Daily Richmond Whig. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1840-1842, 1842-08-23

re pos poa. Issues 10 regard the bank. they mie
~ have done IL But this was not theis Sin; their ~
that they adhere! 10 their rIlnep'ess thstthe
" went FOR measures not men. when men tnfne'
their hacks their own principles. the party IN tn
t. majority here should ever tam their backs upol
Ne all such aposates; and the gentleman would I'm,
"a in due time from the svowal OF the Wing party
~ Mr. d. here inquired whether the President had nc
been pledged TO the advocates OF The bill to pass
,e in a particua forni and whether when il was -
1: presented he had not vetoed ~ A gentleman wa
70 nov present (Nr Stuart, OF VAL who had in hi
"a pocket the draueht Of such bill with ineSlinea.
II tons from the Presidents own hand. Had moi
!, the President recomme nded the land distribution
: bilii Was not that of the measures which
Y he had come into poweri and was the gentleman
fes Massachusetts to seoffthe Wings for adherins
TO their principles, while he had himself gone over
{ to false perhdious PRESIDENT
/. lie would take leave to tel, that gentleman tina,
public men, however talented, were Ct no value il
they did no, carry out their principles The Wings
had abandoned the President when he abandoned
his principles; and could that pure minded patriot
who now slept at North Bend, nave been guilty Of
the same foul apostacy, they would have Just MS
certainly abandoned him. So they would serve
any other President who should desert his princ
piles and jiShonor his character. Could oven the
T illus,rious citizen who has now the hope, under
heaven, Of the Wings, and OF a suffering country
could he, too, prove false, they would spurn him
in the same manner. But could any man, not SUI
fering arrangement, believe for moment that the
great Wing party OF this Union were going TO aban
don statesman, orator, and patriot like that, for
the miserable dwelling nom entity that
enthroned in his folly and weakness at the White
Housed company Of turncoat traitors, OF politi-
cal buccaneers, turning with shame from their own
odous proportions, as held up TO their view ty
reproachng conscience, to relieve their guilty ieel
iugs, charged their own baseness upon the Wing
party. But such proved, in the fact, that they
did not know them. No, no: they know nothing
OF whiggery; their vagrant feet had never so much
as approached the threshold of the temple. No
they never felt the heart-stirrng thrill of the pa
trioiic bosom; never, never. But 1t was most
just because they were revolted by the features
they boheld in the mirror, TO charge the same upon
their ndversarieS.
The Wings had been charged here with Prcsi.
dent making. MIR %. said that the Democratic
party proper, they had acted ont their principles;
others, for the grat6cn ion Of dark and deadly
venge, in pursuit Of tho spoils, had played the
sycophant at the foot of the throne, and thrown
their whole influence in the way to prevent the
Wings from carrying out those great meas they
had devised for the welfare OF a suffering land,
With this worthy end in view, they had consulted
the leading passion OF n weak and selfish mind
the irrational desire of being re elected for another
Presidential term. And too well had they succeed
ed in their unholy purpose. The President pro.
fessed TO have the tenderest Of all eonsciences-for
consciere. sake he had resisted every benecent act
OF legislative authority; but, could It but have been
made TO appear that those self same measures
would have secured his re election, he would
have leaped upon them like tiger.
MIR ID. expressed 1t as his firm conviction that
no Wing in that House had advocated any mea
sure with a view to "head" Mr. Tyler, The wish ed
he had a head worth something moro than a green
gourd;l they had come here " tn readiness 10
tain him, TO give him a cordial and united support:
and had he manfuy and truly acted out the prn
] cip,es which secured 10 them and 10 him their po-
| ltical ascendency, he would have had parry at
tn s hour both in that House and in the country
And had an upright. noble, patriotic course secured
to him the Of an approving country for second
term, Mr. ID. would have said amen amen
But his friends had suggested for him a very DIFF
fsrent course, and they had been busily occupied
the whole session long, in that work OF President
making which they 80 loudly charged upon their
Wing opponents. They had in fact been engaged
/ IN nothing else; they cared for nothing e'se All
that seemed TO fill their thoughts power and
spoils. These weie the objects they glosted on
and for which they were ready to sac fce he co IN
try. But he trusted that that same teni.nani
! Providence which had carried this country through
So many trials, which had conducted it safely
through two military conflicts and all our threat
enng civil dssens;ons, and preserved the republic
from its youth ill this day, would STILL hover
over It's destinies and ward off all foreign and all
| intestine dangers.
Mr ID. concluded by saying that he had not risen
Tor the purpose OF making speech, and II, in what
he had said, there were any Of his words which any
gentleman chose TO assume to himself individually,
he vas entirely welcome to do so.
MIR ARNOLD said that this question, as had be en-
well remarked by the gentleman from Kentucky, |
was above all other questions; and, therefore il
gentlemen thought proper to debate it fully he had
no objections. be should not, as it had been ap-
pretended, move tho previous question. He con
sdered 1t above all the other questions of the coun
try-hbove the tariff; above the questions Of dstri.
button; and above all other questions, except that
OF loeny itself. In fact, II was OF itself the very
ques ion of bsrty.
! II he could have been nstonished at any thing in
this House; he should have been astonished yester
day at the declaration OF the gentleman from Ken
lucky, lMr Marshall,l that he thought a Govern
II NaFIfNr Nha -.
world lie was surprised aso to hear the gentle
maa from Virginia Mr. Wisel say that he concur
red most heartily in the sentiments Of the gentle
man from Kentucky which to him Nr A an.
peared 10 strike at the very foundations of tho
very foundations Of the Government, and calcula-
ted TO throw Us into anarchy and confusion. Talk
about the doctrines of Fanny Wright and Of RoLt |
Dale owen, or any OF those ngraran infdels which |
went 10 the destruction Of all law and order they !
were bht as farihing rushight to the SUM- in COM
patson with the doctrines avowed by these gentle
MIR PROFFlT asked leave to make explana-
ton; and on MIR Arnold's declining 10 ye.d the floor
said that one Of his constituents (Mr Owen) had |
been unjustly assailed, and what said OF him |
was not true
MIR ARNOLD said that when the gentleman from |
kentucky add tho gentleman from Virginia who |
acted as the mouth piece Of the President, get up
and advocate such doctrines, nc would say that they
were Tar moro dangerous than any OF the asrarian
doctrines that had been preached in New York and |
elsewhere. Ii was equivalent TO saying that the |
people were not capable of ssf-governmenL Our |
ancestors thought that the people were capable Of
sell government; but, in the short space of ffty
years, doctrine had got into Consfess that the
minority should rule the majority; and it had become
question whether the one-mAn power in this coun
try was supreme, end whether the Executive had
all the legislative as we'll the executive power in
the Government.
MIR A. looked upon the speech OF the gentleman
from kentucky (Mr Marshal) as an effort 10 gain |
admIttance into the Democratic party. Il was like |
an aliens filing his declaration and application for |
citizenship upon his first entering into the country |
and the time chosen by the gentleman was, when |
tho prospects OF the Wing party appeared to be |
gloomy. When the clouds hang daTkly round us |
tsaid Mr. Al our friends beginning to leave |
Mr. A. said tina; gentlemen here, with the most
sanctlmonious countenance, exclaimed that the Con.
sltullonlwos sacred aad venerable IN instrument,
that II would not do to touch IL. This was a new
born ZEAL Did the trainers Of the Constitution hold
II in such high es,eeml No; they looked upon il
as good men do upon poor, frail human nature
-necesshTily imperfect, and susceptible OF amend
meni; which could be made in the progress OF time
as pointed out by experience. AZ the very time
that they framed this instrument, they supposed
that great many defects would be found in H.
which their shortsghiedness did not then enable
them 10 discover; and they therefore provided the
means by which amendments might be made In
deed. u had been amended several times since its
| adoption.
| lie continued the discussion Of the veto novsr