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Mr. Richard Rush has leslgned situation as Barrels,
ry ol tl>« Hank Committee —on account of tbo personal in
convenience which il devolved upon him. lu hi* lelterlo
Mr. Thomas, the Chairuuu ol the Committee, Mr. Rush
•ay a:
'* R« objects I considered to be moinentou*; nothing leaa
tlian enquiring, under the high precept of the represents*
, tive*of the whole Anieiicau people, il further illegal acta
I had been committed by » corporation that had avowed djC
Ltriu-*, and committed and defended practice*, to the laat
" degree unwarrantable and dangerous; doctrine* and practi*
cea which, il sanctioned, would, in uiy belief, end in layiug
*he course and policy ol om highest afFrir*—our law* all
tiio moat active operation* of buaiiieaa and trade through
out the couutry — the freedom and purify of elections—
the public admiuistration - the proa — finally, public lib
erty itself, at the footatool of (Ida corporation. There
were consideration* to excite auy man to the duty of
co-operation in your work, however email was lobe hi*
part in it. II, be lore you came, I regarded tin* co’pbra
tiou a* standing self-convicted of transaction* sufficient to
• consign it to universal condemnation, anil yet saw that il
* *■'* at,te hy the potency ol its money, directly applied, or
-Vtleutly felt through vast and multifarious channelaof in
/atuenre, to rear up Ihuusanda and ten* ol thousand* of
qaamplons ready to liglit il* battle* sail it were tillerly in
Kent, and Intd even been aggrieved, if I thought thus or
p—Rank, a* I did, ti.nl I read nothing more limn il* own
UB ramlcMo, I must need* think tire wmk th*t hiought you
•icre ol (lie deepest concern to millions of Irtemen, living
* and unborn, ot (hi* young and, a* ye’, uucorrupted He
put he, 1 considcied it probable iliat the new proof*
lit otfcnding which your work might, not irrationally,
bo expected to evolve, would do something towards
opening the C)c*oft|ie blind, and rousing the sensibilities
**'« torpid, towards a true eatimaie ol Hie pub.
| danger* incident to tlie longer existence ol such a
poration; which, whether through deign or the er
- leou* use ol it* frigluful power, i* capable of stirring
e . cvil* from the centre to every extremity ol the land,
-dd passions worse than those ol war. 1 beheld almost a
Mimsphere convulsed. I saw every tiling else at a pause
—evory tiling swept into one ingulfing vortex. I felt
hashed lor our common country, lull a* much as alarmed,
.}.l • a hanking company could do all this 1 lelt that barely
to -it by whilst, as the rho«en agents of a great people,
you carried your inquest Into the cause* of such transceu
*«.ant indications and events, would be a privilege •* well
is a duly, I was oven ambitious to lio'd the recotding pen
* the scene.” . “
. ome ot I lie Southern papers, catching ihe cue from
< ' ,miK'0,1 are reporting that GovernorTazewell
■'wi'Icall ihe L.-gi»|*ture ol Virgin!. immediately, “that llie
i. opinion of Ihe Slate may he expressed oh tint great pnliti
*r..l questions of ll.e ,Ly.”_77us fa all news to us. Wc
no* bearj any whimper of such a tiling.
Mr. W a I all, one ol llie great oracles ot the Bank, la clear
Jifor "• And “* B he were llie piiva'e couneil of the Go
vernor and the Legislature, as lie is of (lie Bank, lima ad
v,s<,s tvlial course ihey are lo lake :
“I’lin part which Virginia has acted in respect to ihe
theory and administration ol a republican, and of our tie
neral Government in particular, renders the supposed in.
ten ton ami object of Governor Tazewell peculiarly con.
Ijniou* and opportune. II the Governor and Legislature
"ill avoid extraneous and extreme topics-the old debala
oie matters of speculation—routining themselves to the
heresies and excesses ol Jack-mmsni, tlivy may make a
U.-ep and salutary impression on the whole country.”
I hat is to s..y if they would content themselves with
"°U,,C|TR UV'‘ without saying one word against
tno Itank —whose unconstitutional origin and character
are lo pass as ••extraneous ant extreme topics"— why.
then all would he well! — But the People of Virginia will
scarcely take such advice horn such a quarter. Let the
L-glsUtu.e come when they will, they will go against
this unconstitutional and dangerou* Bank.
W o reg. el to see that llie iN . Sunilai.1, one of Ihe best
U uiocratic presses in the Union, lias been discontinued.
I .i* I ioprietor stated that he lias •‘used every eienion to
pievent this result, hut alter having made great sacuficee,
his effort* have proved unavailing.” It is since annour,c
1 ' ial llie Standard is “to he again upreared in a few
days, under the title of tl.e New Yo.k l imes.” Two of
• c iintrn. I " v) ill
C j-j ’V . 11 had fi»c principal iiianagement of
the J-ditui iul department of the Standard.”
T he Aw York Legislature adjourned on Tuesday
last. | he whole number of acts pas-ed is 320, among
which are eight to incorporate neto Banks, and one to
Arm mm* M'-'1'. •W**"1® augmented capital of $3,.
! thirty four, incorporating Joint Stork Comps.
mcs; ten, renewing or extending privileges ol existing
Joint Stock Companies, such as maniilactining rail*road,
, bridge and turnpike companies, &r., and upwards of thir
\ ereoi*lt& corporation* ol other kinds!
# I lie Albany Agus observes, that “Unquestionably ihe
■, "W-**1 of the Session, (of tl.e Legislature,)
s ic itelief Law, fry which llie State has interposed its
credit and its means for the protection of the People
against the oppressive measures ol the U. S. Bank, and it*
political abet ore.”
Mr. Clay is fund ol a revolution ot names. The Ft*
al,a4 Na‘io'**l Republican*, i.r<; to take the alias
® "o1 a,,d so also are the JVullifiert.
il°w iar l« Mr. Clay and his allies to proreed in this
f.'iYrli '*’» * l”,0,1 1,1 11,0 nmnstroua Bank ol tl.e U. S. a
L. , I t.'* nan£~~Nr*} *V0 Prc!,",,,c we <o have a
f Whig ranjr -i "H'hig system of Internal Improve
i T(. candidate lor Presidency in il,u person
ol .dr. Clay—and o iler things, equally appropriate. Can
not Mr. Clay give u* a new political Dictionary through
The Directors of ll.e Maryland Savings Inslltution have
deemed it advisable, under existing circumstances, to
operifioiii of ili.it Iustifitiionv as relate* to the
receipt and payment of Deposiles for llie present.” The
Institution had been in operation about seven years, am]
its suspension has caused much excitement in Baltimore.
wi \ n ,,a’ 'h® Senate lor extending the Cunibet
rlainl Hoad, at an enormous expence.—We are sorry lose
fclL-nton and Grundy voting lor it—Judge White did no
pile controverted it on constitutional grounds—mil h
spake (lie truth. The Constitution gives no sucli potver
aml we still daro to hope, that if the bill should pass th
I 11. ol R., die President will stop it.
Our Delegate, Mr. John M. Butts, is not so much op
posed to tl.e removal of those IJeposites from N. Yo k
f congratulate him on his success, fits Rosalie So
•ners won llie Sweep Stakes on Long Island, (lie first day
bea'ing *ix started horses, entrance $200, and 4 other
I paying forfeit of 60 And on the 3d .lay, his Tobacronis
won tl.e $100 purse, 3 miles ami repeat, beating 6 others
llie tolls received on tl.e N. York Canals, in April
000 lee° , °,,,y* were cwtisnaletl at little short of $100,
I' THE MARKET—TOBACCO.
I A crop of really good, fine, dry, ricli Tobacco, sold yes
I terday at Shocker Warehouse at the following ptices, viz
, » . . . - $9 6
. 2 d® do. . . . . u 5
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T-1, 823 785 45! 321 240 200
ivio-xaii and Willey arc elected considerably above 300
mrs'. ",e ,’e** l'l*he“ candidate.—-Both friend,
ol inn Af!iviini<inifion.
# Nil in the )a*t Iicjiititurf,
CULPEPER FLECTION.
“Major Hrnadus' il^lit to a scat in ilie House of Dele
Rite. i. contested by Capt. A. I». Hill. The i.oiire wee
jC,ven on Monday last.- \V«, know this step was .akcn by
« apt. Hill Will, extreme reluctance. In consequence ol the
great aacnfics ot hie personal mtereats, which it involve..
Hiving, however, thoroughly examined the poll-book*,
an I having thus satisfied himself that his right to the »e»t
qt'evlion. he feele himself impelled hy a
SENSE OV IHJTV, whirli lie cannot disregard to assert
that right before the next Legislature.—The list ol voters
furnished to Major flroidus, in accordance with the Law,
was made out with the utmost care—no vote was excepted
to in a captious spirit, and none with a feeling of unkirtd
ri'-as. In every instance in which exception was taken,
tt was believed, the voter (however Intelligent and gentle
man y) wee deficient in the qualifications required by
law '—Culpeper Oos J
The Baltimore Chronicle aisles, upon the authority of
a gentleman just from Virginia, that the Anli .lark-son
majority on Joint ballot of the L'gidattire, will lie 22 "—
I his la a miatake—but we will stale the result, as soon as
we have ascertained the elements of calculation.
Taking lime ky the J,ne!och f-Mr. John Taliaferro is
csily in the field. Considering that ho ia an old filed
horse, we should hardly have supposed ihat it was urrrs.
aary ini put hun so soon in training for the nest Hprlng Its.
r ,,0,\r\*n circumstance of pri„ce William be
lug added toIhe District would make «u< ha rapid movement
at *o he It. however, Mr. T. is in the field
as the last Fredericksburg Herald is “authorized to an
1 ,h* V0'"* 0f ',1* Congressional Dlsiricl eom
posed of the counties of W„,n,0rel.nd. Richmond, Nor
tlmmbcrland, Lancaster, King Ueorge, Stafford and Prince
Wil tarn, that John Taliaferro, E-q , has, in compliance
wi b the wtsheaof many voters, consented to he a candidate
at the next election of a Representative for lhat Disirict in
the Congress of the United Stales “
ylRUlNU.—Al a Court of Appeals held at the Capi
' in the Guy of Richmond, 10i»i April, 1834:
lUtle. It is ordered In he announced to lha Her that
Jjlj *"? •*J?r .,w* • *Wel con.pli.nee
witli the Act of Assembly prescribing that a clear and
concise printed statement of each case shell be delivered
to each Judge before ihe hearing, will he required.
A Copy. Teate, J. ALLEN, c. c.
May 1*.
n<
Davy Crockett is hguriug away at Boston—the Lllsrary
Emporium! Hardin is drawing him, and the young men
w ho enjoy a Quit, are trading him. The Editor of the Ua’
xette says that he loiindhiui “an intelligent, well-meaning
gentleman, and although there are certain peculiarities in
his speech, which are calculated to induce laughter, yet
Ac is fry no means to rough and uncultivated at toe had
been ltd to tuppott."
_ . h'OR TUK HLVOVUtHK.
TO “VOX POPUL1Esq.
Sir. Encouraged,! presume, by the numerous iuccr««>
fui usurpations which we have been long witnessing in
St’L.T.t'tt1, J. n*b? K“iuir" -
• Is .kUL a 1 ts .— 1 Vjr IIIC rsiuiuirtfr Ol
the 29th ol April, that you have not only consiiiu^l we
“Attorney lor the Hon. B W. Leigh for this part iT V.r
gtnia but have appointed yourtclf, iu a measure equally
Rinia but have appointed yourtelf, in a measure equally
unauthorized. Attorney hr all the People of our State.
Now, although most men would deuy the power in both
cases ol one who, for reasons best known to hitnself, nut
on y c looses to conceal his name, but shows no commis
sion lor what he assumes to do lorothers, I will not avail
tnysi-ir ol such a plea, in regard to the appointment with
which you have honoured me; but will proceed in the best
manner I can, to enter my appearance in the Supreme
(. ouit of the Richmond Enquirer, and to make such an
swer to your very e\irao,dn,aiy requisitions as they seem
to demand.—I* irst, however, I must call the public alien
,,on lo ",e niarked dillorencc between u«. I»u, wlm »r.
rugate the right to speak for others, in your usurped mlo
ol V ox Populi,” Stand In lore the public, at the volunteer,
til concealed, assailant ol an innocent man—an asaatLnt
no, oliering no evidence whatever of Ins charges—or ra
her calumnious Insinuation*; but certain reports published
, n’*M,“P‘ipcr by amither, which put ligation was like
wt.e anonyn oua at fust, and alike destitute, both then and
p,W- 7* °" ‘,,c °**,er hand,
hive placed myself before the same public, as the volun
it V ur ° ,Ke i,,,l'vi,lu«l «»•«" assailed. Thit man is
, onc °l the present Senators of our own State,
sml there lore, entitled, at leart to justice, il not approba
shoo Vs'l ',,*‘f|Peo|,|,: 0< indeed, thry too
States I T. |,|II,,V creed, that the Senate of the United
h-r. 1 . r ,C aihigether, ur entirely sub
U W x hr\"{;"V? ,,u'’ ‘ *•« aware, first
w. Leigh stands quite too much in the way ol arbitra
ry power, not t^ he assailed in every possible way that
I'!"' ***'"' h,e8‘ calculated to injure him in public opinion.
' = ? * "T'1** C,U8#*—1supported hy suitable means—sml,
without doubt, will meet its rewatd in due lime : such ser
vices, hi these days of party necessity, do not often go
unrequited, altho the numbers and hurt ing zeal ol the
age.,is always eager to perform them, immeasurably
ezeved the means ol remuneration : I bese can in
crease only arithmetically—but the forme, are alw»\s
augmenting at a rate, cou>pa,ed«tv,th which, geometrical
pto^re^Piuik l« a mere MiiilV pace.
, )VU appear in mo outset or your imperative call to
make . merit cf having listened “most patiently ami at
li "lively to the whole of my defence ol Mr. Leigh” |
mtut thenk you for ilile visual proof ol your condescension,
aKIio it certainly was altogether voluntary and grauii on.
on your part. Hut I cannot forbear to remark, iliat it is a
P'l\ this great patience and attention lud not reached quite
, ,r eno,,K,l» "> enable you lo avoid a ve.y gross and pslpa
n!e misrepresentation ol a most material part ol my obser
vations. I'rue, this miareprerentalioii i* thrown into the
orm or a query; but one ol this kind is well known to
have this great advantage over a diiert Assertion —it ex
cite* in absentees, a belief of it* being well founded, while
it save* the piopotinder from the risksot an untruth, which
although a very small matter to anonymous writers, i*’
nevertheless, sometimes worth calculating. Thu* you’
say;—“Let .me a4k y°". *ir. <ur I <le*ne to do you justice ”
(thank you. thank you kindly! most tender, libtisl -ml
considerate Mr. "Vox Popult!") “whether you d .1 not
enter into an explanation and def-nce or that law ”
(meaning the Alien law,) “while vindicating Mr Leigh
Irani entertaining similar aentimewsf” Had \ott Its
toned somewhat more “attentively,” you would have
heard me declare, among other explanatory remark*, that
I was one ol thn*e memheisolotir Legislature in ’09-1800
rel,° voUd for Mr. Madison's celebrated Report denounc
ing that law; and, ol course, that I could not possibly
KUllty ol the supreme folly— f„||y, which, even
you, Mr. “Vox Popult, a gentleman desirous ol ,loi..u
rue justice, could hardly believe me guilty of—to defend
.(as you Intimate 1 .lid,) a law, which, in the same breath!
I avowed that I had joined in condemning, with the then
Republican Parly ol Virginia;—* parly, by the wav, ol
which there now remain only a lew scattered, broken
fragments—-the out-oMa-hion, unwelcome, hecai.se silent
ly reproachful, memorials ol better and by-gone limes.—
My treatment in tins particular, is not here stated by way
ol compliment, but merely to point out another of the in
numerable instances lumishcd by our party journals, going
lo prove, that the game always played upon such an occa
*1011, t», it possible, m divide public attention between the
defenders and the defended, by attacking the chatactets of
both, am! thereby depriving the latter ol all extraneous atd.
should there be the least prospect ol its proving effective.
But let me return to the proofs of your alien live listen
,T'*- ,,°'* ,’i.r‘,'er ***• “'“'you asset t “upon your resnon
sib.lily, (and great indeed, must it be, as it i* anonymous!)
i ,fth «» lar »» you could understand
him. (Iron, the extract which I read,) “i„ the plainest Ian
guage which could possibly be used, all that you ever
heard charged to him in relation to one of these laws”
Now, as I raimot poS'ibly (ell “a//,” or even any part ol
what yon Mr. “Vox Populi,” may have heard charged to
Mr. Leigh, since having the voice ol (he People, it may
be presumed you have as many ears loo, lor what you
wish lo hear, I can only say, that If you have heard n.»
voice than the “Plain Citizen ol Essex,” alias Mr. John
A. I arker, published in the Enquirer ol the 7th ol Janua
ry last, the extract from Mr. Leigh's letter read by
me, and to which you appeal, does by no mean* admit the
(ruth ol either pan of the report repeated by the “Plain
Citizen. Ilis query to Mr. Leigh was in the lollow in*
won!< : “Did your »i »„y lime, write a Idler to a diet....
giiuhed Federalist, (now in a loreign land,) in which you
admitted the constitutionality, if not the expediei.ry of
those laws,” meaning of cottl-se, the Alien and Sedition
aws? Now, Mr (J.wuvus B. Wallace, who has since
been ascertained to bo the goutlemun holding n copy
* n. " "!,n'elf of the letter referred to by the
”1 Litn Ciitzen,” expresdy says, in |,is late letter to
Mr. Leigh, the letter wl.icl. 1 publicly read at the
Caroline ami Essex elections—that Mr. Leigh’s con
tains not a wo,d about the Sedition Lair; and nothing ol
!.° °“,er •« your assertion quoted above. 1 sub
join Mr. \\ alljee’s letter, and by this it will be seen how
ar the report, made a matter ol record in the Enquirer
by the “Plain Citizen,” (lest so precious a thing should lie
lost,) correspond* with tl.e lact. It will also he seen, how
far he is justifiable hi still perlinaeiottsly withholding the
name of hi* author, for what he must now know to he *
base, calumny, unless, indeed, he means to deny Mr Wal
lace a authority, who, as the holder of the paper which
has furnished the pretext lor this calumny, is the, best
possible evidence ot which the case will admit j„ u„ at,.
sence of the original letter, whieh is in the possession of
Major Lee, if it ia still preserved. Mr. Wallace having
given the whole ol that part ol the letter relative to the
Alien Law, and having dee I at ed that no pa.t of it ron
l at tied one word of the Sedition Law, nm| »|| (|.|s having
been thrice publicly read to large audience., what other
possible refutation could fair, just, and reasonable mm, re
quirt Had you really been as de-irons of doing Mr.
Lr'<h *» you proles* to be solicitous that I should
» moment, to admit, as soon a. you heard Mr. Wallace’*
letter to Mr. Leigh read, (Imi *<, much of the report a*
aecrthe. to him an approval of the Sedition l.a«r, waa ut
terly falae; and that hi* remark* on the Alien Law were
R'oaely inimpreacntod. Instead of that, in your ad
dree* to me, you pass over in profound silence, the com
piete refutation of ont part of tho alander, and insinuate,
my, aeeert, that the other is sustained hy the v«iy Inn
gu*Ke w bleb disprove* it. but, a* it thi, subterfuge and
stratagem were not enough, according to the prevailing
political lactic, ol the prevent daya, lo hcclomt, ro„ft,.c.
and myatily a plain case; in other word*, to divert the
public attention a little longer Irom the romidetn ex
posure made ly Mr. lV»||are'« letter, of the# do. olri.t
t.ihncation again, i Mr. L — a fabrication, requiring a report
to a gentleman’* private Idler?, 7 or 8 year* old, to cor
y°" •'*vo enrt 'vored to call your reader* bark from
Air. Wallace a letter, r iade public a* noon a* 1 received it
a very abort time ago, to Mr. Leigh's letter to Mr. John
A. 1 arker, tvtitten last e'ner, and nof puldickty made
known, unlit Mr. L ’* frienda brought it out. How you
pUyed this part ol your game, I will now endeavour lo
show You insinuate that Mr. Leigh •cautiously av-i.-a
a denial of the report, but cays that he doe* not remember
ever to have wiitten any leltrr in relation to the Alim and
Sedition law.; yet it is pos'ilde he may.” Why,-I n ill
not a*k you, Mr. ’-Vox Popull,” hut will propound the quea
, n *® ?ny unprejudiced man ol common sense,— why
*hould Mr. I.eigh have expressed hiui«el( differently, in
relation lo any private leltrr written many year* ego, of
winch he had neither any copy, nor recollection ! I. it »
dime, either moral or poll«ic*l, t» forget, or not to apeak
po*i ively ol that whirh we do not remember l Doe* the
phraw, ••on the subject ol”—(whieh aio Mi. Leigh's o*r.
womI- ) mean the fame aa.’Mn approval off Ji it
uy what maxim o| jn.tice. from what imaginable rule ol
construction c.n the last, which Mr. Leigh ha* no where
used, he inferred from the first, which ho dl l use in hie
letttr to Mr Parker/ If it ennnol, how will thi. pan 0|
, r\ '* * 'eMcr 8v<,i* y«'i »g*inai the clear, decided, con
flii.ive declsra'lon of Mr. Wallace, ll. it in Mr. H. W.
» j*!' * 10 1',Mor l-ee, not a word wat mud of the
ISerfif,on /^,r,. and nothing of -he Allen Law, hut what
he (Mr. Wallsee) ha* given; horn whieh, if an approval of
n *.7., 'V *■"' ,’® j"»"y inferred, yon, Mr. ”Vox
I opuli, who have made the discovery, deserve to he
elevated to a rrofeorahip of Dialectic* in our Uruver
”'*• appropriate reward for such marvellous acumen
of imellecl. Meet thi* letter ol Mr. Wallace'*, <dr, in any
way to prove lo reasonatde men, that you are not grieved
to the ami I at (he propped of Mr. Leigh’* political ene
mie* losing thi* mo*t convenient lale—* tale, that Im* al
ready rendered such good service—and hi* friends will he
•atiafied. Not that I presume to name their saiMaciion
a* any inducement for you to change your course to
ward# him, hut simply »a a matter of lart. There is one
suggestion, however, whtrh I will venture lo offer, a*
likely to have some weight. This t.le ha* really run iia
cour*e: it ha* run it well; has served its purpose edrnt
rably; and, ihoreloie, lest it he run off it* leg*, eo a* lo di»
grace l oth its dam and wire, should the* ever be di*cov*r
S' .Would It not he bettor to exchange it for come ol those
'bat are now *o busily training in .ho t i«y 0| Waahington?
w'k’ mor* of Mr- letter to Mr. Parker,
w hy be did pot use the identical expressions whieh you,
(who seem (o be to gjpd a judge of what “a high minded
and honorable mao" ouglu to use, on auch an occasion,)
aw'fert that he ought to have adopted, 1 really cannot even
conjecture; lor, (to my shame be it spoken,) I have never
held the smallest consultation with him on »o important
a subject—although, t dare say, he would have u«ed
i Do re, suitable phraseology—for, wheu a boy, ’twaa said
he waa tolerably apt at Ina learuiug—could he have en
lOVtd the nrivilw** nl KwU. 1 _a_a_a t_
joyed the inestimable privilege of being instructed bv
.rith the pov 7
one ao higiily gilted wi
powers, niceties and beau
tiea of our language, aa Mr. "Vox Populi.” | can do no
more therefore, in siiswering the ••appeal" you make to
myself in this critical matter, than to say,'that had"/
been placed in Mr. Leigh’s silua'iwn," (your own words,
air.) my reply would have been whatever the feelings ol
the inomeut might have prompted me to make. Whether
it would have been approved by a gentleman of your nice
een«e of all that is high minded and honorable. Is very
doubtful: especially, if i am to judge ol what you under
stand by these expressions, (rout )our laborious cllor's to
destroy the unanswerable refutation ol the calumny against
Mr. Leigh contained in Mr. Wallace’s letter to him ; and
the tenacity with which you chug to such expositions ol
my Address to the People ol Essex, as are calculated to
make on the minds ol ail who did not hear ji, an entirely
different impiet-iou Irotnwb .ii did actually make on a
large porii' ii ol the and nice. I speak not ol any thing
but the matter,—the substance ol what w as said; and that
thi* was entirely satisfac'my io many, 1 positively assert,
lor I hem d many of the ciowd declare it lond'y enough for
every person present to bear it; although, you, sir, say that
you have not yet sent one who approved. I his, however
may ho perfectly true ol yourself; lor, I have always re-'
tnaikcd that party men ol your apparent temperament
and obliquity ol mental vision, possess such convenient
ears and eyvs, that lh«y never hear any tiling to operate
against themselves ami blends, unless they bel.eve they
can destroy its effect,—nor sie what is he lore them, but
with a hxed determination to linn and twist it in some
way or other, which cun .subserve their own party pur
|)O^Pd. 1 J r
The most extraordinary pait of your very extraordi
naiy letter, remains to be noticed : it r»p«. n,e r|,.
max ol attempted cubages upon private rights, which
it Inis been teserved lor the party spirit ol these dis
astrous limes to invent and to perpetrate. Here it
is. in your own words: "In the want and on behalf
of many uho heard your defence at the Caroline and
r.ssrx Elections, (not one of whom have I seen that is
satisfied with it.) J call on you to publish the papers
w/uch y.n (hr,e tend, and il is particularly required ot
yon to publish the whole of Mr. Letgh’s letter lo Mil
jtn Lee, JS’ow, lo n liat do lhi» impetatii e call am/par*
ticular requirement ol an unknown person, whose word
wo ate to take for his being deputy elect ot many oilier
persons, also unknown, in two d llercnt counties, amount
II. indeed, any arc expected :o admit >„cli demands, as
jii'Hihjjile . \\ hyf (hut any iiiioiiytnotie writer, be lie
w hom he may, can rigWully demand of any private man
whatever, to publish the whole of the private letters no
nutter how old, II supposed to be in his possession, ol any
other private man; provided, only, that some other anonv -
mens writer shall have picked up, (he need not say
wlieic, nor bom whom,) and published in a newspaper a
report that such letieis contain political opinions on any of
the controverted topics ol past times, however distant •
and provided, moreover, that the witter of the said letters
at any subsequent period, however remote, may be held'
up, eitlie. with or without his consent, for any office in the
gilt ol the people. This is the general principle, which
must he assumed to lurui«li even the slightest justifiable
pretext or excuse lor your demand. Let us apply it to the
I) Tlit nl.ti raeK • I r J •
Mr. B. W Leigh, 8otne 7 or 8 years ago, being then a
private man, wiilea a private letter to another private
man. Last winter a report, aa yet ot unknow,, origin
rear lies the vigilant ears ol n very alert watchman it, the
volunteer corps of Jackson Police-men, who, lord,with
publishes it in t|,c newspapers, that the aforesaid Inter
contains an approval vf the Allen and Sedition Laws—
pissed and repealed some thirty odd years ago; and he, the
add watchman, farther requires that Mr. LeiRl, shall pub-'
licly ark now ledge or deny it: such is the aum total ol the
demand hy the first anonymous writer—mado on the '
Cron lit! ilirit Mr. I»a»I !»»«*•» Iwulj iiritt up rnr iim* 1
Presidency ol the United Stat. s. As soon as Mr Letch
suv (he puhlira'iou, he demanded ol die Enquirer (he
name of the suit or, and learned dint lie was Mr John A
P.iiker of-E-sex. To this Kentlei„an he immediately
wrote, asking Irom whom he receiveil his information* at
the same time su ing, that although ho had no recollec
tt >n of “ever having written a sinate tine on the auh
ject of the Alien and Sediiuu Laws, ridiei in hi* private
rorrespotidenco, rr in any paper intended lor the public, yet
it is possible lie might;” and if any such existed, ho would
Irecly exonerate Irom ill Maine, any person who would
ptihlish it. Mr. Patker, however, not only refused to give
up Ins author to Mr. Leigh, hut sollcred their correspond
ence to remain unpublished, and so (he mutter rested for
some month*, during the whole of wliirli the report now
spread, as lar as the Enquirer is read, was busily perform
iiig itsdifly work. A her some time, Mr. Gustavus B.
, King George, the gentleman who was said to
hold tins letter 0| Mr. L. igli’e, litving heard ol the repoit
addressed the subjoiued letter to Mr. I.eigh, pronouncing
dut part of die report relative to the Sedition Law, to be
Js I so, an I the oilier part n gro-s misrepresentation of what
had actually been written ol the Ahen Law. But this,
it now appears, is not enough for another anonymous us’
a.iilanl ol Mr. Leigh, although he heard Mr. W allace’s
letter publicly read at the Essex Election,—at least once
according to his own admission, and might have heard it'
twice, lor it was read a second time hy request. This
writer h is just marrhed loith in o the Enquirer demand
mg more proof— nothing less will satisfy him ami
certain others, whom he designates only by counties
than the U'hole of Mr. Leigh’s private loiters to Mai*
l.ee—although Mr. Wallace declares that he ha« given
every word of it, which relates to the subject. The
demand, loo, is mails with all the imposing authority
of one commissioned lor die special purpose hy the
whole People ol Virginia; lor. he calls himsell thiir
voice. Whether they will recognise him in that capa
city or not, remains to he sreu. The above Idler of
Mr. Wallace’s, obtained from Mr. Leigh, at my request
is the same which 1 read publicly at the Caroline and Es!
sex Elections; but I did not read the correspondence ol
Mr. Leigh and Mr. Parker, until die Essex Election, as 1
wished Mr. Parker to he present. In this,as will be seen
Mr. Leigh expresses a wi-h (hat his imputed appioval of
the Alien and Sedition laws should be published, il any su< h
could he found; and declares that he would blame no one
for it. Under these rircniuslanrev, common justice re
quired that Mr. Parker himself should have exerted him
scll to piocuro its publication, as he had boen the sole
cause ol giving a newspaper currency lo the report,
that Mr. Leigh had once approved ot those laws. He
was further hound to do this, in justice to himsell; since
Ins refusal to give up his author, subjected him to
the su-picion ol prelerriug to let inuemlo and injurious
imputation work tlieir way against Mr. Leigh’s political
character, rather Ilian seek lo clear it, as the publication
which Mr. Leigh had requested would certainly have
done, of the charges that Mr. Parker himself had mainly and
voluntarily contributed (o circulate agaim-t him by publish
ing the report in the Enquirer. Why AJr. Parker took a
different course, a course which kept alive Hie report
without the slightest efTort on Ins part, as lar as I have’
heard, fo make known what Mr. Leigh said of if, I have
no means of knowing or understanding. 'J he effect ol Ins
sdcnce cciUinly was, >o prevent several public meetings
— - —— * - * - in wuuiiii* f a % « 11 <1 ( i
initiate Mr. Leigh lor the oflice ol President.
Do not, however, imagine, thou most worthy “Voi
Poptill, tli.it llie foregoing remaiks are designed to justify
a refusal to pubthli every word and sentence ol every im
per which I re»d, either at Caroline or Essex Election—
although I utterly deny your right to rail lor their puhli
cation, either in your anonymous, or any other rharaC'er
Published they should have been, without this imperative
call; lor, it an ords neither with my own pr nriples, nor
with those of any of Mr. Leigh’s political Iriende, as lar
a* I know them, to support any man for any olfire what
ever, unless it can be done by a straight-forward, open
above-hoard course. H e \exve—•• pea-riniiie," that
ateiling Republican, o'd Na'. Macon used to rail It,) to the
suppoiter-o! a cause that ‘‘sicks darkness lather than
light llie remainder ot the quotation I shall leave to
guilty consciences to supply. The papers w hu h I read
are all that I have or ever had, relative to the charge
against Mr. Lriglt, which waa published by Mr. John A.
I .uker, as a report he had heatd. Hut, even il I possess
ed a copy of Air. Leigh’s tchulc letter to Major Lee, about
which so many lalsi-hoods have been repeated—a letter,
which you make it almost a criminal charge against Mr.
L< igh that he should not fully and distinctly r. m mbrr,
although a Pi I v ate one, 7oi8 years old. ol which no ccpy
was kept—| certainly would not publish a single word of
il more than the part which has furnished the pretest lor
the rain undone report. What imaginable right has any
anonymous writer (or a newspaper—nay, ant/ body uhat
trer—even in his own name, to demand the publication of
private letters—having not the most distant releience to
any public chs'ge agam-t the writer—especially a charge
which no one can he found to acknowledge? Il the par
!>""" °* portentous times ran possibly he sustained
in such .taring and outrageous demands, not only must
every thing like private correspondence cease, between
men who ever had. or espeet to have any thing to do with
public a nates} hut (ha privacy, the peace, the safely and
happiness cf domestic life must he utterly destroyed; the
public sei vice be entirely deserted by a I hut men of des
perate fortunes and characters, and the na'ional interests
left to the custody of iho«e who will regard them no far
ther Ilian they can be made to subserve their own traitor
ous purposes. || (he People of the United Mates |till
Slider such things to psss without utter reprobation, »e
shad no longer have a government of equal laws, but one
Of party proscription; no longer a government extend
ng protection to every one alike; but o despotic n where
in a dominant party sacrifices sll private rights, feelings
and rliararlers to the maintenance of their own most low
les, and unhallowed domination As to the report against
Mr. Leigh, it Is, of itself, hut as mall matter, lor it direct
ly concerns only one ntsri; but even a leather will serve
to show which way the wind blow*; and if your anony
mous r.emand, with Its precursor, shall meet no ronuire
except from th* political Iriends ol Mr. Leigh, it writ lur
ntsh conclusive proof, that the general consequences ol
*tich ptihhrafioft* bei«i{ tuftrred to paw without public
reprobation, cannot ultimately he less disastrous, than I
have supposed. The titter Indifference rnanilested by all
hut the persons Immediately interested, on the eubjert
of anonymous newspsper attacks upon diameter, is
*« sure an indication as can he given, of the extent ot
whirtt party spirit has elrrady corrupted the moral tastes
•nd sentiment* of the public. I will go no farther for |
prool, Ilian the publication aigned “A Plain Citixen ol Ks
’**•” "'lial censure has this atiracleil. except from the
political friend* ot M r. Leigh? Yet, it la in a l>iKl» degree
censurable. it* having been done on public account was
manifestly a mere pre.ext, notwithstanding the conclude
ing declaration, that -the question” (to Mr. Leigh) “teas
not piojjounded with unkind feelings by a par titan."
The writer may have believed »o, but he assuredly de
himself; for, had he beeu eveu not hottUe, at least,
politically, to Mr. Leigh, would he not have preferred
writing a piivate letter to him? The report being, at that
time, merely oral, to make it a matter of record, as the
“Plain Cltl7.ru ’ did. in a newspaper haring such general
circulation •* the Enquirer, w»* to take tliw most ctlectual
way of spreading it as far ss possible; nsy, ol gaining
strength lor it by Mr. Leigh’* silence, which the wilier
ought to have interred trout Mr. Leigh’s known determi
nation to s..y nothing in the newspaper* relative to his
having been nominated for the office ol Piesident. Whe
ther he was right in thus dcteimining to set, is another
question.
Hut, to return to your own letter lo me.—What do yon
mean hy saying that il the whole of Mr. Leigh’s letter
to Major Lee, was published, “the public would then see
on whom thr bunt calumny shall rest'? Is it your pm -
po-e, sir, to iu-inuate that some pait n a« not read hy me,
(I resd the w hole in my posee'sion, and of the rest, know
ess than you seem to do, il jour inuendo mean* any
tiling.) and that «uc/i part conta ns t).e alleged approval
Ol the >cd|t'on Law, although Mr. Wallace has positively
and most distinctly affirmed, that it does not contain one
MW aborrf o..do you wish the public to imagine
n»at Mr. Wallace liasnof gttrcri the whole ol Mr. Lei»l,’s
remark* on the Ali-n l.aw, notwithstanding hi.* clear "un.
eqsivucal declaration tliat lie has ffiven it? Invalidate
Mr. W allare’s tealiinony, which uoil.mg at present known
can possibly justify you iii attempting, and what more
credit could the public give lo any other letter lie might
‘‘rue, than lo that which I have thrice pnhlcly read?
here surely could be no better ground for believing him,
were he now to give a ropy cl Hie whole copy (for lie
teUs us he baa nothing more.) of Mr. Leigh * letter to
Major Lee, than there is ground lor lull confidence in
Ms declaration that he ha* already given every word
which has any relation wha.ever lo therglumny, that vou
mamlest such extreme solicitude to keep alive. From this
dilemma, sir, u dilemma of your own creation, I wish you
* h-ppy deliverance; but. If you had rather sink than
'".VT r,,n"s t0 HVe your pet report from drown
ing, It will l»c your own fault, not mine.
Ami novr.uy worthy calechiser, Mr. - Vox Populi.” (nr
\.u* Mtind.! Light ol tl.e WoiM! assume think would be
more prophetic of your high destiny,) you. w ho are so
lo ,,u "»« J'fier; you, who have so kindly he
teved tun rapahle of the language ol "a high-minded
V" man, being no peifcctlv familiar with
it yourscll, suffer n.n to bay - lew word* on my own
account, a* | have done with Mr. Leigh’* allair. J o
rr "'V0**. °' y°ur letter. >0.1 have address,J
in lerme of Mich ptolound inspect, that 1 have no word*
ruflKirnlly expressive ol my seme of so high .... honor,
to thank you a* you desetve. I pray you, therefore
0 take the will for the deed. But vanity prompt,
to repeat your expression-, that other, may see once
more, how highly i am estimated by one wlm. Dims to he
the! opular Voice ol Vl.ginia. Von say, “I hope yon
* 1 l,,,‘l°" '"«* lor railing your attention to the following
extract Iron, the Virginia Resou ion, . f *08. |t j, („!<, n
1 "" Mn ",ble printed hy Jot.es & Dixon in
the year 99. I hope you will ttr. iers.at d the text.”—
1 In-, 1 believe I do, although vat yourpurpose in quoting
it, unless it be to show that you yoursellhave tcJ then?
1 shall not question. Will, regard to t!,e sbu.e
Inch you say ha* beet, lavished on these resolutions, I
have no concern in it whatever, either immediate or re
mole; lor, I defy my bitte.est political enemie., „f whom
I have always had many, without ever knowing why or
wherefore, to say, that / ever united in this abuse H,v
mg voted for Mr. Madison’s Report adopted hy our I,egi*.
I attire in 99-1800, in sustain the principle* of>,),e.e Re*o
lotions, which had been passed at (he previous *e*si„„ I
nave never seen rau*e lo change my opinion: -i.i.wogn 1
am well aware, that i ...mug the sect which may
propelty tic denominated political shakers. have laboured
l.ar.l to.give them now a d.licrent sense from tiie one in
w l.tc . Col. John 1 ay lor, the mover, understood them; and in
e Inch they were understood hy all the Republican
'era ol Assembly with whom I was intimate in ’99-1800
5® ,""r '• ,"r» ,or your gratuitous quotation, lo alt the bene
fit ol Winch, you are heartily welcome. Rut », you have
presented me with it out ol el.atyou.ro pleased to call
a political Bible, and sinre one good turn deserve* ano
tht r, permit me to call your attention to a Tew concise ex
tract* from another Bible somewhat older, but not less
authoritative —with which, possibly, you may not be quite
so familiar .s will. Jone, & Dixon’s, although copies ol it
w |f0Un'Jn ev«y it is called, sir,
I he Holy Bible, and contain*, among many other maitei*
worthy the regard of politicians, the following pithy ,en
tenrei*: ° 1 J
•‘But these speak evil of thing, which they know not.”
-For the lime will come, when they wiil not en
dure sound doctrine; but alter their own Inst* they shall
heap to themselves teacher*, having itching eu.f; and they
shall turn away their eats from the truth, and chill bo
turned into fables.”—Tim. ii. 3 and 4.
. ' Vi°r^’ 8,,h11 ai’ide in thv tabernacle? who shall
dwell 111 thy holy lull ? //r that hackbitetl. not ni.h In*
tongue, nor doelli evil to hi* neighbor, nor Caketh uy a ,c
proacl. against his neighbor.”— Ps. xv. 1 and 3
•‘Where no wood is, there the lire goeth out:’ so where
there is no tale-bearer, the strife ceaseth.”— P, „v. xxvi. 20.
I i.at I may not he behind you, at least in courtesy 1
must here beg your pardon for the above extracts, as you
begged mine for that which you have given me l.o.n Join *
and Dixon * Bible. And now, sir, sincerely wishing you a
heller ns well a* more honorahfs occupation than sent.tiling
anonymous newspaper attacks upon our Senator, Bel.,,
int" VVatkms Leigh, I must bid yoularewell, and with all
lh« high consideration dua to one who claims to bo -The
Voice of the People” in our own State,
1 remain your obMt. servant,
JAMES M. GARNETT.
Copy oj a letter Jrom B IFr. Leigh to Mr. J„hn A. Par
ker oj Tappahatmoek.
, , , ” Richmond. Jan. 10, 1831.
Mr:—I am informed that you aro the author ot a let
ter addicted lo me, under the signature of “A Plain Citi
zen ot Essex,” printed in yesterday’s Enquirer.
‘ As 1 have had no part nor agency in any way whatever
in presenting myself to my coiinliy a* a competitor for the
I residency—as I have never made, and never shall make
the east clfort to promote my election toil; and, as I am rer
lamly not a candidate tor that or any other office, I hold my.
selt now hc hound to submit to any catechism as to my noli
tic* cr. ed or opinion*—n.urh les* to u spend to anony mous
publications in (lie newspapers. II any gentleman si,all
think proper to address a private letter to m« in his own
name, lie shall receive a rivil answer lo the enquiiies hr
may propound, or my reason for not giving him one; hut
I do not think that anyone has aright to draw me into *
pti',lie correspondence on the subject ol my own met its or
ucniriitfl.
‘ But thialelterofyours and the card subjoined r0j- have
excited my curiosity not a little; an,I, a* you say you Man.I
ple.igei] to make the enquiry in the manner you have at
tempted it, I think it proper to give you, pin-on ally, all
the agthfartion I ran I have, then, to tell you, that mv
correspondence has very rarely indeed hern ofeuffuient in,,
portanre to induce me to keep epic* t.l and that 1 do not
remember that I have ever written a single hue on the
subject ol the Alien and Sedition Law*, either in my pri
vate rot respondence or in any paper intended lor the public:
yet.it la possible I may; ami if any letter on that subject,
purporting to have been written by me, to any body
at any lime, shall be produced, I shall acknowledge it. if
it be genuine; and, in that case, forbearing all complaint ol
a violation ol confidence by the correspondent to whom it
was addressed, or ol l.rea. h ol trust by the person to whose
sale lie. lung he may have confided it, I shall give my a*,
sent to thu publication ol it, or at least ol so much o! it
as rt tales to the subject.
•‘And now, having no reason In regard you ns personally
unfriendly to me, 1 think myself authorized .e.peclully
to ask of you, to whom wa* this supposed letter ot mine
; addresse, •?— who is the person in Km* George who has it
in his hands?—to whom have yon pledged yourself to make
| the enquiry concerning it, publicly in the newspapers?
Mid why the pledge was given, and this mods ol enquiry
particularly stipulated? Assuring you that the motives ol
these enquires are merely personal and private, I hope
>o,i will see no o' jertioti to answering them.
••! am, sir, yours, &c.
(Signed) I*. W. LEIGH."
Copy oj Mr. Parker's answer to the Jore gaing Letter.
“TapPahANMOCK, 25i», J m., 18d4
“Sir: On my return from Richmond, your letter of lire
10th instant was handed me, and in reply I have to say, I
that I must respectfully decline responding to your inter
mgatortes. Von say, you will not permit ynur«ell to ba
drawn Into a correspondence on the subject of your t.pin
nious; I too wi*h to avoid a correspondence. I do not charge
jnu wi'h having wiiiten such a letters* the one described'
I only place you in possession of a report, w l.icti had eirrn
lated in (lie Northern Neck, and even in ynnr man »!reels
hr/ore my Communication teas written. I never gave 'H
pledge to the person holding your letter (as you *e. m to
inler) to make the communication{ the pledge wa* given
lo your political friends, who anxiously desired it.
" V on are entirely rot r*ct in saying, you have no tight
lo rrgaid me a« personally tinhicinily to you—such a leel
h g I do not entertain I do not know tha' 1 sh .il be ro.
litirally hostile. I am seeking light respecting your opi
nion* and views. With high respect.
(Signed) JOHN A PARKER.”
Copy of a better from Oust a rut It. tVallar.t to B. If'.
Leigh,
“Dkah Sir: I have recently received intelligence ol
s communication having been made to you that “a letter
of your* was in circulation )w this County, in which you
expressed your approval ol the Aden and Sedition Laws.”
I he firs! part ol Hit* communication is totally destitute of
any foundation in fact; and Ihe latter a gross mtsrepresen
latum of the opinions contained in the letter. As the al
leged notoriety of the letter Involves a breach of confi
dence on the t»srt of Major I»ce, a* well as myself. It is lo
me a double source of mortification. About fl or 7 years
since, the subject of one conversation being an address
written by Major Lee on the presidential election, and a
political paper which he then con'cmplated publishing,
i he read to me a letter from you, to which you had given
Mm your ojr.Amn relative (o bolh of them. I expressed (o
him my admiration ol lt« Myle and .entiment. and proposed
to take a copy—to which hn assented. The copy i.uu.r
possessor, to the bast ol my knowledge, ha* never IKn
-een by any per*on whatever, exceptor. George Lewi*,
(a particular Inend ol Maj. Lee**,) to whom it *•• .hewn
•bout two year. past, a. evincing the concurrence ol your
rr.r .°"r1#,'vD'ot M,j°r Lee’» * tru»t,
btr, that tin* brief, but strictly accurate *talement will re
move any unUvorabJelmprewion made upon jour mind
by the erroneous information you have received
Very respeetlully,
(Si*ne«l) GUSTAVUS If. WALLACE, Sew.
•• he letter contain* not a word about the Sedition Law.
I hat part ol it winch incidentally treat* of the Alien Law
I. aa lo'lnws :
*1 e a a udited all the opinion*, or rather prejudice* I had
fonni!il til regard to the topic* of party contiovarsy; and
*U'°"K •"bjecta, I examined the Alien Law, and I real
y thought, that no impartial man could doubt that the
pi maple ol that act wa- coiutiiuiion il, and (hat it i* «Wo
Mi'ely necessary it nliould, in particular circumstance*. he
rnlorced a* la»v. I he *alegtiards provided by our Con
etiI ittion (or personal right* and liberty, are .le*tg„ed lor
!. protection of ctltzciis, not foreigners. The protec
K've" 'vliether fiienil* or eneinica.i* matter of
lavor, not (d justice. I he United Stales «*e on the eve
Ol war With (.. Britain; the minister* of that Crown dispatch
their agents to this country, to collect exact information ol
our resources, our forre*. ami weak point*, or their inren.
duties to light and fsn tlie flame* of civil discord; and these
arc openly engaged in the wotit ol mischief. Can it be
imagined that Congress cannot authorize the Executive to
sen i I>i*9in sway, nr to coniine them, il they persist in
Maying, ro as at all events, to detest tlieir machination* ?
I do maintain that tins law wa* constitutional and wise in
H* principle, though il may be objectionable in il* details,
which i have forgotten.* ‘
‘1* S My son ia directed to deliver this letter in per
*on, so that he may give you any further information on
tin* subject which may be required.” G. B. W.
IV ». 1 lie foregoing letter* are all tint' | ever possessed
relative to the two anonymous iinlirtuir ms whirli have
appeared in the Hirhmond Enquirer *g*,tn«i Mr. Leigh.
Mgned “A Plain Citizen of E**ex,’’ and “Vm Populi.”
All were publicly read at the K«.ex elrction; only the
la«t at the Caroline !• lection. Those wl, > choose lo read
may now judge lor themselves: Only two comment* shall
bo added on my ,> ,rt. One i«, that I have lieai.l no Man,.,
attached to Mr. Parker for not answering Mr. Leigh’* 3d
interrogatory; for, a reply to this was needless to enable
1,1", or any friend n( hia to trace the calumny to i'» source.
Uut an«wers to the other two were necessary for the pur
|»o«c, at:,I therefore should have been given. te-pecially as
t,o pledge to withhold name* is alleged to have been made
HI regald to them) had Mr. Parker been what lie pioless
e,l to he—in a elate ol doubt, “seeking light,” ond not
comrious ol being particularly hostile. The refusal to
answer these two, lor which no excuse having the sem
blance even of plausibility suggested itself. completely
occluded—so lar, at least, as depended upon Mr. Pm krr_
both Mr. Leigh and his blends Iron, traring the calumny
to t's author or authors —My other remark is, that to those
who vat, see no diffidence between approving the vrinci
r evt a law, Mini the law itselj, it w ill be utterly vain to
oiler any thing like comment upon that distinction drawn
in the extract given by Mr Wallace, from Mr. Leigh’s
letter, m regard to the principle and the details ol the
Alien Law. fetich persons are much loo lar beyond the
reach ol a common sense argument, to leave a hope ol its
iti-king the slightest impression upon them. "Dtlemlai
tel Carthago/*’—Carthage must ho destroyed !—was no
more constantly the r. y ol the Human Senate, at a ee.tain
period, than ^ Lei ah muslbeput down! ' isnowllhe cease
ess clam.- a cert.,..- «et ol V.rar ol Buy politicians in
the Ancient Dominion. JAMES M. CiAHNETf.
THE M KUCII ANTS AND TMKHlSSKv .
i lie uiilnitonnte snd virulent <•«»•»**■» pursued by the
mass ol our Meichan,« ,.m*rd* tiie present Administra
ii^„. *.n» umtonbtedly been one duel cause in preventing
a hiltilinent of th- French Treaty ol imlemnitv. These
speculating politicians have tried to make the French as
well as the lest of the wo,Id, believe, that our venerable
I lesident was “in his dolagu”—was “an imbecile old
man, hot retaining vigor enough ,o enforce our foreign
claims—had lost ihe confidence «t the eoinmunity, so
that they would not sustain him in any effort to guard
mu national honor and punish national perfidy—and, in
line, that ad airs in this country were on the "eve of a
revolution. In these prolliga'c mist r presentations, re
peated in every p.cket Ihe last nine months across the
Atlantic, tight honorable Senatoi* have joined, in Older
to give them greater currency ami force.
Is it a matter ol surprise, then, that the French Cham
hers should take these Merchant polilicians and Senators at
liieir nor«l. ami come to ilie conclusion, l .a! they may
*nuly hide with such “a dotard" and “driveller,” anil
at pliphied laitli will* a Government on “the eve of
a revolution ?
Is it a matter of surprise, that the French should come
0 a conclusion, we have enough to do at horn*, without
looking alter Hie ..alety ol our interests and honor abroad?
lad a matter of surprize, that die French should think,
m die mid-t ol surh supposed anarchy and distrust, we
should permit diem to continue to receive horn us all the
benefits of the treaty, without exacting m i.turn what
i>een !*o*f n*i»iy htipulMteil by 'h^vn^elve*?
Lai the Merchants ponder a little on the biller fruits
01 their own recent labo,s in the poht.eal vineyard ol
the Mink. It the poisoned chalice is now returned to
their own lips, who has caused Ihe deed to he done?
It America is t0 become the scoff and scorn «,l other
nations, and our piospeiily and glory to be tarnished, and
on, shores to he coveted with the fragment* of broken
treaties, whose ingratitude, and calumny, and reckless op
position have caused the. catastrophe? q‘
DREAOFUrHUKlil^Sf W™**
One of the most violent storm* ol wind was witnessed
last evening, that has ever occurred in this ne ghhorhood
t* commencement in this rounty appears to hale hern at
Dr. Monts s, who sustained some injury. As it continu
ed its violence seemed to increase, tearing down trees
and every thing before it. A la.ge Me,ring-house (Con
cord) surrounded by trees has been taken from its old at..
lion and carried some feel, and considerably injured, ami
altogether deprived ol its surrounding shade: a comforts
ble dwelling house with two brick chimi.ies has been torn
to piece*; also, three or lour other out-houses entirely
swept away; parts of the houses h u e been found half a
mile off in the woods; t|,< house was not inhabited this
jear. Many houses have been blown down in the neigh
borhood; fence* ami trees laid to the ground. One family
he low has beet, d-ngerously injured; tbe old gentleman of
Ihe house Mr Oliver, has he,,, lying speechless ever
since. Mow far it has gone below, 1 am not informed. Its
distance in width was not more than a hall mile. .Several
birds have been fount! lying dead, and nearly picked.
jVeedu'ood, Caroline County, May 6, 1834.
1 lie following striking description of it is from (he last
Petersburg Intelligencer. It show* (he effects ol the
ionndo in other directions:
I im most lerrihc tornado ever wi ue^^eil in iliis pari
of Virginia occurred on Monday last. The dr.'mclion
«f Iihii.nii I fe and «,} properly ol every kind is Iiu|y 8p.
palling. 11 would be impossible to give more than a'faint
outline of .1. desolating lory. The acene la represented
ny those who had an opportunity ol witnessing it, as ono
of surpassing and inexpressible grandeur and swhlimitv.
Every thing within i s range was laid prostrate; the largest
liees wore torn up hy the tools and tarred a considerable
distance; dwelling and out houses were levelled with the
earth, and their fragments scattered in evrty direction —
the day had been cloudy wiili occasional showers. About
three o’clock the clouds assumed « black and loweting as
pect. In a few minutes alter, the wMilwind commenced
its ravages. A correspondent who win eased its violence
ssys. “It was in the form of an luvered cono, and every
cloud near seemed lo rush into Hie vertex. As it approach
ta9ymt!. *g!if see the iiint’* of (he forcfl rareoiinr through
*'* r Us duration at any point was not more
than 1 or t minutes.” I s general contso was from West
to hast: na width varied Irom two hundred yards to hall
a mile: and, horn what we have sl-csily heard of t a de
STticiivu march, its ex'enl couhl not have been less than
aeventy miles. T be following details will, wo fear, pra
sent but a v.iy impelled sketch ol i-s devastation:
“A gentleman wiites us that the tornado ‘appears to
have commenced in the county of Lunenburg, mr Hun
gfy Town, whore almost all ihe heavy limber was torn up
by Ihe roofs, and where if proved very fatal. Near this
place.it seems that Ilia prior (who lived In log-houses)
Wfie ihr pnnrijMl 0«flerrr*9 **v«»raf nrgrop* hvx! children
beitig killed, Hence il parsed by Nottoway Court
bouse, where Ihe storm inst. ad ol abating, increased—Ihe
puMic road being rendered utterly in,pa-able. From
Nottoway ( otirl-house,or near that place, the wind, pass
mg in a North-ca>t direction, trarlie.J the plantation of
Mr (). ritzgerald, where great Injury was done, hut no
lives last. Near his residence was that ol Mr. John Ki'z
w ho suffered immensely, having one negro killed, another’s
arm broke, and various others injured Hence it pursued I
the same course lo the house ol Mr Justice, wbeie great
Injury was likewise sustained, several p. rHona srveroly |
Injured, ami I ho hf«of one despaired or. The next death
was that nl Mr. Josh its Hawks, an lionesf, upright clli- ;
7.cn, who was literally crushed, l.is wile si the same time ;
receiving injury so severe, as it, leave bul little hopes of ;
recovery, r
“The next place from whence we have any authentic
particulars, is Curtis* (formerly Reese’s), on Cox Koad,
where ihe storm appears lo have been equally destructive. 1
Mr. Curtis wiites us, ‘that every house on Mr Herbert
Reese’s plantation, except bis dwelling house, is blown to !
atoms; Mr. Frank Reese, -he Overseer,and8 negroes, lost
their lives; several other negroes badly crippled, bis wagon,
which was nearly new, hurled lo atoms, even Ihe wheels
broken in fragments, and Ihe hubs blown two or three
hundred yards. Miss Jlnney Crowder had every bouse on
her fsrm (dwelling house and all) lorn lo pieces. Old far
mer Reams lost every house except his dwelling house.
No lives lost at eith-r ol Ihe I wo last named places. I un
derstand from a gentleman traveller, Ilia! it passed on to the
neighbourhood el Col Jeter’s. Several lives lost in that
neighborhood, I atm bear that It has done considerable !
damsge in Ihe neighbourhood of Thru Jordan, with Ihe
lossol lives, fee. It appear* that it passed from west to >
H*** "’'*r °n ,,ie nW,h ”<<l* “,,d n€#r,y P*r*,,e* wi'h Co* |
“We have no certain accounts of the ravsge* of ihe
tornado alter it passed the neighborhood, ol Curtis's, until il
reached the plantation o‘ Mr. Win, K. Hoisseau, about |
four miles from town. The scent at this place baffles 1
•▼*ry attempt at description. Here its .lesolallnr fu y
spared nothing. The dwelling house, kitchen, barn. &
were entirely demolished, and their Umbers, pl.ok, i=
separated into fragment# and scattered over the tar. . •
dw.r.L nC,i°n: N#lb,"« " ,e“ “•* U.e site o( Hi,
dwellinK houM butt a mu all portion of the biick foundation.
, family escaped from tbv bouse, and attempted to take
re in the garden, but were overtaken by the whirl
wind, and knocked uown by Die flying wreck ol tl.eir
ormer dwelling.—Mr. B.’a brother, « line youth ol about
It year# of age, was killed; and Mr. B. and hi- wile, and
lour other inmate# ol Ins family, were wounded, though
no dangerously. 1„ ,he neg.o <;u>.rte,s (he injury was
equally severe-one woman was killed amt alg or eight
o beis wounded,one very dai.gr,ously. The lo*.- auelatn
ed 1.) Mr. II. is very great The persons who have sub
sequent y visited the place, describe it as (hough the Ue
"lus n Destruction had made it hi* temporary abode.
" , Mr- Boiaeeau’# it passed along near ike south
ern Bouudiary line ol thi# tnwu, without doing much in
jury umil it reached the plantation ol Mr Angu-ino
mirge, in I nnco t.eoige. A Iriend has giver, us tho lot
towi. g acccunt of Its devastations tn that direction:
.1... . .Vi Burge’, it blew down hie stable. #,,d
almost all Ins negro bouser; lortuna.ely no person w »■ killed
M "w* "'i?*? ,y ,,Ur'- A‘ MoH's Field, <1,0 plan
tation of Mr. W,„. Baird, every house was blow n dowu.ex
cept tbo dwelling, a iwo atoned house near it, a k tn.. n
or two and (ho machine house. The w a goner, John, a I dll -
lul servant, was ki ltd in tiro woods by lire lalli..g r.| a tin •
he two horsea in the «t.gon were likewise k.lied. At
Hickory Hill, the residence ot Mr. Wui. Strands,jr., a cot
ton gin,a stable and kitchen were bio ' n down. Tlieie w*.e
two negro men in the kitchen, bo'U ol whom were hsdiv
hurt; one ol them was carried with the wreck ol the house
at least fifty y ards. So tremendous was the etorm, that,
r°,n i'*r- ’• Wilcox’s country residence, to Prestun
lV residence of Mrs. Ann Thwcalt, you have a vista
scarcely interrupted by a solitary tree, a distance ol four nr
i*e tilth * 1 he forest*, too, through which the tornado
passed, were w ooded with as majestic a grow tit as can bo
touml probably in Virginia.
"At Preston, the residence of Mrs. Ann Thwealt, there
i* not a bouse except tlie dwelling and one small out liou-e
led standing. One negro w as killed and 10 or 12 wound
ml. A geii’leinan who :ta* seen the eflectsol the storm in
this plantation say.,th;.t it present* the appearance ot b..v •
mg been visited by a heavy freshet.
“We have no lurthei particulars of Its prngi.s* t 'bo
Lrsl, but we le-rn that that it crossed the James hivtr, . .
tween i'aibjy and Coggin’s Point.”
MR. PRESTON AND THE Uk/mTSf!Htff -
TION.
Hear the State Rights’ Senator from South Card.on,
the lilend nud ally ol Mr. Uenj. W. Lrigh, Mr. |>i,.<(iJ„t
1 he following ii lily langusge, ns reported m ilie jN.itiotial
intelligencer ol llic ll* nl May. in a Dehat on the ,„c
ie nt at ion ol the proceeding* ol the New Jeisey (nnvin
tion: •• i lie Senate, therefore, are humid in Pink n> me
people of the States ami not to the Legislatures."
“It he were told he n.uil give up his sentiments in obe
"hence to instructions, lie could never ronsent to do it, hut
he would admit the right ot the pt-uple to abiidge the temi
ol his service.”
I low abridge the term of your service, Mr. Preston ? Do
you not hold your uflire t»y viittte of the Constitution, and
are you not hound to hold <ui office, w hich you have volun
tarily accepted, under the trims ami comhlious ptesriihril
hy the lav/ creating it ? 1 would enquire ol you. how the
people can abridge your term of service, except hy adi-so
lu’ion ol the Federal compact? 11.is it come to this? A
Senator in his place gets up and denies the right of the
constituent hotly to instruct the Representative, ami urges
the repudiated doctrines ot Win. it. Giles, who, about the
year 1811, denied tin* right ot the V.i Legislature to in
struct him «<» vote against a law tore-charter the U. States
M«nk. Where were you, Mr. Leigh, that you did not
raise your voice in defence of the right of the Legislatures
to instruct their Senator-? Have you changed jour sen
timents, or has a change ol position induced you to change
your course? When you we e in the Va. Legislature, did
you not draft Resolutions nlliriiiing the riglu of the Lewis
lat.ire to instruct their Senators, and in vi vid language pour
tray the dangers that would result Iroin the claims they
tlieti set up, that they were not hound to obey? Have you
been scut hy the Legislature of Va. far the purpose of
waging a war against the Administration alone? When
doctrines are maintained that you say you repudiate, w hich
you must know \ a. repudiates, you sit in silence. Your
eagle-eyed vision enables you to see dangers approaching
only hum the “man possessed with a degree of ptwiuimp.
tion that never mortal man was cutsed withal.” 1 would
enquire ol you.il the Legislature ol a St„.o does not on
all great and important questions generally reflect Hie
-entiments ot (heiVopU?
If Mr Webster was against the U. Slates ILnk and in
avor ol the Executive, would you. for a moment, doubt
that tie was against the Peopled the Sta e ol Messachu
setts? | he People have a right, hy instruction*, to control
their Representatives; ami it is his duty, it. all mattes
which do not concern hi* conscience, to obey. Our (»o
veminent is a representative Democracy, and the People
have a right to govern themselves in all things. The
Representative, when left to the exercise ol Ida own dis
cretion, should conscientiously endeavor, hy his exertions
am. votes, to promote the host interests of Ins country; but
when he is instructed hy a majority ol hi* constituent* in
matters ol expediency, he is hound to obey. 1| instruct
ed to vote lor a law or resolution which he thinks contra
ry to Ins oath, to support the Constitution ot the United
States, lie should resign. H he knowingly votes contrary
to the wishes ol hi- constituent*, lie acts tyrannically.
The people cm change the Representative by viitHeof
the elective franchise; I uf, if the Representative denies
tlie right ol instruction, he may, by aiding in injudicious
'"ti 'n"1’ bnt'K gtest distils- upon the People.
The People, I believe, are convinced th.it hanking a« it
now exists amt is carried on in the U. States, has been
and will, it persisted in. continue to be a -ource 01 meat
embarrassment and evil to (be country They are anxious
to strike down the U. States B-ok as the most dangerous
arnl *1)1.0X 0119 Ol these institutions; and ought no: tho
ieople to he permitted to have it done? Is all wisdom
with the Senate ol the U. Stales? I would a.k Mr. Pies
ton and Mr. Leigh, who governs in England? When does
the King change the Ministry? Is ,t not done when a
majority of the House of Commons is against the inn.
-ureso. the Ministry? Which body is „.os! hlely to ex
press the popular w." of the count,y, ,|,e Senate or tho
ix vearl ..U>rs are elected for
six >ear.«, the Rfprtfpnlatives (or two.
I would not Wish to he understood as intimating, that
the * enate ought to be influenced in its action by the Ex
ecutive or the House ol Representatives. I. i* BI1 inde
pendent and co-ordinate branch of (hr U. States (ioveir
•uenr. But I say, the Senate is hound to respect and obey
the will ol the i topic, when it is ascertained; and indivi
dual .Senatorsare bound to obey the instructions «l the
boi.y hom which they received their powers. It a P.„,
trary doctrine be held ami practised, our tJuvernmeoi v ill
lat to answer the very end it was intended to ellc.. .„d
will end in an odious oligarchy, or probably in a -pi, n lid
monarchy, where the many will be the slave- ol th. t w
or how to the mandates of a lorlunate hut imperious dic
,alor- A SOU 1 11 RON
DEATHS.
at )••« re.idonce, in New Kent county, on the 8il> inst . in tU
SO h yen, off,.. a*-, Jon,« R. Cbri.lien, Ea«j., n,onb%5lJ».d Iw 1,1!
relatives nn.I friends, and highly respected l.y ml who knew him.
C'lOLD MINE TRACT IN BUCKlNGHAM^For
M aalo orJease, the dower infere-t 0» Mm. Elizabeth
In a Traci of Land, lying or, Walior.’- Fork.tt.a
ro,m>y of Buckingham, about 7 ,.r 8 miles from (he Com t
.o'me belonging to (he ..tale of her deceased husband,
ihr ate Col W t,,. I. Lewis. This tract, sometime* call
ed the (■old Mine Tract, is supposed lo contain about 100
seres, (.old has been frequently found upon it—in one,
r iYITn' \r'?*!e ,"rn»>- ,aW •'» •■'*« been war III upward.
o< $100. Col. Lewis some short time before his death
and before searching lor (Job! was pursued as s profitable
business in Virginia, h»d commenced preparations on an
extensive scale for washing nnd separating the ore. A
more particular description is deemed unnecessary as
none, it is presumed, would purchase without examining
the property. Persons disposed lo contract for Mrs. Lew
is s interest w ill please address llirir coiuiiiuniralions, post
paid toClen. It. W. 8. Cabell, Danville, John Robertson,
Itichmond, or the subscriber. Concord P. O., Campbell.
STERLING C. ANDERSON,
.. Attorney in Jact ft,r Mrt. E. Lnrit.
M.yl.f. 2 M
AN Apprentice wonted in the Tanning ,n.i Curry
ing business. A youtli of rrsperublo parentage, of
1(1 or 17 years of age, of good moral character and Indus
trlous habits, will be taken to the above business, it e?,,ly
application be made to the subscriber, near Jenning.,' Or
dinaiy, Nottoway county, Va.
HICKARD It. EGGLESTON
m&yM._ 2—it*
I.Also Osncc -l Richmond, Va., May 0th, 18dl,
0N conlorudty with an act, entitled, an act to reduce
into one the several acts concerning Esrbealors, pass
ed the 0th day of January, 1819,1 do hereby make known
that it appears by the certificate of the Esrheator for the
county of Hampshire, bearing date, Nor. 9th, 1832, and
received at lids offlee, J .unary |sf, 1833, that by inquM
lion and Office, found on the said 9th day of November
IS32, a tract of land, whereof, John, Earl of Dunmorei
who wat John Murray, died seized in the county of
Hampshire, lias escheated to ihis Commonwealth, contain
ing 2323 acres, situated on the waters of Tear Coat Creek
which said tract or parcel ol land was granted t„ him by
Thomas, Lord Fair fix, late proprietor of the Northern
Neck of Virginia, by deed, bearing date, June 4<b, 1771
W. SKI,l)EN,
_ Hegi»ter Land Office, Va.
M*y IT i nr,,v
Lawn Office at Richmond Va , May 9i|i, 1831.
BN conformity wi li an art, entitled an art, to redued in
to one, the several acts concerning E-rhea'or*, passed
tbo fltb day ol January, 1819. I do betehy make known,
(hal It appears by the eertili< ate of the Kacheafors for the
county of Cabell, bearing date March 14, HUM, and re.
reived into this Office, March 22d, 1831, that by Inquisl
lion and office, found on the I2rh March, 1831, » tract r,f
Land in Cabell county, on Sandy Run, containing aboul
809 acres, whereof John Fiott died, adzed, has escheated
to this Commonwealth. W SFI,DEN
li'gifter La.fd Pfhe*, 1ra.
2-v.8w
May 13