Constitutional Whig. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1824-1832, 1831-08-11
For THE RICHMOND WING.
NO. VI.
Mr.. Thomas Richie,

Mr.. Thomas Richie
SR:-Remember the assaults you made upon the
heart and head of General jackson, before YOU be-
| came his champion, and blush at your present
course.
Were you sincere in all you said Then the
President and his friends, ought to hold you in
perpetual adherence. Were you insncere? Then
yeu merit the everlasting deestatcn of eyerv friend
of truth. But you acted under the influence of
necessity in becoming the advocate of Gen. Jack
son; this is your only If this be true then
a Tar different course plainly opened to your
footsteps. How can you reconcile such course
as you have pursued, with the declaration which
you made IN support Off it? If in the choice of ge-
neral }. you adopted, as you acknowledge you did,
great evil, does the fact of Mr.. Adams being an
evil aiso allowing this to be so, Justify you in run
ming into extremes unknown before, in supporting
this acknowledged evil? And when your choice
was no longer limited to Jackson and Adams, which
you claimed a first excuse, can you offer any
thing in extenuaton, for pressing the acknowledge
ed course" upon the country, after the ground for
your excuse had been taken away? If Gen. Jack
sons election was, in your opinion, curse upon
the country, at one time, is his continuance in office
to be desired after your prediction has been actual
ly verified? If your idol was incapable of under
standing plain law, lat the time ofhs election as
you asserted in what school has he been since taught
to understand all the laws? But perhaps YOU be-
lieve that the magician's wand Ike Aladdin's lamp
can change times, places objects and minds; that
touch of the Horo's head by the Mapcian's hand
with cry OF "PreSto change" would in the twink
oi an eye cast out the rubbish concealed with
in, and replace it with brains and refined intellect
Sir, the days of the Arabian Nights entertainment
have passed away, and neither the ex-Secretary
nor you, can evermore pass for Aladdin. There
ID nothing which Gen. jackson do, that you
do not rldlculously praisethere is nothing that ne
can do, that deserves your censure. Whilst
Americans from end of the union to the
other, blusii?g for the late disgraceful scenes
at Washington, and c2ndemning them, almost with
unanimity, you are seen much nearer to iustifica-
ion in Ia han
is doleful tone of lamentation; not word oil re-
prehension escapes you Sir, you fave lost all
refinement of feeling, and you now boldly stand
forth as the champion Of vulgary, ignorance, des-
potism and tyranny. How else are we to account
for such course you are pursuing, except
by supposmg that yow hare been purchased for
some consideration which you enjoy, whilst it is
unknown to the public? Man never degraded
himself from choice, and cannot believe that such
n course as las been pursued by you for several
years past is any thing less than the fruits of Pur-
chase. IF you once felt proud of being born IN Il
land which gave birth TO such talents as Mr. Adams
possessed, pray sir, by what magic wand was ne
afterwards deprived Of these talGntsi For you Will
be pleased to remember that you have upon more
occasions than one, sseTbed to Mr.. Clay, all the
acts Of Mr.. Adams administration. / WI pin you
to the point have you not first Denounced a;1d n
bused Gen. Jackson for fool, tyrant and n des>
pot; and then proclaimed him wise, firm, and mer-
ciful Have you OF praised Mr.. Adams, more than
all other presses together and concluded your culo-
gy by declaring that you felt proud of being born
| in a land which gave birth to such a blaze OF Ia
| lents7 Have you not afterwards said that no was
feeble, and jmbecile, utterly unqualified to manage
the affairs Of stste7 Answer Sir, yea, or nay: II
you answer nay, then you stand convicted Of false
hood, by your own columns; # yea, then where Is
your justi6catiou7 Come forth Sir, and let the
world hear what you have to say in excuse for a
/ course, which has sunk and degraded you, in tho
eyes of all honorable Alas sir, you are speech
less; to speak would be death, and silence is Ple'
Of gritty. Thus then whether you answer or aot
you stand n living monument Of the baseness, 4
which men may be driven, by the force Of tergiver
sation.
If I were to continue the view of your prostitu
ton of principle TO the shrine Of party honor an
pay, with file of the Enquirer before me, the res
due of my life would not be sufficient to present a
> Of your Inconsistencies; and yet they have be-
? presented by you TO the public, in such foUn,