Lynchburg Virginian. [volume] (Lynchburg [Va.]) 1829-185?, 1830-01-11

ways Tor getting The last adyica,. You can
! never get NJ the true temper of the public
mNd I'LL the occasion presents itself Tor decisive
action.
+ | have made, and shall make. no disclaimer
Of having intended oflrnee 10 any person OF
party in this body-and his for the same rss
son before stated. never will plead uil |
am arIaigned by Competent tribunal and he
disclaimer would be misplaced Gentlemen ON
all sides have spoken OF The intention with
which they are demanding power, for the
gentleman from Augusta lifted the veil, aud
owned TO rs, that power. aud power alone, is
the object he IS IN pursuit of Sir, | mean, no
disIespect, when .ay, that however important
IL may be 10 themselves, 10 mo IL is "A matter OF
perfect indifference speak IN reference TO
the operation OF thel measntes-whether thor
inienis be wicked or char able. I say the
demand which ihey make, Is such. ms ought TO
! ala m every consderaie and foretboughte
mau aui that fherr Is nothinE 10 init'gaIr hat
alarm, IN the IT. rn, unieleuiiug, memorable,
remorsrle cry. Which they rare ior pow rr
| and their drtcrmnai Oh 10 listen 10 no compto
mise Que gen cmnn, lnteed Las abated some
at OF is tone 4 IL phi Perhaps tnr pros
peci Of OF -p"edy enl ,yment has calmed his ca
ultatiun, aud suDcird him doah.
MI. Chairman, ii c. bare been here. the
scene has recalled many old recoleclIons. Al
one time, Thought myself In the House OF Re
preSeutatVrs, listening 10 The debate on the
Tariff; AZ another tim, | imagined myself
listening TO the debate on the Mis-, oui quesiIoa
and sometimes iancied my sell lstenrus 60
both questions debated al oace. Are we men I
met . consult about the affairs oi men ! Or.
are we, ~ ruth u roblnhood tnCIeiy discuss
ing rights in the absirail Have We no House
over our head DO we forget tat we are Inv.
H. !, hng dad
for more than hall Il Geniury--ihai we are not
IA parcel Of naked aud forlorn savnges on the
shores of NV Holland, aud thai the worst
tina can come IL, that we shall live under the
same constitution, that we have lived under.
freely and happily, for hall a century 10
tbel' ~ OnstTous claims of power, We plead this
prescription, but thea we are told, that nuftHm
iempus occu,rt htgi King whom Z King
numbers And they will mol ilsicn 10 a pro
Sciip tion Of 81 years, period greater, by four
yeurs, than would secure Title 10 the best
estato ia the CommonN ealth, unsupported by
any other shadow of tight. Nay, SIR, IN tins
cas- prescription operates against possession
They tell rs, II Is only case OF Ions Continued,
and, therefore, OF aggravated Jnsuce. They
say to Us, in WI, DIS The mosl courteous aud son,
bu Hm moi so soft as to swa'lo" hem, " we
shall bc--we will be--we MUS he your mas
tens aud YOU shaf submit - 10 whom 40 inry
hold THIS Iaugpage7 10 drpendao,s Weak.
unprotected, and Incapable oi deienc, Or II
II tn the great tobacco growing and slave hold
ing interest, aud 10 every ofher interest 90
this side the RIDGE I'VE are numbers, you
have property" | nm nnt SO obtuse NJ 10 re-
qulrc any further explanation on tli- mead
" We are numbers, you have property. SIR,
! understand paIi CITY M. Chairman,
snce The days If the French Revolution, when
The Duke Of Orleans, who WIS the richest sub
jet, not onl, IN France, bni in all Europe
lent himself 10 the mountain phrtJ ~ the con
venIlon in the vain and weak nope OF grssping
pOdIcai power, perhaps oil IN uniting the throne
uill slippery with the blood OF the last mcum.
bent--from that day 10 tins, 50 great drgree
of irfatuatiun, has not been shewn by any in
dvidnal, ms by the tobacco grower, aud slave
holder of Virginia who shall lend his aid TO
rivet this yoke on the necks oil his brethren
and on his own Woe betide that man Even
the Duke of Orleans himself, pIoil gate aud re-
probate as he was, would have halted IN his
course. had ht fbresren IN the end, his proper
" confscatel TO the winds, and his head ~ the
sack Of The executloner.
enter into 30 calculation ofmy own, for
have made none nor shall follow tue ON
ample which has been SET me. | leave that
branch of the argument, II argument II can be
called OF the gentleman from Augusta. to be
answered by himself
The gentleman told us, the day before yes
teIday, that IN fili en- minutes of the succeed
ing day he would conclude all he had 10 say,
and he then kept us two hours, not by the
Shrewsbury clock, but by as good n watch as
can be made in the city of London. Drawing
ont, and opening his watch. As fifteen min
Utes are to two hours, in the proportion Of one
to eight such is the approximation to truth IN
the genlemans calculations II all the cslcu-
Iations aud promises ofthe gentleman from
Augusta which he held out TO us To gull u5--I
speak not Of his in enfions but only of the ei-
tetl that would have ensued-shall be no nearer
the truth than these, where then shall we be
VINO trust them
In the course Of what ! fear will be thought
my very wearisomn observations, spoke oI the
Tariff Law. When the people oi ths United
States threw off their allegiance TO Greht BrI.
tain, aud established republican COVER mems
here, whether State or Federsl, one discovery
since made in politics, had not yet entered
into tho head OF any man in the Union, aud
viii, h, if not arrested by thu good sense a"d
patriotism Of ,be country, will destroy all re-
publican government, as certainly aud ine,is.
bly, as time will one day destroy Us That dis
covery is this, thai n bare ma jority-.the ajorny
on he Tarfwas | relieve but two-my hieud
behind me (Mr r. r BARBOUR tells me that
am rght aud on one important branch OF
that law that ! mean which relates to cotton
bagging, the majority was but one and that
consisted Of the casting vote of fhe Spcakei,)
thai bare majority may Cypress, harass, and
plumber the minority al pleasure, but that II rs
heir interest to keep up the minority to the
highest possible point consisten. with their
subugaiion, because, the larger that minority
snail be, in propotion To the majority, by that
same proportion are the profits Of The majority
enhanced, which they nave extracted and eI-
toried from the minority. Aud after all our
exclamstions against this cryiog oppression,
after all our memorials and remonstrances,
af er all our irrefragable arguments against u,
n refer not to the share had in them l.
speak Of the arguments of other gentleman,
and not of my own, shall we in Virginia miro
duee this deadly principle into our own go
yernment and give power to a bare majority
TO lax US ad hbiiunl, and that when the strong