American watchman and Delaware advertiser. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1822-1828, 1827-10-05
From The National .4lpocase.


Confessions Of the Richmond Enquirer. wa
with great pleasure that we read the following pas
sage IN the Richmond Enquirer of the It'll inst :
nat paper is the most candid aud infinitely til,
most able OF the opposition journals. Occasional
~, they favor us with confessions which give us a
distance, very cdifyins light upon the faith an,
practice OF the Virginia politicians. Take tie o
loving rs an example.
virginia would have preferred Mr. Adams 10 Gen Jack
son al he late election; but his doctrines and his measure.
nave disguised her politicians. And nothing can more
strongly illustrate her attachment TO principle than the fact
mat she now prefers his opponent The consideration OF
men mas mad no influence. The If NJ. Adams is
c@0M-ia to he taken by Gen Jackson If elected is not
80 II may be much more congena our principles and
we have every induccment to make the experiment.
This is open, frank and manly. Here is the
text and creed Of the Virginia Jackson politicians
She would have "preferred Mr.. Adams to Gene
raj Jackson at the late election" Stick pin there
But he has disappointed the hopes and realized the
worst tears OF her" politicians" When i" they
have pipet, he would not dance when they have
mourned, he hath not lamented." In saving that
Virginia would have preferred Mr. Adams at the
last election. the Enquirer is undoubtedly correct
and when ne says that his doctrines and measures
have disguised her poticans'--he does we'll to
distinguish between them and her peopie. The pol
itcians are one class-the people are quite differ
ent thing il is true that the politicians of the
Richmond school are digusted' with the doctrines
of MIR. Adams and Mr. Clay. in relation to the ia
rif and internal improvements They would rath-
er see our internal commerce and industr, station
airy to the end Of time, than to see disgusting
roads and canals and disgusting American man
alacturcs triumph under the auspices Of the pre-
sent administration. Aud it is not mere hostility
to these disgusting measures Of national prosper
ny and Industry. that soa's IN their opposition to
Nr. Adams. Why have they never wased an open
war upon the .l,gustins' doctrines and the .dis
gushing practices Of MIR. JEFFERSON IN establish
ing the Cumbe land Road Why IS it that pro-
frssed adhesion to the tariff is disgusting in
Mr.. Adams, and amiabe in General Jackson !?
Will any man, whose brain is not completed,
added, believe their profession "that the conside
rafion of men has had no iniuences''
No ii is because Mr.. Adams was elected uith
oat the aid of Virginia politicians :-because he
now smiles at their drawn daggers. and defies
their points'-that his doctrines and his measures
have become so 'dis@ustingn His sentiments on
the subject Of internal improvements in their full
lest latitude, were as well known to Virginia at the
last election, they at this hour Yet She then
preferred him to Gen. Jackson. Since then, other
people than the politicians Of Virginia have elcva
ted him to the plesdency-and he ha, most rashly
refused to rccant his heresies-tu bow the knee to
Baal-and bis .disgu,tng' adherence to his princi-
pies has disturbed the wrathtul stomach of these
politicians past all appcasing 1t is hard to say
whether snch consistency'is most calculated to
raise our bile or excite our risibles.
The concluding paragraph contains compliment
to General Jackson, which he must very highly
appreciate.
"rhe of Mr. Adams is certaa,-tlat to be taken
by General Jackson, if elected, is not 50"
What are his orn friends left in this deplora.
BILE uncertainty whether General Jackson will adj
here to his former principles embrace new ones?
Is he not certain to follow his principles though
the very "earth doopen and swallow up the world"
Shame on such vile imputations upon his political
integrity!