Richmond enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1815-1867, 1840-02-25
POLITICAL.
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THE ABOLITION RESOLUTIONS.
The game of the Federal partizans was played ont
Yesterday in the House, in perfect keeping with the
concerted scheme between the Northern and Southcrn
"Wbigs," winch at Washington, through their well
known leaders, throws in a resolution denying the re-
ceptlon Of petitions, and at Albany urges through ano.
ther, denouncing the act, as ''an open and direct ro.
lation of the Constitution and the Declaration OF In
dependence.' The latter was carried through the
House yesterday, after a protracted sitting, which last
ed from 10 o'clock in the morning until . IN the after
noon.
Some of the scenes in the drama exhibited net only
the chicancry ofthese partizans, but the intolerance ane
unfairness Of Federalism, whenever the temporary pos
session OF power affords an opportunity of exhibiting it:
true character and temper.
Let ii not be forgotten that one OF the objects fol
which this pretence and clamor are set up at this time
and for which we have been favored with the below,
ings of The Evening Journal, is the maintenance ollht
right of petition. Mark how noisy hypocrisy illustrate:
its own positions.
Several of the Democratic members avowcd THEN
desire to vote for the main propositions, asserting the
right of petition in sufficiently strong terms, waving
even their objections to the manner and the design o;
the movement; but took exceptions to the concluding
clause, as untrue in point of fact. To enable them to
give a vote that wonld assert 4 principle, and yet not
couple il with a violation of truth, they called for a d.
vision OF the question. But the Speaker, true TO the
oarty rcquisitirns Of the majority, and in the spiri,
which denied the minority all, or next TO al, parIicipa.
ton in the organization o: the committees, decided that
The irOyosi,ion raS not dir;Sijie, and 4 party majority
voted OF course 10 sustain the Chair. Thns n stpetI
lion" for n division Of the question, By which the rights
and conscienccs ofthe minority would be in some de-
gree regarded, was trampledd down, at the moment they
who were guilty of the outrage, were loudly clamor.
ING in favor OF The '.grcat right of pe;ition;" and the mi
noritr were driven to vote on the resolution cntire-ioI
any other purpose than either to drive them into the
negative, or to compel them to vote for a resolution in
the erossest form and worst designs of ~partyism.
There is yet another significant illustration. The
Federalists deny that they are Abolltionists. They
assure the Abolltionists, sab rosa, that they are with
them; but publicly, and for effect at the South, repu.
date the association, and even pretend to view then
Gsinccndiarv' movements and designs, in Congress and
elsewhere, with disfaror. But how did they eXhibi,
Yesterday, the sincerity Of their repu@nance to the
AhoIi,ionjsts and their regard for the ''grcat right OF
petition" By applying the GAG, cat off all amend,
;nents, and carrying through the resolution, against
every effort to amend or divide it, by the PREVIOUS
QUESTION.
Mr.. Denniston offered a resolution expressing deep
regret and decided disapprobat;oa cf Me Efforts Of NAM
misguided indieidaaiS IN he .Northcra States 10 inter
fsre, IN r]ioiation Of the spirit Of the sociaI compact, riA
Tie domestic Institutions of eur sister Suites al the South,
thereby disturbing Med domestic pcacc Of The Suites, Ucak-
ening the bonds Of aaion, and s0ripe the seeds Of its DIS
solution. The amendment had scarcely been read,
when Mr.. Taylor, a leading Abolition Fedcralist,
sprang upon his feet, and moved The PREvIous QuEs-
TloH-and the House, obcdirnt to the mandate, sus-
famed the call, and cut off the proposed amendment!
notwithstanding their denial of the Abolition associa.
;nIs, THEY DiD SoT DARE MEET THE QUESTION. They
are now bargaining with the Abolitionists, and they
dare net otIcGd them. They desire to hold terms with
the South, and 50 they publicly ~repadiate a connexion
they labor at the North TO cement. And in the midst
of the loudest professions for the "righ. Of petition
and the rights of the minority, they apply the GAG
LAW in its most od:ous aud tyrannical form.
Such IS Fcderalism-its spirits and its manifestations