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

inr with corsciou pride and Indignation to repel the
ca,rcc which he had made: VIVA; was hrs reply:
That The gentleman from Norfolk county had charged
ihrn w:ti being sfdltious rchs'ous and act,ous. IL
was not 81. They Hare cou,enang Cor the great prn
eip'es oi Tie Constitution; they had discovered that IN
jury aud wrong had been inflicted upon the institutions
OF then Country By the party power aud DIS
posed to put stop 10 their course ut the time he
aT"w"d ;ha they held no principle in with the
wing gar'y. After this open declaration, md with
oa any explanation of IT. he the point oc aid.
my 70 crush tho Spartan band, whom lie then consider.
90 as traitors 10 both parties bnt whom he believed
to have been influenced only ny determination to
MAINTAIN ths principles Of the Constitution, without re-
gard tn parry dc,aton to party influence. At that
moment lie remembered that, taking his seat there
he had sworn 10 support TIE Constitution of his coun-
Try and al the time tins truth flashed over his mEt he
went and turned aver the pages of the book which
contained that instrument, and ii taught HIN lesson
IN direct coMtct With The which lie pur-
sung lie saw an implied and expressed obligation
On s part to make an election Of Senator to repre-
sent the State in the Senate of the u. S. fc then
determined, not without difficulty, to overcome his
private ine,nations and wishes; and when again the
ougle 0. party was sounded, The Wings took their
place in the field, having made compromise with the
Conservatives. The call had been made to the noun
tam, but Il would not come-tlerefore, Mahomet re.
soived to go to the mountain. The Wings went over
end a call was made for him to go-he consented
and, with many a lingering and anxious look be
had, and with slow and mournful pace, did he take
up his new position in the ranks. But he consider
ed that there was call upon him more sacred thar
that ct private considerations feelings; and when
too he saw and heard the storm of opposition raging
against the little band of Impracticables from the
former allies and friends, the tear of sympathy "a
thered IN his eye, and he then went forward to aic
them. But there were many Of the Wings who, with
hun, thought that they had gone too far-hat there was
stron call than the personal call which the Conser
vatves had made upon them-bu now there was but one
lett to tell what the mpractcable band was 1t was
day long to be remembered by him, for at that time he
stood with his worthy friend from meckenburg, shout
der to shoulder, doing battle in the Wing ranks He
never ioched to that gentleman because for him he en-
,eraned the strongest feelings of friendship and the
highest opinion Of his integrity, worth and intelligence
he never looked at him now, that he did mott feel
sympathy and sorrow in and for his present position:
when ne saw him in the Of the Opposition. cheer
ing the dropping and amost dshearened troop, around
nun; when he reelected that part, they were TO blame
tor his absence from them, he felt the deepest
and regret If his friend were only an ordinary man,
he might not so much repine at the change but his
aoi's'es with the knowledge that they had heen the
means OF driving him out of their camp, rendered his
position source of great regret to him But the storms
which then lowered above their country were breaking