Richmond enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1815-1867, 1827-04-13
Signs OF THE TINES.


Signs OF THE TINES.
he arts OF the National Ialeliigencer are as
ihsi,ilous as hey are hollow. They have raised the
cry OF Combination, of faction associa ed TO
5eiher In tie pursuit OF Office, direcei by cen-
raj lunto at W ssh'nston, at IT.. head of which
IS Mr Van Buren,, establishing Presses over the
county, and intending 10 d,ta'r, BY means Of a
Congressional Caucus at the next session the elee
ION of Presided md Vice President vi The IT, ;.
The affiliated presses over the country Join IN ,ne
hue ma cry and thus the Coalition is ~ escape
H"der tie smoke, ircm the resentmen,s oi an i'm.
Jurei' people
Ibis stratag:m is TOO stale to impose upon the
nader!andi so the rub i l, reminds us .f Tie
'"'sc cry when wa, r'n. me yesrs ago asaIn,,
ihe S"cIety oil ffse Ma,oLs, ab their secret
cahals Tor promoting he Jews OF The illuminate
x or Owe throwing al ;he est bished governments
vi Europe II reminds ose OF The CbarIa.,r air.
tsgems which got up dung the d, :
Oh 'errof, the iub-piois aud The Ocean murders
whrh were propagated by venal presses 10 brny
''e tepuoii'an Party In O odIun = But such ey
peaen'a VIII iail al this " as they failed in rs.
The People are TOO intelligent TO be imposed npon
~ rimours and suspicious, for which here i. no
fDunds;iou.
Ane ~ in'eiiisencer cannot stay the march Of
pubic sentiment, by such runlours and such rant
! H. Dtt
which stampit with It's appropriate character. +
ven these Editors PEELED TO admit that tam
Opposition, when io.nbed upon princir,, i. On,
u'ied To respect y consideration, even from IN, adj
u'iIistfs'loH 10 mich 1t Is opposed - Why then
-"o'' qa MY dehounce a " community Of action
among the membe'- o, the Opposition? Thu mis-.
10. !"e 80 'h'' ne parasites 81 POI er are aM avs
WI !'s 10 conceal the vices OF their patrons <
deh' 'he Vhl"es OF their Opponents. The oppo
lSIfI IL inll
J'nio, and desperate Combination, W Inch Iook.
TO It's own aggrars!;zenent instead of lin. nur,;c
interests. Even Hampden and Sytlnev were oro.
sc''Dso AZ The members OF abandoned Conb,na
poh. Oi' own annals exhibit the same ili.is,ra
tIons. 1 ne JeEersoos & he Madisnns & III. Isco-
dons oil 'sS were denounced for their unprincipjed
| continuation and the elder Adam. was n a,
hurried away by his resentmens, as to do,p Tho
Republican Party OF Virginia to sacL,riotb nd
ash.s. lheFe were not wanting Editors then 10 re-
probate the g community OF action by which
the Orpo' lion was chsrac erisrd The Porccpi, o.
OF those days could also conjire up the most idle
plots, and Circulate the most absurd Iumours.-
ihey were loyal men IN their generation; and their
virtues have MOI persisted with them.
lgJhe eyes OF such satellites the friends of the
mo Etsgitous Administration may rally around #
wiz 4 repToach. They may exhibit every ssn''
OF az community. faction" They msy ,ndi-
c"tcs BITS measures they may justly oil its in
roads upon the Constitution; they may defend al
its measures, " right wrons''- bur The mo-
'nen' the other party opposes lis aba-es, the wa,-
cry OF an unrrlncipied Combination is rated, and
the Vengeance OF the nation is invoked upon their
Reads IL ~ 30 In The present cIs- This cant
word Combination is adfoiily harped upon by
all the affiliated pres7e@ AS ii there were some.
thing por'entous in III made of # by DIR
fIOy d. The sense la which he in. en,leJ TO ex
press himself, was publicly given by himself, in
the following remarks addressed 10 his Compsny at
6 But there is cheering ray perceived though
the dark cloud that seems 10 hang over the Union
produced by the daring claim 10 ROVER. which The
Pre-il.nt has made -rombinatIons have been
! formed. and are forming, which will ytest thu
power from those hands so unworthy to hold il
because it Is used to abridge the rigb's of the
States, and the liberty of The people These are
no cosliiions OF daring politicians, but the com
binaiions Of great States who know their rights &
val protect them, and combinations of the people
themselves, who determined to take Thu matter
into their own bands. and elect a President for
themselves, who will be their choice, and will es-
pect Mej, claims.''
But il does not suit the taste OF The saieili.es OF
the Administration TO take the expression in this
way. Tney are better pleased in converting the
|" Combination" into cant-wo;d. az an set to
their Coalition aud then ascribing 10 Ibis party
the viIss views OF ambition, and the most daring
schemes OF intrigue.
Ask The Editors Of The National Intellig sncsr
for their proofs Tor the facis, by which they JUS
tify their allegations; aud they viii tell you gain
aud again, Of the printing Of the Senate mhicb
they have lost, OF the few Sc fences OF Mr. Van
Buren,, which they have perverted. of the inien-
ton of rewsrdng him with the Office OF Vice Pre-
rideni or even President OF the United States, in
exchange for the thirty six votes Of New York
which he has contracted 10 make over TO his
party, OF Tumours OF subscaucus last winter
and Of Caucus hereafter, Of few scraps from
two or three newspapers, and Of two or three
toas,s at public dinners. This, we repeat, is the
sum total of all the direct evidence which they
have brought forward to expose the selfish and
unprinciplsd character of the Opposition. We
have shown how utterly futile is the argument
which they have drawn from the speech Of Mr..
Van Buren,. Yet their bypolheses are even more
uuiounded than her Arguments.
They would nave US believe that the great
Magician" Mr.. Van Buren,, by some potent spell
and c1njuration dire, has con- PEELED twenty fou
of the sbesi men in the Senate implicitly Il
+" follow his lead - II is in vain that the cbsrac
ter OF the Senator's de6es any such insinuation
that the incOnuyiible Macon, and Smith Of Sout
Carolina, the cspaeious Ben on, and blunt, hone,
, Chandler, are the men 10 b. drilled by this Pros
pero of the political world All their inLssul
and ter hfsAset yani4aL,hs GSS
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