Lynchburg Virginian. [volume] (Lynchburg [Va.]) 1829-185?, 1834-11-03
COMMUNICATIONS.
VIM. c. RIVES, ESQ

Removal OF the Depostes Protest and R,,hi af Ia.
srucion Here might safely SOP, an!, by nn,.
lying the principles eoaaneJ in eikisr of thes
nlea 'uies OF The administration " hich Mr. Riv,s
supports, or that involved IN the HI OF ln,ructon
winch he denies, show that he Is dame really o.
posed 10 hine-enths OF the whole people OF Virel.
MA aud by sum mug up the wh,le anI tr,e3nv
.neh 10 'hclr legitimate ends, farther snow that II
President, in the joint possession of all the DO sers
therein claimed, backed by body of Senators sdyo
eating the same principles, would possess more
absolute, ARBITRARY and irresponsible authority than
the auiocrat Of he Rusaias, and the people of
America be more helpless aud cnsaved than the
degraded serfs o. that iron-bound despoism There
Inc Emperor las Gen Jackson contends he Isl Is
me immediate representative of his people. There
is no intermediate power and inc polgnard or teyo
luton Is he sword of Damocles suspended over
hlm-lte only check between him and unlimited
despotsm 10 this his slaves look when the
burdens of one tyrant grow heavier than the one
who preceded him and 10 keep them from hyng
10 this sharp remedy, the dospot for the time be-
Ing, graduates his cruelty and oppression by the
cruelty and oppression of the incumbent who reign
ed before him. Thus, though doomed to perpetual
bondage, the fear Of revolution affords that benign
led and miserable people the only glmmerng OF
light that ever sartlcs the gloom of their Wreched
| condition and whilst they can uercr hope to be
free they have bul little cause to dread any harsh
| er slavery than that in which they were born
Their government, if an iron ono, also a stable
one. Blu, here the doctrines of Riyes and Tie al
mlnlstraon be true and become The settled princi-
pies of our government, the Senate, protesting to
be the representatives of the people and guardians
of heir rights and so intended TO be by the
sulon, and regarded such by the pcoplc-sps
I,,,l 49,, a., 1 ,I,a 4
takes from before his eyes this fear of personal
| sponsbluy. Ii is Of their doctr mes be irue) Il
false light, lulling the atoms suspicion and lead
ing to run--,he cloak under which Nero or IL
berus may with impunty riot in destruction,
and the shield which protects him alike from It c
dagger OF the and the sword OF revolution.
IT. as tey contend IN the Protest, the Senate is a
mere appendage to the Presidential power, and has
no ght to inquire into his acts, then 1t Is II nnl.
sancc which shoald be Al once ahated for, III adil-
tIon to its closklns the mal administration OF the
Executive, It's very name would open the door TO
every oppression. Shakespeare has sud,
E" What's in a namo that which We call rose,
BY any o:her name would smell sweet"
This may be true ia the abstract suppose i, is
but, practically, names WELD power almost il
risstbie. If, for instance, Gen. Jackson had Sc
nate composed of such mon as Rives whose only
principle is obedience TO the " Chief and who
would graduate the rights of that body by the will
Of the President, the nemss OF Republic House
of Representatives." Sen nc, would induce mil.
lions 10 behave that ell was right, and that ours
WAS purely republican government, when, IN
fact, We had become perfect slaves and these
Names, long after the forms of free govern,
| mcni had been destroyed would for years smother
the rising hame of revolution and envelope the
| 81 ojs, h.. f.la
intend to support the President and his doctrines,
instead of electing Mr.. R'vfs to the Senate lie, Us
cut away this branch Of The government an un-
necessary ncumbrance and IT, os he contends, he
is responsible alone to the people, lei him bear this
rcspons biluy undivided, and stand before them,
like all other dcspots unmasked, and prepared TO
rise or fall upon his oicR acts VIII the people
submit TO this Rtves an ,ckson domino! Sure
ly not. The senate WIS intended by the consitu-
ton to be- aud is the oHty check upon an ambitious
and popular President; aud as long as ii is pure
az long as the people Will support Il N It's cons,I-
tutiona righs--so long II is powerful and all -ef
Gcen. check, and ong II is utterly impossible for
the to be cheated Out Of their rights But II ever
popular President succeeds in sourIng the people
a anst ii, and bre king il down, as Jackson is at.
,smp,ng-or ifne can bring into 1t a majority of
Rives's, then, under the two combined, ambl-
liberty expires, anu, like the PEG lie of Venice
nay have our" Senate aid OIL. President, aud
call ourselves " Rcpuollc,' long, ons after we
have been betrayed into the most a ,jec. slavery
Bn, to return from THIS DEPRESSION the subjects
to which intended more especially 10 refer.
TIE Pest OFce.-I: will be rocoected, THAI,
when Mr. Rves resigned his seat, he had served
one session IN the Senate and part OF anoher-that
he was the tn rough going advocate of the I'D MIN
istratlon and Of course upon the most intimate
terms with all the prominent members of the Cabi-
nct ( | mean both Cablnets,) among WHOM was
the Postmaster General WIN. r. Barry. II Is far
| to presume that towards 50 devoted an adhorcnt as
ne was known 10 b., the u most freedom would be
! used, and The mos secret hopes and fears of " the
party" would be freely impaired him. General
Jackson, IN his message to Congress, had proclaim
cd to the ,iion that the D apaflm ,nt IN ,he
very soundes, condition that ii had expedited the
mails and facilitated the intercourse OF the country,
10 degree hitherto unprecedented, and thai, too,
oli of its own funds and without burdcning the
people with y mt OF cot. The Postmaster Gene
ri IN his Report made tie same statement MIR.
Eiyos was our Senalor-our sentinel then at his
nost-in,imate with the Presld nj, intimate 9TH
his Cabinet, and presumed 10 know all about H..
| Tyler IN bad odoar, and out of their secret
He endorsed these statements by his silence, and
his constituents were content. After his res igna-
tion enquiry wa, set on foot ino the affairs O.
The Post Office. This enquiry was violently op-
| posed by the whole Jackson party to which Mr. X.
belonged and with winch he had acted Why any
man should OBJECT TO the peoples represent atises
examining into the condition Of any departmsn, OF
the government, the seq rcl will show. In def ance
| of them the examination was gone INTO AFTER
! .c LAIN he m