Richmond enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1815-1867, 1834-11-28


there would be oppoonBu, to be serious, althoue
think MIR. Leigh utterly unfit TO repft S. MT the Stat.
oil 'rsi"a 10 the Federal Senate at this Time yet have
40 hesiaiin an saying. that also believe him
oi nliien ng for the office ior any other object was
formerly one OF his most devoted adnrsrsi felt Proud o
him a. of our mother be loved Vii einA-l
elt an interest in hs fame as citizen OF TIA. same STATE
aud Is wi'h deep regret that comps He'd surrender
augh' OF he exalted opinion once enciiancd OF L that
am constrained 10 ceive, that sbion has
unholy Influence him for II YOU spuc-e e has
not deceived himself la disclaimhg al, hope aud leed
wish TO be made President IL i, apparent that he now
wishes TO he reelected to the Senate. sscrib.
to any other cause than the unoiy influence Of ambon
The act That MIR Leigh, possessed in high gree
command u language, should have expressed himself
ia his hrs Bank speech in the Senate that Bank Editors
should have clJined him friend, while lie WAS the
osensihe champion OF VII gia against the Bank and IA
aver Mr. wright Got NJ " speech, predicsted a 81
ih@r rons ructicR, iruD him another speech i'm ex
PSia'ion- and alter third .Ur, to make himself under.
stood Chs letter lately the subjsci) he should
len room Ter any. even the enemies he alludes
maj ieer 10 believe that lac could be induced vote or
any Nahona Bank nhder any supposaile eircumslsn.
ees, III opposition TO his oath, with without nsruc.
uohs. ont am digtessng. lie seems 10 think him.
sell entitled TO credit Tor having absain.d tom per.
,onal reflections the 1T" ,utluy ,he So
son OF the Senate but IL the President was under Oh
hsa'ion TO him Tor hi iorbesrAnce that occasion il
certainly thoroughly cancellednow. had lac that MIR
L. was very temperate IN this speech his illusions TO
NE Administration. II this be temperance defend the
deiicacy oil our from the thunder is wrath such
AZ he suppressed lie told us, aiding of the
rfo'es =" the Senate! CANNOT conceive more insult
ing personal reflection than is conveyed, covery il is
true III the picture lac draws the President In thai
paragraph, too long 10 he copied which begins with
The imdrious aud impartial spectator of the passing
scenes and Twill find the erai censure. OF tie per.
,onA cha'ac'e OF the President in he language aud
uuc' OF those who call themselves his i-ns' in which
he assumes ees, man, posi- ions tor these friends srd
rom which he chooses 10 conclude, that it is their .'reo
pinion that the oil their olairy, vain ST OF the
va' ara The weakest of The weak and in the para
graph hon similar POSITIONS he chooses conclude thai
.mry heieVe mat revenge and hate the master pas
sions OF las SOUL Could any thing have been more bit.
ter, both against the President i> friends; What
brute he riusi be, aud how sbect his l.nds? Now iii,
from he gentleman who had Just been elciiaine him
-e on his iorbearance who had bsen poring the ran.
cour Of party feeling, might thought in the
very spirit OF Jeremiah te departed righteousness of
me 'ews-who processes, too shield of rot,.
o" PURIFY .mpeheiraoie even TO The shaft Of Jack.
sou Van Buren," malice. Better for him womb il
nave Oeen had he Indicated some OF the calm security
PoeSssu 10 Irei-ihAt lac Displayed little OF the ploso
ply so well becoming grave Statesman and dgnird Sc.
"a'or had he not sken up the slang the very lowest
partisan! His abuse of Mr. Van Buren, generally in the
speculative degree Had lac contented himself with sbus
i"g Mt Van Buren, as am great worshpper OF that
gentleman. might have overlooked H. (ai.iouph il is
hotVeiy clever according Ia old fashioned Virg notions
OF seniy, TO deitact from the reputation competitor
but MIR l.. couples with him al his artisans, among
"hom are ini'hers oil dis ngused men, and gentlemen
10 doubt, oil high sense Of honor After setting forth
his own humility and moiesty OIL The subject OF ac.
erpung ONCE he says OF them 'e doubted whether they
WIRE c"Paoe OF cohceivng the possibility of such
OF feeling virtues absolutely beyond their concep.
uor The egotism OF this several other parts
oil the Speech is no, to be admired not to saw auy ,hin
oil the undigned reflections IL contsins on
portion OF the citizens of the United States lie saws al
sr~ards OF some OF hi- opponents, (he plain inference
hesgnates Mr. V. BIS riends) that If yor Object ras n,
deceice mem, you had only 10 tell them The truth The
genieel iisinualion here, be explained
uriher on, he OF Mr. V. BIS no
regard 10 decfncy much more dehcacy themselves and
exacing none from their leader, had counted he well
knew upon The dticacy of the situation in which Others
had placed Him, without his CONSENT" &c Not content
With abusing MIR. V. b. and his parzans he discharges
abIoadsl'e at Gen jackson aud his Iends By way of
accounting for strange aud IN, erious circumstance a.
In
was confident that nothing he had done nothing GER.
fanny lie had done, or was expected to do in the Senate
'laa maze HIM The object OF much aud viruleni
abuse as had lately been heapr on him Unt ateIy ne
had not Imagined that he thought Of imnortauce
enough TO excite such hitter and deadly hostility in any
parry ana only seTDed TO c0EURce him that he tcds
honoured toi especial share Of Gen Jackson's dis
pleasure" Sc, Sc Here is only rgousn, but an in
suit 10 Gen Jacksons friends en- idsSe who are opnos.d
TO his re- eecon He says they abuse him not because
they think he deserves IT, bat because he il the orc, ol
spieasure 10 their idol and impeaches the veracily OF
every man who places his opposition oil the ground
mat he looks too kindly the Bank-o TO use MIR l. ;.
""f'S, whose "abusc" proceeds from that any oi,er
Cause, except the s,ispeasur.'' oI Gen .cIson a. 49,
him
| am utterly at loss TO discover in all this, MIR. ,.
'e 10 The dignity OF Senaioisp, much more of the Pre-
suenua Chair He says, she had little to say concern
ing MS own opinions aud conduct in gard TO the Bank
question: ii were permitted 10 express my opinion 4
th'nk he omitted the subject that ought 10 have
ed most oil his attention He "le unone those ,hugs
winch he ough, 10 have dune,' and did "ihose thing
which he Dug not to have done" Mr. L. has alluded
he"Ped on 'm may not hive The abuse which lac
speaks oil; but surely he does call abuse TO saw we
neheVe 'a lie Isl fdvor OF Bank, saving lis consu.
uoha ScIuPies Qhe strength OF which will try pre-
senty 10y MIR LIS own wortls.) have never under
nat he has expressed any other objections: and tiuk
necessary, II may be proved any unpre udced mind
"nst am willing TO do him justice; Tor have been
heretofore one oil his greatest admirers aIn not now
ms enemy, but DO not think tc qualified 10
virginia at tis time think his pejudices against G. en-
Jackson disqually him Tor Judging ary and n,psItiav
as or NE PuShc good any measure in any wise emaua'-
ing from him heard il eeid, tb " hal truth do no,
Vonri mat Mr. H. declared he could not do GEN J,ck
son Justice Now il is possible that The venerable old
man may Junk correctly sometimes This preinJic,
against The President is MIR. LIS great stu,nbte
he does not willingly find will, any BODY Who is o,
posed 10 him, especially body who can and does rxer-
cse so much ln1utnce Tor puUug down is Adn,iusra-
uen conceive there may be honest opposition TO In
PreSlden', united with determined opposition 10 the Rant
ourn' rust eHstS III Mr. LIS cOIeag.e, MIR. Tyler:
ana confidently hope, that this opinion oil him NAV b
sustained IN the report hs he will present from lie mi
hoIy OF the Bank committee the Senate al s co,iug
seSsion have formed very mistaken opinion of Jo,,
yer he docs not prove that neither the glitter of Bank
goid nor any other influence can blind his e,es In ill.,
sins OF The Bank-1ha he will not pros,u e liz co,.cieo
10 TIC service OF PafyThe he will never fo i fire IL
We 10 noble nagnanmy, which he mefiied for his deter
nued resistance TO that yabnca majority OF the Senate
VINO sacTced Stevenson Oh the unalow shrine of fac.
lio's vengeance.
said that did not think was doing Mr. LEIGH in
Justice ~ ue.eying That iis only objection Bank was
is nconstiiulondIity When has inusn,ur Of co,,ln,
ever escaped HIN, against that institution which Mr. lei
lcTsoh pronounced from the beginning hottie Il, tle
pnncpie aud form OF our Cove and ,yiose , A.,
iogdhee has silenced or rather ofed ron
nay OF rs prOiessed lends- even atnouy tbose a I ,.
eve Il both eSpedisnt snd constitutional 10 incoors,c
nahhf ~ MR. Leigh dagger 10 our nsiu,tious
~ SUCH Bank as Ibis, that dafes whatever ,ui he