Constitutional Whig. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1824-1832, 1824-01-27

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alignment. To form a caucus, it void be .iecessa-
n TINT the friends of least two of the candidates
tnla eoalese, and by sacrificing one of them, Sc
Ne 10 the other a majority of Congress, and a
nc,ss nompation. Every man who feels in his
Asn case and sees in the example of all around
En, with what pertinaci.y men cling to their ORE
fSal and avowed preference, must perceive the
tiiculty of affecting such a coalition. The con-
.stency of conduct which every man is DESTROYS of
leservng, the pledges which uneuestionably every
leanber of Congress has directly or indirectly gi-
kh TO the candidate of his first choice, and above
IL the Representative obligation to promote the
ishes of his immediate constituents are so many
,surmountable barriers to the Accomplishment of a
mpromise. Unless therefore, Mr.. Crawford re-
/ ats his boasted example of nagnanilnity, and
Shdraws from contest yet more hopeless than
fauld have been that of 1916, there can be no
! $. As many persons are uncharitable enough to
aieve, that his conduct at that time, was the
nit not of moderation, but of conviction that the
bvize was beyond his grasp, we exhort that gente-
tapnot to omit so rare an opportunity as the pre-
ht,s of convincing their scepticism, coming the
iiracted councils of his county and securing for
t;.,fself impcrisbable honour! If his conduct was
,Januch applauded in 1916, when there was so
se diversion in the country, and so little occasion
&the exercise of his magnaniInity, how much a
We all praise will it be extlnated now, when the
sntest is real and the act would be attended with
4 nsequences SO important to tho Interests of the
p,iatry, and so healing to its internal peace. Did
ie. exigency of the times require the aid OF his
pihties-could. the country only be saved by his
sents, as Rome was when Cincinatus, his great
pral, was called from the plough. would be far
I'm recommending a course which under such cir
stances, would be prejudiced alike to his coun-
1 land his reputation. But in these "piping times
;ace,n whe,rsour foreign relations are disturbed
o note of wars, and our domestic affairs are
~,
ties of an Adams Clay, so much his in
is in experience, in learning, in Diplomacy, in
Whence, i'm reputation at home, and fame abroad,
;sht be foaned competent, to steer the vessel of
Ntel He may become President of the United
Sates, out ne may never again find so fair an OPP
9eftunity, OF exhibiting to his country, the only
sgr,at quality which his friends have yet claimed
sf0 him, his DISTINGUISHED and Roman nagnaninty !!
III his relinquishment of the contest with Mr.. Mon
'4re ia 1916, was not founded on prudential cal
reNaton of the chances and hope to derive future
fadyentage, from present and fictitious disentcr-
les adnes-or if it was indeed voluntary sacrifice
n silimstlf to the harmony and integrity of the Re-
publcaI party, is Il time disprove the one,
AT prtve the other BY withdrawing from the
contest, an election can be made by the Eletoral
C., 'ege his weight thrown into the scale of
either adams Clay, would send up all the rest to
The bean-the darling measure of caucus, might
sfhen be effected-and his friends of the Enquirer
who, have grown lean and wan, in me litating on
the dargers of the Republic, relieved from their
,errors of election by the House of Representa-
stives might once more sleep in peace, mawed by
ifhe erls, and u,iha,snied by visions of departed
sominohwcalths. This is the course which real
snasnaImity would distate-in this there would be
merit because it would involve sacrifice-in the
former instance the merit consisted not in the
frice but the discretion which dictated the SEEM
ing sefdenial