Richmond enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1815-1867, 1841-01-21


ser of the Russian Autocrat TO be placed in OF
our free States for the purpose of controlling It's affairs
with its appreciation, and by IT'S own perrnssion,) AND
vet shall thus destroy this free Government and happy
Union If there be snch danger, Il Will hss be Tell
within the State where it exists. And then where is
the remedys In the sovereign people OF That State
We are not TO presume they will encourage poIi-
CIV which destructive to their institutions. But
So then are our institutions gone for they rest
or their existence the power and will Of the People,
and not on any inherent strength of their own. The
evil If occurs will first be felt in the very seat and
heart of their sovereignty, and there it will first be
ren,edied there, where IT should be- by the will OF the
People themselves who alone have tho right to pre-
scribe in this matter.
have now concluded all Ind Ia say on this point.
will add but single reply to avery playful remark OF
the Honorable Senator lie says that in defeated
party and retiring Administration II IS ndecorous TO
bring forward new measures, and to institute new
course of policy. That believe
MIR Clay, speaking across Well, that is something
We thank you al least for that admission.
And have purposed TO be modest rs possible,
v lille my friends yet hold the rens Of power i they do
now hold bem) do merely what the public interests
absolutely require and to refrain from all else. The
bill before us consider being part Of the policy
adopted and pursued by Congress ever since | have
had the honor of holding seat IN the Legislature
1t is modification of that policy; and in that light
am in favor Of it. ], however, am not responsible
Tor the bill and cntrea the honorable Senator not to
look upon me as attempting, BY this measure, to
tread in the heels ofthe powerful party which has Sc
cured possession of the Government utsuppose The
very exaggerated representation we have heard was all
true and that did attempt at this late period, to FIX
a policy upon the country; still it seems to me,
the power of remedy is near, pure and happy
light is to shine the 5 day of March next that even
if we did fall into very sad mistakes it would not al
WAYS be our opponents that would be the first to
IA taught But if this measure runs athwart the limo
Of policy Of that Administration which is 10 occupy the
seat of power, and the repeal of the law will be but
,hankless duty then, indeed, the Senator complaints
are Just and proper, and cannot feel any resentment
toward him for heapng this the head of all our other
sins and proyocatlons.
Tfie Senator opened another topic by calling us up
for course not that have pursued, but which he
npprehends we may. He says that when the election
was decided which brought Gen Jackson into power
the Senate refused to net the nominations OF the
passing off President do not say it was not SO; the
Senator says ii SO; and he was certainly IN posi-
lion 10 know. "a augh] Not that men voted against
the principles they had avowed but in that case the
Administration fell into minority, not in the last mo,
nens of its existence buttwo years before went
Office The Senator does not mean to charge US with
thing wrong merely discharging our duy nor VIII he