Constitutional Whig. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1824-1832, 1831-01-14

RICHMOND,
ou great irritation and serious your Jackson
members and their late 'dO If there nothing ese
will destroy Jacksous prospects i'm all the
states and in all the States favorable
ana 'ha' there VIII be collision violent colisionon these
subjects, at the Congress quite certain The southern
people will not yield without struggle: would take place
iS session, VI time and other circumstances admitted
JacksonS absurd and fanciful of National Bank to
he raised on the ruins of Ike Bank and his peril
acous uengs OF those on Congress. will inure him greatly
The plan is principally MIR inghans-every other member of
the cabinet dsclaims participation in it, II
so pecv oeuious m itself that the smallest injury
arise To the Bank indeed has embodied active and Elf
Gent friends TO that institution than could anticipated
must confess did not like first fearing dangers
Bank in which the Government so large an interests but
now think otherwise The Government influence its
opetaons' nut Jarksons plan would he perfect government
al system working corruption into all republican insu-
on-sapPs the elective franchise the very foundation of
existence as free people This matter has sunk the Hero
NY steps in his exalted ladder
" We have long known the truth of the following
communication. We forget the occasion of Mr. JEFF
ferson'+ drst using the celebrated expression; but
whenever it was, he probably meant no more than
to quote it, and not induce the belief that the ex-
preston itse,f was his Tgnoranre and that disposi
ton t" immorfaize Mr. Jefferson which has prevailed
so extensively, and with such good reason in the
nam have appropriated to him what belonged to the
unfortunate Rnmhold man who moved in an hum
BILE sphere but who deserves immar atv along with
the great Republican names of Pym Hampden, Mil
ton, Vane, Sidney, and hundred others who -four
ished in he time Of the last Stuarts. Liberty owes
so much to Rumbod, that its friends will take plea
sure in restoring 10 his memory a sentiment which
TO have been the author Of is sufficient of itself to
make him famous
Foa THE WuIG.
JuStiiia perpetual
NoluntGS jus SUM cuique huGIdi-
RICHARD RUMBOLD.
-S"bnt that he never could believe that any
man was hnrn marked " God above another Gy
''none into the 'OorM toiM saddle on his
''bach neher any JootsI and Spurred to ride him "
The real author Of the above sentiment was Rich-
ard Run,b0ia the maltster. one of the pretended
projectors of the Rve-house plot. and fol-
lower Of the gallant. but unfortunate Earl of Argyle
who executed, well as his leader under James
ii in 1866
The following extract from TIE history OF the
reign of hat monarch, by Charles James Fox, will
rucidate The incident and establish the fact
Chapter Ill page l54-Philadephia edition.
1895 print ed by ABRAHAM SMALL. 1905.
Rumhoid, covered with wounds, and defending
himself with uncommon exe,tons of strength and cou
rage W al last taken However desirable It might
have been thought, TO execute so deeply i'm
picated in the Rve-housP Plot. the state of Rum
bodss health made such pro- ect impracticable Had
been attemp' ed, he would probably. by a natural
death. have disappointed the views of q government
who were eager to brought to the block, man
whom they thought, rcended to think, guilty of
sent King Weakened as he in body his mind
firm. his constancy mistaken; and notwithstand
Ing some end"avors hat made by drums and
other instruments. to drown his when he was
addressing the people from he scuifod enough has
been preserved of what he then uttered satisfy us,
that his personal conrag" he praise of which has not
been denied him, a. of the vulgar or constiIu-
tona kind, but was accompanied with proper iona
bic virour of mind Upon hea ring his sentence
whether in Imitation of Monfrosr from that con-
@enaltY of character. which causes men in similar
cIrcumStanCeS, To conceive similar sentiments. he eX
pressed the Yish which that gallant nohlernan
had done; he wished he had limb for every town in
ChTistnndom With respect to the intended assassi-
nation i"rpnted % him, he protested his innocence,
and desired tn be believed upon The faith of diving
man; adding IN terms natural as they are forcibly
descriptive of conscious dignity Of character that
he was TOO well known, for any to have had the i'm
prudence to make such proposition to him lie
concluded with plain, and apparently sincere declara-
tons of his undmnished attachment 10 the principles
Of liberty, civil and religious: denied that ne was an
enemy to monarchy, affirming, the contrary, that
he considered II, when properly limited, the most
eligible form of government; but that he never
could believe that any born marked by God
abuvr another, 'j0r INTO the loorM ,Dt II
saddle an his bach neither any booted Gnd spurred 10
ride him. ~
Ha!phI 81.
" we not only repubIisb the following WITH great