Daily Richmond Whig. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1840-1842, 1842-02-24
RICHMOND. Feb IA IsA2

RICHMOND, Feb u, 1912.
DEAR JopsE; Your letter under date OF the i2.h
lnstart - az hard, and IN answer have saw that
10 the year 1885, think you and my self were going
from Williamsburg 10 take the steamboat for this
place. When the boat came TO the wharf for ms
and We got on board, MIR Philip Harrison was there,
and told me that be was on his way TO Williams.
burg 20 attend your court. ! remarked TO him that
you had adjourned your court, and was on your
way 10 Richmond. MIR Harrison appeared ye1ed
az your having adjourned your cour, before he pot
there, and said you oush, 10 be impesched and re.
moved from the bench; that instead Of attending to
your Judicial duties, you were going about he eoun-
Try preichng yourh ellish doctrines Qualification.
DID no. think any thing OF MIR Harrsons s;rong LAM
guase IN relation TO notification. knew he thought
!, the greatest OF a.Qpoli.ca here.ies and believed
there was no difference between IT and disunon
Last winter, when your name spoken of in
conneIlon with the Office Of United States Senator,
MIR Harrison came to me and said that you " ere
not M Tor the place, that you were a disuuionist
which d not surprise me RI OIL; nor did even ask
MN why he thougot so, because / knew he thought
notification and disunion the same. I concluded
ne only alluded to your being a nuliifer said 10
MIR Harrison, that II you were nomin,ted for IN.
once OF Senator, that would tell the House that
you were nulher, and state all your opinions f,I
ly and fairly. Mr. Harrison and myself parted. I
heard no more OF his objections. I mentioned Inc
conversation 10 several OF our friends ard thew
agreed with mo IN the opinion that Mr. Harrison
meant no'hinS more than that you were nuilifer
10 the Old Federal party, nnd do not remember
ever 70 have seen one of tina, highly respectable and
intelligent party, who did not think, like MIR uar-
iison, that nuliihcaIion and dsunion were one and
.ne same. ne ground taken by those in the Vir.
gina Legislature in 1893, agains. the ndop,ion of
the resolutions Of John Try or, Esq, was. ,ha, thew
would inevitably lead 20 disunion. The rsDuLli.
cans Of that day thought differently; as they do
now. They were right then, and so think lhey
are now. my
You also ask me to say whether have had m
opportunity Of knowing your political opinions. I
have We have been acquainted for about ten
years, and have, during that tinle conyerssd fre-
quen'Iy ABOUT all the political quedons which have
been agiia,ed. | have heard your opinions fte
quenuy, in private and in company, an have al.
ways heard you contend that yours were the trre
conyer'ative principles Of the Constitution. | ne
yer saw but one nuliher who was a sun'onst
remember thai you, he, and myself we're toge her;
We were discussing various subjects about men and
measures, when no said notification would do very
wei IN ofdnlry cases, but that he though, that tho
time Tor disunion had arrived. You al on-e en-
tered into an argum' ut win him, to show him n e
error Of his opinion You eontende thai d;suni.n
must inevitably be su,eeed,d by war, which Won
seemed 70 dep oeate more han any In NO. eYcept
10 b; purdsftd q our p opsr;Y o. Ut suy. have
away ard you eOn'end, that sooner th1n SEE ora
s'eaI central Governmen! bu Il up on the ruins Of
tns Con't futon. and tbs ghts and Liberty or the
paope dei'r y'd, you would sec dsunion, You
contend 20 tiaii IN such n cise, dsurion would be
proper eieS there could lie no lonzer rational
n2po o. Hg'' orJusics fom tho Fed,rs rulers.
100 To- 81 IA "hen such an event happened, toe
Government had failed 10 be what il was intended
70 be ~ u.s. trainers, and that il had virtually dis
solved ise.
have given, ~ briefly as could, such informa-
Won a. you nsk Of me. | am afraid that have
understand -.
In haste, an very truly your friend,
JOHN ~. GREGORY.