Richmond enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1815-1867, 1843-01-24

from peTuSal OF the following Iucio eAPosiuon.
sowing 10 the length Of communication Of 'Ges
compelled 10 lay it over till our ne1t paper-Ep.
Met upon their Ground
The Wings were yesterday foied at their
pons They have been crying out since an early peri.
cd of the present session, that the Republicans were
wasting the time Of the Legislature that they were tie
dominant party and responsible for oil the acts Of
the session. and they distinctly intlmated that they
would make political capital out Of this cumor; that
they would go before the people at the Spring Eec.
TONS and arrsign the Republican Party for THIS waste
Of tme and Of money, in the present exhausted state
OF the Treasury The Wing Press was raising the
same choruy and it threatened to attack the Republi
can Party for this waste OF time of the session As Mr.
Stanton, the Delegate from Brooke, remarked yester.
day, on his proposition to meet at II o'clock which
met with much greater opposition from the Wings, than
the Republicans, "The dominant party in the House
are to be held responsible the polls, in the Spring,
for the length of the sessoR-and they are now held
responsible by the Wing papers of this city for an
already great waste Of time, when il is well known
that the Wing members Of this House have hereto.
fore occupied and ,respassed upon the time Of the
House, much more frequently than members OF the
Democratic Party" The Wings had even indirect
ly threatened in advance that if the Democrats ven.
tured TO bring in any resolutions upon Federal Re.
latons they would be prepared TO spin out the debate
and throw The responsibility of bringing up the question
upon their Democratic authors-thus hoping, IN the st
place. TO deter the Republicans from expressing their
opinions on The abuses of the Federal Government
If they dared 10 discharge their duty in this respect
they were to be arrayed for wasting the time Of the
session and the money Of the people.
But these attacks Of the Wing Press, and these me
naces, availed nothing. The Republicans determined
TO discharge their duty the State-and accordingly
MIR. Randolph brought forward series of importan,
resolutions yesterday. TO vndicate the greafprncples
of the State. The Wings began at once TO sound the
tocsin-snd by way Of showing their desire to study
economy and screen their Senators from the insruc
tons of the Legislature, they prepared TO raise
the same Glamour about the waste Of time. Their
impetuosty, however, betrayed them into gross blum
der Mr.. Randolph willing to give the Whigss
foil opportunity demonstrating the resolutions, they de-
sired ime-and he therefore moved TO have them LAID
on the table and printed, and 10 fix Monday next or
the Wednesday after the day for taking them up
But Wing member at once 10 move their indeh.
mite postponement-and the Wings, with one or two
exceptions, concurred in the movement. In fact, they
got caught in their trap They who refused week
or ten days TO consider the question, and then voted
for the indefinite Of the subject, must be
supposed TO be ready 10 decide at once on the merits
Of the question-and yet when the Republican party
taking them their word forward to save the time
Of the House, and decide it at once, and moved the
Previous Question upon the resolutions, the Wings
uniformly voted against it-insisted upon more time
and declared that the Previous Question, in such
case, was unparalleled and oppressive. They forgot,
that in January, le4l, Uhe last session., when they
the predominant party, they had at once called
the Previous Question upon the Republican party, in
the famous case of the Expunqing Resolution and
passed the resolution at once with the aid of the Wing
votes and among them, in favor of the Previous Cues
ton, or first sprnging the games, were sesss
Payne, Worthington, VERIFY, and Taylor of Norfolk
They forgot yesterday, they about charge
the Republicans with the responsibility Of the waste
of time by bringing forward these important resolu
tons, the Republicans were not so much TO blame TO
take them at their own word and act with such prcmp
titude, as to save the time of the House, and thus
avoid the of the Whgs-especally, as three
months debate was scarcely calculated to change
SIM gle vote in the House.
The day session protracted 10 great 9Th, and
arked by no little disorder and confusion. But the
solutions all passed-thus saving least whole weeks
debate. Some of the were amusing enough
Some of the positions Of The Wings Of a singular
character They insisted upon it, that to call the State
Legislatures the "Constuen,s" Of the U. S. Senators
was q new, doubtful and even insdious proposition
Indeed! VIII these gentlemen be pleased to say, if The
State Legislatures not the Constituents, who are
Does not the Federal Constitution declare, that cit shall
be composed Of two Senators from each State thosA
by the Legislature thereof, &C.? And If they ehoOs,
do they not constitute them in the Of the State
and have they not right to instruct them, in the
the State Did not he same distinction run in gS-e
between the Republican and Federal pares-wheu
John Taylor Of Caroline and the Republicans insisted
upon the right ofthe Legislature TO instruct the Senators
for the repeal Of the Alien and Sedtion laws-art
when the FedeaIiss wished 10 nulfy that Right !!
claiming for the People Of the State only the right
instruct Thus, the present Wings stand on this, q
on most other grounds the old foundation of The
Federal party. "A rose by any other nan;0 woua /.
smell as sweet"
In the course Of the session, attempt made
ridcule the resolutions nstructing these high MAJ
tiers, by bulesque amendment, intended to cast sr
and sneer the practice Of instructing the Senator
which was much 10 say, that the Legislature
of the sovereign parties TO this Federal Compact t
RICH, TO enquire, how far the Federal Government m
ransgressed the compact to which each sovereign Sur
is party. Thus il might 60 on TO abuse its powen
and violate its charter, and yet the States must fax
their arms, submit quietly to the aggresson-an OF
even have the power to instruct its represen,a'''
agents 10 nerpose 10 arrest the evil. And this goS
Federal doctrine. II