Richmond enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1815-1867, 1835-04-07

pased be the tongue of that Democrat who for Office,
or for would seek divide the party and risk its
prostraton by the common foe of the friends OF Liberty
Equality, and Democracy
RIGHT OF INsTRUCTIoN
Those who would make this a GOrcrnnent of Geatru,
instead ofa Government IF the People, have necessarily
abored to place public functionaries beyond the inhu
ence of the popular will One of the all.pervading prn
cipes otc enemies ofthe Democracy is that announced
by John Quincy Adams with much pomp, when he
reached the Presidency by intrigue, in defiance of the
public WILL and had he supposed, securely possessed
himself lost parimony which the People had torn
from his father 1he Representative should not be pasied
6y The eoU ofhiS constituents, said his Exceency, when
the political managers and bargainers had umphcd in
his person over the popular will, and crushed tho
sovereignty of the People in the House of the People by
the vote OF their ueachcrous Representatives.
ii is amazing to with what perseverance the high
toned politicians adhere to their scheme of conauerina
the People by intrigue and perverson of that authority
with which they are entrusted their agents, nowiti-
standing the stern rebuke given in the prostaon Of the
Adams and Clay coalition in the election of Gen Jack
son. 1t was to have been supposed after that event that
even ambitious men, however hating the People in their
hearts, would have looked to their surages alone for ad
vancemen and would have ceased rely upon the
emery OF Senatcs or Representative bodicsSte Ma
tionaas the foundation of power. It, however is far
otherwise. The spirit of the Aristocracy be
tanned.
The spirit of the whole party however the leaders
may and then dissenble and dsavow directly the
reverse of Mr. Van Burcns sentiment relation the
bank 1t Is ""ncOmpr0miSing hOStauy to the
reignty of the Peope-and uninching warfare in behalf
OF ereTy monopoty-eoery body Pottcerery draRch Of
which he Tor tho lime hpvond the
Of the People and ready defy their win and dcrogae
from Sher rights The power of this party in the Fc-
dcra Government having been lost with Chief Aagis-
tracy and driven from the III of Representatives by the
suifrages OF the People, has taken stand for the last
few years i'll the Senate. The universal toast of this
party, now-a- days. is the Senate In Virginia where
the great battle against the right of instruction to he
fought by the Nationals and Nuiers under the Leigh
and Uhttc banner, there has not been Wing festival in
which the Senate, conspicuous at present the bull
wark against the encroachments of the popular will has
not been remembered with honor This sentiment which
has taken the rounds of the Virginia celebrations was
re.echoed oil Friday last, from the Chestnut Thea
re at the dinner given TO Pondcxer by the Bank party
in Philadelphia, IN the following emphatic manner:
Sirth Regular Toast.
| THE SENATE THE BuLwARK or LInERrY--
OF FREEDOM THROUGHOUT THE WORLD"
| THE BANK SENATE That body, which has hitherto
through the bold and daring violation of the will of their
respective States, on the part of Poindcxter Black Man
gum, Moore, Souhard, Frelinghuysen Bell, Sprague
Ewing, and others given asccndancy in branch of
the Government to the party at with the will the
nation, is still looked to as TIE BULwARK'-" THE
SHEET-ANcliOR OF those who consider it essential
to put down the sovereignty of the People in order
| to maintain "FREEDoM THROUGHOUT THE WORLD"
This is the doctrine of the English Arsocracv which
Mir Leigh so iearlessly proclaimed his own the Vr-
ginia Convention. And through him. (once the adyo-
cate OF the right f Instruction. that this fundamen tai
principle OF our institutional sought be subycrcd
IN Virginia The April Elections in Virginia, in pecu-
liar manner, will test the question, whether the people of
hat state OF the present day, will reasseri the nvola
Oty Oh inc rght oil Instruction. right goriousiy
asserted and maintained by her patriots of the last gene
ration The result cf the approaching election will de-
eide whether the people of Virginia pprovc ofc reeec
ton ola Senator who, throughout his first years service
devoted all nus cncrges-in concert with who were
at every step defyng the will of their respective States
to crush the Chief Magistrate who, called Office by the
voice OF great majority of the People sought only TO
give effect TO their wishes.It will decide whether the
reelection of Senator who himself violated the will
OF the People OF ms State and by Representatives DISC
bcyng in the very act the written instructions of their
own immediate constituents will receive the sanction of
people whose boast 1t ls that tey free and
reign
We perceive from the Richmond Wing however. that
notwithstanding the known will of the people of their
respective States VIGOROUSLY set at defiance by almost
every Wing Senator from the South; that notwihsand
| ing Mr. Leigh acted with these men throughout his
whole term OF service and notwithstanding he was re-.
elected by members OF the Virginia General Assembly
openly setting at naueht instructions given in wriii1g
by majority of legal voters in their respective counties
yet they to cvadc the question by uantoinno in
theory, what they have actually Frustrated in practice
The Richmond Wing thus gives the the coalition
OF NAtloNALs and NuLLIfmas in Virginia under their
new appellaton of WHios
From The Richmond Whigl
"TO THE wings OF VIRGINIA
illustrations Instructions"
why, then, Wings, lot these be issues for tiie Peo-
| pie. Accept the tender. Meet the enemy upon the
ground of their selection What have YOU to fear
from those issues? Have you denied the RIGHT Of in
sruction2 Have you questioned il i'm princi5le disre
gardcd in practice at ali mpaiscd its f5rcey No
such thing They who impuie these things to YOU arc
dclberde sandereFs, and the propagatos ofkao,cn lse
hood Tell them Prove upon them for il is easy
to DO So The right Of instruction is universally rccog
hlscu ana universally popular in Virginia
This IS but text for The Wings on the eve Of Che cleo
ton Their real principles to be found by recurring
to their conduct and to the deliberate expostons of their
leaders, when pressed by imminent danger 10 sacr
fee settled opinions 10 immediate interests The fol
lowing extract Of speech made by Mr. Calhoun some
years since, will show that his adhcrents in tho South
have not acted, IN their recent attempts and urcseHt
struggle TO put down tie right Of instruction without
warrant from the leading Nullfer, who may be Justly
considered the hahomet Of the Southern Wings
EnTad from mr. Calhoun spCech tie Cowpcnsati0a
Inn, ddirereh on ME 17m day Of Jon., 1917.
lie MIR CaFounl found himself, he said. com.
ments to this body. The ear of Ibis House on tbis
subject said te, is sealed against truth and reason--
What has prodeced ttis magic spcll' Instructions 49,
We'll then, has Il come to thisS have the People of this
country spstched The power Of delBcrafion from ba
| body! have they resolved the Government into it,