Lynchburg Virginian. [volume] (Lynchburg [Va.]) 1829-185?, 1842-07-14
THE COMPROMISE ACT

Perhaps the public Will be surprised to learn that the
kichnond Enquirer, which affects To be very much
horror struck at the idea Of violating the Compromise
Act has declared, and often not only that that Act
has 10 peculiar claims to sanelty, but that in pin, Of
ac' II VAS so imperfect and even Objectionable in some
OF lis faurcs. that ought 10 be violated I'll is cmi-
ncnily detective" sad the Enquirer in 1873. land
must be amended And YET now it saws it is too holy
to be touched, and must be preserved sacrca and irio
dac''
MI Tyler, IS true. in ISIS. when he made his eel
chmfed Report and Speech. iii favor orDisrbution. vo
ted for Il resolution declaring thai the Compromise Act
ought na to be voIaed-L,. al The same tine. he pare
oHei lei construction slich j he adhered toll now
'co"d sto~ That tie Ed lately rctocd by han does not
c@;et rifb lis provisions, bat docs, IN fact maintain
than "Sacfed and Hrioiatc.'
There Is another fact, deserving to be mentioned in
This connection, The resolution OF 1899, declaring that
the COMPROMISE Act ought 10 be held sacred and invio
hate WAS adopted in the House OF Delegates lay vote
ot IS to Sand will ii be believed that nearly all the
members who voted against it, aud who, by that vote.
declared That the Compromise Act ought not to he held
sacred and InyoIac, were Loco rocos? Yet the fact is
81, Why thcy all at once 50 solicous 10 preserve
his act sael,d aud inyioa'c 10 which they were tlcu
hostile?
Bnt 10 cap the cuua. this Act. TO preserve which
from violation Mr. Tyler rraisscdy vetoed the Tariff
Bill. was the other day the llor Of the Senate pro
nouaced t9be" UNCONSTITUTIONAL by John c.
Calh,u!i And so Mr.. Tyler is uudcd to the skies
for veto the effect of which is to preserve sacred and
nyiolalc an NCON>TII GrIONAI. lan,n
III. C.5ficndn.-Ihis gentleman made a brief but
spirited aim or to the eNeo. few days AGO in the
Noa'a. aIeljrcocc to the disrcss,s Of The country,
aud th.eoss to winch they are falsely ascrbcd by the
I.oca ifoso orators, Mr.. Crtendcn said:
- But why hook 50 iar-Whv look Ia those more help
loss than he. when tie and the fault arc directly
visible fel3ie him! What need he To look beyond the
veto oi two days since? Why talk of the eNtrcm
ties. When N IS AT the very vitas of vatr Gov
cfnmem2 Sir. Is a political affection oil thc heart
our President is to direct and Immediate cause Of this
maiaG lat fan''S IN the very central seat 81 the syS
/ tenn. Your President is the maadv himself Yet
gentlemen ask why wedd not lcgisIae? We did
Not Hs heflicd an independent LEGISLATURE consulinr
only Her wn prudence and sense Of public duty but in
b Slated t" cur opinions. unncr,od Of onr own plrpo
s's, In avert the Presidential dsplfIsnc CONGRESS was
reduced 10 collect from the voice of rumor the motives
and the causes that Were 10 shape It's performance Of its
high functions And yet after all this degrading sub
mission. what have we? 4 fresh veto,
"Gcnilemcn declam about the land bill. ard find in il
topics Tor patriotic dennnciaon Yet is there here
question Of whether ornot this Legislature is To be
mere shadow OF imperial edics? I appeal To honorable
gentlemen whether we have not under these unhappy
circumstances. higher duty pcrorm than tins Of par
" attack defence.
Mr.. [. went To say that, if there had been here
a serious constitutional doubt, any crave qucs
iion Of public cNpodeney. lie could have understood the
President. But TINS matter Of ordinary law of an
cNpeeleney the most limited and temporary. 1t was
obvious that tins great this ultimate Executive power
was no longer to he suspended on high rare and
solemn resort. II was now 10 he put on. day by day,
the ltlle ndshPmau ls first weapon aud plucks
it out upon all We could too, lave better
endured our own official dearadaon, if it had been
Julius asar an Andrew Misunderstanding rreat
aud heroic yanuc, where there was adjanily to re-
deem the nsulchrc. W. might then have found some
drop ofpaeuce A. have but to 90 cooragcou,ly
though sadly forward and do 10 the end whatever ,rc
at least eau do, To rescue The country from thu strange
disasters