Richmond enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1815-1867, 1835-03-03
TUESD.E n,
Virginia legislature.
DEFERRED PROCEEDLvGS-(Sc Second day)
HOUSE OF DELEGATES-Hean Januayu 2:

MIR. Brown having expressed desire TO address The
iionsc' but declining to do so of the
a'chess OF the hour said he would the postpone
net OF the JOINT order until Tomorrow if he could sup
pose the motion would succeed But he would not set
up ms own convenience against the desire of the House
II .c discussion were not postponed, he should either
content himself with brief exposition of his course
or decline 1t altogether, and he rather inclined the
atte as ne was much exhausted by his attendance upon
the proceedings of yesterday and to-day He was de-
srous OF postponemcnt but it would hardly become
MN TO take the responsibility of making the motion
Mr. JASSEY said, that TO test the of the House
he would move that the further consideration of the
JOINT order be- with the of the Senate post
Mr. WooLfoLK said, he hoped the motion would be
agreed to- He wished to hear all that be said on
Mr. WILsoS of Botetonrt expressed the same wish
MIR GREGORY trusted the House would not agree To
further postPonement He that all had deter
mined what TO do, and he did not believe the most win
nlng eloquence could change single man Then i'm
heavens name, let go with the election and let
each gentleman write just such speech he plcases
and send 1t to his constituents, give il to the public
through the newspapers Let do the duty expected
OF us without further delay go home and state the
reasons Tor our conduct to our consttuentsand if they
do not believe us when we make explanations. let
us tell them will longer be their rcprese natives
Mr. SiiNS said as he had been told that of his
remarks had been construed intended to be personal
y injurious to Mr.. Leigh he rose TO disavow the cor
rectness of any such Interpretation.
MIR. JONES hoped the House would adopt the motion,
TO postpone until tomorrow. This a very important
subject and they had had two very fatgung DAYS de-
bate Let go cooly and hear all that is TO be said
and would still do so, If an opportunity offered.
Mr. JonSsoN of Richmond, said it gave him pain to
vote against motion which suggested for the con-
renicnce OF members. And he assured the gentleman
from Petersburg, that there was no member whom he
would do more to oblge TO whom he would listen with
more pleasure than himself He felt also great desire
hear the gentleman from Shenandoah. But he owed n
duty to the people, which must be the paramount con-
sdcaton Ifhe could believe that it was the object or
would be the result of protracon ofthe debate to con
vince our Judgment or to give us light upon the
subject under consideration he would Weld his objections
to postponement. But, lift be TO continue discussion
on party grounds or to enter into the wide field of poll
ca doctrines, he thought ought 90 no farther He
thought this not the chair from which lectures on
political doctrines ought to be promulgated. When by
debate The Judgments of members had been formed Il
should cease and the House ought at once Such
was e believed the in the present instance and
therefore he opposed this motion
Mr. JOKES of S. was much more anxious to hear the
gentleman from Petersburg than the gentleman from
Richmond could be TO hear him, (Alr. j. The former
gentleman complains of ndisposton and Mr. j. hopcd
the subject would be postponed give him an opportu
nifty to be heard tomorrow.
The question was then put pos,poning until to-
morrow, ana the motion negatived-Ayes So
N0es-51.
Mr. Blows said he considered this decision as an evil
dence of the anxiety OF the House 10 proceed to the
election without further debatc and he would waive the
remarks which he had designed to make.
Mr. JoHNsos of X to state fact, which he would
npt DO, were 1t not hat the remarks the gentleman
from Harrison, (hl2 Sbnn,) who had doubtless erred
through ignorance might mislead others II may be sup
posed by who will read that gentleman speech In
PRINT that there Is something wrong the present posi-
ton of Mr.. Leigh. The gentleman has said that Mr. L.
has received thousand dollars from the State and
that he holds Office under this Commonwealth which
Is Incompatible with his station in the u s. Senate The
fact is, that he receives much from the Court of Ap-
Peas Tor so many copies of certain books which he pub
fishes This is the fact, and nothing more.
Mr. CoLsToH concurred in the intimaton of the gen
tieman from Richmond that remarks calculated leave
impression should not be suffered 10 90
forth without correction. lie would therefore ask the
gentleman from Rockbrdgc, if any one in this House
had denied the right of instruction? He paused for re-
ply.
Mr.. McDowELL said, that he would answer the gem
tcman promptly, and with pleasure. He had not said i'm
the course OF his remarks that any member in his place
ad denied the light on the contrary he set out by
ing expressly that the right admitted He him
self had not argued in the abstract TO prove that such
right did exist but had directed his remarks TO
limitations upon its exercise. Although not formally
denied yet he considered that il virtually and for
all practical purposes, whenever exceptions the mode
OF ITS exercise could be pleaded and sustained against it,
And 1t was evident to him, whether you looked the
course OF the public press, to the tone of remarks
which we daily hear this subject from members them
selves, that the mode and the recently adopted
has been sudlously held up, with the hope at least If
not with the purpose of making it essential the bind
ing force OF Instructions 1t to resist this idea that
the mode was thus essential and the consequences OF
that idea, that hc had spoken at all.
| Mr. CoLsTON said, that all he wanted But for
this admission it might be supposed from the gentle
man elaborate vindcaon of the right of instruction
that some one had really called it in question on this
foor. II the gentleman merely replying to state
ments IN the newspapers the subject MIR G. had no.
thing further to say. lie would merely add that ne
knew of no member who had denied the riglt of the
people to choose whatever mode of instruction they
pleased; and iarther that he recocctcd general DO
sitlon land down by the gentleman from RocEbrdUc IN
which he (Nlr. c. did not fully concur
| MIR. McDOwELL reoincd and said, that it would he
perfectly within the recollection Of every member OF
that House, that the gentleman from Berkeley linn
sell, was amongst the first, If the very first man
here who mad raised his voice against the mode of i'm
sruction now complained of, and who had endcavored
IN an early debate upon it, to subject il 20 derson and
contempt lie had assaulted il with more appart nj vjo
lence than any else--had treated it with epffets
of scorn-had denounced the instructions then,scIvc.
with indiscrlminate reproach, " bush Instructions
as secret instructions, false evidences of the public
wi obtained by corncring and dendng the ignorant
ana otherwise obtained by artfce and deception To
what practical end this dcnuncaion and censire o
the gentleman, if it 10 destroy the binding eico
cy OF instructions obtained in the manner supposed and
consequently, TO destroy the obligation obey them
The act of the people in this matter over aud could
no longer be reached but the representative obganor
was yet undischarged and the of it might still be
asSaieu nc gentleman, 1t seems does not deny the
right on account Of the mode and yet o has
to show that That mode ia the present case is such
should strip the instructions Of all claim to confidence
or respect, and Of course should strip them Of all RIGHT
ul influence or control any Neither the rgh
nor the mode denied and yet the instructions yyitbou
! any just title to authority respect!
Othcr gentlemen had INDUCED somewhat in the same
spirit On yesterday, the member from Amelia, and one
OF the members from Brunswick, the excellent gentle
man near him, (Hlr Shc) had spoken dcrisivey upor
tins sols matter. lie deprecated this species OF a.
was az hrst and fundamental in our Republican
system, IFS available and practical force should never b,
broken down by cOntouptuOug warfare uDon the man
ncr or tie results of It's exercise.
What he had said this morning was intended to rcscu,
the right from this indirect bot Formidable Impeachment
al ii u TN Ifffuf rnI,ra al.