him oil scope md opportunity Of
defence aud vndicatipn-it will not take sides but
observe the strctcst mpartallty, ono who has no
personal intercstt will not stoop 10 avail itself OF
technical Advantages carelcssncss incxpe- encc--
above ALL it will dsain attempts fores,al the pub
lie mind and progresses it against the accused.
Every man conccde, that thus and not other
wise, Governments ought to act. The spirit Of our
institutions, justice mag noniu,iy, require the Gov
ernment of the u States so to act Now low has
it acted towards Mr.. Randolph, Has it CONFIRMED
in any respect, to these acquisitions, On the other
hnnd has not violated every one Of the m? II has
preludgcd his casc-an elaborate argument to prove
his guilt has been ISSUED by authority and has gone
into every of the u States-instead of nnpeol
ing in the FIRST place to Court of Justice for the set
teucnt OF the controversy, the Government presum-
ing his guilt, wage war against his reputation Gun
cody IN all Imposing form. every suspicious appear
ance, suppress every explanatory circumstance, ex-
aggcrate all the symptoms and having infused sus-
picion into the public mind against Mr Randolph--i,
then condescends TO afford him that judicial inyesti-
CATION which he sought from the frst!
We ask any man, if dis course was verify of the
Government Granting Mr.. Randolph to be the de-
lnquent they nlledgc him TO be, or even thousand
times more guilty--if nothing whatever was due to
hioi-was not something due the character Of the
Government. and the dignity of the American Peo-
pie? What! Government, as is Its duty, not
merely directing prosecutions for delinquency but it
selfturning driving on that prosecution
in spirit of the most vndlctive and unrelenng per
sonaty-availng itself of its cred, with The public
of his guilt, before he has had opportunity of ee
tabshng his innocence! This has been the course
towards Mr.. Randolph well as Nr. King.
Let us suppose, we believe he Is. that Mr. Ram
dclph is guIlloss OF the offences inpated to him
that some three or six months honce, in Court of
Justice, he will make hrs innocence appear What
viii 1t avail Is any ignorant Of party spirit
as 20 believe, that with the great mass of those who
from party spirit have pr4judged his case, in
nocencc the most spotlcss and holy, will avail him
aughH No-not fprouounced by all the Judges g.
Juries in the District of Columbia. Guilty or ,nno-
cent-hc stands condemned With the great mass Of
the administration party, beyond hope or remedy
Guilty inuocent-he is dooued 70 live for the rest
of his days in the consciousness that large proper
tiUn of his fellow citizens believe him dshonored
man The Government has said it-and no Counter
authority will be listened TO. Ifguilty, the opinion
of others is little To himif innocent if sacrificed to
save another aud to find his fame destroyed in the es-
timaton Of those whose good opinion he valued-no
situation more deserves sympathy
II is in this aspect Of the case: is in the suppcsi-
ton, that Lieut.. Randolph is injured man-it is IT.
the certainty, that IF innocent, injury has been in.
ncted upon him, rremedisbc in itself and destruc-
tive Of his happincss-that the conduct of the Gov
eminent has entitled it the hatred and decsta,iop
ofthe just If Mr. Randolph is guilty, would it not
have been time enough to proclaim the fact, afoer
Court Of Justice had examined his accouutss
~ The pardon Of Wilson has been defended on
tho ground of his being younger man, and younger
offender than Porter. The contrary is tho fact, as
appears from the annexed interesting notice from
Niles Register. The undisguscd truth is, that be
ing native, and his friends being at hand to make
ncrcession for him, saved Wilson Porter, young
or md less otrocious cupHt, but an Tr,h man. was
hanged when if either pardoned he unqucs
tionably, ought to have been the man. Every person
will be satisfied Of this who reads the accompanying
extracts from Noa, and from the Philadelphia Inqui-
rcr "a Jackson paper
From Niles Register.
PoRrEB, TIVE MAIL RouBER, was executed at Phil
adclphia Friday tho Cd instant, M about past o
O'Clock, a. NJ. IN the presence Of vast crowd Of
spectators, supposed TO amount to 4O,O00--two or
three thousand Of whom, regret 20 learn were