Richmond enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1815-1867, 1836-02-13

late letter from Giles county, Tennessee states that
The Western part of that State is decidedly against
Judge White, and in favor Of MIR. Van Buren,
The late cold spell is said to have been the most Sc
we're that has been experienced for many successive
days any time within the last III years The average
in 1879, was 81. degrees-n 1885, it lyI-This
l72.-This is taken from thcrmometrical observa-
tons made at No. 4s, Chestnut street, Philadelphia
THE RIGHTS or the PEOPLE.
Yersus THE DIGNITY OF TWO MEN.
Gentlemen Of the General assembly: II is not enough
TO instruct our Senators to Erpunge Your regard for
the Constitution aud the of the people demands
that your handsBut that is not ALL Messrs Leigh
and Tyler are at war with the sentiments entertained
aud the men aud measures approved by large majority
of the people of the State. They know it, Their par
tisans know IT, But, yet Mr.. Leigh has said that he
will not be driven from his scat by newspaper Editors
or their "coniederates." He has spoken Of their APP
peals to- aud attacks upon him. with the bterest
You, gentlemen, know, that those newspaper Editors
and their "confederaes, have warred, whether deco
rously or ndecorousy, ably iooshly, the side of
the majority OF our people-and you cannot be true
the sovereignty of the State the Rights of the Peo
pie, If you permit our Senators TO plead the vio-
lence of Editors and scribbers in justification of
their standing out, in open defiance of what YOU
know to be the will of the people. l might here en-
ter into defence of the "iasects who have so an.
noyed our Senators, by holding up their and your
view the buzzing venonous that has nssailcd
Rives, Stevenson &c. l could shew that il was the
friends not the enemies of MIR. Leigh who first broke
the ice after last election II they who first
gan the contest as TO what course it became Mr. Leigh
TO pnrsue-and 1t was IN to them that the SIN
secs OF the other side first began TO buzz But enough
of this Mr. Leigh has given you plainly to understand
that he will not consider himself under any obligation
conform TO the will and wishes of the people until he
instructed in due form by you. Will you shrink from
the full and complete discharge of your duty Will
permit Senators and their partizans 10 take
advantage OF the Difference which you feel for the Office
OF Senator of the United States Is that office exalted
above the sovereignty of the States aud the rights the
peoPle Are afraid 10 speak the plain naked truth
to Senator-and require his conformity to the will of
Oiiend hta diunitv Ar,,,
in plain but respectful terms find fault with Sena.
tor who has, in bitter and unmeasured terms denounced
others high in office, we'll those TO whom his Office
belongs?
Fellow Citizens The right of instruction is at stake
Upon you devolves the responsibility of surrenderng
maintaining that right State sovereignty is at stake
What ridiculous thing is State sovereignty il il may
be baiiled aud con,eptuousy aside by men, for
SIX that too in that very branch of the Co.
vernment which designed, and has been looked
TO- TO represent guard and protect the State sovereign
ties of this Union'
The which is required at your hands may be
unusual, difficult and dsagreeable But it is whit
unusual than the of conduct aud the cir
cumstances which Gull for it, Look back Review the
OF the Legislature which instructed MIR Riyes
The of the Senate that winter Rccollcct the
first move made in the Legislature. Had the people
rectly, or indirectly authorised that Never So
Tar from lt-hat the very men, who made the move
did not at first dare plead such justification of their
No. 1t the representative leading the peo-
pie The first move was, not TO instruct Senator'S
out To rescind the contract entered into between
Banks and the Treasury Department. The Bank re.
scnded the obnoxious contract, and left the Committee
of the House of Delegates nothing more TO do But bv
that tic the cry OF Revolution had been raised in Con-
gress-the 'union of sword and purse had been pro.
claimed The Bank Of the IT, States was said to be the
Treasury OF the States order make the President
guilty OF "usnpation" in withdrawing money from the
Treasury without appropriation by law" In short the
panic being raised, doctrines proclaimed opinions
advanced aud assertions made, which those who pro.
claimed, advanced and made them have been compelled
and that TO themselves from the odium of usurpa.
ton, to take back yea, and to deny Look back, say
tlq md tufll allaIs.
honest men, that the Legislature which lructed Rives
acted without authority from the people, founded their
action upon premises which have been since
and that the people, after the fullest investigation they
ever gave TO any political question-aftc writing and
talking and electoneering pamphleeering the side
of Rives enemies than before known in this
Republic have decided unequiyocay in favor Of
the of Riyes and his friends You cannot doubt
H. You know it, And knowing it, you, without an
abandonment OF the principles of the State, and without
abandoning the rights interests, aud honor of pco
pie, shrink or faer i'll telling the truth the sctoie truth
$50 that those who reckessly and conempuously set
their faces against the will of the people, shall be held
account without the poor that they have not
received, in authentic torm the declared sense of
their constituentsthat they have not been
Come out, fellow Citizens Come out plainly and fully
Sickle not about forms and techncaes Let me repeat
To you, because it true that the friends OF Mr. Leigh
rely upon ftnchng and dodgng amongst his oppone nts
They expect TO escape the responsibility of acting de-
iiance oithe public will by the difficulty Of giving direct
instructions an such form TO the iohoie ground
Methnksf the boot the other lcgf our Senators
and their parzans had the play in their hands thov
would not sickle much about such difficulties They
could say hard things, and plenty Of them they
had to draw upon their imagnatons and calculate up
on popular ignorance, they did when they warred
against Jackson fancy, Rves, Stevenson &c. Far be
iIom me- to call upon you to follow such examples.
would scorn it. But surely, surely, you will not
shrink from speaking what you know lobe true because
you have to speak it TO two Senators.
LOOK TO THE "9LTERM7IYVES."
FOR TIE Eve UIRER
Already have nine weeks elapsed since the meeting Of
the General Assembly, without any indication being