Richmond enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1815-1867, 1831-01-01


lar choice OF evils which compelled him to appoint
MIR. Clay, rival candidate, and violent political enemy
He was Tree aud unist,ered in his choice having the
wboe uh'o" froa which TO make SELECTION and pass-
'nS over hest OF di.,inguished names, he appoints
MT clay to the hSst office within his gilt having
days before received tina office O President the hands
MT Clay thus verifying TO the very letter, the
ene'xe made previous to the election, that Mr. Clay
would make Mr.. Adams President aud Mr. Adams
mske MIR. clay secretary o. State.
10. RtSotped. That we r-gret the union of Mr.
Clay with the Federel patty throughout he United
States, assuming to Inns. the character of their
en- In their uuhoiy crusade against the present repus
caD administrator as forfeiture on hi. Part, of all
cl"'ms on the gratitude Of his country for former scr
vices His own speeches during the late war and hi.
progressed principles up to the Presidential election In
1893 have all been forgotten, aud sband ned or il re-.
nembeted. scarcely command from him a blush of
shame Tor ,hs gross aud s-l6-h abandonment Of IN.
to Influence his political life.
H. heso'ced, That we regard the course OF Mr.
IN st oi,gnaung IN selfish and unchasened ambi-
"Ia, "mcn ior many years he concealed under the
CLOAK OF PATRIOTISM But impatient OF all restraint and
when ne supposed the object OF his secret aspiration
i'hin ms reach he threw away the and chart
s. 50 long had directed his efforts in behalf Of his
''u""j WIN so much vehemence aud rushed into the
arms o, nose very opponents whom he had no
severely, and Tor than twenty years. so
opposed. i'
10 Resotped That we deeply depiors IN, cou,s.
pursued by Mr.. Clay in abandoning his former poIiti
cal hrnds and uniting himself with his most bitter
cnrmies aud wo have beheld with regret and mor,i6
csion' me moral deWaviiy and political degradatiop
o. those, who shift and change their own profes.eJ
oP'non,t sustain MIR. Cay. and enable him. and MANY
'S friends to mod their way TO the national Treasu.
mere to banquet, as many Of them had been accus.
toned to do, Contrary 10 both honesty and Iawl nm
the fruits and labor Of others. and to riot in the mean,
which should have BEEN EMPLOYED in the nrr,vem.n,
of'he country" About which his friend, and himself
so liuI. P'''"o"
10 Resoired, Tbs, Mr. Clay stands public,v o,.,us,
10 the Amer can perpe TO expose tho COURSE pursnsd
Sy 1ohn 9u'ncy Adams, late President of ito United
es,n The negotiations preceding the treaty Of Ghen,
nat P'euse made more than six years since Is s un
redeemed The inference from that fact is irre..tibe
'ha TIE either knew nothing to Mr. Auams' mr., iudice
snu maze This publication against rival candidate CON
'anlhg uniounded iupuaioDs TO njure him lust prr
Gus 10 u election; or, il he aware of facts nur
Gus 10 Mr. Adams, his subsequent silence can only h.
,or' by the unnatural union Of these political
o"e"es az the ei-c'ion IN 1925 The later seems
most prooable aud we suppose that Mr. Adams friends
appea'ed wi tear ia their eyes,, and thus
s s,snce on me "hent transaciOns, In the way
st those reepug pat'iots nded his vol. for Mr.
hdau ae President OF the United States
%" htsofued, That in either poiut Of Vi, W. Mr. Clay
- .q"a"y censurao'e II was not more criminal to
h'ke u charged anIue, again-t a rival candidate
man TO conceal from the public acts which he plegsd
ipseii TO disclose, involving the consistency ard p,,i.
m OF me man aspiring to the high oce of President
IL hesoired That we shoud regard the election Of
W.T. Clay to the Presidency OF the United States as
night happen Not, however, equal to that reckless |
ma P'oiane prayer, offered 10 the throne Of Divine
Me'cy by Mr. CLAY, to besst his country with "war |
,sstilcnce aud fanin-" rather than pesmi, Andrau
Jackson 20 he eiec ed President of the United Stats. or
% render tue senm' Mt i, pl-in English rather tSan
VT Adams and Mr. Clay should be exp .iled from of.
ice anu Powe This no rid invocation TO the Supre m.
3Dg, stamps the character OF the man. an n
'i' tate with the American psop,e.
%. hesofoed, nat solemny impressed, as we are |
nat the election OF MIR. Clay President would ,go
aher 10 overturn our free and happy institutions than
my other political event that will happen probablv Tor
ears, ana we nope Tor ages to come, will, by all
la nnaan 4.
hereby call upon fellow citizens of this and other
states, who are seconding Mr. Clay i'm his ambitious
sreer' 10 pause and sohery reflect the importance
u the question TO BIO decided in 1882 and the awful
consequences that will result in the election of their IA
'orite. " ~ Ia
%. RESOLVED, therefore, As our d.,iberat. co,v;c
ion' ha' ~ 10 hehy important 10 The interest of the ma
nat General Jdckson should another term in
he high office which he fills with 70 much b,nor |
and benefit to his country; and that we con
or I'D INC nominations made by the democratic mem
,ers oil the Legislatures Of the State of P.nnsvvan.
New-fork, New Hampshire and Alabama, of General
1' kson 10 MI the office Of Chief Magistrate of the
United States for the next Presidential term Regard
ng, az he has ever proessed TO do the great poIi,ic
maxim that the office is neither be sought nor de-
lined. he ia. no other aerna i've but yield to the
concurrent wishes OF the overwhelming majority of the
e'Pe no withstanding hi opinion Of what the constit
ion Ought TO he And we call on the people of the ma
NJ that VI they wish system Of economy and res,on
biity in'ro dnc ed into every topatment wh;eh iii
orcoue permanent ard as,ingif the, desire 10 check
'he rapid entertainments Of the General Government
$50 W "o SiHte5, dnd to defeat those
schemes OF wild extravaganza which, for wears have
been s'eo''y maturing and gaining strengih-if lbev
'i?h our happy constitution construed as
~ Its fraIntrs-f they wish TO syse m of intern
Improvement originated which hall prove ben.6caI
every State in the Unionif they wish 10 ee our To-
eign intercourse placed footing CONNIE nsurats
WIN the magnitude OF the interests nvoved-if thew
"ish 70 zee harmony nee peva-in fine II the
"sh the perPetuity OF tree institutions and than
eives happy and prosperous; call on them To mil.
win us IN again slevaDg 10 the highest Office wbin
'ur gi, The man who under all vicssitdes of our for
unes' mas proved h mseIf seadfast and devoted
riPnd. q '
"a ReSOiued, That we have seen w it'll strong ds.r
rooauon, the resolutions Of Mr. Claws convention call
ng on MS parzane, collectively and individually in the
eVerai counties, TO commence with u.s. war of polti
al exterminatiOn They should have recoIIected ba,
Tier The last PresdeDIia election they cried TO n, for
'eace, and we trusted them. "
10 Resotoed, That there Is nothing impropsr in tina
e-nomio alton to the Senate by the President of mar
0ns VINO nave been rejected by that body on the an
'hcsuon oil Senator Senators who voted azajnst The
nomination.; and no impuation should have been nads |
'galnst the President, by those who have aonroved
'Och nominations by the present Governor Of Ken
ucky without the application OF any Senator or Sera
ors in the opposition. |
20 Resoired, That a committee of vigilance and cor |
espondence consisting OF FIVE persons he appointed "a
central committee for the state OF Kentucky at The
NY OF LOUISVILLE whose duties shall be- 10 correspopd
.n 'he county committees ihroug bout the state and
imisr committees through bout the union: with powsr
hi vacancies in their own boiy and to do an tbinss
thelr opinion necesary to the success of the cause
q which we are engaged
II. Hes9iUed That we applaud the energv and tai |
ots displayed by the President and Secretary of war
me accomplishment OF treaty with the Choc,aw |
I'D the Cbickasaw tribes of Indians, during The nTe
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