Richmond daily times. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1853, 1852-05-27

| gentleman from Amelia. They only aaitate n
subject upon which there is n difference of opin-
ION existing here. They 60 not arraign the Gov
ernor upon trial If so, no one would object tn
them. So far the Democratic party is con-
cerned, if the gentleman wishes to make ansa,tack
upon it, or to disturb the harmony of its councils.
| he has taken the most successful method to do so
winch his Ingenuity could have devised The
gentleman had been begged to forbear from this
attack. He had been warned of the i'll effects
winch his course IN reference to this ect would
inevitably have upon the Democratic party: vet
he had obstinately persisted in his determination.
And now he submitted to the taste of the gentle
man, whether this attack upon the Democratic
party was right and proper on the part of one who
| protested to be n member of that partyl 1t was
unnecessary for him to shield the Governor from
the reflections cast upon him by the eccentric
gentleman from Amelia. From boyhood to the
grey head OF old aye, he has stood by the South in
all OF her trials and battled increasingly against all
who have made war upon her institutions By
his peculiar oratory upon the stump, he has ac-
| CURED almost unlimited command over the pas
s1ons OF the hardy men of the mountains, who are
ready CLOSE their last drop of blood in defence of
his doctrines Mr.. l.. said he might even cues
ton the right of the Legislature, the mere insects
OF day, to pass such resolutions dis these upon a.
man who holds his office, not by the Legislature
but by the votes of the people. The Governor
|
From his convictions Of right and wrong he had
lntefposed the pardoning power to save the negro
| from the sentence OF death, to which he had been
consigned by the Court; but he had practised
upon him the next highest punishment known to
| the law-transportation and although it might
be said that virtually this no punishment, yet
he differed widely from those who thought So
There is no human being, whether from Lapland
or elsewhere but whowill, when carried from his
country, look back with repining the land of his
nativity. It's natural that he should; and, there
FORE this negro, although he had not suffered un-
der the law in its strongest form, had yet incurreda
penalty, the pain of which he would feel for the
balance of his life.
| Mr.. BORROW said that the gentleman from
| HARRISON In his attempt at satire, had spoken of
members of the House as the mere insects of
day, This remark was eminently characteristic
of the gentleman himself. He is an insect in
more than one He is but an insect in de-
| bate, and then he resembles another insect which
often makes impotent and abortive efforts to sting.
| What are we to gain by referring this subject TO
the committee OF Courts of Justice? What are
we to gain by any modification of the criminal
law which that committee may suggest! The
law as it now stands cannot be executed, because
the Governor says it would be contrary to the sp-
rlt OF the age to do so; and should that law be
amended by the Legislature, the Governor will
then stand upon the precise ground that he does
now. He asked Mr. WALLACE whether he en-
dQrsed the first message of the Governor!
| MIR. WALLACE. [ do not.
| Mr.. BoTToM. Very we'll, now I wish to ask
you another question. Does the second message
OF the Governor afford you satisfactory explana-
ton of the first
Mr.. WALLACE preferred not to answer this
question, nor longer to discuss the matter but to
let it go to the committee where it would receive
ample investigation; and he should be prepared
to act upon the subject whenever report from
that committee was submitted to the House.
! The vote then taken upon Mr.. Walaces
resolution OF reference to the committee of Courts
of Justice and decided in the affirmative 60,
noes 5S-as follows:
AYEs-Messrs. Crutohfeld tspeaker) Carpenter Rich
eson Cheatham Talbot Miller of Botetourt and Craig,
Wiley, Jones of Chestred Barbour Hamlin Jack of
d. T., Hunton Miller of F. Shannon, Taliaferro w hte
of u O., billiard, Lewis, Moore of H., Jordan Crow,
Moore of Jefferson, Gibson, Fry Browne Tomin Semp,
| Flanary, Bennett, Newman Kidwell, Nicholson Goode
of NJ, Mcdonald Lemy. Wheeler, Portlock, Keyser,
Kee, Wallace, Jackson ofP. & R.. Nottingham, Scott of
Preston Wilson, Collier Saunders, Caddalt, Morrison
Martz Bare Stevens, Smith Of R., Gmer of r. Mckinney,
Greever Dawson, King Dunn, Wellman and West-6O.
| NoEs-Messrs. Mapp, Rives of Albemarle Early,
Massey Bottom, Walker Tate, Imboden, Goode of B.,
Davis, Dunlap Irving Clark, Speed Buckner Hancock,
Segar Stuart Headen, Payne, Brooks Leake Howerton
ning Morgan. Darlington, Jones of NJ. McCuoch, Gar
reson, Vawter Echols Preston Michael Kilby Dawson
Robertson of Norfolk City, VERIFY RUSSELL Hubbard Old
| ham, Wooding linn, Bowyer, Taylor, Anderson. Rice
Leyburn, Gilmore of R., Pretow, Burdett, Wtten and
| Boyd-5e.