Daily Richmond Whig. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1840-1842, 1842-03-30

his measures-wi.h not taking the unbutleeed bread
! ne offered Us, because We did not, in truth. Know
hwhieh OF the two bats were 10 nib'tl lLaueh'
tea Does his hand hold eithci7 WHO knowsf-
and how is his oraeuar will to be aseertained1 II
crying injustice was done to a body ot men IN
the world, these charges against Of heiious OPP
position and personal enmitY to the President etc
the eruelest and most unfounded examples of 1t.
% one branch of our public affairs the ORAcLE
say has spoken at last-Rnd at a very proper time
Just in the IN ddle of subject like that before
and when the House has Just disposed OF the
leading question involved in It. Ay while we a,e
engaged on a measure OF finance the peculiar friend
OF the President brings US in amendment to re
peal the Land bill, and his amendment is voted
I down. What next On the very next day VIC are
told by the President must 90 this very thing
Why is thisl five are indeed bound as n Congress
10 follow IN all things the will of the Executive,
why was the expression of that will withheld ull
we have chosen course OF our own directly the
reverse, and then suddenly brought forward that
we may he whipped back. and the servile chain OF
unqueSuoninE subservicncy is bound on our fee
hmosf feS-and insult is added. We must not
only submit TO wear a chain, but must hold 1t
up 10 pubic view, and clank letters that all the
world may hearl-so that there shall remain no
doubt on any mans mind that, on the greatest mea.
sure ever submitted, the National Legislature is
perfectly AMI absolutely subservient to the Pfcsi
dents revealed good pleasure.
| To whal does all this ead1 Why all this obScu-
riy this uncertainty, thrown the wishes of the
President for time, till we have received and act
ed on the recommendations of his Secretary, and
then those recommendations are here openly repu
dated by OF his peculiar friends and after
weight thrown on its progress through the House,
and then, rs soon es we have acted, thus re-
buked' Could any thing have been more suiully
designed to make the Legislature unpopular, and
present majority Of its measures opcnly dissra-
ccd. degraded, shamed before the eyes of the PEG.
ple7
lie has spoken Yes, ard what has lie s,id'
IL hehoOvcS US to listen, and give true inierpsc.
tation to his words, If such n thing be possitIe -
What has he saidl He has told Us that an act.
passed under his own express recommend aLcn, d
trihu,ins among the States the nvajls Of tho public
lands, must be repealed. That, because we lie
under q ceot Of seventeen millions, there Is no
o'h-r resource To escape from our cmbirrasSmenis
= but by taking this back from the States Whil-
possessed nj the whole revenue power with which
the Constitution has clothed U.s. ard of which II has
IN the same breath Invested the Sta'es have no
other earthly means to sustain American credit in
the eyes of the world. than take away from the
States the lands which their own, ard which
by taGdy &C, OF justice have Just restored to
them. GeS, the set sNnic na'on. Who with a 20 q.
p1otion Of but 'hfce mons, with its CONNIE &c
, broken up-without Government-?oor, naked
without allies, save as own irjnmitGIis ccur. &c
and Heaven 20 SMILE upon it-eonjras;ed a debt OF
hundred mi.oCs. aud funded II: WIS k,I 4 Jcd,,
OF laHG surrendered 10 tho Un.on Il is States. o.
condition that It should be q fcnd iron, which the
debts ct the States were TO be paid and It's c,cdt
restored, aod winch paid that debt: a nation which,
twenty-five years Gi:cr, cOrt- &C cd Of the cal OF
the nitio~al honoi, another debt OF y hundred and
twenty mous and peil thrt too; this sane naiior
now laborlng under he enormous. the crushing Ge bt
OF seventeen m'llions-afer shuGl ne ci all Eetjo
~ promoting in'sTnai improvements ard shiC;rr
that npon the shou defs Of the slat,s-tas nation
he's no " no means 20 raise enough revenue: - pay
OF these seventeen millions, expended as they lave
IN piEi, been Tor national objects. which Gtc the
very Sluews OF defence, No With all our
s-l,f
untouched, we cannot raise these ~ m, iion- but
mus snatch iGom the mouths Of the States the resi-
dunn OF that recently restored inheritance which
they permued us TO enjoy long after the original
objects Of the grant hsd been more ,hsn fulfilled.
Anc We are called TO do this 10y State Rights Pc
Sideni! And Il VIC 90 not comply, we nre then TO
be denounced as sc,ns from fnci'ous principles and
desire and design 20 head Captain Tyler
And the friends of the President expec, 10 be able
to bolster him UP. snd get party to place him
second, rather for the first; time in the chair OF
State, by disgTacins and degrading Congress
smoke something OF the unh,ppy divisions of
! the Wing party. Executive ono legislative and |
said that there was but subject on which ever
would consent 20 practise deception on the PeoDlo
| These unhappy divisions | would, il could, fer.
ever hide from the eyes oi the naiioR So help me-
Heaven, would cover them up from every eve
Blu; cannot. No, | cannot do n. War has been
proclaimed, and cannot help Il. 4 reunion of
these fragments OF the Why party las once
denomnatcd them, and OF which saying Of mine so
maQfl would
ouce throughout our entire financial system instant
and entire regularity and order. | do no, believe
that It requires any vast depth Of genius or any
| enormous amount OF patriotism 10 brins back our
| finances az least 10 sound ard healthy condition.
But 10 produce This union OF fragments shall we
surrender a,i the principles which brousl. ,is into
powerl Shall We DO this, above an, from The fear
Of tie charges Of men whU, as we a know. will
make Charges against US, 10 WHIST may7 |,
there any doubt 20 what are the rrincirlcs and
10 fy1
! IN any mind. And again, | say, that IL the arts
| which are now employed TO beat down that party
/ and 10 wFesI the Government from their hands
shall succeed II will be because never before has
! party experienced such foul such CRYING injustice
/ We ore not to be allowed the opportunity OF trying
/ the effect Of our own principles. If they would
only let US make an experiment., and see Whistler
our principles right or wrong in their practical
application, poor, fallen Wing might at least cross
/ his arms, ard find in his lot some liiile drops of
/ comfort But here we are, crossed, thwarted on
/ posed al every STEP and then tainted because we
20 not do what you vii not es US 90. You charge MS
with delay, while you are yourselves throwing
every mpcdimeni in our path. You stop the great
ea5ing wheel OF the State machinery, and then cry
out that we DO not know how 10 set the works in
mou0n. Do We talk az raising revenue-that in
slant d. you rise up with the most vltlent hostility
against every inc Of the tariff. Do we talk Of
furnishing commercial medium that shall b, of
equal value all over the United States-every nlsn
We propose TO ofee, 10 is vetoed and we are eft IN
'oa uaThhess as 70 what the will OF the President Is
Another Of our great AMI leading measures was
the end oil; nn1 just the indebted States are ex.
pecln2 rich blessing m their state Of embarrnss.
ment rom rs benehcsnt provisions we are called
upon 10 undo our own work and nulHfy our own
iivorie measure. What arc the Advantages which
thai measure you'd SECURE, but which we n,e now
ca ed upon 20 forego7 hold in my hand a doc,i-
ment m which those advantages are % admirably
set forth, that may bo p1rdoned for Quoting rs
eloquent language ard employing it in place Of nv
own IL Is n speech delivered if mistake not M \
/ place, somewhere IN Virginia. called Louisa and in
| It we afe told thst old Virginia. who coded to her
sister States territory far greater than the eYt.n,
/ Of her own boundaries, il, through the precious
blessings Of Mr. Gays land bill to he At length re
munsraIed Tor her generous m,gnanmity.
Mr. M.hers quoted pretty nrgoly from .p,eeh
OF Mr. wise, IN which he sp-aks IN very exalted
terms Of the ani bill md its a1ihor. The readinr
elected mary smIes
I Tbs was in 80 The Virginia docrrin.-tbe VIII,
Virginia doctrine; 20 least f yre NAV roceive a. an
ihor'y The words Of ore who was nj that tune him
sell good evidence OF what a virginia Who ,re,,,
But now, 80 strangely hive the doctrine. Of oiJ
I Nrsina-ny, Of old Wing Virgnn-chnnced. tEst
here W. see Virginia Whig sand ny uo on tb,
iioor and preaching 70 US that of all the Wbig r,ea
sures, this lard bill which he says is really no
Il Whg measure nt OIL IS The mos, e1ecr,b'e and
ahominabel Surely, surely, the gentleman. who
Inns Tor days together been Numbering forth nn-tLs.
mas against this measure, could never in his ,Y,sn.
sVc reading on Constitutional law, have met with