Speech of Mr. Segar, of Elizabeth City and Warwick
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Excerpt from Speech of Mr. Segar, of Elizabeth City and Warwick: On the Election of State Officers, Delivered in the House of Deligates Mr. Segar said he had risen, not so much to sustain the nomination of Mr. Heath, who for thirty years had honored and adorned the office of First Auditor, as to enter his protest against the principle on which it was proposed to exclude him. Gentlemen had shown great unwillingness to make confession of their principle of action; had seemingly shrunk from its avowal, as well they might, for on no consideration of public policy, of right, or of justice, could it be defended. The gentleman from Franklin had said "the thing was to be done, right or wrong," and because the dominant party "had the right to do it." The gentleman from Rockingham had put it on the ground that Mr. Heath was an active partisan, and had written a play burlesquing the Democracy; but the gentleman from Roanoke had "let the cat out the bag," manfully "faced the music," and placed the thing on the true basis - that of retaliation upon General Taylor for federal removals. If any doubt could exist on the subject, it would be at once removed by reference to the democratic presses in this city, which, from day to day, send forth strong party appeals for the removal of the Whig State officers, on the principle of the "lex talionis." Gentlemen could not disguise it: - it was nothing more nor less than a proposition to introduce, new for the first time, in Virginia, the doctrine of proscription - to rear for the first time, over the capitol of this proud Commonwealth, the flag of the "spoils;" and the argument to justify it was simply this: General Taylor has removed Democrats from federal offices; therefore, we, the Democrats, now in the ascendancy here, will proscribe the Whig officers in the basement story of the capitol. A proposition more startling, he undertook to say, had never been announced in the legislative halls of Virginia. Here is a public functionary, holding an office purely ministerial, who came into the public service in the purer days of the Republic, when political opinion had nothing to do with appointment to, or removal from office. For long years he has discharged faithfully and satisfactorily the duties of his post. All admit, because none can deny, his superior fitness, moral and mental. We all know, from personal intercourse and observation, his vigilance, his promptness, his winning urbanity, and his entire competency. And yet it is proposed to displace him - not that a solitary being alledges him to be incompetent, unfaithful, or, in any respect, unworthy of public trust; but that he is a Whig, and that his removal, and that of other Whig incumbents of State office, are demanded as a measure of retaliation and revenge upon the Federal Executive. Assuming, then, retaliation to be the principle of democratic action on the present occasion, he appealed to his democratic friends if, on so unsound and unsatisfactory a ground, they designed to introduce into Virginia a policy which would, he solemnly believed, be pernicious in all its aspects, and affix a lasting stain upon the character of the State? About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical work
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