Richmond enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1815-1867, 1830-03-30


For the exhor,aon against joining the stars and
stripes OF their country, over which we have had
such eloquent euoge' another OF those coi-blood-
ed official acts nsigated by Hotspur leaders The Mas
sachu -eus Leg lature, in June 1872 say, eli your
sons must be torn from you by CONSUMPTION, consign
them 10 TIE care OF G1d but let there he no voluu.
eers." The leans. On which gentlemen dwell with
such compacency, evidence Of Eastern pairio i'm
were also violently denounced by the leaders, aud
c"ne mostly from ,ha bused democracy, one of whom
principal lender, my and dear relative still
wives in that Cumberland District so justly denonira
ed the Star in the East, 70 flung upon him. a sup
porter OF this the OF being new
made democrat, from the doors of the Hartford Con
vention. The patriotism OF such supporters oil this admins
ira ion. among tho democracy OF the East and thank
Cod. there many OF them, took rather different,
direction from the unoriuna,e one pursued by the vio-
lent opp 'sers of that war. Their patriotism
early lS06, To ricue Mr. Jefferson for his pacific
by procidmoiions though losing thou sands by
French aud British DEGREES: was not 20 denounc. and
violently resist embargo as unconstitutional, and
charge the President with French influence aud false
hood IN recommending II, though their remaining
sells were ro,ng al their whArves; was not to vote
speak and write in constant hostility the aud III.
measure for its though their funds and their
uustry were forced out OF customary employment. But
ii was, il not "above all Greek, above al Roman iamc
it was the patriotism of the nobest days-of the nobles
OF our race Though scoed "a siares 10 The South, by
persons protesting to deprecate sectional jealo-
sizes IL was TO devote all 10 their counryto enter the
alar. list the selves for the defence of the seaboar
to advocate eniistments--o lend their rema lining and
impaired fortunes to the an. in fine, for the
walton OF all those great principles Of civil liberty their
fathers had bed to secure, intrepily to the do
nestle enemy at the polls and send their sons on the
ocean, the lakes and The land to meet the foreign enc
my, at the lannon's mouth. From the history Of all
republics, they knew that God had preserved liberty
only vigilance and valour They therefore, braved
the lion in his denhey their country rose and
Tell, only as her prospects fell The victories OF the
common enemy were true barometer, in every year,
ot the victories and hopes OF the conflicting parties
home. was then Of an age, Sir TO cel such things
somew hat ply, and hence, may sneak of them too
strongly. But this much can with safety he asserted
krlt
Gus and exciting than the foreign abroad That de.
mocracy, though minority, then in every
State in the East one though abused then az now
anu busted both in private and public life by their OPP
posers had, and still have, thank God. knowledge
OF their rights and "knowng dare maintain IN m" In
The darkest hours Of that war; when civil buchery was
in some places threatened, when schemes f5r disunon
were supposed 10 be maturing, and, according my
friend here, (Mr. Grundy) moral treason" salked
abroad-when the ardent yeoman sometimes slept
with hi. fire arms at his pillow when hi. sons were al
sent as volunteers at Chippewa and Pattshurgon the
lakes and the occan-then the members Of that :. no.
cracy, who were al home, fought aud endured the mo.
raj and political warfare, badly paraeled: the proscrip
ton and prosecution of private liie-tha sh eless al
tacks Of the pressthe insults OF heated
anathemas OF the pulpit, and, minority they were
hey earlessly faced the apooss Of the common enc
my and the libellsr Of their own government, whether
IN the courts OF Justice, the Halls G legislation or in
NOSE primary meetings OF the thousand democra
Gle, which cover our granite hills.
Grant that individuals Of the party opposed to Mr.
Jefferson and Nj adison, did not unite i'm what the for
mer calls in Massachusetts, "the PARTICLE crimes and
rrdsonS 81 the late toor' but vert gallany for their
country when III peril They have earned to them
selves iaurels which they richly deserve wear and
which, God forbid should atemp: to soil. They re.
linquished opposion, when the common en- my Az
proaehed' and stood by their country and their Uhoie
country, and did not lend helping had TO those sec.
ionai excements that often bettle and dishonor the
politics OF NJ England. BY such excements groun /
essy defining the democracy the East and of oher
parts oil the Unirn, has the glory departed from her
Israel more than by any change of relative population
AMI territory. But il the violent leaders of the East
ern opposition TO the war, then, since. constantly
poured out on the democracy OF that section. the
courteous epithe OF Jacobns and Judasses; and styled
mem, as the whole administration has been styled in
This debate motley collection Of the fragments of all
parties, with no common bond If principle, and held
geiher by mere rope OF sand Ii these abuses then
as now, made very modest claims all the talents
der and religion stand not here in kind;
courieously TO seek justice for myself and my political
friends, from uniounded mputation,; and say with
sober mindedness and charity, that Leaving our oppo
nens to the enjoyment Of all their real WORTH which,
IN many respects, freely admit to be enviabe vet
40 contend That in private or public Iife there i, no
ground Tor discrimination in their favour against that
much vfed democracy-in all the hardy and heroic |
virtues which have distinguished New England If not
more highly, yet in common with the middle States |
ana the Souih-since the Puritan anil merchant adj
ventures hrst landed at Plymouth Rock and Straw
berry Bank. Virtues deeply founded as her hills and
pure "a her mountain streams. No ground for dis
elimination against that democracy in either correct
morals, tireles' industry unslee enerrrise-no
eronn: OF discrimination in dcing their full share to
""o up the fiherirs, extend commerce, and scatter
Doric u not Corinian columns, of our whole social
ehihce in the East; and in doing mere than their f,
share, because their political principles did not foi hid
them In take a full share with their br~then of the
mid!Ie States the South and the West in hearing the
nag Of victory, whether land ocean in the rev
oin'ion, or he late They have always met the
struggle with hrnnrss, and in common with other parts
OF The Union, with entire devotion times of peril 10
me common cau'e, of Their Hres their forfnnts and
mar sacred hOnOy. They never halted between two
opinions, tchen the toOU tD0s 0n the ,cdlL-whpn the
enemy was on our soil. They had, and still have
quite too much of the Roman. net 10 endure embar-
goes and wars and even DEATH for their -
whether on their seaboard, or on a distant AMI saw
age frontier, when that country and its honor call for
The sacrifice. This they have shown by deeds not
words and this, will give my pledge, they will al
ways show, when occasion ,mands. But once fc- all
VIII repeat, b that democracy make, and have made
no pledges to men, nde Of their measures and
ha so Tar as represented by they will Offer or seek
no new alliances and consent 10 none They have made
no old alliances and consented 10 none whe ,her with
the West or the South, except The general alliance OF
aii' IN the bonds OF the Union. They will neither ca
J9le nor Halter, nor bd, gain. Those Of New Hamp-
hre would lain stand amorg the oher States as peer
among peers, sovereign among sovereigns, an equal
among equals recognizing the rights Of IT ere man
rom me Ets', to tender or pledge them either make
or nnnake P'esd"nts-to pull down or build ur . l.
mih',ranons. They mean 70 go where democratic
principles go-pnimd'n frat qui mer,df. and q hen
hose principles disappear, they mean TO halt Such
were tbe views That led their young men in he late
war; 10 succour the bleeding West: anil in their cause
az ven "a That OF their county large to mossn with
their BLOOD the fields OF Tippecanoe and tho 6ra.s cr