Constitutional Whig. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1824-1832, 1830-02-12
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WEDNESDAY MORNINC. FISR. 10. Is30-

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"WEDNESDAY MORNING, FEB. 10, 1880.
u The House of Delegates wns yesterday again
Engaged in consideration of the Bank Charter, and
another day was consumed without reaching the end
Ghe Convention Bill being substantially disposed
o. this question of rechartering Banks which have
yet three and -four years to run, and before the e
puation Of whose charters, three sessions of the
General Assembly intervene, is the only business
which does or ought to detain the Legislature in
SESSION Whom this is remembered in connection
witt the cost of $1,000 day, and the strong pre-.
sumption that the premature application this
session was intended to steal march upon public
opinion, which if allowed to act, would have prohb
sed extension, it must produce no small degree of
Indignation in the country.
MORE EAsY ROOM LETTERS.
In the Enquirer of yesterday, we find the follow
lug:
VTEws AT WAsHINGToN-ErSrdcs- tate letter.
For the next Presidential election, the adverse
ties OF the present Administration mean to rely on
dbartce and faaaticisan-.Acarice to be pratGed in
a9arlt, IN appropriations for Internal improvements
N partition Of the Western Lands-Eauaticisu,, in
o.i the shapes--of Colonization Society, anti
Sunday mails, anti Masonry, Georgia Indians, &c.
Upon these materials ambition is to work and | am
thoroughly satisfied, from what we hear from the
west, that the plan is to unite all North of the Poto
mac and Ohio. think that Webster expects to be
pot forward, Clay having got too heavy TO be carrea
and If he loses the Kentucky elections next
pfer, he will have to fall back and give place to
those who have some groond Of their own to stand
6pon."
Perhaps the East Room letter itself, SO renowned
IN the annals of mendacity, did not exceed this in
holdness of imagination, and unscrupulousness of
assertion. The a1ipers1ries of the present Admin
Hlration mean to rely aDnrice'-and that avar-
Ee, amongst other qualifications, meditates sell
ure upon the public lands. The adrersaries of the
Administration, not its supporters MIR. Webster
Who is ranked by this very epistoaran at the head
Of the opposition to the Administration, and whose
powerful arm has just been raised protection of the
public property in the western lands-Wr. Webster
is accused by this rnos candid of all possible leter
Writers Of design to partition the public lands for
presidential speculations, while Hayne aud Benton
the one of whom desires to give away the public
property for equivalent bot the Presidency to Mr.
Calhoun, 9th limitation over to himself and the
other to seize upon it, under of nsdious legs
kslien-Hayne and Benton and the friends ofthe Ad-
W. tration generally, are represented, Tor rather
reader is expected to infer t,) as the champions
the Public rights! We say, what must be thought
81 the mans frontlessness, who at this poonaent of
is, in the ia e Of facts known to every body, and
when TIE Public are yet perusing hrr. Webster's
speech, comes forward with such statement as ths9
Has the spirit Of the East Room letter inspuated
itself into others, Or is the Hero Of that famous
Room AGAIN at york?
Equally gratuitous and malignant, is the assunp-
ton, that the opponents Of the Adi nstration have
for electioneering purposes, lent themselves to the
fauatical project of stopping the mails on Sunday.
Individuals that political side, doubtless have u
ited in that most unreasonable and bigoted object,
ue conscientious feelings, but there is evidence
not single fact, to support the assumption of its
being stalking horse for ulteror designs of hostility
against the Administration, or any prove i. to be
other than what appears, the favorte bantling of
honest, but most mistaken and perseverng Religion
ists--who it among the many short cuts,
the Kingdom of Heaven.
Equally unfounded is the thought 1--WE commend
the modesy of the writer in this easel that Webster
is to be put forward for the Presidency Clay having
got too heavy to be carried. Whether Clay is too
heavy to be carried, whether he has not buoyancy
enough to carry himself, time viii show. Mean
while, this letterwrter has right to drag Mr.. Clay
or Mr.. Webster into situations where they have not
placed themselves, nor been placed by their friends
Mr.. Webster seeks nomination for the Presiden-
Cy from his enemies at least. The bugbear Of an
Eastern Middle and Western, OF non slaveholdipg
coalition has been preached upon at every Presiden
tfa Election, bn has never yet occurred.
THURSDAY MORNING. FEB. II, 1880.
PUEBLO LAsDs--J1r. Hunts RESOLUTION in Tie House
Of Representatives..