Lynchburg Virginian. [volume] (Lynchburg [Va.]) 1829-185?, 1835-04-02
COMMUNICATIONS.

TO MR.. ARCHIBALD STUART,


Ctutus candidate for Congress IN The Bed5drd
District.
Sri have just a communication of yours,
addressed to the people of your Congress s,ooal rls
tlic,, announcing yourself a candidate for their
snffrages at the approaching election. II is one Of
that sort of documents which rs well calculated 10
lsnire the regret of the honest and candid Of all
parties because, in almost It's very beginning, il
ahounls with peryersion of facts and false infer
ences doubtless unintentional totally disconnected
with the necessary Developments on the part of any
candidate for Congress OF his political creed opn
lons Nobody doubts your readiness Ia serve the
i" dear people, hose sullrages you solicit. All
YOUR professions about that matter are well enough.
Bn, from what code Of ethics, without solitary
act to sustain you, have you derived The right TO
make he wholesale charges which you have level
led Al the ,ae General Assembly OF your State,
that the right of instruction has been, by them,
"trutnpled un Ter foot and foally violated No
sooner DO you make this unsustalned and unsus-
tanabe assertion, th1n most furious TRADE is D.
pened against the opponents of the right of nslruc
ton and most gallant defence OF that inestlmable
right marks the meanderngs OF your pen. The
naughty Wings had been playing the D. and
turning up jack in the election OF Senator in the
General Assembly and in the intreri.y with
which you attack them, one mi sht almost sec them
rccling under the vengeance and lash of your pus-
SAINT pen. The whitening force, sir, of that gray
goose quill with which you bcnned this assault,
will no doubt make sad havoc in the ranks of the
Whgs, and | shall deem that hopeless and indeen.
sbe crew the lackies IN the wotld, if the
newspapers, for month 10 come, do no, TEEN with
,sr Obituaries Bat they are hard 10 kill, Mr..
Stuart; and hen we look back a; the ineessanl
cannonade which has been pouring away al them,
for the last6 months, from the wide-mouthcd braw-
ers in the cause of violated Instructions, without
punciure or scratch of the skin, are almost led
10 regard them bullet proof.
In serious soberness sir, do you not think You
have taxed your maslnaron somewhat heavily in
THIS camor and CHATTER about violated instructions
What member of the last General Assembly ever
vowed this "new tangled doctrine of disobedlcnce,
which has thrown yonr " hole nervous system into
such sad disorder or that member has carried out
the doctrine INTO PRACTICE Not solitary Wing
certainty speak for them-not one-no, rot one
in the whole Common wealth, neither IN out
OF The General Assembly. 1t will put you up TO all
yoa know 10 point him our, if any has thus avow
ed himself, thus acted. Are you not, lhen IN
ms part Of your address, engaged in the peror-
nance OF farce, played for your entertain
meni only and a, your own expense The parade
You make about violated instructions reminds me-
iofc'oy of the fantastic FRANKS OF the renowned
hhsht OF La Mancha, who amused himself with
'u'Jlng wndm'lls and fighting furious battles u
Sahst them. w tndms generally harmless
'hinSs but spoke from of them came very
near killing Don Quixolte in the hardest battle he
ever fought; and in your DE- vices gull the people
Oh your district, you cannot exercise TOO much cir
cuhspectlon lest you get knocked over, in the same
way. For instance, just lmaglae one Mr. Dyer, or
Dr. Flood. or Mr. Mccoy and Others (who did
ata fha r,,.I,
polls be any evdence,) constituting many
SpoKes IN one of your wheels, and you will SEE at
once that Don Quixottcs fate may be yours un-
less you abandon your fantastic mode of warfare.
ihe enemy's lines may suffer less than the havoc
committed IN your own ranks. SO much, sir, for
al his humbuggery Cbout violated instructions.
'aglnS, as you TO think, demolished and
u""ihilatsd, totally, the opponents Of instruction,
t'a' aooninable race of Wings who had the hardi
"0oo 10 doubt neither The minority may Instruct
you proceed by promising " a brief outline of your
present political principles and us brief history of
"hat they have been hcretoio c. 50 that the peo-
rV of the District "may judge" as you say whe-
"ef you are a consistent politician or a political
"'''nefcock, blown abou, by every wind OF doc
S"e' Whether you be weaIhercock, or not,
s''" MOI undertake. to determine must be per
'"eo 10 say, however, that If you have always
a ss 10 The present text you preach from, to VA,
"'end and supporter" uniformly "of The pre-
sr ' administration" you are the happiest mort"i
ss' lever TO have occupied any one position hall
ons as weahercock does. What principle
na andrew Jackson ever h'Ij, except the pr'nci-
,hs ''h's'ering TO hisown passions and sel''wll,
NV, mas moi been variant the wInd-as chun-
80 as the wearhercock whose business 1t Is 10
H. -, 'eer'ng with the shifting breeze 7 ! would
IN Nv, A'ow And how any man be UNIFORM
hs.'' support Thin, without being himself wea
M1o Come, sir let US examine this matter
mar. US lay down the partisan politician tor
the case. " '"''''"s NV ''' =
'10w came Gen. Jackson frs, into offics-yout