Richmond enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1815-1867, 1835-03-20

er disappointment and removal from Office the increase
oiexpenditure and the multiplication of salaries the
means OF strengthening and consolidating that party
which, in practice, had absorbed all the power Of the
government Had il not. in view OF all this been am
nounced from cur capitol the address of respectable
number of delegates, that the Federal Executive was
safer depository OF power than the immediate repre-
sentavcs ofthc people: Let the calm and unnpassoncd
reflect these events and say whether the Opposition
did not stand the holy ground of 1900 Let tile menu
bers of that party take heart at the and in
hour OF their encouragement, look to that living in
stance OF triumphant opposition To their spirits
and arouse them from dcspar-Ihey had been threat
ened IT true, with the vengeance of the people but
he would warn those who had invoked the Storm be-
ware that burst not ON their own heads They
the Federasts OF the present day. and they objects
oi republican indignation, who were promoting that
long-chersed federal purpose (as Mr. Jefferson termed
it of Strengthening the Executive and General Govern
inent." The people would hesitate long-they would
weigh well the designs and professions the Opposition
before they took part against those who sdid battle i'm
the name of liberty. They see, on the one hand
disciplined host victorious in every field but this-cn-
uenched behind popular namc-animated by the sun
shine OF Executive iavoursustained by the influence of
bonndless patronage and almost counting DEATH from
the hope that all who fell under the banner of the pro-
phet should be caught up at once, into the bosom of
Paradise. They would see the other hand the for
lorn hope of revercd cause-scparated, voluntarily
from dominant party, whose fortunes they might
have continued to share-saggerng under the weight
OF overwhelming power with voice to cheer aud
no arm to save-sinkng, one after another into the
deep, deep of popular dspcasure but preserving a
spirit as untamed the winds, and shouting as the
gurgllng waters closed over thcm for Democracy the
gnia assist in the ngloTious work of prostratng the
weak at the mercy of the strong Would she proverbal
for her Impotence under dctaton-for her Unborn
hatred OF cncroachment or exacton-becomc the sub
Inissive instrument of Executive WILL and immo.
late those who upheld the principles which her
whole history had taught them TO revere : Would
She, whose aTmoral device was the Goddess o.
Liberty, with lion heart and eagle eye, the usurp.
err PROSTATE beneath her feet, the crimson steel in
her upliiicd hand, and the burning words Thus
be 1t ever to TyIants " her lps-woud she Ia,
found among the advocates of power the ignobc
test against human rights: No--no-t would not be-
1t could not be- Her pride of lineage forbade tres
pect for the principles which had her States
for the recorded honors of her name the
memory OF the past the hopes of the future all forbade
III. She would be found ,-whcrc she had ever been
icund-on the side of liberty regulated by law and
she would tell to the Union, trumpet tongued that Vir.
gnia is what Virginia was"
In the memorable year of 70, when the Committee OF
Safety appointed by the House of Burgesses sat at
overtown, with Edmund Pcndlcton aud George Mason
at Their head they recommended it to the county
committees, in addition TO arms, munitions and other
equipments, TO provide stand of coors with the num-
Der OF the military district side and the words
Virginia. for Constitutional Liberty" the other
Tins was the first standard which the State erected i'm
defiance of the power and pride of England II had lono
since given place TO the and stripes of the Union
Virginia had confded her dearest interests TO tho
the trust faithfully executed, she would be true
and loyal to her engagements. But let the precious
deposit be in danger-let the charter of her rights
DC no longer respected, and the flag of Hanover
would again be upitedand the raying cry again be-
1t was III the days ofyore ''Vrgnia for Constitutional
Liberty That banner might iall--its simple drapery
might be hidden under the ample folds of the gorgeous
cnslgns oil the Union 1t might sink under the blows of
the Federal Legislature, the still stronger arm of the
Federal Executive Nay, the people themselves, in a
moment OF passion and deuson, in their very enhs-
asm for liberty, in the holy of patriotism ni9bt
strike to earth the emblem which gladdcned the siS
and cheered the hearts of their sturdy old oreathers
might go down-but this he knew full we'll that 90 down
when might there was many noble and gallant spirit
who would go down with it.