Richmond enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1815-1867, 1858-03-19
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Finally were enaoted
"a Thrde sorte OF I.swes suc!l us Inaye issue out
OF every mans private couceipt."
These include penal laws for number Of Offences
ud that Of profans swearing also, for the gov
Of srvantf for the regulation Of intercourse
with Indian; for the protection Of cattle; Also Tor
ecclesiastical regulations.
Tnus. a respectable code Of laws was prepared and
enacted by the first General Assembly OF Vrgn'a' IN
a session OF six days. The acts are numerous ana
Mr.. Bancroft expresses the following complimentary
opinion their quality: "On the whole tne record
Of these proceedings will justify the opinion OF e.'
Edward Sandys, that they were very we'll ana judi
ciously carried" The record itself expresses a
more modest appreciation of ts contents
"Iu the second place the Assembly doth most mum
bly crave pardon that in shorte space tney oona
bring their matter to no more perfection, oeing io'
the present enforced to sende home Titles raher men
Iswes. Propositions rather then Resolutions, At
tempts ratheHthsn Atchievements:hopng thel, coale
Nv will accepte our poore indevour and their ~eeGome
will be readyto supporte the weakness Of tnis ittie
aocke."
We sincerely regret that our time is so occupied as
TO precludsa more extended notice Of this vaiuaoe
document, which not only embodies much intorma
tion but is emnently suggestive in the many traits
of colonial customs and character which 1t presents
We trust that full consideration OF the matter Will
furnish an agreeable task to neighbour the accom-
plished editor Of the Southern Literary Messenger.
TRUE ELOQUENCE.
Mr.. Choate has recently delivered an Grafton IN
Boston, on Jefferson, Hamilton and Burr, which mas
attracted great attention. OF Mr Jefferson, ne salo
"The great and learned man had some speciality oy
which he moved the people, yet were they all center
cd in one single clarion cry, which animated the age
of the declaration of Internationally which the
whole rising people spoke out their full heart their
long yearnipg TO be free. The specialties of elo-
ousnoe and wisdom, of James Otis, John Adams,
Hswsy, Patrick Henry, Samuel Adams and Wash
ington, wero all embodied in that declaration Yet we
cannot c.cise It. Understand it, interpret, love 1t We
can, but criticse it, cannot. hold it for express
sicn, almost uurivaed by the productions OF unin
spired men, would not add to it if could, or take
FROM it, by single word. would not pitch it on
tune higher or tune lower. would not alter 1t, II
might, in argument, exposuatioD, epithet. On the
morning of every Fourth of JULY it should be read
and medtaed anew as the wisest expression of our
wsest men, speaking for Congress- speaking for man,
speaking for America in her sublimest moment"
The eloquent orator thus concludes:
"Where now would these three men stand in these
crises, which are thought to have come upon us, it
they were alivel How do they look upon them and
upon u.s. if they descend from their homes of light
and calm and lovel That farewell address of Wash
ington-how would it appear if it's counsels and e1
postulations we're made to day.
"Their counsel would be, The Unon-it must be
and it shall be preserved, just as We left it to you
To them these srifes of party these debates about
Lecompton and Topeka, this array Of South against
North and East against West this fanatcism for free
dom, and this fansticism against freedom. seem now
a. the shadow that passes as the ripple upon depths
unsounded and sunless as the small disturbance and
perturbation that cannot change the course or hasten
the doom of stars. They, all three of them, stand
together. and rejoice 10 see our true civilization our
better liberty, our people, bouudles' as the waves
one as the sea- one sun, rising yet going forth as
bridegroom from his chamber, as strong man begin
ming only TO run his race"