Richmond enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1815-1867, 1840-03-12


bank qualities to fiscal agent, did say or
lhihk mat II would be expedent to do This snte
heht mas been seIzrd upon 10 cast doubt my opin-
IONS upon the subject. | sorry f,r it, as | never
ilad Tess doubt upon any one-but the contrary
an undoubting dsbelcver in the right of Congress to
PASS any act Of Incorporation for national Oteets-bc
tor b"nh or any thing Else
And thus (said MIR. c. is swept away the first
charge 80 far the second and third concerned,
VIZ: that MIR. Mcdowell is in favor of Internal I'm
provcmrnis by the General Government, and favora
bic to protective Tariff, the extract already read
was complete answer. No other person han the gen
ileman from James City, he presumed, had ever en-
tertaned the opinion that Mr. Mcdowell was obnox
ious to either of those charges. Mr. c. said he was
authorized to say, that MIR. Mcdowell opposed to
both on Constitutional grounds Bnt, Sir, the gentle
man Inns stated, that MIR. Mcdowell in favor Of
placing toll gates the Cumberland Road, and there
by had yielded the Constitutional objection. MIR. c.
said he was authorized to say, that this charge
also founded in error hut lest member should be-
disposed TO doubt the authority, MIR. c. said he would
read an extract from letter. written by Mr. Mellow
ell HIMSELF and which would place him rcctns in
on this point The extract was as follows:
EXTRACT Of a Letter from Mr.. .McDooeH.
Mr.. johnson, when he opposed Craig for this Dis
trict, in public Speech, i'll Lexington, charged Mr.
Van Buren, with his votes the "toll gate bill. =
Craig, not being present, replied and said TO this
charge, that much injustice had been done Mr.. Van Blu
rem: That when this toll gate vote was given by him
and others, it Doubtless considerably Mcm invnv
ing only question of means and not of princple that
the righ of Congress TO make Internal improvements
in the States, had just been decided in the Senate, Gas
btevrd) by strong vote, and by consequence, the
right Of choce the Of construction and repair
was considered following that decision: That, there
fore, as to the Cumberland Road, the question of
pairs, whether by appropriate ons from the Treasury or
by collections from tools, was thought, at the time, TO
h- only question of means rxpcdenry and not of
n r,nln ia, f.upn
Of the parties implicated in the vot and express
ing my individual views. My ohrct to give MIR
Van Buren, the benefit Of his own offence and let those
who heard, Judge of lis value. ] was not explaining
nv acts OPINIONS, but his and pressed the consider
atoms which operated upon him There were but
ven members Of the Senate, who voted against that
bill Now what defence had the States Right portion
Of Them but that which has been overwhelmingly
that the constitutional right having been carried by
fair majority, every thing else considered carried
with it. and that tolls, means OF repair were thought
more expcdicnt than appropriations, which were the
only other mrnns Three years have passed since the
remarks upon this subject made, and the point Of
them NAV well be- confused or forgotten by those who
NAV now think, that expressed ing the OPT
mons which suggested as the probable one OF Others
censurr for misrepresentation in this matter,
and would fam believe, that one has mlsstated me-
The accusation, however, has been made in the WhIg
and repeated by others sB. its intent wicked or cha
ritabc, it is unqualiticdly and wholly erroneous. !
have been denicr of the right OF Congress to make
internal Improvement in the States, from the first time
that took the hastings candidate Tor popular Oh
fee in Rockbridre (le27,( 10 the present time. ]
have horne The odum nf that opinion, when II was
the most hated and offensive one that Il man could
entertain. have been ant.Tariff for the same pc
rod and borne the odIum of that too, when 1t
was scarcely if any less obn"xous and deiesablc to
the bulk of people, than the other These OPT
Mons were suicidal; they placed me in perfect hosti-
lily, it thought with the peculiar of our lnle.
rnr locality, they identified me out and out with Gen
F., who Tor the same views principally hnd become so
hateful 10 his constituents hereabous, that We had
common firing, when he retired from the District they
brought upon ME The outcry Of Estate rights, Estate
rights, when the name amongst us was a bye-word,
and rcproach and establish fixed political obec-
ton against me- that my friends obliged TO take
from the weight Of thy saying that these opinions had
nothing de- directly with the general business OF State
legislation As long State right OPINIONS were an m
Jury, they were pinned upon me; but now when they
might be beneficial they have been denied to me.
Mr. Chapman said, he would not detain the House
Longer in considering the Cd and Sd counts IN the gen.
tlenan Indictment for, he felt assured that the gen.
,leman from James City himself would be candid enough
TO acknowledge that those charges were founded in ms
cnnceptIon for if any in these U. S orthodox
upon those questions, that man was James Mcdowell
of Rockbridge. Why, Mr. Speaker, sad Mr. c., the
gentleman from James City is perfectly aware, not
wthstandrnr the charges he has brought against Dir
Mcdowell, that each every IT, S Bank man on this
floor each and every member favorable to Internal l-
proyemcnts BY the General Government in this As
scmbly each and every Tariff man in this House. "a bo
litionsts there nonc will on this day cast thelr
in opposition TO Mr. Mcdowell, and win thr gen
t!en,an from James City, vote for Mr. Gilmer-Bui he
would pass on to the I charge made by the gentle
man from James C,ty, viz: AbolitionisnI. james Nc
Dow, If Rockbridgr, said Mr.. c., an Aholltlonst in
he modern arcrptation of the term Why, sir, the
gentleman, Grip Van Wrinkle Ike, must have been
a.. 4, I'm, otIl1 ne hay m ven
t,r,d This charge James Mcdowell of RockbrIdge an
Abolitionist Would to God that every man in Ame-
RIGA was as sound upon tins subject as he IS hen,
this foul fanaticsm would never have raised lis
ycnomous head in the North, fndangcrng as 1t
does the union Of these United States, The last hope
Of human liberty But, Sir, this charge of Abo-
litionism against Mr.. Mcdowell, has already been
met and reuted by the extracts from his letters, which
have been read TO the House, but there was one other
niece of evidence, conclusive IN itself upon tins
noint that Mr. C.. could not refrain from giving It 10
the House. He alluded to the speech of MIR. Mellow
ell, delivered during The last year in Princeton lie
asked the special attention Of the House, and more
particularly that Of the gentleman from James City,
whilst an extract from that speech was read:
ExTRacr-'I shall be pardoned, trust, by this audi
ence already taxed too long, for Introducing, IN connrH
ion with this ola patriots duty, and as an appoprI
ate appendage "a closing remark upon an all engross
nu and all pcrvadng subject, which deeply, lntensi ~
and sernly involves ia subject which, though II
takes hold more Immediately and mere totally OF the
peculiar interests and structure Of Southern population"
vet in its final issues, Interweaves itself ndissnIupy
with the peace and the hnpcS and The drsiInes OF us all
it is ever important to consider 1t with admontory re-
ference To its inevitable and its dread results II IS al t's
moment above all others the most important whilst inc
public mind is ruminatng upon it, and before any vlo-
lent or any rrevocable act has thrust it out from the
forum of reason be discussed and decided upon the
field of battle 1t is now, if ever, when threatening
frown scowls and lowers upon lis 'front.' that evidence
should be heard, lest unwary Judgment should iet
loose the sword to "say the man That is thy fellow
Who here that usks-who here that needs to- be told
that abolition is the subject meant that subject of mon
ster omen though prrehanee of pions BIRTH which los
tered and forwarded with wild and explosive energy,
has been made to tower above every interest OF
party, and above every measure of policy, by putting
into contest the very body and being othe State Pass
ing by The questions orthodoxy and morals, and const
bodied with this subject, have this only to say which
nv Southern POSITION and therefore, my keener anP-
pehenson, both witness and victim OF all It's results
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