Benj. Watkins Leigh

When Mr. Birney was in Detroit, iri some of his rernarks, he spoke of the sentiments advanced by Benj. VVatkins Leigh; of Virginia, who nominated Mr. Clay for the Presidency nt the Baltimore Convention, to the effect that aman who is occupied by daily labor is unfit for any public or political employment. A writer in the Advertiser, over the signatura of "a Whig," supposed to be J. M. Howard, says that "no such declaration ever escaped the lips of Mr. Leigh." How he has become acquainted with all that Mr. Leigh has said during a long Ufe, he does not inform us. Büt the following extract from a speech of his in the Virginia Convention of 1829, has been in wide circulation for many years, ind its authenticity has never been denied, so far as we have heard, by Mr. Leigh, or by any other person, except this anonymous writer in the Advertiser:' "There must be some peasantry;' and" as the country filis up, there must be more -that is, men who terid the herds and dig fhesoïl, who have neither real nor personal capital of their cnvn, and who earn their daily bread by the sweat of their brow. lask gentlemen to say, whelher ihey beïieve that those who depend on their daily subsistence can or do ever enter into our political af airs? They nevek do- NEVER -VVÍLL NEVER CAN."