Richmond enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1815-1867, 1816-05-29


one which IS now aimed.---lt has not even
the merit OF novelty To enforce it III Is bat
the thrice told tale oi federal pon,icians
again dressed up. All the sIaug winch
has been uttered for years against yir-
einiu Influence, and the Virginia Succes-
saoa, is once more To be repeated. Having
no weapons OF their own, these men are o.
blgei to take up such as they had once con-
batted themselves. They are doomed 10 re-
peat what has been So often refuted and
sail more mortifying to their pride, what
taey have themselves refuted. No wonder
that tue Federal prints are SO willing to
return the compliment which is paid to
them-and that they are again uttering
the counterfeit coin which had originally
issued from their mint.
1t is not then, because the blow is drea-
ded; but because there is 50 little afloat
to interest the public mind, that Il few
has,y remarks are gwen to the Erfiosition
II better gamenad offered in view, one
would .not willingly hunt the feeble hare.
Ihc ESloSi.ioA opens the matter with
s..ung that
's1he Objection TO Col. Mon oe as a cindi,ia for
the presidency was twu-iold First, regarded
tie policy winch presented, him for adoption TO tllat
high ssaton Secondly, asst respected his particular
qualifications for the eaief magislfscy.
"On the first point, the following considerations,
in .ded upon facts ersaIy know, seemed ire
ssoDly to prescribe his xcusun The present coz
situtiou has been in operation about % years. dur
ing the whole Of which term (exceptng four ye.us)
the President has been iiOUi the state o Vagina.
THIS monopiy oil the frs, post in the eoyernment,
50 lar from being considered by the Nirginiins AS
encroachmeut t,,e ,ir claims o the other $,
tons ofhe Union, has. by dexterons sophistry been
converted into AN argument to prove, tl,nt those
VINO question tue proprety ot continuing power ior
50 Ious tune IN Tue same hands, are only soded BY
ambtion, or iupceu by lactious motives rs ii the
tenacdy with which a few men, ia that state
cling the presidential Succession, we're not IL, it,
seltan admonto'y indication III them ut the most
ardent aud nnquenchable thirst Tor power i5ut
this azure OF local policy ), o,ious as it is would
not have aw.kened n spnlt o Indignant resistance
had II NOT en apparent, tnot in order TO insure as
success, the Who'll. weight OF the republican party
fer fifteen years past, had been arteily Welded 70
C1,t nj iguiH popular res Get sad estimation the
most disting characters ether paris of The
United States, il seppur, t"is asse.,,om il Is oa-
" necessary 10 few facts within recui-
lection and observation q every politician VAC has
been GA tia pubic stage
It's the '.hoHcy which press Is" Mr..
Mour c, that forms the first obi :, ton to
him.--lhis policy seems to be character.
ised as &" local policy on the part of
Virginia, to n,0noA3lize ." the first post IN
the governments"
Now is this Il /acs 2--IIave we any proof
that such policy does exist IA Vrsini. 3
The Expoais,r does DOT prove it--but wish
es to infer IL from another tact, that with
the exception of four years, I" the Pres-
dent has been from the stare of Virginia."
Ii would not be wight co argue ia this
way, even ifit were true that it is Virg MIA
alone who fiuseS the Chef Magistrate--
for it might have been true that she was
anxious to Chusc thcee OF her own Citizens
without being 10 extend tue selection. -
Virginia might have been anxious, that
Washiagton, Jefferson, ana Madison, AID
Alouroe, should be Chosen, be cause ,hev
were qualified 10 serve the statc--when
their race was run, her choice might have
fallen upon the other States. Has she
pressed any one upon her sisters, who
was not quaiifieaf The impartial world
says no-but, till she proceeds to these ar
rogamt lengths, until, the only question
with her, is, not, who IS the most worthy,
but who is a Vrginian it is not fair to
ascribe her preference to local feelings, or
local holicy.
Ii is still less SO when it is recolected that
her Voice alone does Tot chuse-that Vir-
sinia alone does not dictate Presidents to
the Union--On this question, the voice of
eve Un on IS lie no man becomes Pres
id.nt who has not the m jori,y of votes in
his favor--The success of her sons, there
fore, qusts all doubt-it proves that she
is moi misguided in her choice by any par
talitics, that it is not she alone, but a
majority of the votes i'll The Union, which
deems Washington and fferson, and
Madison to have been the best qualified
to serve the nation. 1t proves another fact
beyond dispute. that If there acre any es-
tab.ishcd foHcy To cuncede the 4" monopo-
lY IF the INST post in the government to the
Virginians, " it is nat a iDcai policy, but the
trolley u tGe mlajo,fty ofthe Uuioa. Bu, such
an assertion would be as ridiculous, as il is
fa.ss--h5w then can the arguacnt b. tue .n
one sense. and not in the ether? How can
the other states be cleared from the ma
pu atoms of such IoAcy---4nd yet Y rg,-
MIA alone be guilty OF IL! Way infer t
from the single fact t0at tue President
"hqs 6een from the state Of Virginia"
when tue other states have equally Contri-
buted 70 produce rme tact! But they are
clear f ON such fohcJ--why then charge
it to rginia alone
Where then Is this encroachment" a
bout which SO much is said ?-IG IS 10
encrcachment on the C0u8t1utiou, because
it does not forbid the act--nor Oh the prin-
ciples Of the Tehubhc, because 1t was dong
bgthe will of the majority ---uor, " on the
far claims of che other sections of the u
uion." because, II they had any, they have
waived them.
THIS charge of ambition would haye
been a more feasible one, ii there had been
no other means OF accounting for this
O. N:....:, G.,~rsecton - ~ has been erOl-