Constitutional Whig. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1824-1832, 1831-08-08
For THE RICHMOND WING.
NO. V.

Mr.. Thomas Ritehie,
SIR-With the election of Mr. Adams to the
Presidency new era begins, and you marked out
a new course for yourself You have certainly
sported more wantonly, with the feelings and
judgment of your readers, than any other Editor
ever dared to do; 1T seems to me that you have
considered them too stupid to detect your son.
sfaughf upon principle, and that you have thought
nothing too absurd to publish, provided YOU could
render service to men, without caring what became
of principle. Disappointed and mortified at the
failure of Mr.. Crawford, you determined to wait
and calculate upon the best mode of attacking
Mr.. Adams and his administration Yes sir Won
resolved to attack Mr.. Adams, whom YOU had
bestowed more eulogy than any other man had
done, simply because he had committed the crime
OF beng more popular than Mr. Crawford From
the day OF his election to the meeting ofConpress
IN IN december following you carefully watched the
.'slgns OF the times" You soon found that the
friends of all the disappointed candidates were in
state of mortified feeling: that by ,nannGennent
Ihey might be brought to coalesce, against Mr.
ADAMS, and accordingly coalition Il beg pardon
for the word) was formed of all these discordant
parties for the unholy purpose of putting down
MIR. Adams's administration. This common object
oeing known to each other, and common pledge
oelng gwen, the next thing to be arranged was the
n1odus operdSdi, and this was understood to be nm
attack both upon Mr.. Adams and Mr.. CLAY bv
charging corruption upon both, in placing Mr.. Clay
at the head of the Department of State Din
ring the summer and fall of 1926, paragraphs
and squibs were passing through the columns of all
the dirty journals In the country, first insinuatinp
and at last charging corrupt bargain between the
PRESIDENT and Secretary of State In this filthy
business, sir, the Richmond ENQUIRER cut n consn
cuous figure. 1t is not my purpose to 90 through
all the miserable little tricks to which your e,n
Paty resofted for the purpose reaching their OBJ
Ject; shall not notice the uso they made of
poor honest George Kremer& upon the floor of Con
gress, nor shall notice how promptly and undaunt
edly Mr. Clay met, and how triumphanty he put
down the charge made against him by the party
through honest George; neither shall i notice the
book OF conclusive evidence winch Mr. C,Ia,, chit,
ed upon the subject, to prove negative since his
accusers did not dare to prove the affirmative All
these things are before the world, and YOU stand
dotted with principal share in all You affected
TO believe IN the bargain, not only ,cfbout Droof
OF IT'S truth, but against an OVERWHELMING va
June OF evidence demonstrating hs falsehood-
4 on stuck to 1T, until it answered your purpose.
and, like your dear friend, the writer Of Inc
East Room Letter, after all was over I dare aa1,
you acknowledged it to be false; but have no
evidence ct this fact, derived from the Ennuirer
Your next attack was upon Mr. AGams,s Moe, ro
TO Congress, in December 1925, and Won attennted
foeTcuse yourselfin supporting Cen Jackson inon
efe aith OF the bargain and the principles contained
IN TINS message. Y on tore from the context ccr
tain paris OF this message, for the prpose If m,
KING 1t mean, what it never was intended fo moan
ana no one knew this better than YOURSELF YOU
Itigntened the people with eight houses in the
SKIES, and "palsied the arm Of tho constif,e-te,
until you at length made them believe tbat IT,
were huge, carnivorous beasts hanging tbrorob
stne country, laying waste all that came in their
way, Ahese things ought never to be forgotten;
ana they 60 to your total discredt M ,,tToes -
t9o cause now before the people. Having accom-.
Pllshed the fall of Mr. Adams let us see what your
next next course was. Remember that your own resgon
Tor supporting Gen. jackson was that two evils
were placed before you, out of which You must
make choicci that both were great, but you tho't
LEV. 'zcEsop the least of the two. Mr.. Adams
was down, and four years were before the people,
10 make selection Of n man for President,
ana tselSo millions Of people might be examined
20 mo the man. There was no longer necessity
Tor you to choose between two evils, you had a
range wide enough before you, and time enough
TO travel over the ground; but what have you done
did you examine pbo ought probably TO be tho man
No sir; the man whom you had abused more thar
all oth"rs together bad done; the man whose e;ec
ton you had said would be curse 10 the country
.tlo man whomyou said you had taken from neo6s
sity; acknowledging that your opinions of him N,
not been changed this man you proclaimed TO b
your favorite, at the ensuing electiOn, even befor
his vicious and silly administration had begun
show itself. su&7y, sir, you must be moon struck