Richmond enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1815-1867, 1841-09-03

present Extra Session Of Congress.
s. Resolred, That Messrs Wise, Gmer, Hunter,
Mallory and other State Rights Wings, are entitled to
The thanks of this meeting and of the country, Tor
the independent and patriotic they havepnrsued
during the present Session of Congress.
.. Reso'red, That copy Of the Preamble and Rrso-
lntions be transmitted his Exccllency John Tyler,
President of the United States also, one copy TO the
Honorable John G. Calhoun, Senator from South
Carolina enc copy to the Honorable Thomas II. Ben
ton, Senator from Missouri and another cnpY TO the
Honorable G. B. Cary, member from this District in
the House of Representatives with the request that
may I've laid before their respective Houses
On motion, Resolrsd, That the Proceedings Of this
meeting be published in the Richmond Enquirer, and
that the Petersburg Statesman be requested to copy
, the
| And them on motion. tho meeting adjourned.
| DRURY S1lTll, Chairman.
P. T. STRATEGY, Secretary.
SCENES at tie Hhne Suiphur-Gr cenJrier County (,
| "WnIrE SuLrnrR SPRIsGs, Aug. %.
aDear Sir-For several days before information of
the veto reached there The most intense inte-
rest manifested know the result for notwthstand
ing the indications to the contrary, the Wings still con-
tinued TO hope that President Tyler would sign the
Bank bill. When we heard IF the veto the wrath Of
the Wings knew bounds They gave vent to their
dsa prominent in bitter dennncatinns. They called
the President traitor, aposale, and dsho nored
man. They openly accused hun OF playing for Loco
Foco support at the Of his loyalty To his par
ty, and with the view Of his personal agsFan;
dzrnent And their h'tiert ss, assure you, not
mocras. We received the Message Friday night
On Saturday morning notice was posted up fer meet
ing of all persons, ofevery pasy who approved the
to- Some of our friends OPPOSED 10 the movement,
for knowing that the traveer and Springs going peo
pie are generally Nationals, they feared ,ha, il gh, be
u failure Blu, great their disappointment Ms they
the n,selves acknowledged. Although the notice
very short aud the weather nclemen yet the attend
ance was very full. The utmost harmony prevailed
The few remarks submitted by the Chair To be
RESPONDED to by ALL aud there was no debate. The
| Committee was moved for by VIM +. Cunningham Of
Norfolk the representative for long time OF that Boz
rough and now Wing editor, who said, in submitting
his motion he could bear testimony, that, far from
the Presidential Election turning upon the Bank ques
lion il was studiousiy kept Of view by the Wings
and although he had zeaouSy co-opcrated with the
Wings and rendered them all the assistance he could
uvon the hus,ings and with his pen, he had always
been opposed TO the Bank. copy OF The proceedings
has already been forwarded TO you, | presume, and
from them you will learn their character. You will see
that there upon the committee gentlemen from
ycral Of the States Mr. Stephens the traveller who
was here a, that tme-and whom have found Ia be
very interesting man-coincided with us fully III
views; but he prevented from attending the meet
ing bv heavy rain, which up about the time Of
our conveninS. The same cause kept others away
Mr. Stephens 4 thorough Democrat, as have found
by several free conversations with him. b the bye
have you been struck with the disproporiinn Of
the disng uished Merat of our county, who are Demo
Gratis: In truth, do not rccollect one who Is not
There is Bancroft Irving, Cooper, Stephens, Panld
ing Bryant, &c, &c.-ail--all Of whom are Demo
Gratis nd vet the Wings claim 10 ha all the talents
| sOn the same day. (Saturday,) the Nationals called
meeting Of their pnrtzans for that night, with the
view, it understood, of expressing their indg
nation. But they had not got their yet from
| Washington they could not act. 1t was true, there
was the naked deed-there was the bold reto-and, BY
calling tile meeting, they admitted that the crisis de-
nded the expression of public opinion. Bat villa,
opinion should they express? Their opinions were
clearly made up, their bitter denuncations of the
| President showed But then it prudent, was il
policy to express that opnion' There was the rub
To enable them to hear from Washington, they ad
journed their meeting until Tuesday morning. AT that
time they met; and such harmony prevailed you
have not often witnessed, unless YOU have been the
habit of attending Wing meetings. where an ncongru
i,y of opinions and principles usually produce discord
of proceeding. A MIR. Hicks of Brunswick, think,
presided. Judge Porter of Louisiana. as Chairman of
the Committee, reported the resolutions heard them
read; but can only give you their purport You will
see them published in the Wing and lncl!gcaGer the
only papers to which they sent; the Midisonian
not having that compliment: paid H. Tie resolutions
are well written, and abound in that sorl Of Ine
casm for which, understand Judge Porter is remark.
able Mr. Tyler is censured By expressing, in a curl
Gus FORM regret that he ualncky in revealing
his opinions both before and after the election to
dncc the people 10 believe that lie would SANCTION the
charter of Bank. II IL true, for quarter al a
ury he had expressed, in various stations and under
every variety of responsibility his opposition 10 Bank
upon the highest and most Interchangeable If all grounds
Upon the ground Of It's unconsutonaliiy. IL is
true that in 1872 after all OF The precedenis had heen
set which we told settle the question of constiiu.
tonaiy, he expressed opinions Wh cl would Justify
"The Repeal" 1t is tra' but short time before The
election he referred 10 those opinions as still, entertain
ed II is also true, in Ing Inaugural he declared that
in constituting the Constitution, he should LOOK for gnid.
ance TO the fathers Of the Republic But is dis
covered that General Washington and James Madison
are the only fathers OF the Constitution, whose opinions
are TO be consulted to its meaning The reluctant
assent by the frat gwen with the greatest difficulty,
and by the second under sort Of duresse is to out.
weigh the positive and undoubting opinion Of the Sc
cond, given when ne was pressed upon by no such
stress Of circumstances caused him AZ last yield,
and when he fresh from the deliberations Of the
Convention which framed the Cons, tuition, and of
every other prominent Republican, s,r. Jefferson es-
pecally, who has always been regarded father
Of the Republican faith And il is nov asserted that
when Mr.. Tyler, but short time before the election,
referred to his former opinions about the Bank those
then entertained, the unntlated Republicans alone
were TO understand him committing himself against
a Bank; but the second sighted Wings to inter.
pref his language as with KEY, ard Svs td hat they
considered Dephic revelations, meaning the
of the obvious import OF the words which they were
conveyed. But strange, they 10 think, Mr..
Tyler like plain tirginian, insists that his public
pledges snail not De ike dclnS contra
RES but shall be understood literally And for this he
is denounced as traitor; and his good Wing friends
manifest rage rra,ona their former support Of
him, according TO their showin unprlncipled.
Their wrath at Mr.. Tylers not r ying his prnci.
plies is as Wild as their expectation he would do it
was insulting. If he has been unit 10 them, they
say, he has been in being ll.e Constitution
They call him traitor because he ctuscd to betray.
"From the second resolution, belly e rIs the second,
you will see that the Wings here as.cls5lcd, taking
lesson from their late disappontm, n think that the
best way the charter Of Bank, is at last, TO
come fairly, and not attempt TO deceive the people
by eectng with that view anti. Bank men. They
recommend that the Bank Question be made the test
all elections advise you to publish these resolutions
as sign of the times, they peculiarly are. They
are concocted and passed here, upon neutral ground,
by prominent politicians of several States, who act free
from the restraints usually operating 1t home. From
Them The people will learn, thai arties now in
lSil, after the lapse Of half ce ury TO form again
from the confusion into which the 9ave been thrown,
of late years. upon precisely the same Question which