Richmond enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1815-1867, 1836-02-18
TO TIE EDITORS OF TIE E.roU,RER.

Bentons resolutions to appropriate 'the surplus rese
nue. IN the construction of national offences will doubt
less De amended by striking the word 'surp[,s
ana inserting sum certain, sufficient to carry on with
spirited and greatly accelerated vigor those long
eced objecis-and in that shape will pass, think al
most unanimously. Commensurate with this design n
reasonable increase of the army follows as a necessary
consequence; because military works would be
IN the absence OF sufficient military force, man and
render them efectual. The navy also our safest and
strongest arm of defence, will be embraced in the same
general plan, and meet the attention due TO it,
a ne debate upon the foregoing Resolutions has been
at all times warm, sometimes incorporate in
as u mas pariaken, sS of party
and the disposition OF either House to throw the blame
OF .ast winter Jau1 pas, upon its coordinate branch
In inns scramble, Mr. Adams has welded SHE shield of
7chHes with evident effect against Senator Webster
and h'cor tonerS to has fall, is generally believed
Ue 'nig certain, that in relation to the "hig Purity
Mr. Adams has passed the Rubcou and cannot return
to them again Whether lie can be relied on as n des
Iabie auxiliary to the Reconsideration Party is another
and different question-Tme will show
wrote you at length the day after il was delivered
some structures Senator Leigs speech of the 9th in
the discussion OF the Resolution which has fully
within It's ample scope the 'ehoe question of
our relations with France. wrote under high pres
sure excitement, and may have said many things in
style offensive to coury ears which would perhaps
better moi to have been said all but let that mss II
rs true, that when statesman can find a naca j., ls
seat IN relation to matter deeply affecting the rep,ra
uo OF ms own country, growing Of
roversy with foreign country can stoop 10 become
te aPoog nay, the advocate The foreigner he has no
claim to The forbearance of those against whose sensbtv
ne so unreasonaby offends 1t does appear to me- that M
Leigh Is not of that order of men, with whom the love az
country for the excellence of her institutions ia the
ing passion, which patriot but il abdes
with him. ''strong IN dea lie cannot be of the genu-
Inc Ango'Saxon stock, 3merienRzed. He cannot be
devoted to the principles of popular government unless
considered sin The British sense Whatever mav Inn We
been Mr. Leghs conceptions in 1872 (when he drew up
The Resolutions adopted by his State Of which he was
member on HE right Of instruction and the dDfy of oJsi
encs am quite sure lie HIS long since repudaied them
as SHY notions and UtoPian phanasIes judging as am
lis prA, I......
No man better knew than MIR. Leigh when he took bs
seat in the present Congress- that lie did it in defence of
public opinion, the declared will Of the people of his
state, ana OF The immediate constituent body To whom,
according to his shewing he owed alegiance purg
ed as 1t was Of the political aint to which he was indel
ca ipr ms seai-Atter the signal of suicide which
MIR Calhoun found occasion to nhict upon himself and
the equally signal reprobaton by which il had been con-
demned u IS passing strange, considering the deicacy
o. ms situation that MIR Leigh should permit himself 10
be seized win coDgenia inatuaon, immediate himself
on kindred altar, and subject himself to condition
from which no subsequent expiration can or ought
70 redeem him " Hc mGt so,os tie oind must reop
NE ~htri'oiad" Is it so, that Mr.. Leigh has deter.
mined to brave public Opinon-to pursue the enor Of
hs course in the spirit Of obstinate defiance and bring
Gown upon himself the exccrations of insuled COM
munity ItcaDpOt. must not be.--Why sirs Mr. l. has
taken holder grounds than the heated and needless
south CarOlnIanHe contends and attentted 10 ufove
700 hot only tFTance Is the injured party but that
IL rs que from the Chief Magistrate Of this great nation
rs tue author OF the wrong to humate himself helre
te french King, and expate the oont in the form pre-
sC"Oeo Tor hn according 10 the example Of Lercuro
Doge OF Genoa who hsd in like manner offended again
n former monerch Of the same nation NV Virginia
booo D"lled within me- as the Senator dilaed on the
1ngacous suggestion has abated It's now now That
an DOOMED to record the nonstrous scandal WHAT
the President OF these United States the constitutional
representative 1t the nation, the indontabe Andrew
1acsson required TO "erpigiH 10 "opoiogise to Tor.
sg" PoWe, ~ Sc, Jorm Of ioords, because in his opn.
ion that power had wronged the nation he represented
ana Tor that reason, thought proper to adm0nsh her of
Viewed no, never To the honor of the American
senate De y suid NJ Leigh, 50 far has found no re-.
sponse IN this view Of the case
III those two speeches, Of Mr. Calhoun and Mr. Leirh
should ever De published delivered 10 retain their
uowhght Hgryora Generation taiat venture affirm
that the speeches and their authors viii from ibeoceorb
oe regarded "as byecOrd md rtpr0act" in the poll.
teal history Of the times
ne wing was right when il said Of Mr. Leigh che
~os haJa century behind he spirif of Ge ace This
was about the iiGc Mr. L. was cndesyor,pg in The ouvcn