Richmond enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1815-1867, 1840-03-03
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EnrAI RIGHTS. Sec ".

Equal RIGHTS, sec Y.
Mr. President was sent here by the people OF that
county TO represent their Will and express their scntl-
ments on all subjects connected with the deliberations
of this body The county come from, sir though re-
presented in the Legislature by Whg-and take this
occasion to say, gcntcman-provcdh herself true TO the
cause of Democracy at her late Spring election, by
majority of her resident. voters IT'S true, she rode
down by an immense foreign vote, but the OF her
own native soil rebel at the usurpation. Sir, KING
George is Observation-Disclosures OF peculiar ma
IN re nav for time, blind her to her true principles,
but in the end she will prove Democratic She never
will consent to the slavish doctrine, that mankind is
incanoble Of self government her mechanics and Ia
bourers never will endorse the sentiment proclaimed by
Mr. Leigh of State that from the very nature OF
their occupations they unsafe dcpostares OF the
public trust-nor yet that of Mr. Webster, " let
Government protect The rich and the rich will protect
tho moor Sir she believes ours to be Government OF
equal rights, and that no set of men, whether
rich or p0or arc entitled, under our Constitutional TX
c,rs,yr PRIVILEGES that all who are liable to be
called on to their arm, and bare their bosoms
to the invading foe have an inherent and indelea'
sblc sirht to participate in the affairs of Government
She ooes farther sir-She believes that no free white
male citizen whose duty it's made by the laws to serve
on patrols and the public highways shonld De deh'ea
this prvi!esc.-Ths is her CREED, Sir MI fresidenl
It was once said by distinguished but eccentric ge
MUS John Randolph of Roanoke, that the District Of
which, King George is part, was "like ,he ouis''e
row of cornicld, all eat up by the squirrels =
have never been informed whether the application
of this rurc to the Northern Neck, was prompted by
its moral its physical, or its political condltion-Ah
can saw is that so far have had an opportunity OF
Judging, more moral and exemplary people never ex
ised under the sun It's physical condition CONSIDERED
in reference the productive character OF the land ana
It's other valuable advantages, will compete VITA any "
similar extent in the Unon-indeed, Mr. Madison once
said it was the garden spot of Virginia II ,nen !. "as
neither its moral nor physical condition to which Mr
alluded It must have been its POLITICAL In TINS sense
am constrained 10 confess it has, for very long period
of fine rcsembcd the outside row of cornteld IN
ruined condition from the of the squirrels
Ycs Sir we have batch of political squirrels in thai
section of the State not less mischievous and wary
than their notwithstanding that name. They are al
WAYS Al work upon the "outside row Of Democracy
they never venture among the inner rows-No, Sir, they
nrcfer the outside row., where conccamcnt is conve
nicnt and easy. These political squirrels are at time.
exceedingly troublesome, but from the paucity of then
numbers their great cunning and the difficulty OF get
ting in gunshot of them rarely hunte d-but once
in every two years certain old makes his appear
in the District, who, not content Ike the squirres
to feed upon the outside now takes right through Int
middle of the corn6eld, destroying all on boh sdes a
he goes-He, Sir from the great mischef ne aoes'
worthy of pursuit. and am happy TO INFORM ms ION
vention that his days are now nearly NUMBERED,
mistake not the signs Of the times Yes, Sr, ne mas oeef
fred at repeatedly by of our most skifui
but never until late has he felt the effect OF teir nre
We crippled him years ago and he disappeared to
n season-we hoped he had gone torever-he had ONLY
gone to forage another ana oens chasee