Constitutional Whig. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1824-1832, 1831-07-25
Friday Ece.,is,g, .Jsxlv 99.
HIS VICE EXCELLENCY.

anappreciable grace of being admitted into ,be
chaSto and dgnihod columns of Verite Sans Peur
but tho name of the Editor itself enioys that hi nh
distinction!
His Vice Excellency, under the signature .ot
Feritas, in the Enquirer of this morning. spouts
blood like whale MORALLY stricken. We had not
imagined that had struck him with so much
iorcc. But as certainly as the wounded pigeons
are known by their futtering, His Excellenoy is
terribly chafcd. What with the figure he cuts in
MS correspondence with Duff Grcen--tbo snoers of
tho universal public who have read that correspon
aence, acting upon pride excessive in the inverse
ratio OF its reasonableness, and a constituencies
moreidiin proportion to the consciousness of ridi
cue dcservcdsy incurrcd-His Excellency is well
high beside himself with passion. In this amiable
temper nc beabors us with the whole force of his
genius and scatters abusive epithets with prodi
gal hand through the whole extent of his valiant
address,. Alas! who minds, Your Exccllency,
what man in passion says? What will not u
proud, passionate and vndictive heart say to inure
nm enemy who has touched its pride, or hold up its
preposterous preensons to the Jest and scorn of a
whole community Any thing which afford
qualification to craving hatred, or promise to in
aict wound upon its object. Now, your Excel
lency, we have lived here seven years-we are
familiarly known to the citizens of this placo-let
them say if your SANDERS merited or if they do
mot deserve to be imprisoned in the black g. corrupt
and malignant hole where they were engendered.-
Your Excelency is welcome to press "this subjec
OF very unpleasant discussion" now, at any fu-
fure time. You welcome to consider yourself
TOO elevated, to become the object of criticism-to
resent any investigation of, any structure, upon
your public conduct, az personal affront, to
seek to duenge it, by foul abuse, worthy of the
grade of your understanding, though not of
the proud and ancient Commonwealth whose
temporary head you are-or in any other
.isay your Excellency may think fit. We
will preserve that respect for high officer of
Virginia, which citizens, we owe to our native
state and to her historic renown, however little
her officer himself deserves it. We shall refrain
from retaliating your Excellencys abuse, but we
shall not desist from chastisng your official mis-
conduct, from ridiculing the full blown bladder
of your arrogance, or exposing that propensity TO
despotism, which patent republican as you are, has
marked you out, as intended by nature for the la
titude of Constantinople, and tho congenial honor
of wearing three tails.
But your Excellency insists upon it, that we
hate you, and are pleased to ascrbe that hatred
TO your refusing all intercourse with us! Bless u.s.
what misfortune to have lost your Vice Excellen
of wit no doubt, have missed! A Councillor of
Virginia, Governor by accident, and a County
Court Lawyer of second grade! A great advocate
of rotation" witha, and the undoubted author of
the Jackson Central Address! Pray your Excel
lency, when you speak of refusing all intercourse"
do you mean to intimate that asked it, or
sought it, courted it, in any manner, form or
eshape7 We know not tho rule by which your Elk
rcelencys vanity and concet construe things; but
, this will say, that all unconscious of
shaving in lives, desired the honour, or
inade the slightest advance to- attain it. AS to hat
ing your Excelloney-there is another word, which
had your Excellency used, might have acqui-
.osced in it's proprety.
Nothing easier than to have acquired the
favor of your Vice Excellencys good will, and the
Ehonour of your intercourse. One dose of flattery
administered with moderate skill, would have
cured for these social blessings. AS thus: 1--WE
congratulate the State of Virginia upon the re-
election of Peter v. Daniel, Esq. as 1t Governor
of Virginia. His undoubted Repu5licaniSm, sI-
perior talents, and excessive modesty, give assur-
that his official will prove creditable
to the State as honorable to himself" Woe is
mo. your Exceency-why had not thought by
<his cheap expedient, which it has taken pre-
-cisely second and three quarters to ndite, to
deserve the nestmabe boon of your Excellency's
intercourse" En- PEASANT to all students of the
delicate art of fattery-Cardinal De Retz says you
must always praise a man for the qualities he has
not, if you wish to win his whole heart. Rchelieu
and Walpoie, conscious of their abilities States
men, could not be hatteTed on that head-but
compliment their talent and bon fortune as gal
lants, in which they conspicuously deficient,
and you infallibly played the game to shore. We
were not ignorant of De Rciz's maxim, nor of its
truth.
We have given the rule, by which his Vice Ex-
~oellency may be tickled into good humor. Let
those who think the play worth the candle, try the
experiment.
We have disposition to reply to the Lieut..
Governors Aimsy defence of mis- public conduct,
on the scores of the Telegraph and the Public
Square. I'm relation to this latter affair, did not
neap to beaqnderstood that the Volunteer Officers
had treated tho Lieut., Governor with contempt"
but the order foTbiddng them TO parade on the
Square. They did not obey it, and VIC arc there
fore justified in saying they treated with con.
tempt. In relation to all three subjects of the
Telegraph, the Square, aud the Capitol, let His
Vice Exccllcncys laborcd defence go for what il is
worth. Public opinion is too defnitively made up
to be changed.
In relation TO the Lieut.. Governor himself we
have already professcd our readiness to do
him justice. a good officer have always