Richmond enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1815-1867, 1816-03-23
RiCAHON'D, .Jl.iRCH %.
PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION.
FEDERAL COMMENTATORS.

IN tie fact. This Sir Oracle begins =
" Alter much dcl:.y to give time for the
necessary manousecing, bargaining, &c.
the friends Of Mr.. Monroe az last ascer-
tanned they might venture TO put to vote
the question of nominating the candid ate
Tor the next Presidency, &c. &C."
Now, what is the fact! Was it the
trends OF Monroe who brought on the eau
Gus! Was it ms friends that fixed the
hour Of mceting' Confesseily mott was
the friends OF another gentleIn IN. 1Hev
had The whole game in their hands. and
they must have played 1t to suit them
selves
Until this very hour, the cry has always
been tile other way /; that Monroes friends
were afraid of a Caucus that they strove
to 2sfeat it, lest it should defeattHerp.
OF the same complexion, is another as
sertion OF the Federal G q tie that cause
L wenty four were absent for whom M
votes W re gwen. it IS not improb Die, that
the selection OF part GUAR day f,r holding
the Caucus, may have secured the nominal
ton CT Mr.. Monroe."-The same answer
is at hand-who made this selection p
Was 1t the fr.enas of Monroe Certainly
not.
Yet, after all, says the Gazette, it was
a matter cfvery little consequence, whose
star was the ascendant-but "twop rsons.
Mr.. Monroe and MIR. Crawfoi d, both ma
iOeS Of Virginia, were voted for to be Dut
III nomination for the Presi iency it was,
therefore. matter of very little impor-
lance 10 iederalists, which of them should
be The choice ofthe caucus.'' Natives of
Virginia Aye, this is the rub" But
suppose there had been third person pu,
III, and that person no less a man than
Chief Justice Marshall, think you that this
Objection would have been SO seriously ur-
ged! After all, this caucus is not so tri-
fling conce III TO the FederaIists, as they
ahect to make tit may put stop to
their Vaccinations, their dreams of d,yi
Sion and of triumph. Divide ct i,ahe,a, has
been their motto from the days of Burr,
down to the present time.
Virginia Virginia Influence is the
cant OF every Opposi.ionist from Georgia 10
Name. Ii IS the Keynote to which ALI of
them pitch their pipes, from the silly m
trigutr IN Ncw-York, to the bold fionted
Conventionist of Hartford.-Indced, IN
deed lsays the AIercury of Newpost,1 it
cannot be veTy important to the Federal
lists, which Of the tzpo Nirg,niaDs shall be
the ostens!ble head of the government for
the next eight years /; and Virginian we
must have, tor the ancient dominion viii
not Submit to be under the control Of apy
MAI from any other state, whgtever poll
teal opinions he may possess" How these
assertions dwindle INTO ipsignilicance, when
you bring them 10 the touch-stone of tact.
How can Virginia make the Other States
submit? Has s..e the physical force TO do
1t! Has she the voteSs Has she any 9TH
er means! AS q State, she is only one,
surrounded by seventeen others. Her votes
are UNNECESSARILY short of a majority Of
the whole. Ho.v, then, can she control her
SISTERS How can Virginiaa succeed,
without the sufrages and consent Of tie
majority
Analyse the doctrine as YOU please II
st Ii resolves itself into an empty dream.
first engendered in the cunning brains of
the Eastern Federalists--:t is a dream.
which vanlsles at the touch of the Consti
tuition, OF experience, CT common sense.
The Federal Republican, too, has come
out against the Caucus, in its usual style Of
frank dealing. This paper, SO well distin 4.
guished Tor the chastity OF its principles,
and the truth of its statements, has at last
fallen into the hands OF AN Engl shman,
who has changed his name, as well as his
abode from Charleston, to New York. to
Philadelphia, and to Neutrality-suspicious.,
true as the needle to the pole, has been
every where invariable in lis feelings. ev-
cry where true TO the interests of Ola En-
gland.-From such an adversary, Mr..
Monroe has much to dread
He night have treated a Caucus with
more respect, if he had only recoliected
that the Federalists were really the faith
ers of this deformed monster" With
them, it was almost Il thing of course.
To pass law. to organize series of mea-
sures, the federal members Of Congress.
were in the habit of clubbing together at
Mr.. Bingham's and elsewhere, IN Phla-
delphia. 1t was he'd, too, not in the view
of the public, nol in the Hall of the Repre-
scntdtIyes, but at private houses, in holes
and IN corners.
1t is said, &" that as this monster is in the
ke ping of the Executive, none can mount
HIM, but the densgogue upon whom the
Executive sha smile"--that the execu-
tive would not siuile on any man who was
not born in Virgins" and that this elm
ferlal monster" after crushing the two
Clintons, has now crushed another sites
man, VINO dared to bid defiance to G. TX.
ecutive."-How much is here assumed
which is utterly untrue How ridiculou.
To say, that MIR. Crawford has "bid def
| ance TO the Executive and that he i.
crushed by The Gu us The most silly
Of the whole, is, that tie Caucus was Sc
on by the trien of Monroe, when il is S,
( well understood, that 1t was started by th {
friends Of Crawford.
But the Federal Republican contends
f1tuf Mr. Ncurca to H., ~. f,.t,,od go.