Constitutional Whig. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1824-1832, 1830-01-01

out your permission. but as trespasser. and that he
cnders himself liable to an action foi damages This
"Thank you for nothing. With all nv heart don't
mean to set my foot on your lard; but not owning
one foot OF land myself, will stand here in the
highway, winch Is as free to me- it is to you, and
VIII tax your land, not to your heart s content, but
to nine, and spend the proceeds as i please cannot
enter upon it myself, but will seud the sheriff of
the couaty and he shall enter upon It, and do what
cannot do IN my person." Sir is This IN bc on
dured? 1t Is not to be endured.
anu uniess am ignorant ofthe character and the
feelings, and OF what is dearer to me than all ofI
the prclgdces OF the people ofthe lower country, it
will not be endured You NAV as we'll nd;ourn sine
die. We are too old birds TO be taken with chaff.
or else we are not old enough, don't know which,
we Will not give np this question for the certainty
ana Tar less Tor the hope, that the evil will be rec-
fed III the other branch of the Legislature. We
Know, every body Knows, that it is impossible.
why, Sir, the British House of Peers which con
tains tour hundred members, holding vast prop
erty' nach more now, 1T is true, than when Chatham
said, they were but as drop in the Ocean, coupar-
red With the wealth of the Con,nons-if they holding
their seats for lfe and receiving and TRANSMITTING
them by hereditary descent have never been able TO-
resist the House of Commons, in any measure on
which that House chose to insist do YOU believe that
24 gentlemen upstairs, resist one hundred and
twenty below! especially when the 100 represent
Their own districts, and are to go home with them to
their common constituents! Sir the case has never
yet happened, believe, when Senator has been q.
Bile to resist the united delegation roa his district
III the Lower House.
Mr.. Chairman, am apractica1 man. 90 for
solid security. and never will knowingly take any
other But, if the security on which have srelied
IS nsutllcent and my property in danger it is bet
ter tnat Should know it i'll time, that may prepare
to meet the consequences, while il is vet cnled a.,
day. than TO rest on security that il talIacions and
deceptive. Sir, Iwould not give button S,r yo,,r
mixed basis in the Senate. Give up this question.
aud nave nothing more to lose. fhis is the enter
ing wedge, and every thing else must follow We
are told, indeed, that rely on a restriction
of the Right of Suffrage; but gentlemen know that
after you shall have adopted the report oftbe Select
9tnls.ee, you can piace no restriction upon it.
When this principle IS inoperation tho waters are
out. 1t rs as 1t you would ask industrious and sa-
gacions Holander* that you may cut his dykes nro
yided you make your cut only ofa certain width
rat hole VIII let IN the ocean Sir, there is an end
to the security ofal property in the Common wealth.
and he will be unmjse, who shall not abandon the
ship TO the underwriters. -
1t is the first time in my life, that ever heard of
a government which was to divorce property from
power Yet, this is seriously and sobcriy proposed
to us.-Sir, Iknow it is practcable but it can be
done only by violent divusion, as i'm France-but
the moment you have separated the two, that very
moment property VIII go III search of power and
power IN search of property Male and Female
created He then;' and the two sexes do not more
certainty nor by more unerring law, gravitate to
each other than power improperly You can only
cause them to change hands. / could almost wish.
Indeed. for the accommodation ofthe gentleman from
Augusta. that God lad ordained it otherwise; but so
IS and SO it is obliged to be. 1t is of the nature
of man. Man always has been in societv-,ve NJ
ways find him in possession of property and with
tcertain appetite orit which lads him to seek it, If
not sometimes per nefas; and hence the need
| OF laws to protect it, and to punish its invaders
But l srbjecting myself, know To n mos,
serious rcproach. 1t will be said, that am not a
friend to the poor.-sr, the gentleman from Cles-
terdeld and the gentleman from Spottsyvasa, have
dealt with the friends of the poor to my entire
satisfaction wish to say word as to ..the friends
of the poor Whenever 1 see u man, especially q
rch man, endeavoring to rise and to acquire conse
qpence IN society by standing out as the especial
cnainPion OF the poor, am always reminded of an
OLD Acquaintance of mine, one Signor Manuel Ordo-
nez, who made comfortable living and amassed an
opuient fortune by administering the funds of the
poor Among the strange notions which have heen
preached since have been on the political theatre
there is one which has lately seized the minds of
men, that all things must be done for them bv The
government and that they to do nothing for them
selves. -
The government is not only to attend to the
great concerns which it's province but it must
step In and ease individuals of their natural and
al opigations. "A more perncious notion cannot.
prevail. Look at the ragged fellow sta grerinn fIou
the whiskey shop, and the sattern who has zone
there to reclaim him. where are their children RIM
mig about ragged, idle, Ignorant fit candidates for
the Pententary Why is all this SOP Asl, the man
and he will tell you. "Oh.the government has nm.
dertaken to educate our children for u.s. 1t has civ
en- us premium for idleness, and now spend ia IL
quor what should otherwise be obliged to save to
pa M S.ieif sI,ooihs. MY snelghOor there that is
SO hard at work in his field yonder with his son.
can't spare the boy to attend except in the winter
mouths, the school which he is taxed to support for
mine He has to scufie hardto make both ends meet
at the end ofthe year, and keep the woIffrom the
door His children can't go to school yet he has TO
pay part or the tax to MAINTAIN It. Sir is like
the trclids OF the poor to absoIve them from what
nature, what God himself has made their first and
most sacred duty? For the education of their chill
dren Is the fIrst and most obvious duty every pa
rent, and one which the worthless alone are ever
known to neglect. :
MIR. Chairman, these will be deemed L fear In-
ed thoughts; but they have been the alment
OF my mind for years. Illumination and digestion can
do no more they are thoroughly concocted
In the course of not short or uneyentf;Il life I
have had correspondence with various persons in All
parts OF the Union, and have seen gentlemen on
Their return from the North aud East. as well as,
rom the new States OF the West and never hear I'd
from any OF them, but expression of opinion as it
related to us in Virginia 1t was in the sentiment