Daily Richmond Whig. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1828-1831, 1831-05-05

s'N'S ana Inc country, their support of man for !
the highest office, whose qualifications they had
laughed to scorn Thousand times, whose public |,
character they had mpeachcd of high crimes a.
gainst the constitution, the laws. and individual
right, and whose pretcnsions they had scanned with
deti>isn, and assai!sd with ,hc utmost extremity OF
denunciation To people thus situated and who
IN iuEtherance OF party views, were resolved to
plum sc yet deeper into the mic oftorgiversaon 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 furmahty OF
a signature, that 1t was dangerous" to elect tho
same man twice 10 the Presidential unice-we say
to people thus cruelty pcrplcxcd, the Veto came
hRe messenger from Heaven. Now they could
say you see we were righ,-the Hero has saved
The consttution-you sec he goes tor Southern
principles and state rights" loud, was the re-
JoicinG on the occasion, honisd and manifold the
caresses shoYcrcd upon the Hero. That tho Veto
inferred hagront abandonment of recorded opin-
ions on the part of Gen. Jackson-for while in the
Senate he voted for both tariff and roads and ca
nuS-ihat 1t endangered his election by consollda-
'irg against him the great majority of the coua, ~
attached TO the causc CT Internal Improvement
uu not disturb our contcnporiry-thai was the
HSros look out-he and his sympath sers in Va
wanted reason for supporting whom they
had stygma,ised as u "tyrant' and Course" and
that reason they found, pretended 10 find in the
Ps{o We told hoU how the matter stood-that
the Veto aothiDg more than coup de Ella, of the
little magician to conciliate Va and the strict
Observation-Disclosures the Hero had no settled poll
teal opinions and probably did not even know
wnat the word Veto mesnt-,hat he was n mere
lump OF clay in the hands of the pot,er-and that
they might be assured, If the Veto did not work
well IN he middle states and the West, Martin
and his King, would return to la,udinariunlsm with
as little ceremony they had shown in abardon
ing THAT their object was to retain power and
to petpe'uate he dynasty in the person of Nr
Van Buren,. and that to accomplish this they would
chungc pes with Proteus, hues with the cameleon
and opinions with Mr. Richie himself We real
ly must be perm'c cd in ths place, to complain, how
dispropotoned has been the cclcry have acquired
with the number and striking ful6ment of our
predictions What is 1t, that has come to pass in
the two years of this glorious administration that
we did not foreell? We forctoid that having last
ed the sweets of power, the Hero would consent TO
serve n second term, snd that those men who con
sdered it dangerous" to elect the same person
President second time, and protected that the Hero
himself had such wish rouid be the frs, 10 declare
for him We toreold over and over that having run
down the game the Jackson party would quarrel over
the carcass and that their dissolution was as neyita
BILE, as their original combination" was interested
We toreto!d that hav'rz he supposed sufficiently
propitIated The South by the Veto, Van Buren, would
so temper the last message of the President, as 10
soothe Pennsylvania and the North by discovering
an affection for the Tariff We forctod that the
Cabinet was too feeble, too distracted TO be perma
ncnt. All these things have fallen out as we 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 small enquiry TO make Of our
neghbor Of the Enquirer. Wha, is the reason tina,
he who eXulted much the Veto has no, had one
word to say on'the subject of those bills for Internal
Improvement, signed by the President, on the Sd day
of March, What is the reason that he has never
alluded to thom-never Informed his readers that
such bills, many in number, and approprlatinp
: 200 900, had been actually approved and s,enel
by the PRESIDENT Where arc all h sponden,s,
the vigilant guardians of State Rights1 Why have
neither he nor they, called public attention to thi.
act Of the President which besides that it is an nfrac
'on oil the Constitution, and s the very principle upon
Which they object to tho election of Henry Clay
IS also derelc'ion of the principles of the Veto
message, and palpabIc and pronirate evasion of
the faith pledged TO the American People in that
message, not 10 months before? Is 1t not remarka- |
Die, nay wonderful, that this act of President Jack
son, declaring ii does, tie reannuishmrn, of tho
policy Of he Veto and return TO the doctrines off
internal Improvement and liberal construction sho ud
be passed over by the Enquirer IN total und unquali
fed scnce' By paper of all others-,hc bell
wclhcr OF Stote Rights, md self constituted guar
dun Of the Constitution? II ,0o,,ld seem wonderful
bu It IS no; really after u!i True our nrlghbor 10
1923, 'hought it worry dangerous to elect tho samo
man twice to the Presdsncy--hc has changed that
opinion however--snd now deems the election of,.A.
Jackson" second time, indispensable. This being
the case, It is his business chnunt "a Jackson'y"
pTa ses, noe TO exhibit his fnilngs-to duDudc those