Richmond enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1815-1867, 1826-03-24


4 suffered, and become a source of felicity which
should otherv ise never have known
"TIIE OPPOSITIONr'
Every whips'er of politician may whimper out
. The opp0StionP' The opposition f'-Every
cuckoo OF editor repeats the cry. So it
Is with the parast:cal advocates of the adininisra-
ton. They answer arguments by abuse; and at
tack truths with epithes. Politics are converted
into personalities; and honest independence is to
be put down by the cuckoo note of oppcsition,'
" opposition Men who have sworn allegiance
TO Mr.. Adams, do not hesitate to 90 all lengths
IN misrepreseni alton and abuse; and some ofihose
measures, which are justly obnoxious 10 doubt or
even TO the severest criticism, to be defended
by virulent vuperalion OF those who dispute or
doubt their proPriety. Not word is uttered
against any OF the measures OF the administration,
ou lis servtors OF the press prepared TO ascrbe
1t to systematic spirit of attack; TO an organized
| opposition, which is seeking to put down Messrs
Adams and Clay. Is this the way, in which the
administration expects to win It's way TO the afIec-
tions oil an intelligent people?
When the present Congress first assembled GER
tain prints chose TO designate J. w. Taylor as the
administration candidate; and those who should
| vote against him, as the opposition party This
division has been kept up by the body guard of
the administration, with increasing pertinacity and
vlrulence down TO the present hour No excep-
the oppositioa!" "he oppOSitionr'
| Does any object to sending as our minister
to the iirst Court in Europe, the prosecutor of the
| oppressed lrlshnen, the author of the Missouri
Question, the veteran ultra of the Federal School!
1t Is at once ascribca TO the opposition.
| Does any ole dare 10 except to the Presidents
alarming extensions of the powers OF the Federal
Government! You hear from a hundred throats
the cry of opposition! opposition!
| Is execution taken q MIR. Rush,s Rsnor, -,
which he squinis at organizing the whole capital
OF the country by " act of Congress-? Imme-
diaely, the note is sounded of the opposition, the
| opposition!
Dares any enc object to the Panama Mission
critically investigate its expectancy; point TO its
variations from the general maxims OF w ashiG eton
and Jefferson; and ask what urgent considers
| tons, prompt to this unprecedented Embassy,
what extraordinary benefits, are 10 arise from his
departure from the received maXns of our policy :
and you have in all The notes of the eamut the
chorus OF opposition! opposition! rung in the ears
OF the people.
These msl might as well say al once that 8: the
President can do no wong '-altho' he has alrea-
| dy given so many reasons 10 doubt of the solid.
ty OF his Judgment and of the iustness.of his prin-
| ciples. But there Is mass OF common sense In
| this nation, which distans the artificial cry of
, ministerial partizans. 1t will look at things as
they really are: and it will judge mparialy, no
nestly and boldly, of all tie acs of Mr.. Adams;
| OF all the objections against them.
He'nico Superior CO'Vt---The Spring session
! Tor criminal cases commented on Monday week
and adjourned yesterday. Five persons of colour
were tried; four found guilty, and one acquitted
/ OF the 4, is an old man upwards Of go, who il
condemned 10 be sold as a slave under the statute
1t is probable an application will be made to the
Executive for their interference-The two cases
| xs,pI cttr,inH .
Landon Carter for receiving stolen goods knowing
them to be stolen, and OF Mendez j. Cohen for a
violation OF the Lut'ry Law. The Jury found L. G..
! guilty and assessed upon him fine Of $500: YES
terday, the Judge also sentenced him 10 two wears
imprisonment III the common Jail. Several excep.
tons were filed TO opinions OF the Court, which
will not be decided before the meeting of the Ge
neral Court.-In the indictment against Mr.. Cohen
the Jury found him guilty of unlawfully procuring
one ticket for w. Harwond and TO his order, but
did not find that he Dargained, agreed and con-
tracted TO sell procure the same as charged in
| the I'd count They also find him guilty of un
lawfully acting in the procurement of a lottery
ticket for said Harwood as described in the Sd
and 4th count; except that they do not find tina,
he acted agent, attorney or proxy for either
i9arwood OF for the managers of the LOTTERY
The court did not decide, whether upon this YER
dict judgment should be rendered for or against
the defendant but continued the case till the next
criminal term 9th July.
Petitions 10 the Governor Of Kentucky flor
call of the Legislature to attempt to compromise
their Judicial enbarassmenls) are now in circu-
sa,ion. The most plausible plan of compromise
seems to be the voluntary resignation Of both sets
Of Judges.
The rumour, aGoat, some weeks since, Of Go
vei,. or Deshas having pardoned and released his
son is undoubtedly false.
Within ten days, the Kentucky river had been
swollen by the unusual rains to nearly so feet from
low water mark 1t was still gradually rising on
the sih inst.
Extract Gfa tei''e Lor vaiingfoH, Mar ei ~, 1926