Lynchburg Virginian. [volume] (Lynchburg [Va.]) 1829-185?, 1839-03-04

lie was IN favor of lht Proclamation and Force
Bill--So we, and large majority OF the Wing
pa,ty.-Shall the Wing party. then, ostracize hun
for this Surely not that portion Of IL winch con-
CURED with him in opinion these subjects and
with just little pr5priey that portion of It which
condemned those measures repndiate Mr.. Rwes for
his advocacy OF them after they have long co-or-
Grated with those Wings who sustained them. Mr.
Clay, perhaps, dissenting, did, from some Of
the arguments OF the Proclamation, nevertheless con-
cured in its results and although he did not vote
for it IS less that lie approved of the Force
Bill. Those, then, who make these measures an OBJ
lection to Mr.. Rives as Senator cannot of course
support Mr. CLAY. as President. At least we
should have supposed that lfey could not if they
had not supported Judge White for the same office,
who was guilty ofthe same offence But if they
will no, support Nj. Clay, whom piA they support
Martin IAN Bureni Yes: Aud yet Martin Van
Buren, is the Amounted successor ofthe putative au
thor of this very Proclamation and Force Bill -
4 fig for their consistency who thus ieason end act
Mr.. Rives, also told defended the removal
Of the Depositcs and the Protest. SO did Judge
White and yet the Who voted for Judge White
as President, make wry faces at Mr.. Rives as Sena-
tor And some Of them who thus object TO Mr..
Ryes we fear will soon be found sailing under the
flag Of Van Buren,, the nominee and pledged imita-
tor Of the ronw illed Military Chicitan, who law
fully seized upon the Deposles and, in the spirit OF
Russian Aucocrat, protested against the right OF
the representatives of the Sovereign States TO pass
judgment upon his high handed usurpatoas. And
this, these gentlemen dignity with the name Of
priacipie
But Mr.. Rives voted for the Expunging Resolu-
ton; and strange TO say, many of those who, now
snccr at him as the i" Little Expungcr," are The
very men who instructed him 10 perpetrate that out
TRACE For one, we have not forgotten or forgiy-
that deed. But is not John Y. Mason Ex-
punger also And is it wiser, at time like this
when the President is endeaycrng to force an obi
Gus and ruinous measure upon reluctant people
to elect an EXpunger, who is battling for the lber
lies of the People against Executive eucroachmen
and dciation or TO permit the election of another Ex-
pungcr who, participation in all the sins which has
rendered Mr.. Rlyes Objectionable, is, in addition,
prepared to do the bidding Of the Executive in refer
eucc to the Sub-Tteasury question This was The
issue which the Wings wese called upon to decide
and in our opinion they who supported Mr.. Rive,
decided wisely.
One word more on this subject The Whig
members OF the Legislature IN one ballot, gave al
most an unanimous vote for Chapman Johnson
three only voting against him, and Of them al
"lmpractcabe," whose anaicty to elect a Wing
WAS, By his vote against Mr. Johnson of course (ul
ly demonstrated Even had the whole Wing vot,
been given TO him, however, he tcould not hare bee,
ciccted This fact, resting upon figures, "whcl
cannot lie, is sufficient relutaton Of the assertion
come 1t from whatsoever quarter it may, that
Wing might have been elected. And we repeat
therefore, what we have elsewhere said, that, if Al
election had been made at all, Rivcs or Mason mus
have been the man. Who doubts that the Wings
in that position OF affairs, should have pieerret
Rves ? If here be one, we have no confidence il
the nel rity Of his judgment, lie is the victim 0
JewiIderng and binding prejudice. For Will
there is not crime in the calendar Of which Ri,es i
guilty, of which Mason is nol gully likewise Their
is a redeemng promise in the recent course cf tht
former, which renders him infinitely preferable tn,
later-than whom more blind adhercnt OF thu
administration cannot be found, Will. he is destitut,
of that high order of talent which throws lls,e a
round bad actions, aud confers fame upon a State e
ven by the advocacy of measures which subyer
her interests and put in peril her Liberties.
We had intended 10 close this article by bre
commentary on Senator Roane's recent undisnife,
assault upon his colleague; but want Of time aat
room, well a due regard for the readers pa
utnce, compel TO defer it TO another Opportunity
THE MAINE BORDER WAR.
We yet hear Of no action between the assemble
troops OF Maine aud the Province of New Brunswick