Richmond enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1815-1867, 1836-02-06

the meeting upon this subject in his county las'
MGR WINS not vet prepared to. oct upon ~ W.T. s
was time that the Legislature should aecac e 60.
iect Some Of the Legislatures III te Nv, =; 80
xsre now in srss,p aud if arc not III haste IN pre-
;rr o., resolutions those Legislatures must rise oe
fore they reach ,"m. lie did not onIcct 10 Tue ,
toI,v ON the tat;r aed kr presumed the Senteuah
Prince Edward was moi rraay Tor ac'i"n lo''o'''' "
would not be d!in: the SESSION r,..
mr. GREGORY said tn fine could think that the t1o"se
would act with uuaniuity IN the SUBJECT tn-mo,ro" ~
would not oppose the motion to lay upon the taoe,
he belle we'd the House constituted, That they
not barmoniue The new set of resolutions VIII com.
in to. morrow 1e,e question would be divided ulo" hI
and every resolution will be discussed, an" Wv two thus
have three propositions before Us it. They
had. debated this question for two DAYS, o Uo coud
further from harmony than when 'hcy G i;d ,sd. and
not fancy that both the reports d;vdual should be
Itd IN nref.rcncp tie did NJ" beileVel anu tnele-
fore he was opposed 10 laying the sn'ect Oh :ne
Mr. SrAS.RD opposed The mo'' e Us hn, ,n ssorc
Gsve that proposion different from po'N now oeIore
The uonse would be likely to create unanlmity The
t snorts had been in the hands OF members tor many
5us and If the House could not act harmonously on
hs,n was il probable that they would be able TO do So
80 nrw proposition? Nor could il be supposed that
measure emanating from individual would be better
calculated harmonic the opinions OF the House. ehan
the acts Of the two portions OF the committee lie
thought would only occasion delay, and create furter
discussion. 1t was not likely that the opinions OF any
individual would be adopted in preference to the reports
But there might be another mode-a proposition might
be adopted in conclaye and presented to the House
And was it supposed that such origin would give II
greater favor than those matured by the deliberations OF
the committee? tte maintained, therefore, that no Sooo
could arise of the present motion IL had already
been declared here, that there were rad'ca
differences between the measbers this floor, and he
deemed it impossible that the harmony which had ocen
already disturbed could be restored in the manner pro-
posed. How, then, should they acE All that was re-
9ued was for each member TO vote upon tue resolutions
in c1cha ma "a CIV
ton in the language which hc approves
The motion to lay the table was then rejected =
considerable discussion here occurred upon point
order whether if the substitute were adopted IL couio
afterwards be divided, and each resolution argued sepa
ratey.l
The SPEAKER decided that if the substitute were once
adopted the resolutions could not afterwards be voted
upon separately. Also, that the substitute once adopt
ed, could not be amended any part OF 1t struck out
Mr. WIrcHER spoke at considerable length upon this
point Of order He seemed to think that the majority
had the power to make the minority swallow what they
did not approve and that in this instance the Pariaeh
tary rule had the effect to aid the majority IN rahP"g
upon the rights Of the minority AhusionS hau otth
made TO parties; but he knew THAT upon TINS gu stion
there were 10 party feelings in the country But they
were obliged here to consider this party question,
and the minority seemed to have little prospect OF being
able to express their sentiments Should this subectoe
much longer tramnIelled at present. he %osd take
occasion hereafter collect all the resolutions adopted
at the popular meetings during the Summer and present
them the House for adoption. If there were no other
ne would Try this one, and they should see who would
shrink from it.
Mr. Watkins said he would willingly vote for all the
resolutions adopted by the people last Summer and he
believed would be the shortest way Of settling the
question 1t very difficult matter to tell who were
the majority and who the minority here at this
ment. He believed that he in the minority; and
that if any body's rights injured it was his he
had thought that in offering the resolutions of the mi
norty substitute thcy would be open 10 amendment
As they Stood he preferred them; but he certainly die
not think them free from defects that they ought to
be adopted without notifications His object had
been, to adopt them generally and afterwards to amend
them, to make them paatablc to all He supposed
that the question could be divided upon hcm and that
he should have the privilege Of expressing his scntl
ments each separate resolution lie did not wish to
trammel the rights Of any one but he wished if possible
to secure his 1t would have been better, had the
House acceded to his proposition to postpone the sub
ject till tomorrow. And we have, since the rejec-
ton Of that notion involved ourselves in another par
Elementary ENHANCEMENT, he thought the best thing that
they could do, to adjourn. = q.
On the motion of Mr.. W., the House then adjourned.
(Dcbatc to be Continued