Lynchburg Virginian. [volume] (Lynchburg [Va.]) 1829-185?, 1836-06-13
Monday. June -, 1896.
AR VAN EUREN's CASTING VOTE.

;,cendiary papers, the circulation of which NAV be-
.,ro;bi,edbv the States, &c.towhch they are sent
the penalty Of doing which is removal from office.
The following was the vote
:. yeas-Messrs. Black, Brown, Buchanan, Cal
1onn Cuthbcrl, Goldshorough. Glundy, King of
Ala. King fGa., Moore, Nicholas, Preston, Rive>.
Robinson, TalImadge, Walker, White and Wright
Is.
!. Massachusetts, Benton, CLAY, Davis, Ewino
ofIllinois, Ewing of Ohio, Hendricks, Hubbard,
Kent, Morris, Mics Pren,iss, Rugglcs, Sheplev,
southard, Swift, Tomlinson, Wall and Webster
is"
Mr. Van Buren, then gave the casting vote in lis
favor. The correspondent of the L. s. Gazette
thus describes the scene
WASHINGTON, June ,
"Therc has been curious incident to-day in
the Senate which may form the sub iec for many a
commentary hereafter The incendiary bill as il
scaled, yiz:-thc bill introduced by Mr.. Calhoun
urohibiting deputy posmasters from receiving or
transmitting by mail certain publications therein
,p-citicd, which have been prohibited by the laws
ollle State, &c. taken up. 4 motion wa,
made by Mr.. Grundy to amend, by substituting an
other bill less strong, but penal in lis character
Mr. Calhoun moved, in committee, IA modification
which was lost the vote being ayes Is, noes 10
a very unusual occurrence in the Senate. He re- :
newcd his motion afterwards in the Senate, with
the same result, ayes d. nays la very unusual
occurrence in the Senate. When the question vas
TO be taken on the cngrossmcnt OF the bill, the vote
again stood ayes Is, noes lS-mcst unu,lla. Mr.
Hubbard occupied the chair Mr.. Calhoun called
out" Where is the Vice President :" The Vice
was sitting with Mr.. Clay in conversation, not de-
-,irons to mngle in the conflict, but, called on,
what could he do but comply He did so, and
with excellent grace. He mounted the chair
peruscd with spectacles on nose the list pronoun-
ced the result, and added The chair votes in
the Affirmative" You should have seen the North
and North Western Van Buren, Senators.
They looked aghast. You might have put Rug
ges, Sheplcv, Hubbard, Niles, land some half do
zen more OF them into pint decanteI, they were
so sensible OF their own noIhin.ncSS and 50 visi-
bic was their own nothingness To every one else.
"l'll be hanged (cred IA Van Buren, SENATOR
wont say from what State, unless circumstances
should render it necessarily if he has not sold all
the free States"
Tee Enquirer Is quite in ecstacies viii, Mr.. Van
Buren's vote--as if il were itself astonished that
he entertainS Snch opinions, or that, entertaining
,hcal, he had nerve enough to give them nttcrance
Ia which strips them of the guise OF NM
,a@ninaiism. lie and his Washington correspon-
iau swell into bahetc ordinations on the sub
,ccl and talk Of the moral submity of the
scents II there were some great personal haz-
ard, in this day of liberation and mental freedom,
in expressing ones opinions earlessly and frank
" This is all stuff, and is intended for effect a.
mong that numerous class who reflect with their
eyes and ears Why should not Mr. Van Burcn
hold an opinion on this subject, well as
Mr.. Calhoun, or Mr.. White, or Mr.. Webster, or any
other man And holding opinion, why should
he, any more than they, be afraid to express ii |.
Or what is there, in his case, which gives to the
act the character of the I" moral sublime" more
than in theirs :! The very tone of the Enquirer s
article, indeed, is injurious to Mr.. Van Buren-bc-
cause it shows that even his friends believed that
he had not independence enough TO come out O.
penly and unequivocally on question of this cha
racer, and are surprised that he has done so. We
are free to confess that IRE are disappointed, not
that he voted at all, because, unfortunately for him,
he was 80 completely cornered that he could not
have escaped if he wished to have done so,-but
that he voted with the South and we are not dis
posed to withhold him any credit which he de-
serves for that vote, for although the bill itself is,
IN our estimation, of very little importance, the eff
iecf upon public opinion, so far as Mr. Van Buren,
is concerned, will be precisely the same as if il
were more decisive in its character than it is.
The Enquirer sczcs the occasion of this vote to
excite the prejudices of the South against the Whig
party, on the abolition question, by contrasting
the vote ofthe Nortllern Wings and Van Burenite,
IN congress, and comparing the resolutions report
ed TO the Wing Legislature of Pennsylvania witt
hose adopted by the Van Buren, Legislature OF
new York. For own parts, we should be
Pleased to keep the Abolition question separate
and distinct from ordinary political topics-tor
Inc reason that we believe all parties in the
hon'saveholding States arc alike arlaycd agains
u' on that question, and are only restrained from
exhibiting their hostility by commercial cupidity
ard political intrigue. But, it is due to truth to
snow the fallacy of the Enquirer's remarks Tho
'o'eeoIng bill, it will be seen was voted against by
10 oenators, embracing an equal number of boil
pdr''es' and neary every man from the North. If
y" F'hckney's Resolutions in the IT, OF r. great
VI number OF Northern Wings voted against thu
''u'h,'han ofthe other party,i may be safely set
o0"n to the fact that the Wings have no Northern
''"oldate for the Presidency in the field, while
"'e 'antes have. Were the positions of the par
'esin this respect reversed, 50 would their vote