Richmond enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1815-1867, 1834-07-22
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TIE CHESTERFIELD uEETLVC. &c &c
We cheerlully lay "Patrck Henry" before our
readers.--As TO the facts touching the meeting we
personally Know nothing about them We knew no.
thing of the Instructions before they were started
nothing ofhc meeting which was got ,,p 10 counter
act then-noting of the speeches. except what wa.
have seen in print-very little ofNir Leigs course
except what The matters now in print have commu-
nicaicd TO the Public. We do not vouch for The
declaration which our Correspondents from Chester
field ascribcs To MIR. Leigh as we have not seen
the gentleman whom he refers to, in his private let
ter To- us, as his witness in the traisacton-But IL
MIR. Leigh had originally condemned the impropric
ty oi his own interference, only surprised that
he did not adhere TO his decsion--We were asto-
nislcd at the course he ultimately pursued
and nothing but the strongest evidence couJ so-
| iisfy us, that he had determined to attend th,
meeting and mingle in its discussious.-Let "Pa-
Trick Henry" say what he pleases, do regard
IT as "indelicate"in Mr.. l.. TO have thrown him
self between the People and their own immediate
representatives, in his own behalf Mr. johnson is
responsible TO the People of Chesterfiell-Mr
Leigh 10 the Legislature of Virginia. When the
question was started, whether the People should in
| sruct Alr. johnson vote for Mr. Leigh, Mr.
l.. ought to hive been the last man in the world to
have nterfcred. He should have left il 10 the peo-
pie, who alone had right 10 decide-Ifhe had enc
mics there to assail he had also friends 10 defend
hm-I!e Press was open to both sidcs-IIandl,ill
could have been met by handbill-Paper by paper,
and speech by specch--And the Citizens Of the
County were competent To decide for themselves
IL is in vain that, "P Henry" attempts 10 sophis,icate
the question by comparing Mr. Rves' course with
Mr. Leigh's. The parallel does not run on nil
fours.-'Vlcn MIR. Rves shall be Senator of The
United Sates-when attempt shall be rot
up IN any county, TO instruct lis Delegate nos to vote
for Mr.. Rives and when Mr. Il. shall enter the field
oil Eecsloneering address the meeting and speak i'm
his own behalf, against insrucng the Delegate: Then
we will say, that iroid be am unworthy and an Gin
delicate" thing for Mr. r. to interfere us Mr. L. has
done.
ltr,v of
that Mcssrs. L. and A. invited 10y "inany citi.
zens OF both parties" TO attend the meeting III Mr.
A. had so attended, with the design of explaining
MS own z'g-zag course, he had right and was
bound TO do so. The people of Chesterfield were his
Constituents, aud their Representative il was nor
icctly becoming in him attend their c. H. But nor
so with Mr.. Leigh! His situation was essentially DIFF
ierent-and so also should have been his course
III he were asked 10 do ssindcicnen thiup Inv his
political partlzGns by few personal friends
who are also friends of the Administrations he should
have known how TO decline their invitation. He
should have been governed 10y Ills own Judgment,
and not by tie solicitations of political friends who
wish TO carry iavorite point, or even of few we'll
meaning, and curious personal fiiends of The other
party. How many of that party invited him. vet
remains to he told.
Ii is easy TO get up such invitations Political
friends may always he found 10 press him into the
ranks and one easy friends of the Admins
tra'ion may he found TO lend their countenance
Are we 10 understand up. Henry" that Mr.. Leigh is
for similar purpose Il he visit Petersburg where
he once lived ?-or the county of Dmwiddie, which
he once represented is he 10 scour the counties
of Southampton and Surry, if they sl.ond happen
to get up instructions TO against him?
The fact of Mr. LIS visit to Chesterfield is con-
elusive to our mnds that he has entered the politi-
cal arena with fiery zeal, which ordinary circum-
stances, no nices cruples to be permitted to damp
lie has crossed the Rubcon--and we saw apon
IL is Time 10 meet him.-The party with which he is
affiliated, determined if possible to carry their
| object The Senate have dispersed to rouse the
country, II they can, in favor of the Coalition
They tried IT at Wasl'ington--nnd they failed Day
after day was spent in speeches. painting the public:
disresses in tile most gloomy coors and calculated 10
spread panic through the land Predictions were
made, that the People could not withstand the pres
sureihat the Bank of the u. s. was able to scatter
distress to the remotest hamlet of the Unon--that
the State Banks would he gricvousy straitcned:
iheir customers ruined, or specie payments suspend
ed--that as one of the Baltimore and some of the
District Banks had already faiIed many of the
State Banks would be compelled to participate in
their fate-flat the leading merchants of The towns
| would be made bankrupt, and the productions of
The country put down TO a mere song-Mcmorials
were received, and every effort was made to raise
up otbers Tor The purpose of increasing the general
paDlc--aDd we are now told that 10000 Memorial
lists were found to attest to the severity of the times
How many of these signatures were genuine how
many were forged, we have no means of ascertain
ing-but we have seen proofs of the grossest imno-
sitIons being practlsed upon the Senate of the II s.
singular specimens of which we shall hereafter Law
before our readers. 1t amidst these dref,l pre-
dicuons and this exaggerated panic, that our own
S'ate Elections came on i'll the Spring and
their results were deeply affected by the speeches
OF Messrs. Webster, Clay and Leigh-But now
The panic IS subsidng-the State Banks are deCying
The D. and all his works. Our produce is selling
OH liberal terns-and the farmers are now satisfied
that most OF these panic-malSers were, i'm great de-
gree, either dupes or decevers And what cinches
he nail rs the very last measure which the Bank Of
The u ,. las been induced TO adopt. That Bank
attempted TO assist tile panicmakers as much as il
cOuld. IL turned The screws upon the People-It
pressed the Banks aud the Public. It's allies i'm the
Sennie attempted to alarm the People Into the belief
that they 'coufd be ruined and that it was the removal
Of the DepoSltes which had wrought their distress
When, 10 II comes ont, almost as soon as the Sc
nate have adjourned, that the Bank finding all their
efforts 10 intlmidate the country through the panic
orators IN tie Senate, have entirely failed are now
determined to change their game to cease their
curtnllmens, and to throw from To- 10 millions into
OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES friends, the Merchants of NJ Y
who address them IN the Correspondence which we
publish today compelled to confess TINT ga large
portion ollie difficulties under which the commercial
community lave laboured for some months past, las
arisen from restrictions deemed neceSsa ON HE mari oT
ne Bdn&" The opponents oftbc Bank insisted that
they were not necessary; that tie Bank had il in jfs
power to relieve the enbarrassneuts of the countrv.
ihal II was not the removal Of the Dcposi,es but
their own restrictions, which had principally conri-
buted to the distresses which had been SO mncb
exaggerated by the Coalition Orators We well re
collect how tie President of the o. s. was rdiculed
and even Reproduced for having told the Pblladel