Daily Richmond Whig. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1828-1831, 1830-10-14

hee'iy s'"sr grades as difference of departments
ana Kinds OF service Will admitNof a pretty noa, and
accurate estimate may be made. 1 believe A R,.,
mental or Garrison Surgeon, which las, I tbnl, tbo
Doctor was, ranked nearly IN point of paw raions S
wl'h kegimental Quarter master or Adju,ant-cer-
fanny Dot above captain OF the highest grade a
captain OF Artillery Cavalry who receives the All oh
est pay of that rank, who shall have lived tilI thus
time, would be enutled To Just St200-half pay. DIR
McCiurg having died sumo years back dlmnishes
even mat amount One OF tho above captains who
snail have received Communication IN lieu of half nav
uve years beck "a some have ~ righeously entitled
10 SI5l 70 interest on that communications These arc
taken rs the highest possible amounts Hence il will
De readily sccn, that UGH false reports aud oxag
gerated amounts can oay be attended To increase HE
popular prejudice aud alarm against those claims and
the unjust indignation against an upright and lnde-
pendent court VINO nave pronounccG them lust.
Knowing your personal hheralty and correct views
a well as do on those feeling Revolutionary sub
Jec's' have no susp con that you, MeSsrs Edl,ors
were the orSnators OF such an Ill designed report;
though you do no. sa! wheih her you derived it from
your correspondent or from what other quarter
The mex grounds of objection that your cores.
pendent takes In the iccIsion arc 'the repeated 70.
lection of these claims by former courts nearer to
tie tluo and as able, Y not abiey the acouicscence
IN those drc's'"ns; their being mostly now M the
hands OF spectators and shsvrrs and the decision OF
the last l., sislaIure them"
Had tins ,oIe obector looked little more carotnllv
aud cissy INTO those rrpeoted reflections of former
courts, he would have found, that their d,cisIons
were without preJudIce"-thaj is that these abler
courts had som doubts themselves about their own
uble DEC sIons, or that they perceived something
ing. though nearer the Inn, of the or,gin of he
cian ms that might possibly throw further irh on the
subject by collecting and combining rcuusi ances nj
after, though not tsr more distant periods. And as
to the acquescence IN those decisions what was th,,
more ihan rghtfu obedience to the lcgal autbor;
Ties and sufficient cause for abandoning those
claims IN dependency?
Because number Of them hay. gone into the
hands of SPECTATORS and shavers does hat warrant
the unjust withholding ~ ihl-e which remain IN ths
hands OF the original owners and long sufferers, Aud
where would b. drawn tine lust line of discrimpo,ions
Mr. Madison, | believe once attempted something of
the sort IN Congress- but with his penetration nd
acuieness IN political economy and ARRANGEMENTS he
could mo- devise reasonable and sa istactntv MAN
but let us examine this specuiating and shaving bu-
s'nesS ht'e further Is the private shaver and spe
culator, who gives tho needy officer and so err
thing, and thai a fair Jn,gain to keen hmm sron,
starving, more repreheusble, than the Pune whom,
he has ze'vcd at the rsk of his a.and the socrifc
OF his all and whe Is the debtor who keen. HIM
ly halt century out ut paw and then r,,as ,,,
without any share IN the bargau his parI Just one
third OF MS right The officer who received 6v.
years ln pay as compensation for half paw for life
i've years ago. without interest as many have dome
gets JUST about one third of his right and that IN tho
wane "i lie when 1t Is least productive 10 HMM n.
much, as when principal is thus Acknowledged IN r.,
due and Is withheld Sc long aud under such severe
circumstances interest follows as o necessary cnnse
quence of right; and If not allowed suhtrocs ius,
that much from the right amount This 10 sLa;J;m
and specua,ing then to a "xaci SuYLocK H,,h and
biooi degree! And here again thu repeated
OF these claims by former courts" come in as an mi.
hand maid to the other powers of Gov,rno,.nt ., do
ter the injured officer and soldier from f, ,th.- ~
secuton OF his rights. and tn sanction the enormtv o
those public sprculatlons and shavnps!!
| In all ordinary cases between mau and man. ibe
commission oil fraud any advana ave "a ken of mo
ignorance of Oarty by he svpnrior inf,rn, -
commanding influences of the other or he absence
OF any ma eral circumstances that ought To govern
the case are always eckoned amlng the Just causes
lot the lnerieranceS OF The courts who re bound n
do solid and substantial Justice in all such coses Rn,
Where STATES are concerned, all their remispcsses
oqnVocatons, and o'en contradictory qcts are TO be
pasSeG over and Their most glaring Deficiencies sane
Toned, and they eft to profit ~ their own wrony
rms IS precisely hc bet ecn the SrArr md The
Revolutionary sufferers. They (rhe ast) arc odiudg
ed aganst--legslated agAins--and because thew arc
eonPe"ed 10 'acquIesce'-ho is because they do no,
rebet against the legal authorities presume which
Is one OF tae convincing Pr02 and argument, oC nov,
a5fe correspondent nSund heD1-they have certainly
no ist or legal claims on the State for any of It's de-
IhqSencies and wfongs-tor any Of its forfe,ures OF
former promises or later acknowledgements and scaDi,
rtfribuLjsns d all these evils!
Iher own cts, Of the above description are now
offered as conclusive and final evidence of the FIJI
pToPrcty OF those very actsa species of seLr tesf
many inadmssIble in every her case Tho deci
SION OF the last Legislature" your rise
seems 70 think, ought to Justify the occlusion of the
eXchcquet against these CLAIMS I.et lIs e0eu,ne
this evidence little closer.
From the time Of the first decision of the Court nj
Appeals against these claims those Of the Assemble
we're uniformly IN the same way: until 1919 aud 90
TWO particular cases turned me decsons IN the Az
snmbIy, IN their favor which fixed the prlnciple thai
brought IN tram of others in succession alter as
WIN be seen by the Legislative Acts themselves-
nose all received communication after beng kept out
Of II over forty years generally without interest ex
ccpt IN the TWO first cases where 1t was paid in very
sGGohty par; all winch being clear and unequvoca
admission by the Assembly. of the iustness of the
claims for both principal and interest ought to have
eit but little doubt for he after decision of the rich,
Interpretation and unders nnJing Of all these varSu.
Legislative Acts.
~ the case Of those latter decisions of the Iepis
AZURE c'mmcncing IN 1919. there was no provjs6 m
InFor 81 Inc State, to Justify after Legislatures ia
revise and annul those prin ;pes there laid down
established; as there was IN the first decision Of the
Court OF Appeals IN favor Of the claimants which
I"it the whole subject open for further investigation
G"TSiderauon, and correction of their successors
CPlh these decisions Of the Assemble IN Igp2o ono
Igl we IVY" claimants Just mentioned, was allowed
/ ueP' ecouoh oi pay winch 10 ayorite and pow
ertuI expression gunius btr no ..,,,,,.-...J =