Richmond enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1815-1867, 1830-08-24
(From the Baltimore Republican,
PROFESSIONS nnH pRACTIC

When the late contest between the two great poll
teal parties which agitated the country for more than
three years, had closed in the election the Chief
Magistracy of the Union; of the distinguished Patrio
who fills the Chair Of the Presidency by so over.
whelning majority of the votes of the PEOPLE, we
hoped that party strife would cease, least for sea
SON. that those who opposed his election would Weld
fair and candid support to HE administrator and that all
would unite to advance the general good. The Office
Of the Presidency is emphatically the Office of the
PEOPLE, and it behooves every good republican to
support the man o! their choice until he do something
TO forfeit their confidence and respect Where his
election has been not only fair, but clear of all susp-
cion, it is the tourden duty Of every true patriot of
every genuine republican, TO wait for some act of his
or measure of his Administrations before he arrays
himself in opposition 10 the whom the people have
selected TO preside the affairs OF thu nation.
decent respect TO the opinions OF mankind requires that
they should he able 10 declare the causes which i'm
pei them to- 0pposiii0n. Unlike the election of Mr.
adams. which was made by the agents Of the People
in Congress, where the votes of several States were
given in direct opposition to the known will of the Peo
pie OF those States, and under circumstances with
ed and justified the strongest suspicious Of corruoon in
some of those agents, the election Of General Jaekson
was by the PEOPLE themselves.
Thus elected. we had right TO hope that those WI
profess 10 be National Republicans would give fair
support to the Nations President. We had right to
hope that those who proclaimed themselves the friends
OF Internal Improvement in favor OF an equal
honest and national sysiem:-hat those who boasted
Themselves 'e friends of peace and good order' would
manifest their sincerity by eneavoring bring about
harmony and cool feeling between the two parties:
that those who so loudly approved the scheme OF
moving the lndiars beyond the Mississippi when re-
commended by Mr. adams. would, at least rot con-
denim it when recommended by Gen. Jackson: tina,
those who dweIt with much complacency noon tbe
ECONOMY OF Mr.. adGms,' would not 6nd fault with
General Jackson when he shoul attempt TO STAY The
hand Of extravaganza: that those who had claimed
great credit for Mr.. adams whenever in obedience
TO the law of the land, he paid off portion of the Ma
tiOnoI Debt, would not at the suggestion that
any credit due to General Jackson for The same
operations that those who considered IL 90 credible 10
1min III hot r
public debt was extingu'shed during that Period would
never by insinuaion attempt revive the odous
and exploded doctrine that National Debt il Ma
onal Blessings that thos, who claimed TO be the fends
par erceHence Of our Federal Union would al least,
agree with General Jackson in tbis, that IL must be
preserved that those who dreaded he would assume
all power would give him credit when he recommend
ed that none should he exercised which was doubtful:
that those who aTprehendcd he wosld use the public
money to buy the peoples votes, would have dismissed
their fears when he declined the unbounded patronage
which their gn friends in CoDgress offered him: thai
those who 50 fesrully anticipated che Of the
country In oreign tcdrs would be pleased at the pros
peet of continued peGcf that those who saw with 90
much regret. the excitement in Georgia under Mr..
FdGmss administration, would I've dsiiehted TO see
quieed under his; that hose who anticipated mill.
tarv government and standing army of 100 900 men
II Jackson were elected, would have reioiced 10 find
in his Inaugural Address, that be proclaimed the su.
premacy Of the civil the military power and re-.
lied on The Whho' bat those who were so partial TO
the stts Of diPlomaey' would have been pie ased with
the success Of Jdckson's negotiations AT Bogofa and
COPENHAGEN and COnSf0ufin0pie: that those v no ex
pected II he became President, the law of tie dueo
would be established, would have been graned at his
pomp effort 70 sbol 81 N; that those who loaibed what
they called the 'vulgar irish and The bloody Irish
would no, have sorowed deeply when one, rho rob
bed The mail, hung: that ihose who complained 20
loudly Of the Influence Of FoTeigne5s In our cleo
tons, would never try 10 wheede them into their par
tyi That those who sneeriugly asked ne what will be
thought OF us abroad, " elect General Jacks,n''
would have been satisfied when hey found he wac
greatly admired abrosd Inst those who exulhngly pub.
lished the declaration Of their chief that he tcGs