Constitutional Whig. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1824-1832, 1831-05-06

character they had impeached of high crimes a.
gainst the constitution, the laws and individual
right, and whose pretensons they he'd scanned with
derisen, and assaulted with The utmost extremity of
denunciaton To people thus situated, and who
In turtherance of party views, resolved to
plunge yet deeper into the of tergivers0ton and
inconsistency, by supporting Gen. Jackson for a
second term after the most solemn pledge that
such thing would not be attempted, and the
most deliberate declaration under the formalty of
signature, that it dangerous to elect the
same man twice to the Presidential ofice-we say
to people thus cruelty perplexed, the Veto came
like messenger from Heaven. Now they could
say, 'you see we were rght--the Hero has saved
the constitutlon-you sec he goes for Southern
principles and state rights" Loud, was the re-
joicing on the occasion, honisd and manifold the
caresses shoWered upon the Hero. That the Veto
inferred fragrant abandonment of recorded opin-
ions the part of Gen. Jackson--for while in the
Senate he voted for both tariff and roads and ca
nGs-that it endangered his election by consolida-
ting against him the great majority of the count ry
attached to the cause of Internal improvement
did not disturb our contemporary-that the
Hero's look out-he and his sympathsers in Va.
wanted reason for supporting man whom they
had stygmatised "tyrant' and "curse," and
that reason they found, pretended to find in the
Peto. We told them how the matter stood-that
the Veto nothing than coup de etat of the
little magician" to conciliate Va. and the strict
OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES the Hero had settled poll
tical opinions, and probably did not even know
wnat the word Veto meant--that he was a mere
lump of clay in the hands of the potter-and that
they might be assured, IF the Veto did not work
well in the middle states and the West, Martin
and his King, would return to lattudnarianism with
as little ceremony they had shown in abandon
ing it-that their object to retain power and
to perpe'uate The dynasty in the person of Mr.
Van Buren,, and that to accomplish this they would
change shapes with Proteus, hues with the cameleon
and opinions with Mr. Rltchie himself. We real
ly must be permits ed in this place. to complain how
dsproportioned has been the celebrity have acqur
ed, with the number and striking ful6ment of OFF
predictions! What is it, that has to pass in
the two years of this glorious administration that
we did not foyete? We foretoid that having tast-
ed the sweets Of power, the Hero would consent to
q second term. and that those men who con-
sidered IT dangerous to elect the same person
President second time, and protested that the Hero
himself had such wish sCoad be the first TO declare
for him. We foreeod over and over, that having run
down the game, the Jackson party would quarrel over
the carcass, and that their dissolution was neyita
BILE, their original coordination" was interested.
We foretod, that having as he supposed sufficiently
proptlated the South by the Veto, Van Buren, would
temper the last message of the President, as to
soothe Pennsyl ana and the North by discovering
affection for the Tariff We foretold that the
Cabinet was too feeble, too distracted to be permu
nent. All these things have fallen out as said
they would, and we claim at least the renown of
Cassandra, for if none believed us, the event has
done honour to prophetic talent.
And now we have a small enquiry to make Of our
neighbor Of the Enquirer. What is the reason that
he, who exulted so much at the Veo has had one
word to say on the subject of those bills for Internal
Improvement, signed by the President the Sd day
of March? What is the reason that he has never
alluded to them--never informed his readers that
such bills, many in number, and appropriatng
81 100000 had been actually approved and signed
by the PRESIDENT Where all S correspondents
the vigilant guardians of State Rights' Why have
neither he nor they called public attention to this
act of the President which besides that is nfrac
ton of the Constitution aud is the very principle
which they object to the election of Henry Clay
is also derection of the principles of the Veto
message, and palpable and profigae evasion o.
the faith pledged to the American People in tba
| message, not - months beiore3 Is it not rcmarka
bIe nay wonderful, that this act of President Jack
son, declaring it does, the REIMBURSEMENT Of Tx
policy of the Veto and a return to the doctrines o
Internal Improvement and liberal construction SHOULD
be passed over by the Enquirer in total ard unquali
fed sIlence7 By that paper of all otbcrs-the bel
wcther OF State Rights, and self constituted guar
dian of the Constitutions IT rcouil seem wonderful
but it Is not really So after ALL True, nelgbbor il
| 1928, thought it very dangerous" to elect the sam
man twice to the Presidency-he has changed Ma
/ opinion however--and now deems the election of"A
Jackson" a second time, indispensable. This bein
the case it is his business to chauDt "a. Jscksons
praises, not to exhibit his faiDgs-to delude thos
whose gulbilijy has been 50 often tested, by celc
bratinr virtues which never existed, and insisting o
.srood Intentions" which like broad mantle are
cover all defects, not to communicate truths whic
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