Richmond enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1815-1867, 1826-12-23
RICHMOND, DEC. az.
To the Editors of The Enouirer.


| perceive that some gentlemen, the opponents,
as well as friends OF the Administration, have par
ticulsrly commended the President for the guard
| ca and msftgafed language of his late Message,
| compared with the bold and startling assumptions
OF power, which distinguished his frs, official ex-
pose Ii could persuade myself that this change
| Of language was the honest effect of a cores
pendent change Of principle, would applaud
him tor 1t, too. But slight examination Of this
production will suffice 10 shew that while the Pre-
| sident has found 1t erpedient 10 change his Ian
suage. his principles and policy remain the same
1t was evidently drawn up with grea, art and deli
oeration, and with the express design OF quilting his
opponents and allaying their jealousies, willie no
cause OF alienation or distust should be given TO
his friends. He has, therefore, carefully absained
from any direct and open re Grafton of the alarm
Ing doctrines so boldly promulgated in his first
message, which produced general rising, through
out the land, oil the Republicans of 1913 and their
political descendants He has even been so eau
tious as not 10 risk the responsibility of di-
recffy recommending any one definite or specific
measure to the adoption of Congress. But, at tie
same time, he has silly interviewer with his reci-
tai OF the general coalition OF public affairs copert
diluSi0nS 10 his favori,e schemes, which are per
fccly Ineligible and full of assurance to the intin.
| ted, aud yet not so broad and palpabls as TO
challenge the attention or excite the alarm Of the
great mass Of the people. He deals in ,cinks and
mods, which seen aud understood by his follow-
ers, but are intended to escape the observation
and eude the comprehension OF all the rest of the
world, IT they should be dull and credulous enough
10 permit themselves TO be SO duped. Thus, for
example, instead of making direct and RESPONSE
BILE recommendation 10 Congress of the grand sys-
TEN OF internal improvements, (by ,Dhich the peo-
pie OF thus country are to be bought up toith their
otcn money! he brings in, at the end of long
paragraph in which he processes to enumerate the
Various duties assigned 10 The Department of War
kind oil clandesiine reference to 80 the internal
mprov emenis and surveys for the location of roads
and canals, p" tUhich" he adds &c during the last
, three sessions OF Congress have engaged so much
| OF their attention, and may engage so large a
share IF their future bene factions to our coun.
| fry! What Is this but TO clap his majority in
Congress on the back, and say TO them, veil done.
good ana ialihiui serVants-you have made good
oesinnng-go on In the magnificent eer you have
so auspicously commenced Again, instead of COM
ing forward with the manly frankness which should
ever characterize the official communications of a
republican magistrate, and plainly duo,cine, a.
the Reports OF his Secretary of the Treasury at the
least, authorize us 10 believe he feels, strong ap-
probation OF high protecting duties Tor the encour-
asement OF manufactures, he says, after ascribing
The reduction OF our revenue to the reduced impor-
| tailons OF foreign goods, 1" The dimInution how
ever, Is IN part attributable to the fourshng con-
dion OF our domestic manufactures and so far il
the nation;" the plain English of which is that so
long domestic manufactures can be sustained by
any system OF art hcial stimulsnts il matters not
what becomes OF foreign commerce and the reue.
nue. OF tohich 1t IS the source, as they can be re-
placed by the forced operations of internal trade
and the exactions of direct taxes! The clear and
unequivocal import OF these passages, is more Ia
| riff more Tariff Roads and Canals! Canals
and Roads, for ever! And yet we are grayeIy
congratulated upon The altered tone of the Presi-
dents Message and his supposed remuneration of
the dangerous doctrines, by which we were all so
much, and so justly alarmed, twelve months ago.
The truth Is, this diplomatic production of our
diplomatic President, like others of the same
pen, Is but too well calculated deceive. 1t was
desirable for his purposes to avoid if he could do
so, revivinS those strong republican jealouses he
had awakened by the bold relief given to certain
cherished doctrines of his political faith in his r,t
message; and yet it necessary TO saw enough
10 satisfy those, whose support OF him rested upon
their attachment TO these doctrines, that he had not
| and would not abandon them. The only means of
| accomplishing this double end, was to arrange
these delicate and nydious topics in obscure corr
nerS OF his message, where the solicitude of his
| parizans would certainty find, but the confdiny
disposition OF the public might possibly overlook
them. We are not startled again, i, is true, BY
the splendid visions OF lighthouses Of the skies,
National Universities, voyages OF circumnavga-
ton, &c. Sc PASSING III distinct and successive
review before US; but, in effect, all these things
are brought back upon US, by wholesale, in the
first paragraph but one of the message, where the
President refers 10, and implicitly adopts, such re-
concentrations of his former message as have
not get been carried into eTecution. Let US not,
| linen, be deIuded by the cry of peace, peace,
where there is peace" For my part, instead
OF finding any thing in the reserued and cautious
language OF the late message TO satisfy my judg-
ment or lull my fears, it is that very Teseyre
against which my fears and objections are most
strongly directed calculated If not intended, to
create, by the artiul use of signs, security, for
which there is no real foundation in the things sig
nDed. PRO PATRIA.
| To the Editors Of the ENQUIRER.