Richmond enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1815-1867, 1836-03-05

prove the contuniacy OF their Senators They announc.
ed the principle in ol2Thcy will adhere to II, throurh
good and through evil report, in lc:s5
80 much Tor the act itself and now for the Letter
iau us spirit c"rfesponded with ii~ purpose, should
nave been spared the necessity of upon n
but Is II such letter Mr. Tyler ouch, la have address
ed to the General Assembly u Virginia, Can il bear
any comparison with the manly ana Sn,es,nauk. eli
Ter oi MIR hiyrs, IN 1884 There was me- inmery in
that production; very little reference Ia himself "a, his
own he and history; and what better there was no
bitter spnt towards the OF the General Assembly
mo hits or inuendo ut his vpponruts-no ital,c,s, d.
caraon that ,eis yonnp 10 scek yroht Jv m, s,
oeefhroo Mr kires, moreover entere serious
discussion with his constituents. But how different /.
the letter before us Is it an elaborate argument
against he proceedings OF body rather than de,
Jemmee nmseyF Was II not written aud intended for
e"rct WIN The People, instead OF the Legislature: No
one who reads it eau fail s To understand it, and he
rag has already given the BE itso. But let the
People aonce UNDERSTAND, it as addressed To themelves
al the polls
The Letter contains very little that is new in fact, or
IN argument IL merely dishes up what has been thou.
sano unts SAID and published by the Wing orators and
presses The scrap OF history about Patrick Henry was
put forth but the other day newspaper ON the other
s vi e lo'o"ac-and really we must say, that
" us s'asments nave been rather gratuitously and un
necessarily pressed by the author up> the General AS
semsly Why was this dons' Why for example, was
all inns emphasis laid upon violated oahs and the .rng
ing oil perjury upon his sou; After having declared IN
The hrst part ct his letter, that finds III imposs, ~,
reeoneuc me per"m"nee IF the prescribed fasE o Me
obligations 81 The Solemn oath ,cieh hare ikcu M sy,
port inc ConStt"ton Of The United States" had he no,
really said every thing that necessary to iu,tf
NV tell O..
herai Assembly with 80 much solemnity aud display
that ION entering the Senate, the only oath which G6r
nsu taken) "as an oah TO support the Constitution
~ the Onned States; support IL in all opd ,oeL or
US provisions; to yield il neither toree persuasio.
nor e1ped,cney No matter ,chaf the objecf he would
remain unseducedi" Why declare that he "iad
entered mol eorenan eh kis Creofor 10 break ,rb;rL
"0md HotJalto pfaec n has bosom Prorncthean Ityy,
TO tear and derour him Why all this soleIn preach
ment 10 the General Assembly? Who wished Mr
Tyler to violate The Constitution or his oath I,a;n
~ not the Legislature of Virginia. Does Mr. T. him
sen oeeve, that they either intended or desired him ,
OBEY ueir Instructions, by doing he would have t
violate either the Constitution or his oath, On tho Co
uary, does not Mr. Tyler know that they men, M such
thing He must know it to have been I'm. go
tous conviction of the General Assembly that liz,
were nsructing their Senators to perform, an ac, h
constitutional a"d Properbut. that il the Senators should
tnink otherwise, they might and should avoid com
pliance with their Instructions by respning their sat,
twas only necessary, them for Mr. n to hare deiu,d
without any elaborate argument addressed to the Lpgs
iature 10 convict them o having been guilty of an IN
constitutional aud criminal proceeding L. Is doing The
very thing which Governor Tuzewef so kindly and SO
courtcously asked leave to do. "
Nor is that part OF the letter i'm which be ,,.,,,a
defend the Resolution OF the Senate against the Pfes
dent, OF less exceptonable character IL is d,sincrn
Gus RE assumes that which is denied viz ,ba,
MT Cay resolution was no violation of the Consti,u.
tion or of the Rights OF the House of Represen,a,,v
because contained no charge 81 design on the
fresident-and that II cs Dressiou oT ,,;,
on the part of the Senate, to an unla wui ac of liz
Executive. Now this is the gist of the whole na,,r ~
issue between Tie Legislature and their Senator'S and
IT.
well aware of the fact His argument is based ON
sumption, which is not true The Senate's resolution
dtd contain tmpeacha6ie matter and the ey intent w.
fairly to be implied from the words and was So n,a,daJ
by the friends of the resolution Ii was SO declared ho,h
before ana alter It's adoption, the cum
ning attempt to hide 1t by its phraseoogy Il was ma
infested IN the successive changes which the ORIGINAL re-
solution underwent and by the various speeches in
which was supported. The whole country under.d
tn that sense, and still so understand and il is rather
too late in the day for Mr. Tyler give it an nsuec,
which was never desgned-and to say that the senate
l nnf int nd Ocnr Al ID.
uon, and in fact, CORRUPTION. ~
Can MIR. 4. have forgotten the Stretches of
ms political friends both within aud without the walls
OF Congress: Was he not in Philadelphia with AIR |
Preston and others, when the South Carolina Om,r de-
ciared to the crowd, whom he addressed in the streets
that Jackson h0d been arraigmed found euiw ami eo
dcmned by The Senate-itat ihc Senate ana P,;sJ, L
Appealed 10 their country-and The issue Of The contest
,co1ld DO Despotism, or Free Government" Was Mr
Preston, or is Mr. Tyler right But temDoya ,gu,o.tr
ct nos mufanur Ais! Times indeed bay. cIangrd
ana Tie W hgs have changed with them The panic has
zone, ana Tue Leope have outliyed it Then, the Wings
ougnt themselves perfectly safe and strong and
carried on war of determination. Noio they dscovc,
mat they are going down-lnd how singulary is their
note changed ' " '
Nor is Mr. Tyler fortunate in his labou,ed n,
tempt 10 prove that the expunging Resolution of the
uenerai Assembly Is contrary to the Constitution lie
Dgns Dy Pronouncinga strong eulogium mon the utv NJ
heepng Journal-declares that ait is one of the rrn,
curlties of American Liberty"-tha m the Senate ken,
no Journal, would be conclavc where deeds lie
most revolving might be performed secresy and dark
ness-ihat the tram might there be laid the mine pre-
pared, aud the first knowledge of the treason mgbi he
the explosion, ana consequent overthrow OF free cavern
ment and lays down the general, UNQUALIFIED nronos;
ton, that the Senate is ordered by the st;lp,;op
Keep Journal of It's proceedings and TO nLisL u ,
ftme to ume Does Mr.. T. forget, however thai ,bis
journal Is not always p1bShcd; that the Senate Is oe
IA secret eoncfnUe, where deeds the most reyong gb,
De performed III secrecyhow often they 90 n, s.ce,
session on treaties and on tbnt The
Constitution Itself enJolns them EXCEPT such nas for
their journal from publcaon) as may in their ndgmen,
require secrecy IA Judgment which is no doubt c1r,;ad
IN many cases 10 an unnecessary and even
excess For, agree fully with Mr. TYLER in The dnIv
and advantage OF keeping Journal But does even
follow, that To kcep Journal wolves the duty of re
sereing the MS after publishing it, literature the Senae
has no right to e1Punyc in the marked down bv tLe
General Assembly? Will ii erase or obliierate n sin
gle line or letter Of The JournaLP i'll not the op h.
egloe as IL was before Let try this form of
pungng, and he will find the fact turn out SO after the
experiment Some waggish Editors have we know pub
Ished FORMULA 10 show that the writing across must
oDiierate the record; but il is all trick and sopbs
FOR Tie printing will necessarily show the erasions in
consequence OF the solid types, which one direction
taxing lie place OF those which the ohpr-but NOT
So where the pen carefully passes surface alrea
ny written on--and such would be exhibited II Tho
newspaper Editors would get good engrayer TO show |
the appearance OF the lattice work on a Mate There
would be no such crossing of the w letters as To rem
der the writing illegibeLet Mr. Tyler try it, when he
VIII, or let the Clerk of the Senate ATTEMPT H. and g
VIII answer Tor IT That of the Resolution will bs
destroyed, but the whole will still be preseypsd or n b
kes the expression better, kepfand may be hereafter
Prctshed with the expungng lines around or across H.
whatever Mr. T. may say the contrary notwilhsiand
ing:
Mr.. Tyler was willing TO reseind. reyeaI .Sc e..
Dut not u eJP"nge-but the fact is the purpose IL diff,
ieient ana therefore the mode is also different We re-
se'nd or yepeM what might originally have appeared to