Richmond enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1815-1867, 1827-05-04

there as time when she and Masss ohusetts had
stood together, shoulder TO shoulder, the ieadns.
champions Of independence and liberty. But il
could not escape observation, that during the
whole period, now near forty years, in which the
present government bad existed, Virginia had ne.
yer once given her vote for be Office Of President,
TO any but a native Of her State. There was
another thing not altogether unworthy of obser-
Vaton The ground OF objection to the election
OF the present President was, that he not the
leading candidate before the people--.hat another
received more votes than he, and that that otherx
as approaching the choice of the people
ought to have been elected. Now, j. is somsNhhsst
HIDE. by those who supported not the highest, but
the lowest candidaie; By those who gave their own
votes Tor him who came with the least recon-
menda'ion from the people, and who having en-.
deavoured in vain 10 elect him to the presidency,
now charge dierespeci for the public sentiment an
absolute eflronterS those who voted for a can
didste, who had received twice much support in
popular elections their own.
The Fl esiden, had received The vote OF the peo-
pie oil this State, and the also of their Re-
presentaiives IN Congress. He had been chosen
principally b. the northern and western States,
and since an organized aud extensive opposition
had been raised, for no hat he (Mr. Wy
knew OF, except simply that he had been chosen,
IT seemed the duty OF those WHO had placed him in
office 10 give him fair and Just support.
II II were The general sentiment, then, as he te-
leved II 10 be, that the administration ought TO be
supported against personal groundees or posi-
iion, the question was, how should that support be
rendered Speaking In reference 10 partie. that
had heretofore existed in the Common W ealth, were
these parties TO unite, and to &C, with concert eud
effect, OF were they -, to n eserve towards each
other attitude oil GOODNESS and distance if not Of
hos ility, although their sentiments and objects wre
! now acknowledged to be the sames For his own
part, he thought such a question answered in the
very stating OF It, Gould there &c case, in which
union was more necessary, or disunion more sense
LEGS! Ii was said indeed that parties had exist ed in
the Comrnon wealth for thirty years-that thew had
differed on leading public questions that these DIFF
ferences had gone deep and wide and that there
fore IL would be impracicabe now to reconcile
them. Ii the premises be true, let not the conc lu-
sion be 100 hastily admitted. What was the nature
OF these differences: On what did this Obstruction
oi parties rest? They were not dis,inc, orders in
the stale, with separate and unequal plivilegey
They Wee MOI the Patrcian and Popular parties
OF Rome, the feudsl or landed interest," srraved
against the mercantile and industrious classes as in
some modern sales, In these last instances there
were permanent grounds Of difference. arising rom
: opposing interests: Our differences on the contra
ry, have been differ ences Of opinion, upon
questions OF government and It's public measures
he Jich and the poor the learned and the uneun-
ed, the powerful AID the feebe, found on to,h
sides ut ihcse questions. New, If the subjects " hich
caused these differences, still exist there still he
OF course II ought TO continue. Men were not 10 be
persuaded TO go where, If they did 20, they must
leave their honesty behGd them. He would be- the
last to sacrifice himself invite others to sacfifca
. conscientious opinion. Bat what was the fact
Did these grounds of controversy sill! sub.s,i Most
assured!y they die not. The two great nartie.
which had so long divided the country had their ori-
gin almost ron'enroTaneously with the constitution
itself. TIE I'ench evolution, and the part taken
IN relation TO 1t by The government of the u. S.
orr own unhappy differences with the revolutionary
governInsns --;len the msunder standing with I'm
gland, and The general embarrassment of our tore,on
relations, leading 10 commercial non
embargo. and finally to these were the great
topics on which Parties had been divided. Ii WA
qni'e obvious that practical questions all these
e had ceased 10 exist shond ~ not expose ourselves
TO -one dfsree OF der sion, if forgetting The things
which are around Us, and before us, and which i'm.
medaieiy conrein u-,we should employ ou ion cues
4 our pens, anil our presses upon any one of the o.
p pies 10 which tie had alluded And was il apy more
wise IT, us, because we had differed those tonics
n 10 resovebat we would not now unite jim regard
10 those objects IN respect to which our sentiments
n our dishes, and our hopes the same. II was
quite obvious 10 him, thai the administration could
a only be supported on its principles When The
II Pc denI came into Office, he stated fankly and
e homes ly, that In lbs opinion, sacrifice OF party
N feeling and party prejudice TO be made His
sentiments had been full, and his ds emphatic:
te'NlS ou lbiS odsl", now could II be said
- ha; the administration was supported by ,bose
# who, while thee protested friendship for il de-
j. nounred an; prescribed others, who felt as much
j. friend hip for il az th,ms,Iy~-s For hi, own
IA p'Tt lac thOught want OF charity To dis,rust
= such p!etensIons. How YVES II to be exp.cteJ of
In men, who had more intere-, than others in the
p matter, thai they would he Hing To breas, the
IF oppo-iion with which the a1n,inistr alton was as
q sailed, II al the sIme tine they and their friends
m were TO be held out objects Of dstTust and lea
:, lousy, and made the SUBJECTS of narrow sell fish
IS snd exclusive policy? Had we not seen enough of
ss the re uit of such course? In sudins TO d. 3
10 inaugural sentiments of the President he did not
mean TO say, that they any other than might
n have been expected from either # the other cam
l., didacs Most oil them II not all, he believed had
ii expressed similar sentimsLts. Ccranly the dis
I Ungu bed citizen Who IL candidate IN opposition
y, had expressed such sentiments. They were the
necessary result Of events. Differing in many o.
N theT things, all parties had agreed IN welcoming
q the peace oi 1915 fhe French revolution with
- all its sympa hIe- and i's sDupdtbes hen at
an end Our own foreign relations were amicably
j. adjusted, aud tie slimsnt Of party consumed.
n So apparent THE, hd he recoll ecied TO have
}. heard gentleman, equally distinguished for qIic's
j. perception and fOrcble exp -assion, spy, az The
l., moment of peace, abiding TO the manner in which
r. corporations sometimes dissolved, &" each oc
4 the two parties will now break ~ common seal -
~ IL ssil TO he lawful to learn from an ene,pv
4, add the admonit on might be applicable TO the
D., present subject. II Mr.. Chairman were TO iu,aeins
II two leading gentlemen in the opposition, 10 he
y co'iefrng IN Washington on the mode OF 20 in =
tuencing the course Of two different States, as to