Richmond daily Whig. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1842-1861, 1843-12-18
RICHMOND DAILY WING.
MONDAY MORNING, DECEMBER Is. is4a.
The Late EIpnngc.


This odious act of highland tyranny, is
every where attracting the severe and Just animad-
versions of the Wing Press.
We would respectfully ask, in the language of
the Baltimore American, "why the protest of MIR.
Barnard must no, only be denied place the
record, but, when inserted there as part of re-
solution, must be e1pmnged by special vote!"
But these gentlemen will find, when they return
TO their constituents, that they have more 10 ac-
count for than they think. They may crush the
minority to the very earth, because they have the
power to do it-they may destroy all traces of
their acts, if they can-but the people cannot be
crushed. To them, they must account for this
deed-to them, they must make report of their
s,ewar,lship-and by them, the deeds done in their
representative character, must finally be Judged
The majority has undertaken task which will
prove at least equal 10 its strength-the task,
namely, of setting at defiance, all former prccc-
dent, and of riding rough-shod, the laws
which Congress, in compliance with the constitu-
tiona provision 10 that effect has enacted for the
government of its own proceedings Let them
go on in their mad carcer-let them consummate
this act, begun in the iniatuaton Of confidence
arising from overgrown strength-let them decide,
that State, in defiance of the law of Congress,
has right to send Representatives elected under
the general ticket system, while that law pre-
scribes another method-if they are able to stand
it, we repeat, let them go on. If they do not find
that they are calculating rather too confidently,
upon the iorbearance OF the people, we are more
mistaken than ever were in our lives.
| This act Of Van Buren, majority, is easy to
read and means utter contempt, not only for
the laws of Congress, but for the pretensions and
wishes of Mr.. Calhoun, one of whose friends, in.
troduced into the House, the original plan of the
| District System. The gentleman we allude to- is
| Mr. Campbell. who, il is we'll known, introduced
into the Apportionmcnt Bill, the district clause, in
compliance. no doubt, with the wishes of his party,
and at least not against the consen of their lead
er. That the Calhoun party believed this TO be
the proper and fair method of elccting members TO
Congress, is apparent, from the fact. that they
have chosen it, in the organization of the National
| Convention. Already does Van Buren, member
talk about spurnng it, and trampling it under
| foot even before the Committee has reported on
it, and in fact before it had been referred 10 any
Committee We say nothing of the decency of
this expressed determination on the part of mem.
Der Of the House, before the question is properly
up for debate. But, if the friends of Mr.. Cal
houn are accustomed To interpret signs, they may
very easily see disposition to "spurn' the authors
of the scheme, after the scheme itself has been
spurned and trampled on.
The two wings of the party, however, must SCI
! tie this matter among Themselves What we chief
" wish the public to bear in mind 10, that thc pre-
sent House of Representatives, in defiance of law,
have compelled an officer sworn to keep journal,
to obitcrate that Journal, only because ii full
| Ter, than they deemed necessary They do not
allege that the journal was not correct-they only
insist that ii was too correct, and they strive TO OBJ
| ierate it entirely, so that it may be, though
such things never happened. Ii the people sub.
mi: to this outrage upon the law Of Congress, they
are tanner than we take them to be.