The Hillsborough recorder. [volume] (Hillsborough, N.C.) 1820-1879, 1836-03-18

fOss and statesmen would furnish me no
resting place. should FEEL myself gull
y. most guilty; and however | might
succeed in eOncealing myself from the |
sight 0f men. could not. in nv view Of |
The subject. save myself from lhe up.
bradings Of nv own PrejHred conscience. |
HaweOuld ireIurn 10 mix among her peO-
pie. n share their hospitality and kind
ness. with the declaration On nv lip. "
haye violated nv oath for Office. and 500.
ner.than surrender my place in the Sc
nate. have struck down the Constitution"
IL the Senaie has right % touch the
Journal under instructions. ~ has right
10 d. so without: if TO cancel . part, a
right TO expange the whole; IL Ia use
ink fram pen. q right IN pour IL from
. bottle: 10 destroy the Journal in any
other way; tO burn Il, tn make = bonire
Of all that - bright snd glorious IN nur
history | know il has been said that
the process directed 10 be adopted by
your resolutions il not designed 10 ex
puage. cannot believe this. aud reject
IL - equally injurious tn yourselves and
unjasI 10 those YOU represent. You di
rec, The words - Expunged by order of
the Senate" On he written aerGss the
resolarion on which you have made
war. | vii not believe that you merely
desiga to ensnaIe nv conscience; much
less will ] indulge for moment the IDEA.
that you dlrecl falsehnad 20 he recorded
BY the. Those d0, not understand you
who make surh Inscriptions. and am mot
misled BY them. The General Assem-
bly, II proud and lofty state. Is lncapa.
bic of mere quibhle. and such an one as
would disgrace a Kings Jester. No.
gentleman; the act which you direct to be
performed, is designed 10 be. aud is equi.
valenI To. an actual oblilerauOn IN all its
practical results. The manner OF accom-.
pllshing this act of cancellation. is whol
ly imnarerial. In publishing this jour
nal from time 70 time hereafter. the re-
so!Yuon thus cancelled cannot he pub.
lisl. 4 A. a par. of il. II is declared to be
erp'Hgsi ap"n its face. But. ii in this
] coaid possibly be mistaken: il. after all.
IL 10 merely chlld's play: the making a
few fhnrlshes. aud putting the Secretary
Of the SHus,e to the trouble To " rite lew
unmeanIng words, the question would
not be changed. Such as is the journal.
so shall it remain. unaltered in a letter.
unchanged 10 a comma: the same as il
now is, " In the last syllable Of rrcnrded
time" Such Is the fat of Ihe Consiilu-
ton. There is not clerk or deputy
clerk IN the commonwealth o. Virginia
who would execute such an order m re-.
gard to his records. The people wuid
be alive to the question. ard in vindira
ton Of their rights, would pungs the
Court sooner Than permit the record con.
tanning the titles To their estates In he
cancelled in any manner whatever. They
surely cannot take less interest in the
prsserS aiion Of The Constitution. the great
charter Of all their rights.
Tine effort has been made to hunt up
precedenls to Justify this art. The pages
Of E,glish Parliamentary history have
been ran.acked, aud an array has been
male of EXAMPLES drawn from ins times
OF the J4neses and Georges of England.
With equal force nigh, examples he
quaie6 To Justify an American President
10 'hecuIiug captaIly CITIZEN Of any one
Of :ha states without tn form of a rial
H might equally be justified in the USE
Of thr buS--triDg. because such IL The
power Of the Grand SIgnior. The power
Of the English Parliament is unlimited
s. - that Of many Of the states of this
UaInn, IN regard to this particular subject
n precedent can have force To overlhrOw
an express enactment Of the Constitution
Unler It's provision, the Senate .,
directed to keep Journal of its proceed
ings. IL were permitted To look else
where than TO that Constitution, | woult
90 20 virgiain for bright and gIorou,
examples to conduct me in safety. Tn,
first in point Of prominence. although no
in point of time, was the course attempted
to he adopted by the Kings party in III,
House of Burgesses 10 1865, as to thu
celebrated resolutions Of Patrick Henry
OF that period. These resolutions wer
declarsiory Of the rights Of BRUSH Anne
RIGA. After their adoption. many Of thos
who voted for them left the city q
Williamsburg, thereby giving To tn
opposite party the accidental ascendancy
and they Immediately formed the resoIu
/ tioa to erpuage them from the journal
| But By stroke of policy as bold as 1t wa
successful. Mr.. Henry saved those resO
lutions from being expunged, which forr
al this day one Of The brightest pages i
Virginia History. aud recorded on an.
PANS tomb would e,ernize his fame. An
ct. to expunge them from the journal
as regarded as much an act Of duty b,
p,se who proposed it, as you. gentlemen
esteem it To be IN the case unde
s. elaboration. They faI'ed-snd m
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