Richmond enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1815-1867, 1833-05-24

subIect-The peO-
pie OF Maine are wholly opposed, in principle feeling
to Negro Slavery They wish-arden,ly WISH that their
brethren at the South could free themselves from the evil
and the blemish At the time they are fully aware
that the question emancipation is one bese with diff
Guilty and danger. They may rcason--they may endea.
vor to influence to persuade-thoy may be willing
share oil the burthen, there be be borne but
they are far from chershng any disposition to inter
Jere Such zoe say, unhesitatingiy the feelings of
sn!9'ona'y, we have no more right to intermeddle
with the political relation OF master and slave in the
Southern States than 10Th the subject in the es
India Colonies"
The Truth in a small Compass,
We lay before our readers the Proceedings of n
Meeting in Mecklenburg upon the outrage which
has been committed on the Presidents person. We
had hoped that OF this subject, least there would
have been but one sentiment, among all parties
that all persons would have seen the necessity of
REFRESHING such outrages by the force of pub
lie opiniOn-and that effort would be made to
countenance the act or the actor. But wo have
been mistaken We have heard of Robert b.
Randolph being Invited TO dine few days past
with the Dragons of this City--and of his health
being drunk on this occasion. Who invited him |?
Report says, il was not done by the request
OF the company-and that the respect of drinking
his health excited the Indignation of several of the
Volunteers Who then did invite him? Who was
it, that carried the hatred to Andrew Jackson so far
as to forget what due to the character of our
institutions? We have heard of tho countenance
which X. Ii. r. has received from otbers-from
men clothed with "the honorable station of servants
to the Same sovereign people," We have heard of
these men extenuating, if not jusfyng, most vio-
lent outrage upon an officer, whom one of these
same persons once pronounced to be "ths principal
Representatives Of the majesty Of the People,"
! The Calhoun men, generally make light of the
outrage. Every man, who hates Jackson more than
he cares for his country softens the act or takes
SIDE with K. Is. Randolph. One says, that Ran
dolph has been hardly dealt witll-Another that il
is a common case OF assault and battery-that if
Jackson wrongs man, in his public capacity, it is
not sufficient to appeal to the people, and expose his
ABUSES through free press-but that you may
lake vengeance on his person. desperate
print in this city insdiously argues that the per-
son OF the President IS sacred i,chict Is true
enough land, therefore, that any one, who thinks
himself aggrieved by his public conduct may rs
readily take vengeance on his person. as he would
on that of any other man. What we say is this,
that II public opinion sanctions this outrage and
the ridiculous Qualifications that are set up for
IT. how would your President stand? You must
choose for that office, only men who have nerves
OF iron. lie must constantly wear arms He
must confine himself in his own house. for fear of
the vengeance OF assassns. Every broken officer
OF the Army or the Navy, will be at equal liberty to
attack nm. What becomes of the beautiful simpl-
city OF our institutions, by which every officer how
ever high, though liable public censure for his
acts, yet mixes with his fellow citizens upon the
most unreserved terms-without any other shield
against violence than what the moral sense of his
countrymen can throw around him2 Would the
defenders of Lieut. Randolph wish to substitute the
stileo for the penthe fiery passions of the assassin
for the censure of public opinion Would they a,l-
thoriZe every man TO wiring the Presidents nose or
spit in his face-or, would they him off from all
intercourse from his fellOw-citZens? or, would they
surround him with that most detcsable of oil in a
Republc-a body guard?
but how do these men justify the conduct of
Lieut. *. They say he has been badly treated
How so by being dismissed from tho SERVICE
IL the law requires the defauler to be dismissed
does not the President stand excused for the net it,
self? But is not Lit. Randolph defaulter? AS Pur-
ser of the Constitution, he received about SlI 900
that were left by Timberlake-with some slops &C.
He takes them without having inventory made
out--this is his own statement of the transaction-
when he arrives in Boston, Inc takes TO himself
about $4,000 of the public funds-and no one can
tell how he Obtained any claim to such n sum-in
the short space of four months He then settles I'M
his account with Tobias Watkins-but not one syi-
liable does he say of the money or slops he had re-
ceiyed from Timberake. Does not this look sIspi-
cIons? After time, the President grants him
Court OF Enquiry--to revise his accounts. They
admit in the most liberal manner the items which
he urges-and yet, after all, find him defaulter for
more than S4oOo Does he pay up this sum No
he trumps up frivolous charges-and the Pres-
dent then dsmisses him from the service. Randolph
appeals TO the people, and threatens to appeal to
Congress and the Courts. Well-the way is open
TO him-but, Randolph not content with this pro-
ceeding, seeks the President with view of in
ficting the grossest indignty upon his person.
And in eXtenuation of this outrage we are told
that Randolph has been badly treated-that he had
the same right to wreak his resentment upon pub
lie officer as upon private ctizcn-and one wretch
ed and envenomed partizan, violates all common de-
cency, by writinga burlesque chapter on noses!-
An attempt is made to pay him respect ut dinner
of the Volunteers of Ricbmond-If these efforts
to secure him from public opinion should be sue
cesstul, then we pray our readers to calculate the
consequences.
There is no punishment which con probably
reach him under the present laws. The prostituted
Telegraph gave out, that he would go back to the
District, and surrender himself to the tribunals of
Justice. We are confident that he has no such in
tenton. 1t is now said, that Inc is about going to
New York, to embark for Europe.-We understand
the law of Congress provides only for crimes and of
fences which committed i'm States and Terrific
ries-and that the District of Columbia is not consi-
dcred as n Territory at a--and that a warrant has
been refused on this ground by Judge of the u.
states. Public opinion must then do its Office and
the censiire of the people should hurl its hunders
lar more powerful than those of the laws--The
Lewisburg Aleghanian pronounces the outrage
Gan insult to the nation, for which every American
should feel the deepest Indignation u"
Mr.. JOHN RANDOLPH mr.
Mr. John Randolph Is said in the baltimore Patriot 10
have arrived in that town Sunday evening and taken
lodgings at the y Hotel. lie left Baltimore next NOR.
ming Gin the steamboat for Philadelphia, from whence he
is 10 embark for England. lie came into the civ in
coach and four, and made such display that by the fine
the carriage reached the hotel than thousand peo.
pie had gathered around it, all anxious get peep at the
singular occupant-tbis, he in prevented by