Lynchburg Virginian. [volume] (Lynchburg [Va.]) 1829-185?, 1840-02-20

hy SUCH dlitEiii"hs,'f " u ot oi Sifiaeu
Ancient number of members nay he deprived o
coats 10 tlrow all its powers IN the hands of
since noing is easier than to make suel,
,.,,,iaos. Tie allegation Is sufficient 10 jus fy en-
.;r, bu,, until llaI enqnir. is made. aud The lle
of ,I,c return is proved the member having The
.,,6o,,eis undeniably entitled TO hold his seat.
n...i.els as man holding deed 10 lract Of land,
,..,, ,,e may be charged With having lraudulenll.
,,,;oel. He WHO nral es he charge oiitaud can
i.c, him " ho has lie legal ulle,-lhe deed -
III by judicial enqunyle alleged fraud is prored,
..,se heretofore illustrated H. however, by a case
.,. IN point because idehlic, in lorm well as in
...;,le Capt. Coles. our representative. carried
"a, HIM 10 Washington doubtless, the Certificate Of
a, Sbsrifs " no. in State, are the returning Of
as The Governor is in New Jersey. Suppose
-. onn,nent, Capt. Weher, had gone on 10 Wash
aim. and alleged thai Capt. Coles had obtained
IT,, certificate fraudulenily--lat, in point Of fact,
/. and not Capt Coles, had obtained a majority Of
the votes Of the people OF the dlstrct-and sup
a.. TOO. tina, he had carried certificate ofthc
clerks of the several courts, with whom the pol-boohs
a,e deposited in Virginia, as they are with The Sc
rYe,a,y of State in New Jersey, whose certificate TO
aha, effect was given to the five Van Buren, claimants
from ,ha, State declaring that tie Sheriff. cerh-
.,,o .as fraudulent; would il not have been deem
4 o,eat outrage il Capt Coles had been denied his
=, mil the allegation Of Mr. Wncher, backed by
oo,,6cate Of the clerks, had been Investigated
T., oues,,onably Tie allcgat on would have fur
..;shed grounds for enoury-but not for exclusion
A.d Ills is mecisely The New Jersey case, ain nut
.hau. Suip il of veibiaee and sophstIy, aud ii a.
.nouu,s 10 precisely this. and nothing 1t is
,,,,ossible that any mind, in search oflrulh, can
,,h, thai a gross outrage would have been ptrpe-
,..,sJ on Capt. Coles and the people whom
j.. represents, had lac been excluded from his seal
uuon a bare allegation fraud : how much greater
is that outrage, when nearly The enti,e delegation OF
y State is excluded upon such an allegation foun-
Jed it may be IN truth, but more probably in false
hood since they who knowingly perpetrated
traud at the polls, the party did by which they
clam 10 be elected, could have scrupc afterwards
in maintaining that fraud by perjury The case is
400 clear TO admit of shadow of doubt and ar
cumen serves only to obscure instead OF clue dating
The Enquirer oflhis morning is quite janus faced
In its leading editorial it ,eclaes that Mr. Ryes has
abandoned the Administration, aud is IIMg
On The other hand, inserts a letter from Caroline
written, it is generally understood, by WIN. p. Tay-
Tor, Esq IAN Efcctcr in 1896 on the famous double
shotled" White and Harrison leket) who labors
Aard TO prove that Nh. Rives has mol changed, and
tia, therefore, the Wings have abandoned their
principles in supporting Mr.. X. aud Can no longer
receive his (Mr. Taylo y couhcnance The rea
son Of this discrepancy between the Editor aud his
correspondent, (boIh, however, reaching the same
point by their opposite processes Of easoninc,) OBJ
yious. Mr.. Richie is compelled To assume that Mr.
Rvcs has changed order sustain its abandonment
and abuse of that gentleman; while Mr. Taylor is
compelled TO assume that he has mol cha ged
IN order 10 supply him with "A preiext for aban.
donng the Wings, and going over to the Spells
parry Il is wonderful, however. that Mr.. TAYLOR
who is too much cf Whig-too excessively souca.
mlsh--lo sanction the support OF Mr.. Rves, can ne
venleless digest, without the sghtes difficulty Van
Buren,. Bentor, and the whole Administration party !
lie has the stomach OF an Ostrich and vet Mr.
Rives is too offensive TO be swallowed! He swears
however, that lie lis CONSCIOUS of any change in
himself" Oh 10 certainly not But has it never
occurred tr the gentleman 10 ask himself how han
pens it, If This be So that he, who wasa Wig E.
iector in 1886, is now "pgelng in The same truckle-
bed' wth Van Buien and Benton He saws his
.'confdence in Van Buren, is moi destroyed :" when
before did he profess to have any confidence in him
Alas for the i,fny Of noble minds which con
verls The impulses of an honorable ambition into
surdd Calculation Of profit and loss Nj. TAYLOR
ii is whispered, is anxious to 20 back to Congress ;
and finding the Wing ground pre-occupied by
Speaker Hunter, his only hope was to turn Loco
F"co-and when a man wants 10 turn his coat, il is
astonishing what wretcled subterfuges-wha at pitiful
pretexts-are stuff cient Justify his aposlacy to his
own mind Mr. Taylor one of Mr.. Calhoun's
.'tall," Of whom the Wing party will soon, [ hope,
gel entirely clear 1t will be a most happy rid
dance. And this little squad may rest assured of
one hing; ard that is, that though they may be fiat
tered aud used by eir allies, they will never be
husfcd
The Enquirer takes up The defence of Senator
Dyer this morning. That gent eman's gross vol =
eyes, because his votes for Senator and Governor
were in conformity with its wishes Had a Wing
Senator or Delegate given a similar vote. under the
same circumstances, the Enqurer's regard for the
sacred Right Of Instruction" would have be. n
horribly shocked. 1t very evident that the En-
q'rer's sensitvees s upon-lha theme is altogether
matter OF calculation, and Of principle or Of pa
,tiotlsm A disregard Of the will Of the constituent,
o'oy is MT IN itself criminal, according the En-
qufe seth'cs but II is onl, when il initiates