Richmond enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1815-1867, 1832-10-16

child of the democracy of the country in whose cause
whilst yet stripping he fearlessly aud ably contende:
and whose tenets he has adhered with untering del
y. That the thus proposed 70 YOU by the unani-
nous vote OF the general Republican Convention should
DC asaied for that by detracton and was
an event TO be looked for In these times of ferocious out
rage against male and female when not merely the peal
Instruments OF party are at work in their vocation but in
those very halls where GELATIN, and Nicholas and Mason
and Randolph and Macon spoke the
mus and nnagnanlmy and patrotism we have witnessed
upsart and selfish presumption ig-
noranee an exemption from caumny on the part of the y-
i1ous and eminent would have almost
10 have ensured the of such an exemption i'm re-
ierence TO Martin Van Buren, it was enough that he was
the steady friend of Andrew Jackson in whose councils
he had aided i'm achieving the brilliant successes If he 90
vernment thereby confirming for the President the place
he had previously and justly filed in the aectonac era
utude oil his eountrymen by the able and faithful
operation; exposing the weakness and Disappointing the
eager n'ngues oil the opponents of the administration.
amongst the means put in requson for the destruction
OF inns valuable and distinguished citizen the plan
pressing forward Virgindn for the office of Vice Prcsi-
dent under the pretext that Mr. Van Buren, is not am Or
thodoX disciple of the Vginan political school Against
the dangers OF this alacous pretext we would most
earnestly YOU Its origin NAV be dscernel i'm enmi-
ty both 10 Gen jackson and Mr. am Buren,: s
TO divide and paralyze the vote of Virginia in the an
poaehing election, and 10 transfer the choice OF Vice
President from the people 10 the Senate of the United
States Henry Clay and John c. Calhoun will alike con.
cur III this design, though from motives somewhat dismi-
ar WIN The former there exists, doubt, the hope,
that in choice by the Senate his friend and co eduor
John Sergeant, may succeed by management
r. r. Barbour has been particularly pressed upon YOU
by meeting in the town of Charlottesville who have ta-
ken the sounding appelIaon of The Jackson
and Harbour Contention. This meeting, composed of
thirty one individuals, from nine out of one hundred and
three counties in this State Of whom eight were depue
Tor at any rate) from single county have moi scr
pied 10 charge the Convention OF three hundred and forty
seven members convened from State but one in the
Onion with not correctly representing the republican
Hends oil the administration; function which, ca, this
modest accusation implie) the numerous and renowned
assembly at Charlottesville has perfectly fulfilled Be-
ginning with encomium upon their own canlor and
good Faith, and flourish about "americdn pdtt iotism
Virginia TepubicGniSm and ''tcritten constitutions
so noiulaed as to DO pitched any key
SION may require; they so on TO amuse the public with
hgh-wrou2ht eulogy upon their favore candidate an
eulogy against which it is not intended here 10 make anv
objection A contrast is then aempted betveen Mr. r. ~
hour and Mr. Van Buren, by series of mputations against
the latter, for which not solitary proof is adduced Mr.
van Bureni accused by The lustrious ST. with designs to
cripple the military energies of his country during the
late war with England; and at the same time wv hist thew
do not declare in terms) they indirectly involve him
IN me nearons attempts OF the Hartford Convention the
nuUGeTS Of 1914.
These assertions of tho Charlottesville politicians are so
openly at war with truth, the of information
were so easily auanable by them, and the detection
lheir alterations lies so Immediately at hand that the
public must ascrbe to them any rate, the extreme of
ndscreuon, aud reckless disregard of what due
the feelings and character of distinguished citizen and
amlable gentleman. IT'S true, that Mr.. Van Buren, did
in accordance with nomination made by tho Legislature
oil ms native State (betore he member of that body
vote Tor DE witt Clinton in opposition James Madson
but the crlmnay of this preference for Mr.. Clinton or
he political delinquency implied, is yet to be shewn De
WIT Clinton, was man Of distinguished ability, and
Jealous democrat nay, he regarded at that time i'm
ork as the "PiiiaT OF the Republican partvN
State There was then hostility Virginid pTinci-
PIES though there certainly the time an opposition
to pirginidn pGr"l!:cS, II -he of Mr. Cliuon
bui tnere is page in the life of Martin Van Buren
10 winch his friends may with peculiar pride and
eXuaton it is TO that which pourtrays his conduct during
e late war Twas at that time, that, against unfrend-
~ majority In the Legislature of his State he with Tomp-
kns and Root and Sanford ably and generously sustained
the federal government and ultimately achieved for IT, at
the season OF greatest distress and peril victory both in
me Legislature and in the State at large. The mastery
addresses OF Mr. Buren,, delivered that period in
he senate and to the people OF New York. before the
Puoc ana whilst they evince the elevated and feryid
patriotism by which he inspired they i'm the same de-
gree expose the cruelty of mputaons which represent
him as delinquent in any duty his country much more
when they charge him with giving countenance to peril
dy and treason.
The opinions of Mr.. Van Buren, upon the powers con-
lerred on the federal government by the Constitutional
chW'er' ana The principles which ought regulate the
exercise OF those powers have been more clearly pres
sed In his own language than they by any nterpe
uon OF mat language at second hand These opinions
were procamedby him in the Senate of the United States
IN discussing proposition made in that BODY to cote the
Vice President with certain powers considered b,, Mr.
van Buren, as not conferred by the Constitution; and no
commentary upon the rights and powers of the State and
federal governments lucid able more orho
doX an That contained in these opinions, has ever been
Promulged The limits Of this address, do not admit of
an extended insertion of that commentaries but so cea
ana iorclbe are the positions presents so Overwhelming
er reuaon oil the current detractons of their author
that we should deem it injustice TO valuable and
nuEh INJURED man. as well as to the people, entirely
withhold 1t on the present occasion. Anmadyer-
ing upon the attempt, by the friends of the measure
proposed, to sustain it upon the principle of implied
grants IN the Constitution, Mr. Van Buren, remarked 4:
Ana what, Sir, is the foundation OF this high-reach
" ing preension? Ii is no other than the doctrine
" of implied powers! Ii is TO register this aIso
the constructive powers OF the government and its func
uonarcs that the gentlemen the other side invoke IN
" hclr aid, principle which has already done such
tensiye violence to the Constitution: principle which
as dehned and Practsed upon by many the public men
OF me days leaves no other restriction upon power than
ne discretion or caPnce OF its possessor principle
winch, IN the in which it is understood by anv
never true ITSELF when is most ase TO The
" constitution '-COmmeuiing upon the conditions on
Mch he Constitution adopted, and the subsequent in
fractions by politicians both OF those conditions and of the
letter oil The charter ITSELF Mr. V. Buren, said: The then
trends OF State rights (he FedeTasts, but W no bv
singular misnomer immed after called the anil
ederass whilst those who throughout had opposed the
federal principle, assumed the then more popular name
OF tederalists) succeeded thought they had succeed
cd IN saving much of what they so earnestly con-
tended Tor The advocates OF what then called in
" the language oil the day. strong General Government
certainly Jailed IN obtaining by express grant, neces-
sary implication, much of what they had long and so
" aOy struggled to acquire for the government The
the Constitution might be exposed were pointed out bv
l opponents The concealed powers of the Constution
winch are at this day put forth with much confidence
were dsclamed and condemned by those who
The ratification. 70 candid and well-iniormed man will
Tor moment PRETEND that If the powers now claimed for
this government had been at the time or even
had not been expressly dsclaimed there would have
been the slightest chance Tor the adoption of the Cosi-
tuon But IL was ratified (aid Mr. " and from the
moment oil ITS adoption 10 the present day. the spirit be
had described bad been work obtain by construc-
ton what was not included intended TO be included
- IN the grant Coming down 10 the period at which he
speaking S2S he says: f the views i'm relation Ia
7 M M Of faa