Vandalia Whig and Illinois intelligencer. [volume] (Vandalia, Ill.) 1832-183?, 1833-01-23

Again the Advocate asserts, that sstbs impres,;;o
intended to be madeby the Wing is, that the ipte
ests of the State likely to suffer in consequence
MIR. semple not qualifying as attorney gencral.''-
fhls certainly is quite mistake, though the rule
contraries corrects it. We never intended to asset
tina the interests Of the state rest entirely upon til
attorney general or the Advocate, though they ar
both sturdy pillars of the republic.
In the same connection the Advocate further saws
he statement in relation TO the business of the atto
ney general in the Supreme Court, is equally incsr
rect. The only cause on the calendar, which Il i
made the duty of the attorney general to prosecute
has been argued and submitted to the Court by tn,
gentlemen who legally had charge OF the cause''
lhere is not word of truth in this whole para
graph; and if the Advocate had given himself tn,
trouble to examine the records of the court before h
penned 1t, he would have found il So Ills true tina
t,co cases in which the Bank was concerned, on
against Linn and another against Boone, have BEEF
dismissed at the present term; but they are not th
cases to which referred, nor is the ~constituton
ality' fthe bank question in either of them. Tn
case of the shank against Linn" an agreed case from
Jackson, is stll pending and undetermined and it
the duty of the attorney general to enter lis appear
authority Of the Advocate to the contrary notwith
standing The words of the law defining the dutic
OF the attorney general in this NATTER given IN tn
revised code, page rs, are these:
shall be the duty Of the attorney general to
tend each Of the terms Of the Supreme Court, ant
there commence, prosecute defend every cast tina
the people &c. or the state bank shall in any wis
be party to, or interested in the result.n
In the case Of the Bank against Linn, the defend
ant pleaded, in the court below, total want of con
sideration for his contract with the Bank because
the unconstitutionality of the institution At tn,
last term of the Supreme Court, Mr.. Baker argue,
deliberately on behalf of the defendant but no attor
ncy general being here, nothing was said for th
Bank. The case was continued until this term, an,
now lies open for argument; and some Of the Judges
we are informed, have declared that they will no
assent to any opinion till argument for the Banl
| shall have been made.
Besides the three cases here mentioned, there arr
four Others, in which the Bank concerned, now pen
ding in the Court, to which it is as much the dut,
OF the attorney general to appear, it is to thu
only case, which the Advocate speaks of, and whic
according to his dicta has been argued and dismissed
Though it is the duty of the attorney genera
TO appear in the Bank cases, as well as in the I'm
peachment case now pending before the Senate, MI
sawyer is huch mistaken II ne thinks US at all ap
p'ehensive 'hat tne interests Oh the state will sue
wan. o. proper couhsc IN any OF the matters nov
Oh trlai. "thout encouragement to the attorne
geheral eject, to ms talents, acuteness, genius an
iearnihs' we may pc allowed TO say, that we thin
mere are other men IN the State quite as well quail
ne as me- 70 MAINTAIN the interests OF the people
ana uciend 'neir rights; and we are happy to say
too tha' at Inc present 'ime' IN case as mportan
perhaps as has ever occurred in the history OF tn
o'a'c, some Of those men are employed. But IT W
rescntativcs has selected n person 10 fiji that ocs