Constitutional Whig. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1824-1832, 1832-08-07

TO assume what they know not to be So tina, he :.
inimicsl to the 7o,eer; and praising him for do.
stroying what even they esteem lesser evil, uho
existing Banf,) wholly conceal thut he is in favor
OF another Bank, u Thousand times more odious
and dctestablc, and tho greater evil euen We saw
to them Is this respectful to tho People, or com
plying with the acquisitions Of Truth?
We had imagined that after Gen. Jackson's eoui-
vocation on tho subject of Internal Improvements;
after has trimming d summcrsetting, backward and
forward; after his Maysvillo Veto at one session;
his signing bill npprepriatng 200, 900 dollars TO
improvements at the ae1t session. his approving ut
the late session the Improvement bill, appropriating
ST., 100000 because it contained appropriations to
tho Breakwatcr, and 20 the Cumberland River,
tcashing has own property; and his rejection of
the Hdrber Bill, appropriating $500,000, and re-
turning Virginia fraction of the millions she
has paid into tho Treasury; when these rank in
constituencies and tcrgiversatons manifesting a
crazy head or corrupt heart, were matters of re-
c0rd and had defed ''pap" fed ingenuity ITSELF to
defend their enorpity;.we had ina sinod after all
this, that the Presidents: nal friends, would have
been as shy of mentioning Internal Improvements.
as of talking of ropes in the house of -a-naa>who
had been hanged. .eAbovo all, we could Mt have
anticipated, that the voice of COMMUNICATION ANON
s"ch theme would first have sauted us from the
noble county of sx1bemsrle, ever first in beralty.
and Independence.
Gon Jackson acknowledges the power in a
torn, most materially modified says the Charlottes.
SI''e writer. There Is not a reading man who
woYanSs fool himself indebted to b. B. to be in
formed tohai those notifications are: what Gem
Jackson's real sentiments are. We pored over
his recondito Maysvile Message until our.head
grew dizzy, and could satisfy ourselves of
his meaning. We did make out satisfactor:ly, that
he declared against all improvements which were
not national, and therefore vetoed the MaxsvLIe
Road ndtional as q road could be, as it trayer
scd In prospect the country from Maysville 1--WE
oeiieve) to New Orleans. AT the next session our
Interpretation still farther unsettled by finding
nm approving appropriations to small and un
known rivers, all over the y. States At the late
| session we were more and more puzzled to under
stand him, as in enc fortnghps space, he.npproped
one bill appropriating money to the Cumberland
R'rer, running close by the Hermitage and to the
Berwick Branch of the Piscataqua River in the
Hon. Isaac fhil's country, and which we will va
ger sharpshin, 20 man in Albemarle ever before
heard of-and rejected another appropriFipg a
mong the rest $s21,00 to the majestic James.
"Matcrlally modified" qsoth'a! Most inexplicably
mystifod rather; wretchedy tangled hank.
that neither Kendall Richie can wind it.
| In respect to which then, of these three great
questions, has Gen.. Jackson tho advantage, or.
>:aght TO have the advantage of Henry Clay, be-
fore the People of Virginia. In not one. In
all, is Jackson equally opposed to her, with
this difference, that he has ever concealed
his personal opinions in impcnetrable OBSCURE
ty and when the time for action could no
longer be deferred, invariably taken groanSs
which left his true sentiments equivocal as ever
Is it no argument in favor of Henry Clay, that he
carries his opinions on his sleeve, disdaning the
mean advantage which conceament would bring
him? Is it net safer to trust such a man.
though entertaining adverse sentiments, than ono
OF your shutting politicians, who has either not
strength of mind sufficient to form set of opinions
| Tor himself, or who, making himself the creature
OF circumstances TO advance his own personal ends
is with you on Monday, against you on Tuesday,
and on Wednesday,, again enveloped in the fog of
mystihcation or equvocaton7 Are Henry Claws
splendid talents nothing? Is his fame fresh on the
ANDES and farnassus, nothing to America? Can
any man deny his incompatible superiority to the
present debilitated Executive? Can any man dcpv
that this age of the world is full of changes, and
mighty events, demanding head clear to perceiye.
and heart firm and resolved to meet the dangers
which environ us2 What are abstract and metapbv.
steal constitutional questions, when national exist
ence itself is at stake?
! People of Albemarle-We have ventured through
our respect and admiration of your character. to
address you these observations. If you will read
them, we have gained all we proposed from tho
task.