Richmond enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1815-1867, 1836-04-01

was an hundred feet high AT home we behold bril-
liant and grateful scene; the public debt paid axrs
reduced The gold currency restored the Southern
States released iron useless aud dangerous population
ali disturbing questions setticd-a gigantic moncyed
institution rrpulsed IN it's march 10 the conquest of the
GOvcrnmcnt,-the highest prosperity attained and
the Hero Patriot now browning the list of has glorious
services by covering his country with the panoy OF
defence, aud consunnaSng his measures for the resto
ration and preservation of currency OF the Constitu
ion. we nave bad brilliant and prosperous ad,nins
fdtons but that of President Jackson ecpses, surplus
SEES aud casts into the shade, all that have preceded it,,
And rs he 10 be branded, siigma,zcd, condemned,
Justly and untruly condemned, and the records of the
Senate to bear the evidence OF tins outrage the latest
posteuy: Shall this President, glorious peace and
IN war so successful at home and abroad, whose Adni
nistation now hailed with applause aud gratitude by
the people, aud destined to shine for unnumbered ages
M tile political armament of history shall this Pre-
sluent, whose is to live forever, whose retirement
from life and services will he through the gate that leads
to the temple of everlasting fame; shall lee go down
posteriy with this condemnation upon him; and that
the most glorious action OF his life +?
MIR. President, have some knowledge of history and
some acquaintance with the dangers which nations have
encountered, and from which heroes and statesmen
nave saved them. | have read much OF ancient and
modern history and where have found parallel 10
the services rendered By President jackson in crushing
The conspiracy the Bank but in the ubors of the Roman
Consul in crushing the conspiracy of Catline. The two
conspaces were identical in their objects both direct
against the and the property of the coun-
Try Cicero extinguishcd the Catinarean conspiracy
and saved Rome President jackson defeated the consp
racy OF the Bank and saved America Their heroic
service was the same and their aes have been strangely
alike Cicero condemned for violating the laws and
the Constitutions has been President Jackson. Tho
consul refused hearing in his own defence; so has
been President Jackson. The life of Cicero was at.
tempted by two assassns; twice murderous pis-
tol leveed at our President An Italy, the whole Ro-
man world, cried out against the injustice done the
patriot Consul; all America is crying out against
The injustice done TO the patriot President Twenty
thousand young Romans, in procession the Capitol
tore the sentence of the Consus conde from the
JdSu ot the republic; million of Americans, fathers
and heads of families, demand the expurgation of
.he sentence against the President Cicero, followed
by all that was viruous in Rome, repaired the Tenn
pie OF the tuteary gods and upon the altar that
he had saved his country; President Jackson in the
temple of the living God might take the same oath and
find IFS response in the hearts of millions. Nor shall
the parallel stop here but after times and posie
rites shall render the honors TO each Two thou
sand years have passed, and the great actions of the
Consul are fresh and green in history The school boy
learns them; the patriot studies Them the statesman APP
plies them: so shall it be with patriot President
Two thousand years hencc--tcn thousand-nay while
time itself shall ast-for who contemplate The time
when the memory oil tins republic shall he LOST while time
itself shall last, the and fame of Jackson shall re-
main and fiouish and this last great by which he
saved the Government from subversion and properlv
from revolution, shall stand forth as the seal and crown
OF his heroic services And if any thing that myself
may do or say shall survive the brief hour in which
live IT will be the part which have TAKEN and the ef.
orts which have made to sustain and defend the great
defender OF his country
Mr.. President, have finished the view which an
imperious sense Of duty has required take this
subject trust that have proceeded upon proofs and
facts, and have left nothing unsusained which feel il
10 De my duty to advance 1t is not nay design
peat or TO recaptulae; but there further and vital
consideration which demands the notice of a remark
and which should be faithless the genius of our Co
vernment, if should petermit-It is known sir that
ambition Tor Office is the bane of free States and The.
contentious oi rivals tue destruction of their county,
These contentious lead to every species Injustice and
TO every variety of violence, and all cloaked with the
pretext of the public good Civil and banishment
at Rome; civil wars, and the ostscs at Athens; bills of
attande Star Chamber prosecutions and mpeachments
In Engand all TO get lid of envied or hated ri
val and all pretexed with the public good; such has
been the history of free States two thousand wears
The wise men who framed Constitution were well
aware of all this danger and all this mischief and
took efecual care they thought TO ruard AGAINST
it. Punishment, the ostracsm the Star CHAMBER pro.
secutons bills of altainder, all those summary and vo
lent modes OF hunting down a rival which deprive The
victim OF defence by deprivng him of the intervention
OF an accusing body to stand between the accuser and
the trying body; all these prescribed by the genius
oil our constitution. lmpeachments alone are permitted;
and these would most usually occur for political offences
and be OF character To enlist the passions any
TO agtate the country. An efectual guard, il was
supposed was provided against the abuse OF The peach
ment power, first by requiring charge be preferred
by The House OF Representatives, the grand Inquest
OF the nation; and neIt in combining the trial TO
the Senate, and requiring majority OF lwo.thrds TO
convict. The gravity, the dignity, the age OF the
senators, ana The great and various powers with
which they were invested-greater and more various
than are united in the persons under any other
constitutional government upon enrh-these were sup
posed TO make the Senate safe depository for the i'm
parchment power; and if the plan OF the Constitution
is followed out 1t must be admitted To be So Bnt if a
public officer be ardigned by his rivals before The
senate Tor impeactable offences without the interven
ton of the House OF Representatives. and if he can be
pronounced gully by simple majority instead of
majority OF two thirds, then has The whole frame of our
Government miscared, and the door left wide omen TO
the greatest mischief which has afflicted the oeonlo
of Suites Then can rivals and connections m m
to do what 1T intended they should never do-oc
cu5c, Genouncc, condemn, and hunt down each other
Great has been the weight of the American Senate
lime 'cdS when It's reflections for Office were fatal TO chm
raclef; time as when ITS reflections rather passports m
pubic favor Why this sad and ominous decline2 Let
no one deceive himself Public opinion is tie arter Of
Character IN enlightened day; it is the Areoparus
from which there is appeal! That arbiter has Dro.
nonnced against the Senate. 1t has sustained the Pre-
sldent, and condemned the Senate If ii had sustained
Tie Senate, the President have been ruined nc il
mas not, the Senate must be ruined if persevers in
ITS course and goes on to brave public opnon as IN in
stituton, it must be ruincdl
Sir, finish have endea Vored 10 DISCHARGE a min
iu duty with 6rmness but without violence have
endeaVored to keeP within the pale Of recorded facts
wish nothing to stand upon my assertion, every as
scrton TO be referred back the evidence and 10 be
measured by It, lfany thinks that have been harsh
or severe, let him only carry back his memory t Inc
scenes OF the panic session, and recOlcct in what era
President Jackson and his friends spoken of az ta
unie Above all, let him remember that he is now
present TO speak, and TO vote, for himself that he has
Two advantages OF which tue President had neither and
OF one OF which, IT bchooves him wisely as wen ns
justly speak OF the voting power and am free TO admit
ha so lar as Senator backed by his State i'm voting
Tor HIMSELF lac votes efficiently and ust6aby: so far 30
he votes Tor himself against the sense his State he
votes without the ingredient which gives efficacy 10 his
voice, and leaves Iis deporabe than il was
before
Sat0rday, MarcL 90
The Senate did not SIT to-day
HOUSE or REPRESENTATIVES,
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