The Virginian. [volume] (Lynchburg [Va.]) 1822-1829, 1827-04-03
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From the National Intchgeucer March 70.
P0lltlcS 0the Day.--Ihe richmond Enquirer
has furnished It's readers with an article of more
than ordinary length upon our Signs of the
LINES. We are sorry to have put lis Editors
20 50 great trouble, especially it seem, 10 have
| been Labor in vain, So much OF it has certain,
been IN vain, as had for It's object TO touch the
character Of the National Intelligencer That IS
| a mark he ond their reach. We tIink, also,
that they have failed IN their attempt TO De witty
upon us, as we are sure they have in thcif efforts
10 be severe.
Amongst other of the Signs ofthe Times, we
have not observed one more ptiable than the
spectacle OF journal so respectable as the Rich
mond Enquirer descending to the level Of the
merely iaciious press, by copying as iargon and
heralding its cdlumnes. It's llmentable TO SEE
talents aud influence, like those Of the Editors
the Enquirer subjected to the potent spell OF d
Combination for purpose SO deep that they
themselves who compose ii do NOT Understand
that purpose. Il has been evident. in 70 con
plexon otthe Enquirer, any time t1rsC twelve
months that that prini was beIeat4ed with patty
It's needless heddlung course OF opposition 10 the
General Government, right or wrou g-eycn to
the point of contestmg the coastItuuonahty Of
powers which Congress has exercised Wlthou,
dispute from the commencement of the Govern.
ment--ts blind devotion 10 men whom it mas
heretofore denounced even as curses their
country--its pumpuns eulugies of second rate
statesmen, and is detraction from those tmore
waited merit, have been SO many evidences OF
alteration OF mnd, under the influence of yio-
lent prejudice. The real friends oi the Editors
those who have even hereto ore 1t Id them In
personal esteem, have seen all this with surpl ise
and modification Still, however, the case Of
the Enquirer is not so wholly hopeless as TO be
desPaired of. May we not trust that when the
decisions of prejudice and mere party spirll
yield to the light OF truth (Which soon they viii
/ the Enquirer vii resume its dgnly-ts sense OF
Justice-Its preference OF p lncplcs TO mon -
When that time arrives, we W Ii reason with these
Editors. In their present rame OF mind de
attempt 10 do s. would be was OF time. II
the general course ofour observations on pubic
affairs furnishes any antilute TO the poison which
they ate cu"dg Il Ia dlilusiig ny II our mutn-
/ al readers, our purpose Wi have been accom-
plished
a tree People will Judge fot themselves
says the Enquirer land he h ur OF rctrl5utlon
must come upon the head, when deserve Il. - -
As the Enquirer saith So aE n, mi ali good
men viii cry AMEN. Bat may thc visitation be
III mercy.
The Editors of the Fnqui. el will feel the blow
when it does come. They nav ahravy rcspon-
sibiliiy upon then heads, lar their res utar aud
systematic cooperation vii the plan oi the OPP
position "organ2rd' here, from TIE time OF
| then eXultation at the obstacles thrown IL the
| way ofthe Panama Mission, to their recent jub
| ladon on the defeat oithe Colonial Trade hiii,
and other measures, of high national import
| Far he It from to say that the opp ,sitoh TO
/ the tnama MISS arose altogether from per-
| soma hostility &c Mr.. ADAMS and Mr. CLAY
That it did in part arise from thai Cause will N o.
be denied Itis well known, that the opposi-'
Al. Il,
have been rs strong, on the part OF some geu-
/ taInen IN Congress, had that coui been direct
! iy the reverse of whai II was. Before Nj. AD-
| ANS was seated in the Presidential Chair, tho
threat went forth, that act as he might, nc should
! he hurled frnm il at the end OF his present term
! o office. Upon that psinciple the oai., of per-
petua enmity was sworn Had the Pres mt
and his Cabinet rejected the overture ifom the
Southern Republics, instead OF accepting ii, they
would have been branded as the enemies 10 free
dom--as the friends of the Holy Aiiance--as
the associates of deSpots in their hostility TO the
emancipation of the South. They would upon
that grould unquestonably have been successful
| IN assailcd. Al this the Editors OF the Enqui-
| rer know as well as we; aud they must allow us
Ia say that we did set them down opposed TO
| the Administration. right or UrOHg, from the
| moment that we discovered year ago, how care
| fully they published the speeches against that
Panama Mission, appal emily forgetting, IN their
zeal 10 decry the measures of the Executive, that
| there was more than one side to the question:
! The same uniaincss we think we have seen in
| the whole ofthe recent course of the Enquirer
| They have reclcssly, though apparently I'M
consciously, entered npon purely party career,
| and they go the whole.
| What reader pfthe Enquirer does not recollect
| the language employed in that print and com
| mended by them as being as beautiful as just,
when Ga few weeks ago. the reelection OF the
Hon. MARTIN VAN BURES, 10 the Senate of the
United States, was announced! "A rapid sue
cessaa ofdisastrous defeats prrsucs the coali-