Virginia advocate. [volume] (Charlottesville, Va.) 1827-1860, 1830-05-07
THE ADVOCATE.
CHARLOTTESVILLE, FRIDAY MAY =, Is;
JEFFERSON'S BIRTH DAY.


dinner and appropriate festivities, at which
all those who still maintain "the prnci-
Piles which he brought into Office. and
which brought him into Office" assisted.
The Hon. JOHN RoANE, Of Virginia, Off
ciated as President; the Hon. GEoncE nj.
BlBB, of Kentucky, the Hon. LEVI WooD-
BURY, Of New-Hampshire, the Hon. FE-
IIx GRUNDY Of Tennessee, the Hon. G. c..
CAMBRELENG, OF Newly ork, the Hon.
WILLIAM F. GoRDoN, Of Virginia, and
the Hon. Mr. OvrRTcN Of Louisiana, as
Vice Presidents. Thetoasts, regular and
volunteer, together with the several speech
es delivered on the occasion, occupy near
ly two sides of the large sheet of the Tel
egraph. We shall lay before our readers
the regular toasts, and the speech of Mr..
j. p. Barbour on the 9Th toast being an
nounced. We select this speech because
1t brings within short compass, and ex-
hibits with that clearness and precision
with which, whatever be the snblect, Mr.
Barbour always presents his views the cor
rect principles of the Constitution, and
the just limitations of Federal power, and
for which Virginia at great sacrifice of
Federal favor has always contended. They
were expanded and enforced in Mr. Mad
ison's celebrated report, and in the Ken
lucky resolutions on the Alien and Sedi-
tion Laws, and in the inaugural speech OF
MIR. Jefferson. These principles are cor
rect-carried out into practical operation,
they would restore Harmony to our Uni
on, correct the heat burnings of section
al Jealousy, and ensure the means and
permanence of our republican system
Many of the toas;s are taken from the in
augural address of Mr.. Jefferson; and thus
recognized and avowed, we may hope a.
gain to see the prin ciples contained in
that manuel of American Statesmen, act
ed on in the Administration of the Gener-
al Government.
TOASTs.
!. Thomas Jefferson 1--WE celebrate anni-
versty of his BIRTH not in the spirits of personal
idoatry, but from regard and reverence for his
political principles.
9. The Declaration of Independence An
enduring moment of that devotion to liberty,
and adherence of tyranny, which stamp the
character, and mark the whole course of the
life of its another.
3. Thomas Jefferson: Author Of the Dscla,
ration of American Independence of the Statute
of Virginia, establishing religious freedom and
Farther of the University lof Virginia" one.
containing his ,oal.)
a. The Kentucky resolutions of '9S: drawn
by the same hand which drew the Declaration
of Independence practical illustration Of JET.
fersonian republican principles, and correct
definition of the relative powers of the State
and Federal Governments.
On this toast being announced, Mr.. Bibb
addressed the meeting at some length
5. The Virginia resolutions, and Madsons
report of the year '9S-1'ext books in the JEFF
fcrsonian school: when they cease to be read
and admired the days of Liberty will be num-
berod.
Mr.. ?. P. BARBOUR rose and said
Mr.. PREsiDEST-Thc sentiment which has
jus. been proposed, is of a character calculated
to excite strong emotions in the bosoms Of those
present, who are members of the Virginia dele
CATION. II Carries with it tribute of respect to
those great principles. which have uniformly
characterized her political course.
Though, Sir, altogether amused to addresses
OF this kind, may be INDUCED for a moment,
in making few remarks which the occasion
seems TO justify. is not 70 require,
If it be our wish, as doubt not 1t is, to adj
minister this Government with view to those
beneficial and happy results which it is capa-
hlc Of producing, allow mo to say, Sir, that
know no means so ciIcctual for the attainment
of that as an adherence To the principles con.
tanned in the resolutions which have Just recev.
cd our decided neutrality-suspicious. which,
of late, have been tauntngly called, the Tirgin-
ia doctrines but which, no matter from what
quarter they may have been advanced, are the
doctrines Of tho Constitution
The sum Of thom is this: To maintain the
political balance. in the precise equilibrium to
which il was adjusted to those who made il
to leave with the Federal Government tho pow.
ers which are g:antcd TO it; TO claim for the
States, and the people Of the States, the remain
der. In fixing this line of dcmarcation, 10 fol
low that surest Of all guides, tho text Of the
Constitution, and not tho bowlderina nazes %
tho doubtful and erroneous commentaries which
arc made upon il; we shord thus avoid oxer
csinr here, all those powers which are attempt
cd N he derived from an endless series of con
s.ruction and Inference we should thus, and ir
my judgment, thus only. give unto Cesar
tie things which are Caesars"
We cling TO these principles, Sir, not as con