Lynchburg Virginian. [volume] (Lynchburg [Va.]) 1829-185?, 1839-08-12

" IJ'eh"iSsa " anu colofing anOtheIs act
] with its own sekly hues!
, but We do not intend, as remarked in the out
sci, 10 60 over the whole ground covered BY our cor
respondent. The arguments and facts upon boil
sides, have been so often reiterated in our columns
aud elsewhere, and public opinion has been SO long
settled IN reierereeto them, that seems to be a
! waste Of time TO repeat them. A few words upon
one suggestion OF our correspondent, and, FAR as
we are concerned, We shall close the discussion
nc" repeats, that The idea of supporting Nh, Rives
tor the purpose OF vndicating Senatorial ndepen-
dence was an thought; aud in order to sustain
this assertion, he refers To the Address of the Wing
members OF the Legislature in which no such reason
was assigned If II teas an after thought" all will
agree that II was very natural one We kno,p that
II was very common sentiment aud very frequent
y expressed both in debate aud in conversation las,
winter In our remarks on a former occasion, we
referred 10 the declaration made by MIR. Wood of
Amelia, not because he was the only person upon
| whom This consideration exerted IA powerf ilnu-
ence ; but, because his position, as Sub Treasury
thig, aud there iore dsagreene with Nj. Rves upon
the most important question in which Mr.. r. concur
red with the great body of the Wings, exhibited the
great stress at that time given this Argument and
the effect which il produced. 1t will be rec olecteI
that Mr.. Wood voted for Gov. Tyler lhroue bout the
fsl days ballotng-and that it was on the morning
OF the second day, up to which time he had been We
hementy opposed to Mr.. Riyes, that he opened the
discussion with the avowal fins determination there
alter 10 vote for Mr.. Rves every ballot regarding,
he said, the preservation OF Senatorial independence
which was sought TO be violated in Mr.. RS person
by Executive dictation and Party discipline, as of
vastly more importance than the Sub Treasury
and all other questions Combined. We can tell
our CORES podeDt another fact in connection with
thoughl"-Anoher Wing member of the House,
few moments before Mr.. Wood arose, remarked to
tn able delegate from Roanoke county, thai the
friends Of Mr.. Ryes had not placed the true issue
before the House, aud lhen almost i'll the language
of Nh Wood, stated that issue--lhat Nj. Rives was
not abandonrdby his old friends because he was OPP
posed the Sub Treasury, las correspondent now
ing eniously but enormously argues) 5ut because he
would not give unconditional and unqualified
pledge 10 support Mr.. Van Burcn's administration
and To vote for his ie-elec,on-that tins was there
fore, manifest and unequivocal attempt to change
the attitude Of our State Senators, and to conyeit
them INFO tools and minions Of the Executive, in
stead Of Representatives Of the People and he
States-And lhat If this doctrine was sanctioned
aud sustained, 10y the mmolaion Of Mr.. Rlves
the independence of the Senatorial character
trodden down. aud Senators were henceforth the
mere parasites of power, and not the wachful euar
dians of ufligh's-and HE question emphatiea-
~ asked, as now ask it, What Senator will here
after dare to differ from a Pfes:dent-who will be
I,Il l.,
gale or believes that measures are sought to be
carried INFO effect through tic powerful agency of
Executive power and patronage and Party intolerance
and dcspolism, detrimental TO the prosperity aud per-
Ilous to The lbrrties Of the country, to drnounce
their author, when lie knows that his reward will
ut be the 5hcclionale greeting, "well done, good
and faithful servant !" but the bow-siiing and the
,cymetar The delegate from Roanoke suggested
The froprety ollayilg dis view ofthe question be-
lone The House, and the member referred to was IN
The act OF dung 50, when the necessity obsa,ed
by the course OF Mr.. " ood. distinguished Seua-
tor from another State then present IN Richmond,
took occasion to say that This WAS the great principle
involved in thet lection aud that for this a.
lone Mr.. Rises ought 10 be sustained by the Wings,
even II tl.ey we're III the maj gritty, they were not.
Surely il entitled to overpowerng weight
when the real question involved vas not as betw cen
Mr.. Rives aud Wing, but between Mr.. Rises
and Judge john Y. Mason. An ''dfer thought in-
deed Why, If Ct" ~ i'll look into tie files OF the
Richmond Wing, he will find the srgument used o.
yer and often during the pendency of The exciting
struggle II was, in fact, the strong and broad
shield behind which the Wings euirenched them
selves, and Il ON which no ingenuity could then, or
dslodge them. Forreally there is no force
IN our correspondents argument, that because
ny OF The Wings voted for Mr.. Rives as an alter
natre," therefore Hey did regard the indie, en-
deuce of the Senatorial character involved in the
that that independence might have been vndlca-
ted and sustained by the election eta ITig-lt
would have BEEN though perhaps not so strikinely
as by the election Of Mr.. Rues, in whose person ii
had been assaled, and attempted to be proslrated.-
But We repeat, that the election OLA Wing was i'm
possible There was no period, during the baotng.
when any Wing in the Commonwealth had the re-
hottest chance OF success, against the compact, I'M
movable, wedged Loco Foco phaaox, which, for
more than a week. gave almost unvarying vote for
The Candidate nj their choice. There never
time. when, upon any one batioting, asufcient num-
Der of That we'll discipned CORPS, than which he
Old Guard Of MAJ oleon did not promptly toe
the marx" at the command Of the fugleman, could
have been induced 10 vote for Wing, to Sc
| rure his epctinn And however one mr. two F.. Inn