Richmond enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1815-1867, 1834-01-25
Virginia Legislature.
DEFERRED DEBATE.
HOUSE OF -IhEsday, Jan. 26.
REMOVAL THE DEPosrTEs

Mr.. Faulkner said he thanked the gentleman from
virtually admitted, What no Mr. F. had suspected from
the hrt thar the resolution in reference tho uncohsti
tuiionay OF the Bank designed simply purely to
offset the proposed censure against the Federal Execu-
tive, and Tor 10 other purpose What sir says that gen.
tenan will you open debit sheet against the President
without opening credit sheet also! He Mr.. F. had no
objection to the pr position OF the gentleman from Spott.
syvapia end would gladly accept his challenge ii the
account was extended to embrace the entire history
Of this administration He hough heavy balance would
be found against the Presidenan full balance of vo-
lated rights usurped powers, and broken
Was there, indeed gentleman in the House who did not
believe that the Constitution OF the country had under
gone radical and fundamental change of its character
since the present Executive into Officer That power
had concentrated In that department by the habual
Of the negative upon the laws Of Congress- which il
the de,gn OF the trainers Of Government 10
confer upon it, That patronage had been arrogated by
the President by the abuse the appointing dsmissng
power which would have shocked the simple concep.
tons Of republican ancestors! They give US
Republican Government Honestly administered, it
would be still. Yet what in practice Can that
Government be called republican, which excludes. by
legal disqualification halt of the citizens Of this
great Confederacy, from any parcipatin in its offices
and honors? which acts upon the systematic principle
Of destroying liberty of speech and Of opinion! which
voution, Ddc picfs7 Can that Government be called re-
publican where the will Of man capricousiy sets at
defiance the will Of whole nation and bends its legisla
ton to his imperial conceptions Of what proper and
peden! He, Mr.. F. had heard much, and he would saw
deserved opprobrum cast upon that kind of nuc
which weud array the voice Of state against
three; but there was another kind Of qualification, which,
according to his conceptions OF government, a sii
abhorrent kind of notification he meant that kind
where for light and trivial causes was permitted
TO nuify the will Of whole nation deliberately express
ed VAST not so in practice! The theory of the Cons
ution declares that all Legislative power shall be vested
in Congress, TO be composed OF Senate and House Of
Representatives. Was not that cardinal maxim of your
government virtually abrogaied! To whom is the eye Of
the country now cast for legislative action upon
question OF national policy! The President of the United
States. He is at once King, Lords and Commons
lie has by his and patronage, in him.
nd lepis WouIHa
gentleman dare TO contrast government practically
administered. with the British government cali one
Republic, and the other Monarchy, when our Re pub
lican President was IN the habiual exercise OF despoc
power, which no monarch in England had ventured to
assume for more than two centuries, aud which the pre-
sent, william, would not dare to exercise without mourning
the certain hazard Of his head! But, said Mr. F., il had
been well remarked by acute English bsoran and lie
derived much consolation from the historical msxim that
there is point OF endurance beyond which, no people
will extend their suferings God knows have suffer.
ed long and patiently this lawIess aud s
mnistra ion! The gentleman from Hanover had Just ex
pressed his surprise, at the rgor and bitterness the op-
position to it, II the fortune Of that gentleman him.
seli TO BIO member Of that Administration psriy ono
OF the spoile, though not participating in its guilt:
he therefore, but poorly capable Of spprecistng
the feelings oil those who we're made the remorselsss
victims OF its cruelty. But should 1t be the fate OF
that gentleman in defence OF his principles, to be cast in
the opposition 10 such adninsrationto witness e-
rocous and vndcli,e warfare carried against those
whom he regarded as TIE pureg patriots and most
ebtened statesmen OF this county; the press corrupted
the public patronage squsndered in this Of profit
Tor The bare exercise OF their judgn upon public
ters, indiscrmnaeIy expelled from office TO make
bsDd Of mercrnary Swiss, he would then,
be able TO form adequate conception OF the feel
lngs Of those whose rights have been thus unierlingy
trsnpsd upon. He, MIR. vas not aware that he had
single personal friend who had been thus reformed -
IL against the practice voa,ive cf all that
dear to American ci'izen', that his soul revo.ed -
He viewed II pernicious as preeedsn'-desfuciive oil
the Republican character The Government But fbsnk
God, cry had been heard in the wilderness Of their
siicon, end voice gone forth that will proclaim emsn
cpaion OF this nation. IL has been said Qnem Deut
r perdeTe, prus demenfat, and nohing he conceived
short OF the madness OF desposmDothng hut that faiu
" Which slways accompanies series OF successful usur
pa'iona upon the rights Of the people, and blinds the min
ions OF power TO te consequences OF he misdeeds
could have led 10 the preparation OF this last rege upon
tho Consi ution, which has tDdled n nne Of ndigna
lion from extremity OF the nation 10 the other, ant
rallied all parties in deli Of the endsnge institutions
of the country.
Mr.. +. expressed himself particularly grali6ed that tn,
determination TO resist the torrent ol Federal usurpaiior
had frs, displayed itself la Virginia. There pro
pretty and fitness IN The fact, that made him TO h'
early gloes OF her history. IN looking back TO the page
Of her proprietary and colonial history, he always foun
her prompt 10 oppose tyranny and resist oppression.
was this spirit which, iDhsned into action by the Dspire
eloqueDce ofhe grandre OF the gentleman from Hanover
led more than fifty years since TO the prosra,ioi
OF British despo,sn IN this country. II this spifi
which oxtinguisbed the still lingering remsos OF mon
srchy In the scarcely less important revolution Of 1873
80; and IL Is the spirit which Is rousing tn
country into action buri from power, that iRcubu
which presses upon the half smothered papssg vas
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