Phenix gazette. [volume] (Alexandria [D.C.]) 1825-1833, 1831-03-22

Nation at iarge-the -sfeOple, nave '"iiS sinee
and repeatedly past their Judgment upon them,
from this Judgment there is no appeal but with
their free consent. Will the people listen to
petty persona! Observation-Disclosures arising
from political malice or party influence. as an ex-
cuse for the exercise of petty power against such
names-nalaes that adorn our Country's Histo-
~; by the will of the people lifted above in''vl-
dual or party mal,ce.Names that will 1--we III
brightness, and be fresh in memory, wheh 'ho'I
who IN theexercise of emphemeral power ana
who would attempt to blight them. shall witneI
root and branch, and be forgotten; or II hahaeu
do at all to posteritv. will be contemplated as
rescued from total oblivion, like HES IN amher'
-sae9efe~
Some DAYS since, we published an mtinatioh
thrown out by the Frankfort Kentucklan, una,
Mr. Francis p. Blair. the editor OF the Giooc. hau
been =. in the practice Of writing articles III tne
Commentators, abusing General Jackson: oh
publishing this statement we made the following
remarks: .;
1--WE know not on what authority TINS lntima-
ton is made: but, il the charge he true, the ea'
tor of the Globe ought, i'll justice, to be a',oweu
AN onportunity to explain and defend the chanSe
which has taken place in his opinions Versa"',
~ of opinion is desirable adjunct to political
EDITOR
The EXPLANATION from the Editor OF the Globe
which we expected, has been withheld, and we
are now told that the Editor has left the CITY, ana
viii! be absent for some time
Now, if there be any reliance to be placed on
r.nort which is pretty generally received, the
Kentuckian has mistaken the name OF the reai
Editor of the Globe. Although MIR. r. Z. b'a'r Is
the ostensible editor, the impression among a ma
cr,ty of the Citizens ofthis District Is. that the
real editor-if not proprietor OF that print-tl'ls
an official station, and receives his 5000 dollars
Il year, for refusing to pass just accounts; iOr
withholding equitabIe and customary remunera-
,on 10 qalant officers for services. out of the line
of their ordinary duties and for doing his utmost
70 degrade the character, aud destroy the useful
ness 0four gallant navy. 1t was said to be fatal
charge, however false it was, against the late
Fourth Auditor, that he neglected his public du-
ties for the purpose of editing newspaper; and
to reforin this abuse If office. the present incum-
bent was placed in the Fourth Auditors room. -
Nov we would BE- the last to deny the facility
with which thus officer can traduce. one day. the
very Individual whom he will worship ON another;
hut. as he has rendered himself obnoxious to the
very charge which was successfully but falsely
urged against his predecessor, we should, expect
Inconsistency were among the virtues Of Gen. Jack
sons character in the items Of his practice, that the
nresent Fourth Auditor would no longer be per-
mtted 10 abuse his office for the purpose OF prop
ping the prccarious and tottering popularity Of
Mr.. Van Burcn, and his administration.
Nat. Jour.
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RICHMOND, March is.
! Yesterday ia the House of Delegates, the Pc
tersburs and Staunton rail road bills returned
| from the Senate with the amendments indicated
in orr paper Of Yesterday morning, were consid
ered--giving rise, as was forseen, to good deal
Of heat and disturbing the harmony of the
House.
| The House of Delegates have seldom been
more unanipous than in the feeling of disappro-
baton manifested towards these amendments
Gentlemen most warmly attached to the doc
trnes of limited observation-disclosures. Broad
max, Mcfarland, Gilmer. Morris, Booker, Mil
Ter of Powhatan. and Preston. denounced the
amendment as out of place. an invasion of the
right of opinion. and in its effect upon the har-
mony of the House, and upon the business Ofthe
country, and upon the doctrines themselves. thus
uappropriately asserted, every way unfortu.
nate.
Mr. Campbell Of Brooke, took the correct
view Of this amedment of the Senate, when he
represented it as an invasion of the freedom of
opinion-as a political dose. which the applicants
for the charter were required to swallow, be-
fore the right was granted them which thew ask
ed. What right had the Senate of Virginia to
say to the people of Staunton, that they should
not apply to the General Government for sub
scripton TO the Stock of their rail road? The
Senate think the General Government have
Cons power to subscribe; but is this
opinion of the Senate to fetter the people of
Staunton-to deprive them of their right TO an
opinion upon Constitutional questons-to de-
pr,rc them of right exercised constantly bv the
People of the United States, to solicit the as
sistance of the General Government in the pros
ecution of public enterprises? Thus attacked
on all hands the amendment was voted out BY
great majority.
The Second amendment prohibits the the ex-
tension of the rail road westwardly from Staun
ton.
This last amendment was made under the ap-
prehension, that to continue the rail way west
wardly from Staunton, might possibly prove de-
trimental to James River interests, BY inducing
the trade of western Virginia to flow along the
rail road and down the Valley. instead of find