Richmond enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1815-1867, 1842-09-06


! look to that Adjournment with disnay? Cast before
such furnishing multitude the whole benefit of dstr-
hction, and would be but drop Of dew among ten
! thousand men dying OF thirst.
Would not the country ask, why the one measure
which could be effected had not been passedand why
misery should be multiplied because all could not be
relieved, Such would be the cool Judgment Of the
country; such would be gentlemen own judgment Of
themselves in their calmer moments OF reflection
They would not have returned 10 their homes and laid
their heads upon their pillows for halt an hour, with
beias aroused TO the consciousness thai they could
have ccced great measure oil relief Tor the country,
hat had impsudeny, in the moment OF excitement and
pa ssio neglected 10 do H. But pass this measure, and
each, WHEN he rises from his pillow will feel consoed
for tie loss Of that which he could not help, by the ut
iainment Of tiat which had brought joy and gadness
To many constituents fresldc. 1t should be recol
eced that Congress not IN q condition IN winch
il could command success neither was 1t IN condition
IN which il cculd afford put eff to another and more
distant day the issue pending. In contest OF a
private nature personal feelings might justify what
prudence NIGH: orcgo but gentlemen did not stand
here 10 CRAFTY Their private teelngs-'hcy nad great
trust for others fulfill and the dictates of prudence
were imperative
This yielding up of Wing principles. On
tk. contrary, il was the contamination Of great aud
,rudug Wing measure Neither The posiponement
of distribution abandonment Of that prnclp IL
was n postponement, not defeat On the other hand,
the triumph would be with the Wings at last, in conf
pel!ing the Executive 10 give the country this grea,
measure of protscton-and this protection a
vital principle 10 winch large and influential portion
Of The community locked with intense anxiety. What
would be their disappointment and chagrn, If II was
insi hy mere puu,til.oa contes, OF feeling between
,lrir Representatives and the Executive; Was there
not some dargcr-and imninen; danger, tootIIat this
disappointment might work itself into indignation; that,
in The mighty hcavings Of personal interests, this ndig-
nation might be directed against the question of dsri
button as The impeachment 10 expected frution; that the
very name Of distribution nigh, become byword and
rcproach like the alien and sediton laws which
had as many aud ardent admirers as the question of
distribution; ye, every knew to what pass of de-
secration they had been reduced by the din of popular
clamor Let not then, this great measure Of ds,rbu
ton be rendered odous contemplate in The eyes Of
more than lis political opponents 1t will be time
enough to take up when there is some assurance of
its success when dsmay and restitution driven from
The laborer's dwelling, and when his children no
longer crying for bread Let these furnishing little
ones PERISH and what will be The anguish Of hear. with
which their parents will look TO distribution, and de.
nounce it the desoa,or Of their hearihs?
i Mr. G. dwet u, some length on the confusion Of
IDEAS which had been occasoned BY the supposed right
&c making protection and distribution d-penden, on
each other lie thou h, that practical good could
be effected by separating them, now that Executive