Richmond enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1815-1867, 1841-04-02

whether il he a coutrac, or IN office. IL was then
| , political removal, and nothing more nor less
concentres itself in that and no o'htr aspect, ne Pe
| ,u.ned, would be attempted 10 be gwen 10 H. ~
had never, in his life, been III Tie hap, :" th'e'n
into discussions n, tie mode Of conducting the pup
! lie ,-.ss III. hoped never /" indulI III them. III
ne ~ ihe press upon ali s.des was conducted with to
| nuca lnosen.ss he wished IL were better lie VA
not 4 sposed, THIS occasion, t" make dis''het'o
between the press side or the o.hcr-he nicfei
csred bring this discussion to the poin' lha' 10
| reasons connected with the Globe newspaper-rea
sons purely and exclusively growing out oil the an
rry political strife Of the day-thls dismissal was y
take Mace There the action was based; ana u h'
had understood all he had heard 1t was Dased o" ''
alone and had no greater extent. Now, having eoh
sidercd the manner of the act the time OF Tue ae''
and The reasons for il, let them look tte 10 the P
,c,, par,ies and their relations And mere nc mus
no narint,ed n cav what he hoped he neeu not d
any tim. say, that lie did not design 10 iane WY ~
marks calculated TO cxcc. lie o'u "ot IS"
nor had he any occasion TO make, any Pe's -
marks; bat he had the right, ana he osh. , " "
his dutv to state what he believed TO be the present
bis,o-r cthe country in reference to potcal Parucs
nd he appealed to every member OF .ne oouy anu nc
ap,eaed with as much confidence 10 ms opponents as
to his potcal friends whether there iad peen any SIN
rio no;,, IN tho last heated and exciting political stru
h n,o,o distinctly set forth, and more constantly de.
,ad b.orc the country than the point OF removals
r-o, oe;c, for political opinion ; sake: Had there
hsn any ou,cry AGAINST the last Administration, and
he one which preceded it, more commonly raised
than that of political prescription Tor OPINIONS sake:
And how LONG since IL that he heard, IN tins
ot.r,h.r from a most eloquent Senator, no
o,rcra member of this body that he had seen Oil
cars al the Federal Government whispering their
opinions, because they burst rot pronounce tneh
under that proscriptve Administration! And WINE
that honorable Senator SAID this, he repudia'ea ana
condemned that proscriptive policy; and ne VT.
Wrinlt had read 10 them, from the inaugural Address
Of the President what he seemed to suppose was TO be
Tho practice OF his party. lie (Nlr. Wright did not
charge on the Presdent-hc did not believe, IN MS
heart that the President had any agency IN TINS mat
ter. He did not intend to condemn the rfesui' VI ="
vance He did not mean to condemn any man So OUT
the country had right TO expect that ne was inc OK
ponent of the principles and prncces oil lis party
And what now is that practice An instantaneous -
moyal of political opponent movement h''"e ~
onint of time he believed sooner than any movements
&c s,cb Mt any period of the history oil ths
Government and movement, rs he had attempted 10
show and rs he believed the fact TO be, to remove mere
" for political cause. lie would not, on ,hs
no into the arguments which connected 'his move
ment with the public press. tic wouiu ohiy Assn Se""
TORS 10 pause and consider how long It had been since
their printing had been performed b. any other con-
tractor than the conductor of partisan newspaper
Certainly not since the passage ot the law o.
And what were they then declaring ma. u '''e''
Printers were the conductors OF parlzan he"sp'P''
hoy
nator had said and that they were not TO express .e
boldly and like freemen that if they Proclaimed their
oDnions in their journal or newspaper, they mus.
meet their dismissal from Congress was no' ~
the practical condition And mad they not, lien, ''it
right to turn to their opponents, ana ask he'h I" NY
wore authorized TO expect tins as the iirst sep :" tS
which was to annihllae pfoscf'puoh
He knew the paper spoken OF had been warm Po-
lit;cal naper he did not know that it had been any
more so than two others, and the only TWO other pro-
minent journals in this District. And he th"u!h' NJ
did know that neither of the persons connected WIN
the Globe had ever committed, either as editors or as
men, so faprant abuse of the Congress oil the coun
,ry as another editor had committed III public ana Oh
fetal speech, within few days, IN the streets OF lh's
CITY, lie would not now either READ mat speech y.
comment upon it but he mentioned II to show ihat all
editors were violent partizans and that whether VIII
nn for their newspapers IN their oiiical capacity
,hey write with freedom of language sometimes not
tolerated by truth Could they restrain their centons
ness. Should they sitting there IN that capacity try
In his opinion they should not lie had already sa'a
ne should not discuss the question whether the frne
Of the Senate was officer of the Senate, or con-
tractor with the Senate bat this he Simply wonid say
That the argument of an honorable Senator, made
Yesterday, based principally on Webster, did mol
satisfy his mind. The honorable Senator had argued
that an election must produce an officer, anu Tie
senator asked if any body had ever heard Of an
election of n contractor Well, if the honorable BE-
nator would tell him Ar. Wrieht how lie could obtain
contractor for even his private business, without an
election he would answer his argument lie (ir'
WrahU knew of no other way and he considered, 50
far a. the honorable Senator S argument was con-
cerncd that IL was enough say that the choosing
in this case or the election by the vote OF the senate,
was merely the selection OF man to perform taat du-
ty and that instead of imposing 1t on their secretary
10 elect contractor, well as 10 MAKE contract 'e
Senate chose TO designate the individual leaving lr
officer TO make The contract with Inn. And this
no a.
said to select TO pick out, to select from among
two O., more-to select take for an Office or employ
ment-to choose from among number-to select or
manifest preference BY vote or gnation Ana 'hc
definition of the word election III WEBSTER was,
slhe act Of choosing choice the act Of selecting one
or more from others the act ri choosing person
10 fiji an Office or employment by any manifestation
Of preference as BY ballot, upltcd hands, or rea
roce as the election Of king, PRESIDENT or mayor
They might rs we'll elect man 10 do JOB oil WORK
as elect President oithe U - 1t was only nioue
of designating the individual whom they would put III
charre Of certain duties. They might designate per-
son for certain posi- tion and call him an ocer they
miqbt give him commission and rank, III the case
of purser in the navy, mentioned yesterday; III aho-
her case they might the contractor to ou'd her
house or post Office patent Office, or to do Their
printing He did not desire, however, TO proract THIS
discusson nor was il necessary, for this point had been
a-pucd so much clearly and ably than lie coud 90
it, He would, them trouble them no longer than 10 sav
that his purpose yesterday nnd today mac neeh sPy
TO ;ace before this body this subject 1t had present
ed itself TO his mind, and 10 call upon them TO say
whether it in conformity with what should be un.
derstood to be the declarations Of the President, and
whether it in conformity with the protestations Of
the party, before they reached power.
And let him say TO those gentlemen that we (the
late majority might have done many things wrong
but those gentlemen would be wise not to follow oui
bad example. And vet we never denied that We pre-
ferred TO carry on the Government, when in power
through the agency of our political friends, thar
through that Of our opponents. They did not repu
date doctrines Of this kind they ayowed the doc
trines to the extent to which they pracsed them Bu
what charged upon them Tina, they avowed them
TO the whole extent. Well, look at their practice and
he feared some Of the friends of the gentlemen oppo
site, were rcgre,,ng that they had not gone further
lie mir. Wrlghp saidahis in no i'll temper lie hac
found several Of his sacquanances on visiting ,h
civ, were astonishcd q find such number Of Offices
filled with what they i"ns'dercd good Wings" Yes les
the prizes we're Infinitely diminished, because they hat
moi pushed this doctrine further. They Qhe late Ad
n.ins;ra!ion) did not repudiate it it was the othe
side tina, did so and he begged that gentlemen oppo
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