Richmond enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1815-1867, 1824-02-26

your real haiers Of Clinton personally. No~
we are among his political opponents, deci
dedly so, yet not personally. We mean your
men who Kissed when his name was toasted,
and who consigned him and Spencer and
Miller, Sc. to the shades Of Erebus how are
these men to get on smoothly under Clinton,
for be sure of il that Clinton rules if jackson
is President. However, they must do as the
family rarity in Pennsylvania has done, make
their bargain. NJ y. Nat. .4dto.
The Board of Com mssoners under the ST.
Petersburgh Convention, having finished the
examination ofthe evidence hitherto transmit
ted by the Government of the United States.
under the second article, relative to the aver
age value If Slaves, and, understanding that
the Department of State would not be pre-
pared 10 close the testimony on that point
sooner than the early part Of next month, ad-
Journed, on Friday, to the 18th of March.
Nat. Int
The Democratic Republicans" Of Boston
held a meeting at Faneuil Hall on the 18th OF
February, pursuant TO public noiiee-Col.
Samuel ID. Harris, was chosen Chairman, and
John B. Davis, Esq. Secretary. This meet
ing concurred in the opinion expressed by the
Convention of the Republican Members of
both branches of the Legislature, that John
Quincy Adams is the most suitable candidate
for the Office OF President of the United
States.
The Senate Of Mass achusetts has voted that
Il is inexpedient to take any measures upon
the resolutions communicated by the Legis-
Iatures of Tennessee and Alabama, denouncins
a Congressional Caucus, and nominating Gen.
ackson as candidate for the Presidency th
The last mails from Philadelphia ha,e bro't
ne, fall, h, l. n
snme, TO every body here. rery unexpected.
At a town meeting. held in that City on Wed
nesday afternoon last to review The proceed
Ings of the Ward Meetings, at which Dele
gales were appointed TO attend Convention
about 10 he held at Harrisburg. (fornominat-
ing candidates for electors( MIR. GEORGE NJ.
DALLAS, representing HE persons who first
put in nomination MIR. CALHOUN for the Pre-
sldency, and who have pertnaciously pressed
him on the Republicans of Pennsylvania, for
mally surrendered his claims. and himself
moved a recommendation of Gen. JACKSON
fer the Presidency
Having too much matter on hand before
The details of this proceeding we've received
we have not room for them to-day. But our
renders shall have them, if possible, in our
next. The object of this proceeding is, by any
means. To accomplish the end Of defeating the
nomination which has been made at the Ca
pitol. the avowal Of which Object was accom-
panied by a vehemrnce, and iniemperance
ui language. unprecedented, as far as we know
10 any Assembly, pretending 10 be drlihera-
i've. II Is pot now our object To retnrt upon
this citizen Of Philadelphia and his adherents
the rrihets OF " desperate and needless fac
tion," which he has not been ashamed to-
upon thai assembly Of aged, upright, consis-
tent and honorable men who constituted the,
Messing at the Capitol. The eansr we sup
port needs not such aids as these. We 20
further, IL disdans them. But we grirvt that
the descendant Of worthy and Iamentc6
Republican should have been the man 10 cast
this stigma on the friends and associates of
ms fathers youth. nf whom he was, when liv-
ing, proud a. his fellow laborers in the poli.
neal vineyard. We are most sincerely sorry
for it.
To the recommendation of Gen. JACKSON.
abstracty considered, we mean to take no
exception. He is distinguished citiz n, and
fair competitor for the Presidential Ofi,e;
and the people of Philadelphia, prpferring him
Tor the office, have done right to nominate
him What we now say on this subject pro-
cseds from an establishment which it would
he vain attempt TO conceal, that he should
DE BOW taken up by that party who have
within the last month denounced his other
supporters in that city, IN the grossest terms,
We care not entirely of the opinion, attributed
to one of our most iilustrious statesmen, that
great cities are great sores on the body
polite. On the contrary, when danger me-
naces The Republic, when sacrifices are re-
CURED, we have witnessed iD our cities "A no.
BILE devoton-a generous surrender of private
interests and personal preudces To the pub
lie good. But, ipthe quiet times of peace,
we ind Their population too often factisus,
and, alas too often tickle. II is not to-day
or yesterday, that this reflection has arisen in
our minds ii is one which is deducible from
every page Of history. Happily, in our Re-
public, no city, nor all its cities confederated,
can ever acquirethe power, by its or their tu-
multuary movements, to rule the national des-
TIMES. The steady, rejecting, we'll principled
yeomanry OF the country, will ever possess
decisive control over the national veal If
we wanted another reason for satisfaction in
this conviction, we have il in that unparaliel-
ed desertioD of Mr.. CALHOUN by those who,
bur few days ago, sung Hosannas TO his
praise. The very number Ofthe Washington
Republican which announces this political So
merset, contains paragraph, which we sup
pose was IN type before the news came, inn
porting that " Mr.. CALHoUN's prospects weTs
neusr better than at this moment" and that Z
his prospects IN Pennsylvania have conside-
" rably improved" How astouDded must the
conductor of that print have been, on opening
the Franklin Gazette of Thursday last, at the
clap OF thunder from that quarter, whence be
was wont TO hear only the ducet echo of bis
eulogistc strains
Enough, enough of this. We have not
been the supporters OF Mr.. CALHouN for the |
Presidency, but we are his friends. IL we had
been bis supporters, from conviction Of his
superior claims TO the Presidency, we would
have cut of our right hands before we would
a. A.. A n