South Branch intelligencer. [volume] (Romney, Va. [W. Va.]) 1830-1896, 1835-06-13

Vi OUT county -dttEiDutdUle 10 tue IaCt
that the early completion of the Canal
to Cumberland, is now viewed as be.
yond all Doubt Cnmb. Cio.
Mr.. LEIGH.
The Van Buren, prints are making
themselves very busy in reference to
the course of this gentleman. What
will MIR. Leigh do? says one. What
aoiH Mr.. Leigh do : is echoed back a.
gain. These gentlemen are so impati-
ent to make arrangements for filling
Mr.. Leigh's place, that they overstep
the limits of decency 10 their anxiety.
If we may be allowed to speak from
our knowledge Of Mr.. Leigh's charac-
fer, we will say that he will do what.
ever a high.souled and genuine Virgin.
ian ought to do. Every one knows he
cares nothing about ofice-it is an ab-
solute sacrifice to him to continue in it.
No mere place can give him Importance,
or add to the true lustre Of his charac-
ter. But Mr.. Leigh knows too well
what is due to himself-what is due to
his friends--what is due to the great
principles Of civil liberty-to suffer
himself to be driven from his post by
political harpies, until it is clearly de.
monstrated, that he will not be allowed
to maintain those principles for which
Virginia has always contended. Do
these "Spoils" loving gentlemen ex.
pect Mr.. Leigh to surrender his place
into their hands, while they are labor.
ing under the heat and thirst of desire
for itf Do they expect him to plead
guilty to their infamous calumnies upor
him-and go out with the stigma of
Bankism, &C., stamped upon his fore.
head 7-Do they expect him to yield
to the odium of their false issues, and
retire with the acknowledgment that he
is not true to the principles of Virgin
iaf In what particular does he differ
with Virginia7 In what instance has
he failed to maintain her doctrines, and
CALAMITY defend her honorl
Let the Legislature instruct him to
oppose the present Bank, or any other
National Bank, and he can obey in per.
feet accordance with his own sentiments
and those of the State. Let him be in
structed to oppose appropriations to
Internal Improvement by Congress, &
he obeys with perfect consistency. Let
them instruct him to oppose Tariff
for protection, and he can obey readily
and conscientiously. Let him be in
structed upon any one Of the great con-
stitutional questions upon which Vir'
GINA has based her action, and he can
represent her truly, faithfully, ably
But when he is instructed to surrender
all these--to debase himself and the
noble Old Dominion, for whose glory
and prosperity he has labored SO faith.
fully, then he cannot obey. When he
shall be instructed to make her tribu-
tary to set of jugglers and knaves, TO
bow her neck to Martin Van Buren's
yoke to PROSTATE her principles at the
footstool of 'despot; 10 give an indis-
criminate and undistinguishiug support
to all the measures of a reckless AID.
ministration to 60 for men instead Of
principles-,hen, the hungrypack may
get his place, to gorge the appetite of
some unprincipled cormorant. Not
until all this shall have been done, can
"the party" be gratifed-not until they
have SO far degraded themselves, and
their State, as TO direct him to vote for
Benton's expunging resolution, need
they fix their hearts upon his seat.
Mr.. Leigh, though he personally
dislikes public Office, and though com.
PEELED to make sacrifices in retaining it,
cannot resign, until the contingencies
we have mentioned shall have happen.
ed. He cannot give up the bulwarks
of liberty to the Goths and vandais,
without struggle. 1t is not in cha
racler with him to desert the post of
duty, because it is the post of danger.
MIR. Rives and Mr.. Stevenson must, if
they are SO keen for place, look to other
whatever King Andrew
may offer them 10 the meanwhile, for
the sovereignty of Virginia is not yet
ready for surrender to them. He who
was not deemed worthy to be placed
above R. M. johnson, cannot have
such imposing claims to Mr.. Leigh's
seat /; and the man who could basely
truckle TO the dictates Of the miscalled
National Convention, and agree to re-
commend Johnson to the people of
Virginia, in opposition to the feelings
of his colleagues, cannot be entrusted