Richmond enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1815-1867, 1833-11-15

TtK AeE OF PRorEsrs.-Tho once saiutsry proceed.
ings OF minority in any body OF men, rendered tru
~ ridiculous the last week by the managers oi the
,onsl federal party In lie gsa,ure really
anu ing the systematic and studied forms and
in which these poPe's which they dignied 10y the
terms Protest, we're successfully produccdbui, which
from the singulariy OF their expression and the total alb
sence oil even ordinary ability, should have
thought were Protests than thou they had been
ports OF tract society These singular documents we
shall frequently have occasion recur to- If their
uors have not rendered themselves ca1us AMI indifferent
to Their reputation ms statesmen they will yet rue the day
they ever submitted them 10 the peciion Of the public
They called PIOtess-frvtesis ag ainst what! Why,
protests lby party who Ina usurped the peoples righs
against the lawful acts oil the agents OF the people, spec
ally appointed undo the very thiags which these Pro-
testing gentry had unconsulionay aud ARBITRARILY DONE
What a 10 those papers exhibit! Look Tor a
the last of these Trio Prot,sts-ln this they
solemuy declare, they neither vote nor act in the
Grand Co,nmit,; and yet in ieoga,ion oil their own
Tenn decaraion-thsy did in Tie very Grand Com
mee aud on their own motion their names enter.
ed ON The journal: and this they claimed as dgniGed
and Consistent conduct.
II was tiny sla also that these Protestcrs with shame
less hsrcood demanded their Protest to be received and
entered record, when they themselves longer ago
than last Janua " being ien ajoIi,y in the l-gisa-
fe by virtue OF their usurped power, refused 10
crive the Protest OF the then minority against Mr. Rob-
bins Election, and actually voted il cut OF the House
And what was their excuse for this act! Why, they
pretended that the protest offered against the election OF
Mr. Robbins was indecent. Under this false gu.e, to
rnee. s eir parry purposes; ,hey rJeeted nj Pro
reasons OF the minority against the improper
which resulted in the illegal and lection
oil Mr. Robbins. But who is ii that and finds any in.
decent or improper language in the protest OF January
last! No one-except those sensitive fined gentle
men who now urge the majority TO do for them the very
thing which they had denied to others. Well did the
Hon. Mr. ID Wolfe quote the singing and reproaching
text that "such measure you mee, the shall be
neted TO you But we forbear-the ridiculous position
in which these gentlemen have unuckily placed the IN
selves is sufficient reproot for their iasdious and hgl
notions OF honorable bearing. 2
ELECTION OF U. s SENAroR-The Hon. Elisha
Potter, was unanimously chosen TO the Senate OF the
States for six years from the 4h Of March last by
the Legislature the last week. This is gratifying
TO the friends Of the Administration, well himself
Owing TO two vacancies in the Senatc-the whole mum
her OF both Houses in Grand Committee is eighty two
Three opposition members in the House were absent-o
course the whole number present seventy nine-i
Grand Committee MIR. Potter therefore would have had
majority Of ,hrty-had there been any opposition TO hi
election This is the greatest vote perhaps that any Sena
tor ever elected BY on any former occasion TIN,
haze The people trumphcd.- Providence Rep. Herald