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

most hagrau instances upon rec, ri Of ,;oI,,;,, al
Representative fidelity. |: is not wonde,f.l .,ha,
sieh man is incapable Of arr,eeisling NJ Rnes's
haeioy TO ms constituents, IN opposition Ia Exceu.
i've mandates and that he felt ua iudnoen,ent 10
SUSTAIN him in the fearful conflict.
perceive. by the proceedings of The Loco Fo,o
meeting IN franklin county that on, old friend. n
VI. Taliaie,f", Esq has gone over TO The enemy.
feared as much, last summer. thought, then.
he was TOO much of Wing, 10 be a Wing much
longer! Extremes sometimes meet-and ll,uce II
IS ! suppose that the most rioi,nt Wings slip INTO
the ' an Bnien ranks with much more fao u, than
those who make no great fuss about principle"
aud all that sort of ding That, pr, sume is the
rationale ii The seeming solecism.
Mr.. Caihouns late Assumption" speech is de-
signed principally 10 show, that. injurious as the
lant was 10 the South, IL was still more 20 to The
Norh. This is something new under tie sun.
The old argument, you know, was. lha! il enrich
ed the North, Ivy levying severe and unequal ,onri.
buttons on the South. cannot surmise what has
produced this sudden change of opinion on the
great Nuliyer, unless il be that, seeing how well
his new ally, Mr.. Van. Buren, has ptosper d in the
South, by being called "lhe Northern man with
Southern principles" he is trying to whether he
cannot earn the sobri uet, with lis concon,iuant ad-
vanlages, of "rhe Southern MAN with Northern
principles Thespeech ahounds in poco. met.
aphysics, which, if hc understands who spoke them.
very caaddly confess that | do not Ii will be
highly eulosized, however, by hundreds, who com.
prehend no more Of it than do.-Mi Calhoun de-
clar,s al Assumption and Distribution syuony-
nous: the untulh of The declaration, however is
evident, fiom the fact, that Distribution has been
discussed ever since Gen Jackson recommended IL
in 1884 whereas assumption heard e
until month or two ago
There have hcen recently two interesting debates
in the U. 5 Senate-one growing out OF tie PIE
senlalion by Nj. Clay Of an Abolition petition; the
other out of motion OF Mr. Benton to pint a large
extra number Of his eternal Salt documents-wheh,
as Mr.. Clay remarked. after they printed,
would only prove to the grazIeIs of the thai
sail was very good thing for cattle. In the FIRST
of these debates, Mr.. Calhoun took the strange
ground hatthe Rright Of Petition does not exist al
all undrr our constitution, and is, in fact, excfes
cence Of despols.n; and ye, this right is expressly
asserted and strongly guarded in all our eoustitu-
tons, state and federal! OF course. when defend
tie right of petition, do not refer TO the rig of
one set Of people 10 interfere with tie affairs of a.
mother; but only for the right of any mah or set oil
men to petition for the redress of bis or lber oca
grievances: II is his which Mr.. Calhoun denies and
the denial of which he attempts TO sustain by one
OF his usual sophsms-to wit. that the people are
vereign, and representatives their Servants shall
the master, he asks, petition his seivansl Now
this is very ingenious and shows with what facility
a metapy scal mind hkeMr Cahoun's deceives il
self by its own paraduxes. Representatives are in-
deed The servants OF the people; but Of the
most important obligations upon then, in this capaci
~ is to ob,y The orders Of beir masters. When as
sembed together, it is for the purpose of carry ing IN
to fleet the ublic will If, when that will is made
known to them, IN the form of memorials, petitions
remonsrances or protests, who can imagine a gros-
assumption Of authority, lhan for the represen
iatve to refuse 10 receive hear these petitions,
&c The representative, in that case, would in
deed become the master OF the people he repre-
SCENTS. Vel this is the result Of Mr.. CaIhoun's rea-
soning In the al er- debate, on the Salt dccu-
menls Mr.. Calhoun opposed the printing, and took
occasion TO protest against the repeal OF the Salt tax
which Benton had denounced, with his usual vulgar
ooaIscness, " rs most damnabe and diabolica
monopoly, worthy TO have been conceived only by
devils out Of hell and not by statesmen or by
men," MI. B. also upbraided Mr.. Calhoun with
his Course the Ior!G question: and declared that
he intended 10 bring up that whole question during
the present sessionso that, if the South suffers in
the couillci, she viii know whom to upbraid with
violation Of the Compromise Act, by which her
rights are secured and her interests protected!
send you brief setch of these interesting debates
which hope you may find room for in your next
paper, if ii be received, suppose will be, too
late Tor this.