Richmond enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1815-1867, 1836-02-18
TO THE EDITORS or TIE E.NQU IRER

"Bentons resolutions to appropriate "hc surplus rec
nue. in the construction OF national derncrs, will doubt
less be amended by striking out the word "Surplus.
and inserting cCrtUin sufficient ~ carry un with
Il spirited and greatly accelerated vgor. those long neg
lccled ohircts-and in that shape will pass think, al
most unanimous Y. Commensurate with this design Il
reasonable increase of the army follows, necessary
consequence because military works would be useless
in the absence of sufficient military force, to and
render them crcual. The navy also, safest and
strongest arm of defence, vii! b. embraced in the
general plan: and meet the attention dGe to it.
"Thc debate upon the foregoing Resolutions has been
u. all times warn sometimes Incorporate, IN proportion
as has p.rtakcn mOrc SS, of party considerations,
and the disposition of either House, throw the blame
OF last winters juun pas, upon its coordinate branch
In this scramble Mr. Adams has welded hc shield IF
.chcS," with evident effect against Senator Webster;
and "Irri0r tocrs to his ta is generally believed.
One thing certain, that in relation to "Hhig P"ry,
Mr. Adams has passed the Rubicor and cannot return
to them again. Whether he be relied desi-
rable auxiliary to the '.fdniniSraDn Pary is another
and different ques.ion-Tme will show.
" wrote YOU at length the day after II was delivered,
some structures Senator Legs speech OF the 9Th, in
the discussion of the Resolution which has fully
embraced within its ample scope the ch0ic question OF
our relations with France. wrote under "hgh pres
sure excitement, and may have said many things in
style offensive to courty which would perhaps, been
better to have been said at all but let that pass 1t
is true, that when statesman find place IN his
seat, in relation to matter deeply affecting the reputa
ton andnterests of his country growing out OF con-
roversy with fore country and can soop to become
the apoog nay the advocate OF the foreigner he has no
clan the iorbcaancc of those against whose senslbity
he so uncasonaby otcnds does appear 10 me- that Mr.
Leigh is OF that order of men, with whom the love OF
country for the excellence OF her institutions, IS the rul-
ing passion which patriot never surrcnders but abdes
with him, Strony N dcnh lie cannot br OF the genu-
inc Anulo Saxon stock, .jmtricaniscd. lie cannot be
devoted to the principles OF popular government unit IS
considered "in the British sense Whatever may have
been Mr.. Less conceptions in 1872 (when he drew up
the Resolutions adopted by his State, Of Which he was
menber ihe right instruct0n and the duty IF 06cdi-
cnce am quite he his long since repudlaed them,
as silly notions and Utopian phan,asles judging as am
bound 10 do from his conduct during subsequent !le-
No man better knew than Mr.. Leigh, when he took his
seat in the present Congress- that he did it in defiance ut
public opinion the declared will Of the people OF his
State and Of the immediate constituent body, to whom,
according to his showing, he owed allegiance, puIg-
ed it Of The political taln TO which he was ndebt-
ed for his seat.A er the signal act OF suicide which
Mr. Calhoun found occasion to nAict upon himself and
the equally signal reprobaon by which 1t had been con-
demned it is passing strange considering the doiacy
Of his situation, that Nix: Leigh should permit himself to
lie seized with congenial natuallon immediate himself
on kindred altar, and subject himself to condition,
from which subsequent expiration can, or ought
to redeem him. L" He that sO,0s the 70tnd must reap
the arhri,cind." Is it So that MIR. Leigh has deter
mined to brave public opinon-to pursue the tenor OF
his in the spirit OF obstinate dctancc aud bring
down upon himself the execrations of insucd com.
munily; lcannot, must not be.-Why, srs, MIR. L. has
taken holder grounds than the heated and needless
South Carulinan-Hp contends, and attempted TO prove
tool not only that France is the injured party, but that
is due from the Chief Magistrate Of this great nation,
as the author Of the wrong TO humiliae himself before
the French King and cxpate the atiron in the form pre-
scribed for him, according to the example of Lcrcuro,
Doge of Genoa, who had in like offended agaInt
a former monarch of The nation My Virginia
blood boiled within me. the Senator dIated the
ungracouS snggcsnn nor has abated It's flow, now that
am doomed to record the monstrous scandal What;
the President Of these United States the constitutional
representative Of the naton the ndonitable Andrew
Jackson required 10 'ezpain to "apo'ogiSe 10 for.
egn power form Of ,rords, becarse in his opn-
ion that power had wronged the nation he
and Tor that reason, thong proper adm"nisl her oil
t-Nevcr! no. never TO the honor of the American
Senate be it said, Mr.. Leigh, far, has found no re-
Spouse in this view of the case.
"f those two speeches, of Mr. Calhoun and Mr. Leigh
should ever be published delivered to retain Lhel
downright Hartford Contention tant venture to affirm
that the speeches and their authors will from thenceiorth
be regarded as bye-'rord and rcproaeh' in the poll
teal history of the times.
1.-THE Wing was right when it said of Mr.. Leigh. "k
,eas ha!fa century behind the spirit Of The age Th:
tbc, T. the ConYcQ