Constitutional Whig. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1824-1832, 1831-07-11
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MORE JARS AMONG THE REPUBLICAN
PARTY.
u We presume that the following corrcspon-
dencc between It. Gov. Daniel, and the Editor OF
the U. States Telegraph, will be every where read
with the extreme amazement which it has occa-
stoned in this city.
From The q. States' Telegraph Of Friday.
THE LIEUTENANT GOVERNOR OF vIR-
GINA.
The Governor of Virginia is on visit of few
days to the western part of the State, and in
sequence of his absence from the seat of Govern
ment, the duties of the Execu i've devolve OH the
Lieutenant Governor, who, will appear from the
following letter, awaited himself of his brief au-
thority" to order the discontinuancc of the Tcle-
graph.
RICHMOND, Juno Goth, 1881.
SIR: In the absence of the Governor from the
seat of Government, your paper has been brought to
me from the post Office, directed 10 the Executive
Department of Virginia. AS the head of that de-
partinent at this time, have to say to you that
am aware of no legal regular warrant for the
transmission of your paper to the Executive of this
State. The Council of State having never advised in
relation to the subject think proper request that
no further numbers of your paper be Forwarded to
the Executive, as under existing circumstances you
can have no claim upon the State for any OF them
Yours, Sc.
PETER DANIEL
Lieutenant Governor IF Virginia.
WAsHINGToN July Z, 1881.
SIR: Upon my return home, after an absence of
four days found your note of the 3Jth ult. The
copy Of the Telegraph to which it refers is inten.
ded for the Governor, and not the Lieut.. Governor,
OF Virginia. "llndcr existing circumstances" you
will please to return such copies US may have come
to your possession during his absence, the post
office your city, to be placed with his private pa
pers II he has not brought the subject of his sub
scr ption to the u. ). Telegraph before the Coun-
Gil OF State" presume it was because he consider
ed it subj ct which he not required to ask
their advice; may it be that he intends hereafter
to do So 1t will be in time for you, of his ad-
ysers, TO refuse your consent when its is asked.
Yours, &c.
DUFF GREEN
Hon. PETER V. DANIEL,
lieutenant Governor Of Virginia,
| Richmond, Virginia.
The first emotion experienced upon reading
this laconc correspondence, that of unbound
ed surPrize; the last, extravagant mrth We &C.
knowledge ourselves indebted to the parties, espe
cally to Duff, for ofthe heartest and most un.
sophisticated laughs we enjoyed Verify Duff,
you have i'll few words, mauled his Vice Excel
| lency to his hearts content.
Perh ps the raa Ter will by his time, be at little
to trace the authorship of the following article
| Friday last The letter to the Editor of the Tele
graph, bears date, June 30-this article July lst-
both therefore, probably written by the same
hand, and in the same fit of constitutional denotion
We pray the RAIDERS attcnt ion to it.
| To THE EDIroRs OF TIE Enquirer
Gentlemen: Is 1T true as has been reported that
the Governor of Virginia, of his mere will and
without even consulting his Council, has directed
the dscontnuance of the subscription, on the part
| pf tln Stnfp fpt hat nrtb
B ltimore Rcpu ,icln, and that this has been done
by him, although the subscriptio to the Repuoli-
can had been made by advice of the Council?
Is 1t true that the Governor has, without consult
| ing his Council, directed the United States Tele
graph to be sent on to the Executive Department,
as II such order had been the result of repul ,r
Executive act. under the Constitution; and thus by
his mere arbitrary will, pledged the money of the
State for the support of that prohigate print?
Is 1t not true, that even during the highest ex-
element Of the late Presidential Canvass, the Exc
cutive would not and did not, subscribe to the Uni
ted States Telegraph; and, moreover, that at this
| lime majority, if not the whole, of the Council,
disapprove of the politics of the Editor of the ele
graph, and have not the slightest respect for his
character, trust in his principles
Inform the people of Virginia, if you can, Mcssrs
Editors, on these topics, which involve at once in
terestng questions of constitutional authority and
political feeling. QUERIST
July LIST, 1881.
The "orthodox" Baltimore Republican, estab
| lished and possibly now owned, by tho "Successol
of Mrs. Barney's husband" and connexion o.
his Lieutenant Excellency, Dabney S. Carr, is we
believe, lthe Daily Republican, priced at $40 pc,
annum; the "profligale" Telegraph the same
The Republican is J ,ckson print, SO is the Tc
legraph; but note the diversity, as my Lork Coke
would say; and observe where the shoe pinches the
It, Governors most puissant toe: the Republican is
Democratic Republican jackson Van Burcn-the
Telegraph is Democratic Republican jackson Cal
houn. The sagacious reader is not to be informed
we presume, that this is something more than the
difference 'twixt "Tweedle dunn, and Tweede dee .
Whether the Governor had or had not, power
to discontinue the Baltimore Republican and sub
scribe for the U. States Telegraph depends upon
the construction of the 5th section and 4th article
of tho new Constitution, which is in the following
words:
1.-The Governor shall, before bo exercises any
discretionary power conferred on him by the con.
stituton and taWs, require the advice of the Coun
Gil of State, which advice shall be registered in
books kept for that purpose signed by the members
present and consenting thereto and laid before the
General Assembly whom called for by them"
This is the solitary clause of the Constitution
which has any bearing upon the question.
We have italicsed the words constitution and La,es
because it is manifest, that the constituionalty or
unconstitutionaty, of Gov. Floyd's conduct in ex-
changing the Baltimore Republican for the Tole
graph, turns upon them.
lsthe power ofsubscribing for newspapers, among