Richmond enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1815-1867, 1833-05-07
POLITICAL.
GCoMMUNIcArED FOR ruE GLonE.

lCoMMUNIcArEp FOR THE GLonE1
To The Editors IF the Richmond Enquirer:
SIRs AS my first commune alton has been greeted wi IA
promise, that it shall have place in your columns
am encouraged TO send you the continuation. These ex
tracts will occupy much OF the valuable space of your
paper; but great in my estimation, is the Importance
laying them before the People, that feel conjunction
in presenting them to you.
An etIort-and a very strenuous one-s now making
throughout State TO betray the People OF Virginia
through the ardor of their proverbaly strong love Tor H.
berty and princpleyes, to 6etrGy them into an aban
donment oil the very first principle of republican govern
meni, and OF that liberty which il alone A
principle hitherto held SGcred-the vital importance OF
which has, on every occasion and opportunity been ncu
Gated and enforced by every Of the long list pa
triots have 10 boast OF which they deemed it their
first duty TO strengthen and confirm thebabit OF re-
garing as Sdcred and which, laucry, for the first time
has found men bold enough to call it in question their
theories, and 10 disregard 1t i'm their acts
Among the devices resorteG is the vile slang about
"Bloody Bills MILITARY Despotsm,' sc. SC. aud the
inconsistency with the principles oil liberty OF the
ployment OF force TO maintain the law Let the People,
therefore, revert TO the TEMPEST OF ISS9 when EFFER
SON at the helm and when the Republican crew who
held mastery upon the deck and the movements of
the good old ship, Differed by the Geses and Caw
iords the opposes, and the Macon otbygone times The
dominant faction in more than OF the Eastern States
were then advocating principles and holding language
similar Though in honest truth il be said not quite
so exravagant and outrageous) to what we now hear
Let the People look at the wayin which these things
met by JEFFERSON. Let them look at his measures and
the principles which those were founded and
maintained. Let them hear the denuncatons OF the fac
ton then arfayed against him. and then them listen to
the voices OF those Vginid Repubcans-the good old
stock, of which there is so little left u.s. among the
poiticidnS-by whom he upheld and by whom The
true principles OF our Government defended and
maintained. They will then plainly, that be yee the
slang whangers OF the present hour the Calhoun Repub-
leans OF 1928, and the whose and whose
principles alike abhored among lSOs9 the sole
difference is, that the Calhoun Liberty have mpov-
ed upon their models
AN oLD-FAsHIoNED DEMOCRAT.
FACTS FOR THE CANDID CONSIDERATION OF
THE PEOPLE OF VIRGINIA.
SENATE.
Mr.. Pope NOV. %, lSOs.] owe are told that the
people are opposed TO this To the free
people shall always bow with But, sir it
ought TO be remembered that in this country the io of
the majority must Prevailiti is fundamental principle
OF our government; and If Judge from recent
events, great majority Of this nation in favor of this
measure We informed, and il has been intmat ted on
this ioor that rebellion in the Eastern States will be the
probable consequence OF perseverance in this measure
Are we TO be driven from the dictated tire pub
lie interest by Norns OF this be Told by
minority, that we must recede from the ground have
takenthat we must admit the government has not suf-
cent energy 10 enforce lis authority or that they will
bell VIII gentlemen inform us who they that are
prepared 10 erect the standard OF rebellion against their
own COVE ment on the very graves the brave Bosto
mans first raised the standard of American Indepen
dence /? They must be some ney peope who have OH
ruded themselves upon shOres-hey cannot be Ame-
rcans will not think unworihily OF my countrymen
i believe the American people generally attached to
their government trust II is but the canor OF the mo-
meni which viii cease the moment the will of the go
ed" VAP
Mr.. Mitchill. NOV. 2i1 "The people moreover il is
contended, will not endure the embargo and VIII. il il is
not repealed, rise in open opposition their government
ny resisting H. Turbulent men may perhaps be found,
who may make direct 10 those statutes But
Mr.. NJ declared he had better opinion of his country
men Than TO suppose they would be concerned in insur
rectons. He cOnsoed by the reflections that Ameri.
can citizens were not only reemen but trained pro-
lesion and use OF firearms militia men, accustomed
10 attend courts Jurors, called TO decide differences
as arbraiors and privileged TO electors they were
order and religious discipline; they compehemded W ell
The value fife, property, and social xou aud the
dh also steady habits OF respect TO themselves, and the
laws enacted 10y men OF their own choice. Such peo-
VIII consider maturey the turpitude OF resisting the
iu authority The awful consequences treason will he
perfectly ioreseen and avoided" sc
1.-The government which surpasses every other in
strength popular government where each individual
feels himself be proportion of the soyereontv exert.
himself to support the majesty Of he laws The woman
ry OF the different Commonweats have nothing TO Gain
by m0bs; they the safeguards Of the nation and the
determined foes OF rebellion"
! (FTOm NE National Inteiigencer Nor % 1905 }
I'm recording the following disgraceiu proceedings OF
the Legislature OF Massachusetts,, blush for The de-
generacy Of New England, part of which has consirn.
ed itself 10 the rule OF men, who seem as insensbe To truth
I as to national honor"
J. THE proceedings here spoken Of arc report and ieso
following extracts
"Thc Committee perceive with the most serious rcqret
that The disresses occasoned by the sevoro laws mpos
ing an embargo have borne with aud increasing
pressure upon the people, and every days experience
justifes belief that continuance of these laws ,u
soon become inoleabe."'In fact the evils which are
menaced by continuance Of ibis policy so enormous
and deporabc The suspension Of contrary
TO e habits OF our people, aud so epugnanl 10 their feel
ings and Interests, that they must become niocrabe
and endanger domestic peace and the Union If es,
States As the embargo laws have been the cause of The
public distress your. committee Of opinion that ma
equal permanent eectua relief be afforded to the
citizens of this commonwealth but by tie repeal of these
laws"-"ln this confidence, therefore, your Committee
are OF opinion, that upon this subject the Legislature
should, IN ITS present session. couhuc Itself In repeated
dsapprobaion Of The laws iuerdicGug foreign commerce
senaiives in Congress TO their utmost exeron to pro
cure their repeal"
HoUsE Of REPREsENTATrvEs.
Mr. MACON. Nov. ~ 81 have been asonshcd 10 sec
so many resolutions the subject OF the Embargo and
none contemplating its entire continuance" SC "Sbak
The majority gOUcrn, shall few wicked and Abandoned
men drive this nation from the ground has tdkeui is
come 10 his, that Bw cousuionolly enacted even az
ter formal decision in favor OF It's cOnstuoaalty cannot
OF few, and those the progatc part Of the coum.
nlty' ! think the stand took last year was proper
stand and am ior taking cUcV for enabling the
nation TO maintain it, &c. 81 should have made bi.
motion at1hs time had 1t been or the petition Just pre-
sonted. When stand here, SIR charged by part oil tho
community with being OF The Of the people
notwithstanding willing TO commit .the petition.
treating % with that respect which conceive to be due
from us 10 the prayer Of any portion OF the people wish
my sentiments on ibis subject 10 be seen.
"lt Is time for those who think he Embargo lawful
and proper forward and declare H. No
other person having yet thought proper do IT, have
now done H. I believe the Embargo was right that ID
right "a pass laws TO enforce W aud believing this
feel no hesitation in avowing it,