Vandalia Whig and Illinois intelligencer. [volume] (Vandalia, Ill.) 1832-183?, 1832-04-04

very sensible article signed CumberlaHd Roado has
been put into hands with request to publish It, Its
length renders it impossible for to insert it entire,
while much matter in Office, which justice
to our subscribers requires to publish The object
of the piece is to recommend Col A. P Field to the
tce of the people of this district candidate for Con
gres though he has been since announced in the South
leTn district Articles of this character, shall be
pleased to insert, whenever do consistently
with public good and the principles profess to sup
port. But must ask correspondents, who may
favor us with similar communications, to study breyty
much possible.
Although caunot insert the whole Of the piece il
question, the following extracts will be sufficient to te
ty our regard for the writer and for the interests of the
person most concerned.
After remarks on the improperly of suffering
party partates alone to control our decision in select
ing individual for the responsible station of repre-
sentative in Congress, the writer says:
"My principle is to support no man, let him be
Iof this party or of that, unless sufficiently
convinced of his competency to discharge the
duties of the station for which he offers, with
honor and fidelity The citizens of our con.
gressional district and the state at large, must
be sensible of the important interest all have
at stake, and the great and urgent necessity of
selecting some Individual to represent us in Con-
gress, whose talents and qualifications viii Justify
the belief that he will not fail in obtaining for US,
the passage of measures, in which we are all so
greatly interested. And | hope it will not be
considered presumption in me to present the name
of an individual whom consider, in every res
pec, qualified for the station, and whose talents
and republican principles would do credit to those
who might confer on him trust of such high
80. Rb,,o all Cd 10 ,c 4
Field, Esq, our present Secretary of State.
With his qualifications the people Of Illinois have
been generally acquainted for the last eight years,
and | am satisfied from my knowledge of his
character, and his faithful and interchangeable ex-
ertions in the councils of his own state, that he
would do as much credit and honor to our district
in Congress, as any man that could be selected
INV ideas of public men are regulated and gov
lerped by reasons far more substantial than bare
and simple devotion to party principles, and am
well appraised of the fact that the enemies Of Col
Field honestly believe many of them that he is not
lin feeling and in heart the friend of Gen. Jack
Ison, and that he does not desire his reelection
And this impression has been made from the bare
circumstance that in our local politics he has dit
lfered in sentiment with some Of the jackson par
Itv. He acted upon the principle that 1t was MOI
/, necessary to make that question operate uniyer
r sally on persons who were candidates for the
7 most unimportant offices. am well SATISFIED
that those who charged him with opposition tt
, the present administration are greatly mistaken
: in their conclusions. His friends do not pEetenC
: to deny that to some of thymeasures OF the admin
istra,ion he has, like many ct the same part,
a been opposed. Ii is well known fact, that som'
e of Gen. Jackson's most devoted and warm friends
:, cannot agree with him, and appreciate his view.
f in relation to the Bank and Tariff; and thei
t votes on those two great questions in Congress
$ have been in opposition to the doctrines enter
e tanned by him.