Richmond enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1815-1867, 1840-07-28
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Of all ,rutl, and practical morality
Hon. Ion. T,IIAyEnRo.-This gentleman was the
first 10 move in the Hooc case. WIN chafacter'suc
cunning he has been using the TACT that naval e"utt''
hr their decisions accord 10 free coiored scanen the
r;Hrh,sn r olher seamen, in regard to bearing testimony,
10 prejudice the Southern people against the rresidehi'
We have no doubt that he has been Inc secret promP'ei
of Mr.. Bolts, in his attempt to make me ialse impress,
son on the public, that the fresidehl has c"nni
The iudpment of the naval court in regard TO The COM
,etency of such testimony, when IN TACT he simply ra-
ti6rd the conviction founded on the testimony OF wnite
men. 1t is proper that all who nave patucip"uen w
this insidious attempt to make political cap'tai u o.
instrumentation and garbled documents, covered un,
AR Conrressional proceeding, should be exposed; and
| the.more especially, If they refuse, (now that me whoie
| Democratic party have come forward IN congress ana
rendered them a law TO exclude Tree blacES not ohiy
as witnesses. but as seamen in the navyD TO accept a
! proposition which Will remedy, eiteclualiy, the eVii
complained of. in the case of 1t. Hooe, winch has been
The cause of so much hollow lamentatlon. ii VT
Taliafcrro, and those who have been his cohiedefates'
do not avail themselves of the overtures oil inc De-
mocratic party so UNANIMOUSLY rendered, 'he'r nne
date constituents will hold them to strict accountant
lity. Having, by their conduct, III bringing the SUD
iect before Congress, made 1t manifest thal they h"'u
it of the greatest moment that the prihciPle unit
by the naval courts should be reversed by the icsIsia-
tive authority, If they do not now press the question
1 unon their own par,v for a decision, when the whole
| Democratic party hive gwen proof that they are ready
instantly TO cooperate in repeating the obnoxious law,
a. 1t is construed by the courts, the conclusion must
be, that they are willing TO sacrifice the interest "hlch
the South has in the matter, rather than produce DIVISION
between Southern Whiggcry and their Abolition
friends. Mr.. Bolts indeed stated as the ground OF his
| nnwillinpncss TO trust the subject to the Judiciary
Committee, that he could not risk II with a body OF It's
complexion: and this Notwithstanding the majority was
cu,nnoscd of four Federal Abolition Wings, with his
friend Stanly from the South. This objection would
not lie against the House, the Democratic majority vn-
luntcering It's vote to carry out the wishes OF the South
and this majority, if joined by the Southern Wings,
would make a majority OF trO. MirdS-snitcient TO sus,
pend the rules, and effect the measure, IN an honr. IL
then. Messrs. Taliaferro, Bolts, Stanly, and the other
Southern Fcdcralists, refuse TO cooperate with them,
they incur the responsibility of surrcndering the wishes
Of their constituents 10 preserve their political alliance
with The AbOlItionis,s.-Ho
The Ifooc Casc-.ur. Bous Lohcred.-lf the people
of Virginia retain the proud spirit which characterized
them of old, they will surely feel deep resentment al
Mr.. Bolts for the ~palpably contemptnous manner III
which he has ir,ilcd with their feelings, and sought to
impose upon their understandings II WI! be reineh''
bcrrd with what alacrty he LAID hs garbled statement !"
the llooa case before The people Of Virginia, before Inc
record from the Department, showing that the charges
on which llooc was convicted were established by Whitc
witnesses, and that the specifications sustained by the
free black sailors were out Of the case, as IL came before
the President, could be sent TO the House. The public
| rccollcct that on the earliest occasion, when this matter
was brought up in the House by the Democrats, to has
ten i, 10 a desirable result, in correcting or changing The
law Of evidence rs decided By the cnu:ts-a thing not
in the power Of the EXccutsve-Mr Bolts was orl
Of the way, and hs friend, Mr.. Wise, who was leh
10 mind il, undertook 10 play the game OF stavc Oh
10 enable his Southern Comrades tc escape the rcspon'
sibility of severiuG from, and exposing 10 the South The
Abolition IIarrisonitcs on this driicHtc SHhyrc. II wal
be rccollcc,ed that when Mr.. Bolts came back, and II
was urged to commit it instantly 10 the Judiciary Com
m;ttce for a report, 10 enable the House promptly to
effect what those interested against the decision OF the
navy court wished, the very mover of this reform toI
the South, moved to lay tho whole subject upon the
table, Ike an Abolition petition.
Having failed in this, we now find that has friends,
who make the majority i'll the committee, (tlr. Stanly
Of North Carolina uniting with the Northern Federalists
to effect it, have actually run away with the case, not
10 return with a reported bill or Il declaration as TO the
existing law, but 10 return IT with an application to bt
discharged, as n 3nansr an rhiCh C0HgfCSS OmgM nat 10
GcIH positively refusing 10 unite with the Democratic
members of the mmIttc as TO what the Ia" rs or
ought To he.
The history of this llooc case, as shown oil in the
conduct Of Mr.. Bolts, in forcing it forward upon the
liousc-next, in his friend Wisc3s mode of watching
and lastly, the running away with II by his Federal
friends, making a majority, cked out b. Mr.. Stan!y, as
a sort Of tail-rnay be all summed up in the sold Viz
ginny' negro song:
"Snakc bake a W9orCakc,
-s. FINN d, mind 10,