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ipiEapiPiL JVO. 12G. WILMIM PubUcbcd rry Wednesday Morning, by : dignity or responsibility, and Certainly! Vif3JfIJiS XOtMWfir. '. I none vith more zeal and success. As a! Representative in Congress, hisapeeches oii great questions of national policy are equally profound and masterly,; He does not merely skim the surface, but dives to first, An J twenty-five cents for eaci. uue- the bottom., and brings up nothing but pearls, tie is not merely theoretical out TfiRCC Dollars plk annim; in advance. f ADVERTISEMENTS Kot ejiceeJjnu a riqiiare inserted hat ONE DOLLAR. u Subscribers taken for less than one year, i practical, and riiactically republican too : and ull who permit their subscription. to run ov;r j he sees far and "sees clearly i his Vision year, ' within giving notice are! considered i does not end in the mists of obscurity, but bound for the Second, year, and io oil i far ull sue- j in the regions of light and distinctness.- tceding years. j . Yearly advertisers, wtai witl firec to pay S10 per Vciir, will be allowed 30 per cent. discountVon Mil Over lhat Uo, and 'that uunjl included, -so us Hot to reduce their yearly bill Im Iow 10; D Jr OFFICE tin t h Kouthtule ollj&irkU Street, be ow thV. Court lliu. ." r j . j j J" from Tiiu n. v. evknin?; it,sr. ' WM. C. RIVKS, Or' YjltGINIA Among the distinguish United States, there is scarcely ;j one w,h from! his character, talentk and attain ineiitf, as well a his . political principles aim cotiuuci, merits a nitrner stitioa m dtmns of trie Jr. i I, Like a skilful navigator, he leads us safe into port, instead of losing his reckoning and wandering away into the boundless ocean of doubt and uncertainty. He sees the jmd of his voyage beiore be unfurls his sails, and always makes a successful venture, because he always knows whi ther he is bound. His speeches smack of the early years of the Republic, and re mind us of the temperate dignity, the phi losophic spirit, and deep erudition of Mad ison. . - . I : . 1. Of his talents as a negotiator, the fact of his having succeeded in concluding a treaty with France, which had baflled all the confidence and affections of the peo-r the previous efforts of some of the ablest : pie than this' gentleman From 'the pe-i men in this country, may be taken as ev- to the present moment, his tdurse'has ne-; sacrifice both her honor and her interests yer altered. . lirougllt up at tjiefout of , to! domestic disseutioris and the spirit of the great apostle of the democratic faith ; contending parties at home; or, whether and practice, nenas carried sius principles ; sue will at length perform an act or un ' and examples into action on every trying occasion and the last act bf his public life demonstrated the sincerity of his de- If there ever vyas a timej ivhen such an act of devotion to th great principles of representativo responsibility; deserved the gratitude of the people, andjmerited their (Every where cither denied rewards, that time is now. We see this great principle or derided, and men sittin'g n the highest, most responsible situations, ;m opposition . iq tne expressed wisns oi fins', inwaTting ineir aviii, their contitu- qnd I acting in direct disobedience -of i the tr instructions ' In so far as this practice has' extended, the Government instead of jflowing from its great fountain, the people, has be come tin erratic, . unmanageable stream, . Whose Source is unknow'u, dashing its furious jtorreiit with wild impetuosity, o errlowific its banks, destroviner every landmark of our rights and; liberties, and repelling' every effort of tlib lords of the soil to restrain its deva'staUonsJ Instruc- ' ious have been disobeyed, public promi l jsesj 'openly violated, pledges set at noughtr or dexterously evaneu ; anui it requires lit tle foresight to predict, that unless the peo ple1 punish those who disobey, und reward those who-obe'y their will, jwe shall ere long have a govcrnineiit, professedly de rived from the people, as independent of their authority, as the moiliirch who in herits the succession from reigns by "div hie right." One example, and one lis fathers, and alone, in the midst of this presumptuous disregard of principles and promises, re tole the advocates ol the rights ol the peo-; ple.'and thdt is the example, of VV'm. C Hives. . When instructed H by j tliat body from whence he derived hts powers as a Senator of the United States, and which tivery man is bound to coi sider the true representative of the will of the people of a state, to act jti opposition) jto measures to which he had previously given is pow erful support, he! took the alternative, pre sented to the choice of every high minded citizen.1 lie acted as a man of principle and honor always acts. Ue could not o beyt and he resigned, in order that the le gislative body which instructed him, might 'supply his place with one who could con- scienliously obey its instru rpuus. Iiy this gering justice which will, from the man ner of its doing, be received not as an act of prompt and willing faith, but of tardy necessity, is of no consequence to this question. Whatever may be the final re sult, Mr. Rives is entitled td the credit of success, without being responsible for .its failure. lie made the treaty ; but 'it is. to. France, and her alone, we are to look for the responsibility of a breach -"of faith in refusing to carry it into execution. The attempt to connect his correspon dence with " his own Government, with the delays and ultimate refusal of the French Chamber of Deputies to sanction he appropriation to carry .that treaty into effect, is one of those desperate and disin genuous artifices to which the present con test of, parues has given birth. It has beeir asserted that Mr. Rives boasted to his Govennment that he had obtained more. than was due, and an explanation of, or apology for, accepting less than was claimed, has been distorted into a silly at tempt .to pomplunent his own superior dexterity: in the art of deceiving.) I he whole tenor of that letter shows that it was intended" as an apology to his own government, not as an expression of tri umph over another , and the blame rests, not in having written it, but in the publi cation of that letter through the instrumen tality of Congress. If the President in answer to'. a call of that body, and with a ! desire to withhold from it nothing neces- sary to a proper understanding oi tne subject, communicates information which ought not to be pubfished, on Congress rests the responsibility of the publication and its consequences, and not on the vvri- ter ot the letters. Wise and all seeing as is that body, it assuredly ought to know the delicate nature of various oortions of the correspondence of every foreign' min ister with his own Government. There are a thousand things which" that Govern ment ought to know, but which if known to the power with which he is 'negotia ting, would be fatal to the success of his inission. If they should come to light, it is not the person who communicates them to his Government, , but those who place them before the world.; that are answera; ble for the consequences.., , j The use madeof this apology of Mr. Rives to his own Governmeut for not ha means he preserved his own integrity ! ving got more, by the Senate of the Uni without violating the duty bjf a representa-:: ted State?, and byi the French Cnamber of live oi inc peupie. tie uemivcu ime a j uepuues, is oniy woriny oi two Domes, faithful servant, who being jcominanded to j one of which has no bther object jthan to i do on act which he canjlci approve, dis-4embarrass both our foreign and domestic dains to receive any longe the wages of relations, and the other to evade an act of A master ho refuses :to oben He saenh- j justice. - The argument of Mr. Clay, that . . : I n v . 1 - I ced a station as nonoraoie as any which f presents itself to the ambit ion of a citizen 101 tne unueu, oiaies, ana yoiuniarny ' sought retirement from a sifeijie which he embellished by his talents, had eiiuohletl by his integrity. ... ' j . .This young man (for compared with this apology for. getting too little, was no thing less than a boast of having got too much, and therefore a justification, or . at least an excuse to France for paying no thing, can only be justified -by theifact of! his-having hone vbetter to oner ; and the use! made of it by ' M. , Bijinon !in the many of the leading politicians of this j French Chambers, js entirely worthy ot country, he is still young) 4s,-. if we do not i a man, who relies on the establishment mistake, d.irstiueo, he iivc.jto.ine nign-j or a new prmciple to justily a breach ol est stations in our Government. His in-: faith, to wit, thai the robbery of one vor- legntyj his talents and his 'acquirements, nil combine to point him put as worthy the unlimited confidence onthe peoole. He is. most emphatically the representa tive of the policy of Mr. JefleTSon, and he has the ability, incjustry and jersc vera nee to carry that policy into practice. Deep ly read in the theory, and versed in the .' practice of the true principles of liberty, as guarantied by the Constitution, which though now contemned and despised by a party of mad zealots', or ambitious hypo " crites, is, we trust, still venerated by eve ry true American : firm, W-.. nJild ; pro- louna without Deling vasionary wun in formation extensive, yet not confused or heterogeneous; a mind direct, forcible anq clear, animated witn the love oi his Country and of liberty i and an eloquence addressing itself equally to the uuderstan'd ing and the heartlr-Tlives presents to us a character worthy of the. state 'from whence he sprung, 'and deserving the re spect and admiration of every other state in theynion.v t; j . . ' , ! . Few men at jiis time bf life have ac quired greater experience in public-affairs, or served the country in stations of higher Hon of a nation furnishes no ground of complaint, provided another portion, is growing r'fh at the. same time. This is the basis of his argument, and we are told "it made a great impression on the Chambers." Whether this impression was indicated by the members buttoning up their breeches pockets for fear of hav ing them picked, under this new exposi tion of the moral duties by Monsieur Bir- non, we are not informed. Perhaps we ought to apologise to Mr. Rives. for thus defending him against these frivolous charges, which m truth would be unwor thy of notice, did. they not come from such- high sources as the! Senate of the United States and the French Chamber of' Dep uties. ; !-;-; ' . : It is scarcely necessary to revert to the course pursued by Mr. Rives in the Senate ! of the United States. It is great in itsell and still greater by contrast. His speech es in relation to questfons connected with that corrrmon' enemy, and common disturb er of the peaee of the Union, the Bank of the United States, are not only master pieces of eloquence, but replete "with the safest and soundest constitutional princi-
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