Lynchburg Virginian. [volume] (Lynchburg [Va.]) 1829-185?, 1836-05-02


mean to wake the COMPANY Keeps, bat 10 ire
auent oae or persons, often aud lsfbilualls,
no, 10 paw single casual visit. 4" 10 Keep
mill" fr,eans hot tu make the mill, 20 wake the
rrain to be grouad, or 10 grind lirc grain, bur TO
tax. care Of the mill, atu,d 10 the working oil H.
prcserv. In. corn lat grinding, and, after II II
ground, preserve the meal ior usc. 3" 10 Keep
store" or 10 keep bar mos, certainly diets cot
mean 10 -rcle the goods OF the liquors. .or las he
.urt,oscsf sinp'y 10 sell them; !, uaans to take
care ef,le good, tot sale, sell Penn and preserve
the proceeds for further uso.
But .etu. rrsrrt TO bitter authority than either
the gentleman or r',u pretend to he. The Eng
sh ,,aG.la,ian 80 Inc Bible is one of the best au-
,hor,cs az 800 in The language for the meaning,
r,orr,oiv AM purity of nurls and phrases; IL
is tho WI NJ English indebted" Thi, word
kerr IS vers eiiru used IN Iiily Writ, and always
lnrorts the iie1 Of careful preservation or end
hess indefinite continuation. " The Lords portion
i. his p.oplr Ilcob Is the lot OF his Inheritance.
He found him in a desert land and in the waste
bowling wilderness: he led him about. he instruct
ed him, he kept him the apple of his eye"
Except tie Lord keep the ciIs, the watchman
wzlketh aboa, in VAIN. Holy father, kftp
through thine own name those thou has, cven me,
that they may he one arc. Whilc | was with
them in the world, Kept them in thy name. All
thou csvest ME have Kept, and none of them
Is los, bu, the son Of pefdnon." Hold fast Tie
fo-sa ot soua2 cords which is ia Jesus Christ.
Tha, coed thing which. was committed unto thee,
keep by the Holy Ghas,." So, in the ca'echisn of
tho Pru,es,au, Episcopal Charei, the child Is
taught, as part Of lis dniy ,o lis neighbour, g." 10
keep his hands from backing S,d stealing, and his
tongue from eyil-SlVaA ing, lying and ,andcrine.'
No one woadhe wiling that lis children sloulllbc
,auyh that the, not hound 10 keep themselves
steadily IN c practice 81 honesty, truth, and charity
Throughout, their ljycs, and under all temptations:
tina, they may cas-, them of Whenever it may Suit
their convenience or CRAFTY their passions. Onc
more instance, taken from Locke: II We would
weigh and keep in our minds what ve arc
considering, that would ins,ruc, when We should
not branch INTO distinctions"
Our business is IL ascertain the meaning Of the
pArd'e used in the Constitution. which cSpressl,
requires usto keep q journal Of our proet,atngs.
Gcnli men say this only require, us to make n
journal, and to print and publish il, but not az
ter having made and published it, to preserrr
n, also. To give even a plausible color 10 this
construction, gentlemen Siroui at leas have shown
that there can be no possible use IN preserving
the original manuscript lonrnd after the publica-
ton of the printed eopes Bu, tbs they have
NO, attempted, nor (aprarcntly) even though, of.
say that, TO keep ajomndi means 10 make onc,
and to prfssrrt the very journal made and have
shown tie reason, the use, the necesslt, Tor doing
For the meaning Of the phrase, IN common
speech, We may safely conhdr in Johnson. 4
journal is an account kept of daily transactions"
And tho example is extracted from HAYWARD on
Edward VI" Edward ksr, i"ost iudicioo>
journal Of all the principal passages OF the affairs
of his estate" II thai prccocious Prince only
made, and took no TO prt,trre Ills journal,
II a.. L.,
and n most jud,eioW one :
The technical parliamentary meaning OF the
phrase is aseerlanablc whou, difficulty and be-
yond all doubt. The kindred phrases-,o keep
The records. keeper oi the rolls, keeper Of the re-
cords--ali ippl, itc duty of most careful prcscr-
vation. Ba, | find conclusive authority in a
passage Of the printed speech Of tive gcndoman
from Missouri himself. "'The clerk Of the English
House OF Commons was the Keeper of the lourn IL,
and he TOOK an oath 10 make true entries, RENE NJ
branceS and journal, oil tho things done and pas
sed in tie House oi Commons. As tar back as
1911, the cletk WAS moved against far suffering
his journals, or papers committed 10 ms trust, to
be taken b. members Of tho Uoa,c, frum iht
liable. and Il Was declared tia, the clerk Who i,
tho sworn Ulcer, and entrusted withrhcrnt,iesaod
tie eus,s2g II tnc records If lhe House, ousr no.
10 subj Is Journal ar record 10 be taken from,
III itJ.s, - out ot ms oHuodg: AMI if hr slial
hereafter do aNcr this warning, that at hi, perl
he shall ID IL" This aecoun, is truly taken from
UAtsru an ~ prove, clearly that the duty o.
keeping the our n, sNLVsrt on tie clerk, was The
duty both Of making ~ ,ur '"nrnal, faithfully ano
ifIly, aal II pre5cretns no fomaa'so made care
ta'ly, ~ ms 9aL custody Aai Hatse.l ''sc"hcr'
iaarn, us IL; ia Jinaar., l6Jl, apon INFORMATION
gwen TO the C0n,nsas," thal tar clerk OF III,
Lords House permitted ,hc original rolls OF act
OF Parliament TO he cat.,d u the printer, and tia
they were ripped in pieces, and bloHtd ard 0bu
sed and In danger o! hiring cntbrs2lcd altered
II was ordered that II message he seq, 10 the Lord
to d.sirr them to give orders TIM ,Irsc rolls ma,
BE- keJt in the office, and delivered thc prln
tor, but hat iruc copies, i,,rl written and exam
ined and atcStea, may be drl,'rFe 10 him know
mt what has been tho practice here, in this par
iicU'at hd; hope on roN, arc never sent 10 tn,
printer. presume our acts printed from the
epgrcs&ed bills, from wh,h ,lc cnrolmcnts lsls,
been previously made.
My honorable colleague says that the consiitu
t'onal rcquislion {" ktepoJ omHaiof our proceeding
rs mere matter Of Involvement to the rcquistlo
immediately following in the same sentence {
publish n. same from time 10 time So that we arr
bound 10 keep, only for the purpose of publishing
ana when we have published, whole duty i
fuldllcd. Indeed! lie tiAdS two positive iniunc-
tons in the Constitution resp ctins the same thing
and thinks he may absolse himself from the obi
CATION OF the first, by complying with the last
This is novel specimen of that Kind Of inCcnnii,
BY which constitutions and law, have been IN ade t.
mean any thing, every thing, nothing.