Constitutional Whig. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1824-1832, 1832-06-01

NOT altogether the individual feat ard perlor,oapc
OF Mr.. Rtchie, aided bv the known anxiety q
Jackson for Van Buren,.
In North Carolina, the very same dram, w,.
attempted Some half dozen or dozen ro,;,io;,,.
IN" i'" oil the counties, got togethc. and resolved
Justify for Van. The Peovle took fire Rom
meetings assembled The voice of the people.
" 10 mat OF tho politicians demanded an
|A"u' l"ril Candidate. The design OF Van Burrp.
"o state was met on the threshold and
demolished and every Indication, and
''ohS oi those who know best, proclaim
wv D"ipour VIII receive her vote ten 10 one.
""' WI" van Barren, iii spite of these facts, get
'ne vo'e oil Virginia? Is the combined influence
VI mr. iI''chie, and of the Presidents wishes of
P'''h' efficacy sufficient to carry Virginia against
ner ancient principles and original prepossessions7
No"s 'ert0ns. We think it possible The party
organization is in his favor. He ha; the ENQUIRER
1T the centrc-the Members Of Assembly general
~ IN the Counties-the majority men who navi.
gate by that paper as light house at sea- every
where.
we are IN very agreeable condition of indiier.
ehco between the gentlemen. We shall take no
nahd IN the engagement, farther than to apprse
our readers from time to time, of xhat is going on
and to expose the Inconsistencies of both parties.
Each Is certainly in position the most false and
absurd. The State Right Anti Tariff Van Buren,
mon, are labouring most zcaously, to dcmolish the
Tariff with one hand and to elect Vice President
and then President the man tcho passed ii, with
the other. This is what Mr.. Norborno Nicholas
humourously calls principle. The State Right
Anti Tariff Barbour men, quite as congruous
they reject Van with violent symptoms of nausea
they reject him, because he is for the Tariff, and
they suspect him of being for Government Bank
and distriouion of the Surplus Revenue; but in the
same breath they unanimously recommend Jack
son, who has formally enforced all these things in
his messages to Congress. This is what Mey call
principle
Into this prcposterous attitude has Jacksonisn
man worship, and majority hunting, driven the po
litical parties of the Country
We help Van exceedingly by opposing or even
seeming to oppose him. Ritchie and the Repub
can managers immediately hold il up as scare
crow, a raw head and bloody bones. The enemy
is against Van Buren,, and he is therefore, the man
10 obvia'e this ingenious argument we shall
henceforth, abuse Barbour and Van Burcn with
the strictcs impar'iality.
letter from Mocklenburg SAYS
TO THE EDITORS THE Wuia.
conference.-the Meeting in Mccklenburg tho
proceedings Of which sent TO YOU for puhlica-
ton, was in several respects more interesting than
any political meeting have ever witnessed il that
County The mcetin. numerously at.
tended, and Il much greater interest manifested by
the people in the proceedings than have ever OBJ
served before. This may have been in some degree
owing to the rcappcarancc the political stare
OF one OF our oldest and most talented citizens
Col. Green, who has played no part in the little
game of politics since the days of Jefferson and
Madison, under whose ascendaucy he believed that
the principles of Virginia had become so firmly
established that many generations would pass away
before we should waiver in our devotion to them
or think FOR moment of abandoning them. See.
ing that attempts making TO seducc us from
the faith of fathcrs-that the shepherds of the
flock were insidiously Introducing the wolf into
the sheepiod under the specious pretcnce of keep
ing the flock seeing that the chief s'scntinc
on the wntchtowCr Ind turned his batteries against
Inc camp" in moment of contidng and unsus-
pectlng security, he more tottercd 10 the
stage L" raise his warning voice and guard us
against The danger that awaits us. He eyhorIed
us to adhere 10 our ancient faith and neither lust
after false Gods, bow down to the worship oil
party lios-to hold fast to our principles though
now and then even our own leaders should desert
to the encmy's camp. He assured us that such
course had caused us TO triumph when in The du VS.
OF his first manhood all was dark and lowering in
the political horizon, ara that lie believed we
should triumph again by the same means.