Richmond enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1815-1867, 1839-02-28
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1t fierce and formidable tor while; but it soon lost
all its strength aud dissolved and lis members took their
stations in the other Of The two great conendng
parties Of The day; which, most assuredy, with some
slight shades Of difference growing Of the altered
condition Of Tie country, Ard change Of names
the identical two parties that fought the battle Of
9c aad are now again struggling tor ascendancy. 1t
may be worthy OF remark as TO that minority party 10
state that John Randolph with all his talents and zeal
and fiery temper and love of conquest, up the
prelenSon TO IAN armed neutrality" lie laid no claim
to the deusvc Inference, specuusy drawn bY sophst-
cal analogy and with diplomatic suhcly, from the 70
son Of Queen Catherine of Russia-to coa,rul the
desines Of the naon and subject The will of the MAORI
~ 10 the power of small minority OF the people No, SIR
John Randu PHI of Roanoke, with all his pcculares was,
in many respects, one of the pures Republicans Ame-
RIGA has had He adhered with pertinuccus nicely
to the prime pies of the Constitution its trainers intend
ed them, and not as It's attudnous would have
them 10 be- and above all things he valued the great prn
cIple at the root OF oil our institutions, that the jOrify
should govern the minority and, however naughty and
arstocratc he might seem in his personal carriage he
more than once, in manner and under circumstances
which ernced his devotion to that great principle
bowed 10 the majesty or the people" when osracisrd
by majority OF their suttrages. No Sir the Urea, 90
ec Of the third party headed by John Randolph in the
ycar 1906, was 10 change the minority into majority;
and in that way, and that only, TO rule the
Failing in that plan, the party Vas VAN the oosom Of
o,,s, C,s,tne IF Russia, break in up"n he great
prncple which lies at the foundation Of our institutions
No, Sir, John RaDdoph scprheu, knowing uat He was
in minority, to exert power in any other way. lie
scorned 10 hold the balance, and did the monkey in
the fable who weighed for the two cats, pinch Oft first
from the one scale and then from the other, ill he had
robbed them Of all their cheese Sir, the longest lived
minority party have ever heard Of is the one which
has existed for some years past in France, under the
name of the third party What has been lis history p
In reading short time ago, extract from French
newspaper, was struck with lis speaking OF The 'Sofa
party al first supposed that fourth political party
had risen up in France confound their eonfuson but
on reading little further, discovered that the writer
speaking Of the same old French third party that
has made so much noise in the world; and which
had acquired the cognomen Of the "'orA FARTf, be-
cause-what do you suppose, Mr. President, was the
cause: Why, sir because they are now so reduced
in numbers that they all sit together on scta'
Such sir, will be the fate Of this Conservative party,
this Spartan 6and this armed neutrality. They may, sir,
have TO SIT for season what, believe, IN some OF
our churches denomnaied the bench and may,
perhaps, be required 10 subscribe their faith and give in