Richmond enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1815-1867, 1842-02-03

did use the words "they did not deserve any; and
in saying "they, &c, did not intend TO apply them
to any one individual "pdrt'ouiariy.
am, Sir, very respectfully, your obt sery
EDW. STANLY.
| Hon. II. A. WISE
| THE ISTERLUDE or MR. ADAMS CONTINUED
This day. like hundreds OF others, which should have
been devoted 10 the public concerns, was thrown away
upon MIR. Adams. We have little doubt that, IT the
Journals were searched, il would be found that since
Mr. Adams has been in Congress- he has rendered abor
tive for public business least fourth part OF every
session. And before he into Congress, he literal
Nv paravzed The body by the adnterous conception
| and travail which brought him into the Presidency
against the will of the people. The doctrine which he
insisted upon, after attaining the Chief Magisracy,
was-"7he reprtsentatre body shod not be paiscd by
the ,cW Of its constituents" II would seem that he
conceives that this pasyng power should belong to
himself alone. And for months together lie has kept
the whole Congress at bay with the plrenzy with which
| he besets it, After arguing his case yesterday in
ply to MIR. Marshall, and responding to Mr. Wise TO-
day, he has now put in special plea denying that
Congress has any right TO entertain the question which
he has pressed upon it by his own argument, and by
which argument he has called the House to decision
We lea e the explanation Of this point started
by Mr. Adams, to evade the discussion Of The merits
Of Mr. Marshals resolution of censure, to the sketch
riven in our analysis. The pretence assumed by MIR.
Adams that the resolution proposed 10 try and punish
him for the crime of subornaton Of perjury and treason
was shown by Mr.. Marshall to be the merest suberuge
ever pied in the face of an enlightened body Ne
her of these mputa;ons couched IN the preamble had
reference to Mr.. Adams, but 10 those who sought,
through the petition, 10 encourage conspiracy TO dcs
lroy the Government This is manifest on the face Of
the paper and it the contempt offered the House,
in presenting paper raught with this design, that The
resolution of censure was predcated
II Bot Mr. Marshall we'll argued that if the charge
against Mr.. Adams involved the Infamous offence OF
suLornaton Of perjury, the more shocking one Of
treason it did follow that because the House had
no coGnizance of such crimes violations OF law and
as punishable in the criminal tribunal, that the cnl-
prit could be censured banished from the House
in consequence Of the nfamy they attached to him,
and which, under the rules subjected him 10 the ac-
ton Of the body for whatever was calculated 10 de-
, Grade him as n member But the most singular cir
cumstance is, that Mr.. Adams should have attempted
this subterfuge, when he could not have forgotten that
r he himself the Chairman of the Committee the
Senate founded resolution of expulsion against John
Smith, Senator from Ohio, upon the express ground
of participation in Burr's conspiracy. We give the
t resolution:
/ "Resolred, That John Smith, Senator from the
State of Ohio by his participation III the conspiracy OF
Aaron Burr against the peace, union, and Liberties OF
The IT, S. has been guilty Of conduct incompatible with
his duty and station Of Senator of the IT, S, and that
he be therefore and hereby is expelled from the Senate
!, of the u. s."
!, AYES I9-nays 10 Senate Journal, 9TH vol, page
!, 1853.
Mr. Adams did not argue them he did to-day, that
the crime Of treason for which John Smith was 10 be
expelled was not cognzable by the House Of which he
was member He did not argue that the Constitution,
which guaranteed to him the right Of trial before court
by his peers-a ury-and the aid of counsel and OF
witnesses, threw shield him, and secured HIM
from all responsibility TO the rules of the House for such
infamy as these offences attached, rendering him
worthy 10 hold in the body. Far from holding
such doctrine them Mr. Adams backed his resolution
with such powerful reasonIng to persuade the Senate
that participation in conspiracy rfaenng peace and
Drr,aanfnrc of The Union, sufficient cause to expel
a member that 10 TO 10 actually voted the expulsion
of John Smith. Two-thrds of the Senate would have
voted it; but the agreement OF Smith TO resign, IN
case the constitutional vote to expe, not obtained
opportunity Of which he avalled himself This old
case conducted by Mr.. Adams, is precisely in point to
his present case and il is remarkable that he has made
both cases himself. Every word Of his dcnuncalio
Of Smith for the crime OF participating in Burs
spiracy is applicable to that atrocious conspiracy in
which he has himself participated, only against the
peace order, dignity, and usefulness of the body OF
which he is member, but against The safety OF the
Union.
Yet we would not commend "the poisoned chalce to
: his lps although he did not hesitate to make Mr.
Smith drain il TO the dregs We would not give him
or his petition the importance which would be Impart
ed by the consideration of either. They should both
be dismissed in opinion, without discussion or trial
IN the execraton which awaits them and forever
from all who love their country. What IS the formal
censure of the House compared with this? A censure
an expiaton' Ii better to leave him to the punish
ment of public opinion, without such ground Of mi
tication. Globe Of jan. 70.
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