Daily Richmond Whig. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1828-1831, 1830-06-09

"e"snP' ocsdes, ne KNOWS they are aware OF his in
tention OF sustaining tariff state and opposing tho
reduction of the sugar duty There can be no diff.
Guilty IN selecting successor TO Judge Smith, who
Is more acceptable ID the State and Unon.-We dis
one with this single remark, that General Jackson
has less to fear from open enemies than from profess
ing friends who are enemies in disguise.
"Tazcwell, an old Fcdcralst"-"Tylcr, a Clay.
man-"Iredell, an old FeLeralist'-"Judye Smith
ono of Webster's corps de rcserve"-and all of them,
"whited sepulchres." What q modest man is our
vaorous Lieutenant! How slow and cautious in
ma king up his opinions and how dident in speaking
them! If We have been accurately informed, the
Lieutenant is under three and twenty years of age
fact that places his competency to form u correct
opinion OF men who ecrved in Congress before he
was born, and the modcsty of undscrimiaating
condemnation of their public motives and conduct
on grounds OF the most just and bea proprety!
No entertain much respect for the talents of the
Lieutenant. and for himself rom report. But he is
blunderbuss politician; far more dangerous to those
who stand at his back than to the enemy in front
MIR Van Buren, must muzzle him or his cause will
be ruined.
AS to the motives assigned for tho opposition of
Mcssrs. Tazcwcll and Tyler to Kendall, &c. they
arc too we'll known here. not To have been the mo.
tives which governed them, to require word of de.
NAL. We will merely enquire of the Lieutenant, if
they did not also vote against the appointments of
Carr, Lee, Decatur, Cushlnnn, Noah, Dawson,
Gardner, Rector'-What prionte motives had they to
vote against hem' Why should he impute personal
motives in when in numerous her cases of
precisely the cha nc,cr, they were obviously
governed by public motives alonei
No dofGncc of the four Senators is called for from
h,,., ,,l.. Al
Lieutenant 1t IS idle wind which will never disturb
their equanlmity, or shake them in the least imagi
nable degree, in the good opinion of any ono iudvid
ual whose good opinion they ambitious of posses
sing On the contrary, the impotence of the attack
compared with the hera.ded menaccs which preceded
It, is calculated 10 show the mpregnabe proprietv of
their public conduct. But the spirit of the attack
deserves the apprehension Of every freeman. 1t is
IN ac, an incubation of the doctrine of passive obc-
dience 1t assumes that every member of Congress
who does not yield unlimited obedience 10 the wishes
of the Chief is traitor to the party and worthy of
denunciaton. The -four Senators honored by the
L'euenants disapprobation representing four sove.
reign States responsible to them, their oaths and
the Constitution irresponsible to Gen. Jackson have
presumed to exercise discretion in their iurisdic
ton over his official appointments. Immediately
they are assaled, their conduct sscribed to prvnte
and unworthy motives, the effort made to fill the pub
lie mind with dstrust of their purity and themselves
peited with Offensive eptheis If this the way to
inculcate manly and republican Independence? Is
the Senate Of the u States TO be shorn of the right
Of free opinion and the dignity of free action and to
be Whitfield down into the passive instrument of re-
gistering Gen. Jackson's rcscrpts? Since this Gov
ernmcnt had being, the conduct ef no public man
on any public OCCASION is ntrnscnly entitled to more
admiration than that of Tazewell and Tyler on the
occasion rcferredto IL was disnlerested indepcnd-
ent, intrepid Grant it to have been mistaken, and
Virginia believes to have been correct on princi-
pe-and yet it is impossible to deny it those claims
to admiration, which obvious integrity disintere rested.
ness and intrePidy, always give. Is there any man
base spirited and degenerate, that he prefers blind
and slavsh obsequiousness, the exerion of qualities
which constitute republican, and dignity human
nature?
Cnndor.-A letter TO the Albany Argus from some
one Of the Palace Slaves" at Washington. says,
"onc thing gained by the election of President Jack
son. is, that The national debt will be paid off,
Ergo, intends the candid epistoeran if he had not
been elected the national debt would no. have been
paid!
Were we to Judge the intelligence of the people Of
New York aud Pennsylvania, by the gross and stupid
lies addressed to their credulty, should be under
the necessity of ranking them low in the scale of
national character. The above paragraph designed
to convey double meaning. multiple lie: in the
frs, place, that the debt would not have been paid
but for the fortunate election Of the Hero in the
second place that progress had been made in pay
ing II by his predecessor. The truth Of The first in.
timution may be measured by the known Tuisify of
the last. When popular intelligence shall &c univcr
sally equal to the detection of the lying imposions
OF demagogps and knuvsh politicians, then and not
before, will the liberty Of the country repose on
firm foundation.
The Hastings Court occupied the whole of
yesterday in the trial Of the lave Daniel charged
uyith fhc urdo nF