Richmond enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1815-1867, 1828-01-22
RIoRMoMD, JAM 90.
F0R THE EVQUI2ER.

you, and OF which YOU are, not unostentatioi,sIy
held up as the sole and exclusive author Whc-
Their this proceeds from natural instinct--love of
ohspring-or from wish TO make the public be-
heye thati was not concerted operation between
yourself and certain persons at Washington
ShaH not undertake TO enquire: because the people
cannot smut their eyes upon certain coincdental
and simultaneous measures taken by the Anti
Jackson (aS they call themselves in Virginia and
the Coaliiionsts in various quarters OF the Union:
at harrisburg, Richmond, Washington and else
where. They feel and know that The Eighth of
January was not caiually selected for YOUR meet
ing. They have not been inattentiyc observers of
the management OF the administration and their
retainers and adherents during the past autumn
and summer The air with which YOU received
the advances OF the first Adams Meeting was
not lost upon the observant part of them Their
I eyes nave long been upon you al your course in
public life And from the clumsy aiiectatien of
coyneSs, with which you met the advances of your
sultors, we were prepared to expect what has
| happened-the removal of your scruples and an
unreserved compliance with their desires
Some OF us indeed regret that YOU should
nave destroyed Your capacity for usefulness in the
| commonwealth, by putting Yourself AZ the he al
\ OF the administration party in Virginia. for with
out the least chance of defeating the election Of
General jackson $50 far, at least as Virginia is
concernedD you have lost the confidence of the
! State" This is deplored by some who are mt
| supporters oil Jackson; for use the language of
one OF these and not my own. The writer of these
lew nasty lines cannot partake in this regret He
mas not-and you may know it, if you see tit TO ask
MS haine-and he never has had any unfriendlv,
! or unkind teelieg towards YOU So far from H.
that, Judging you from the representation of others
whom he estecms, he has endeavored to resist The
| impressions and to repress towards YOU all those
ieehnSs which, holding the opinions that he does
anu which ne has never at any time ceased TO hold
or sweryed tron-your political career has been so
well calculated TO excite. 1t was not because he
considered your influence, while a member of the
senate 10 be oltenXerted, 50 as to aggravate " the
glorious uncertainty of the law that he took
decided dlstaSte to you public man-althouph
that formed no small objection in his mind;-uilch
less was he influenced by feelings, of a personal
nature, which he disclams and abhors In word,
he thinks, and has long thought, that the general
| TENOR oil your public life may satisfy any discern
| ing man that, at heart, YOU never have been \
thorough Disciple of the Old Republican School
| ct Virginia, opposed, resoutely opposed without
compromise, to all and every species of Federal
encroachment, whether Legislative Executive
or Judicial, upon the rights of the States and of
! the people. But they who have been induced
heretofore to think that you were such disciple
now give up that belief when they see you exert
| ing every nerve to divide and distract VIRGINIA
and to surrender her TO the bad men now in power
/ an urSesisting and helpless prey But YOUR labour
| is IN vain, except for your own destruction twill
| recoii upon you and demolish in the public conf
dence you and such of your associates who have
/ or ever mad any public confidence to lose. They
are not very many.
Let me not, however, be diverted from my pur-
pose, which is to Offer TO your attention land thro'
you to the pubc,) one or two plain considerations,
which you seem utterly to have dsregarded Ii
| Is no part OF my design TO issue a counter mani
| festo:
L. Do you in yolT heart believe, that if Gen.
Jackson was justly chargeable with one-haf, or
one-tenih OF what you have laid at his door. he
would enjoy the undivided confidence Of the whole
State of Tennessee?
2 DO you in your heart believe that such a
man, as you have endeavored to paint him, could
nave won from Mr.. Clay their spoiled child of po-
hIcal fortune, more than half the suffrapes of
Kentucky? When Mr.. Clay and his colleagues
elected MIR. Adams, that Delegation stood for CLAW
and Adams eight. For Jackson four Now it IS
reversed. For JacksonS. For the Coalition four
Tell US, beg you, the of this in the states
where the men best known. What has nf.arlv
destroyed Clay and strengthened Jackson, IA, Ken
ttc1y?
| 3. Do you in your heart believe, that such
nan could have been able TO eain the unanimous
support OF Georgia, with Mr.. Crawford at thei-
matchmaking as she was with resentment AGAINST
MN on account OF these very collisions with her
Governor RabunJ injuries, or affonts, which
! you have kindly taken such pains to aggravate in
behalf OF Il suppoSe) the timid and ne-spirited
| Georgians. Verify, they ought to be much indebt-
! ed TO you.
! (. Would such man, as you have described
him to be- have been able to unite in his favor the
suiiFages OF discordant and even hostile men and
! parties IN South Carolina, headed by such men as
Calhoun, and Hayne, and Hamilton on the one
SIDE, and Smith, and Williams, and Taylor on the
| other-the Old School Republicans?
5. Would he have united in his support the
I Crawford men of North Carolina sore as they
were under their defeat from the combination
against them at the last election? Would he have
gained the suffrage of 50 Fabricius'' think von5
with all his objections the one hand and prefer
ences on the otheR Nathaniel Macon votes for
Andrew Jackson.
s. Wonid he at this day have had the notorious
support Of the Assembly and people of Virginia;
z. What was the foundation of Patrick Henry's
fame and influence throughout the United States2
" His eioquence." Belts But who heard hiIn3
Few. Who read his speeches? None. No, sir
It was the unanimous testimony OF Virginia to his
wondfous powers and intrepid patriotism like the
testimony oil Tennessee TO the worth Of Jackson
9. Did any nation ever fall under military mas
ter, until II had been prepared by the utter cor
r1ption OF the civil government the very danger
that we now encounter and resist. And if this
were not so, which have we most reason 10 dread
bargain and corruption az Washington or a militia
~ despotism, from an old cotton planter at his fire.
side2
y Is General Jackson, in any sense Of the word |
more OF % military man." than any other retired
oilcer' Has he not been much longerin retirement
than General Washington had been, when he be /
came President Of the United States under new
and untried order Of things-a change that MIGHT
be well termed q second revolution, and therefore
the more alarming TO sound republicans, from its
unforeseen operation?
10 Would the chivalry Of the South support
land monarchists oppose themselves toy such man
as you have portrayed General jackson TO bes--
And here, sir, must remind y0u-
That you have not only endeayoreI to distract
and divide Virginia, but to dsunite the whole
5outh, the weakest, ~ some regard Qrom cause
mat viii not uame) of All the grand ub-divisiong
nft.Tl. Il g.. Al