Lynchburg Virginian. [volume] (Lynchburg [Va.]) 1829-185?, 1833-03-07

The read r will be emuscd with the following
shrowd and sensible letter IN the Baltimore Patriot
than which we have seen nothing more Justly dos-
c:.pllye Q! ~ :a.s.
Correspondence ofHc baltimore Pd'rio,.
WAsiuNGroS, Feb. 10, 1879.
desire you TO inform me, If you know whit has
become OF " the democratic party" the national
republican party or " the anti masonie putty -
and t, you are in n proper mood, you may tel me
whether Gen. Jackson is n Jackson man, or = Web
stcr man, AMI whether Henry Clay is for himself
or som other person. ! am altogether a stranger
in TINS Guy, bu, in my reading Of the newspapers.
! had been informed that Mr.. Clay was at the head
of the Tariff party, that Mr.. Calhoun was a, the
head oitl,c Free Trade party, md that Mr.. Web
ster and Gen. Jackson were al words points Now
| have been IN the city bnta few weeks, md vet,
guess my surprize-I see Mr.. Clay and Mr.. Cal
houn votiHg loscther,-John Holmes and lsnnc
tIli il. company, Add Mr.. Grundy calling Mr..
Webster a clever fellow for aidins him and he Adj
n'nisirstlon % pass the Revenue act, to put down
the Null fers. had heard also that one Col. Ben
ton and a Mr.. Forsyth, were great opponents Of a
high tariff, and friends of a reduction Of the duties,
md now every day | see them obstructipg MI.
Clay, IN his efforts TO reduce the tariff.
An lhesc things are strange things to me, and
| 90 mol understand them. Politics here seem to
ar st ,ntcrmingled that | can find no one thinking
a. ! d.. | sometimes inquire who are the leaders
of ite Democratic Party Mr.. Grundy, Mr.. Ben
ton, Mr.. Forsyth, Mr.. Dallas, and Mr. Wilkins in
the Senate, | am told. Now fMr. Dallas ard Mr..
Wilkins are leaders OF the Democratic Party, how
happens it that Mr.. Webster agrees with them in
all things? Perhaps ! am reformed that Mr..
Grundy is more peculiarly their leader. To-day
IND hum and Mi. Clay agreeing TO all each other
says, SO II cannot be that he is a democrat and still
keep company with such a federa!ist as Mr.. Clay
has been represented to be.
II so into the House of Representatives, l am
told, that Mr.. Spcight, ofN. Carolina, is one OF the
leaders, II suppose, because he is SO gaunt and
long, for such are usually the leaders in a stage
coach,-surely not because Of his votes, for the null
lihers, McDuffic and w. K Davis, are ever with
HIM for reduction Of the Tariff, anI no democrat
could ever be caught in such company. Mr.. Polk
and Mr.. Beardsiy are their leaders, | am told
Now how can this be, for one pulls one way and
one another, half of the time.
II Jacksonism is the true touchstone Of democra
cy, | am equally confused,-for the Jackson men
pull many different ways,-and no longer ago than
to day, saw Mr.. Folks bill to sell the Bank Stock,
which Gen. Jackson so ardenlly desires, uncsremo-
nlously voted down almost without a debate, by
many of Jackson's best (~reputed) friends.
Sir, we must all be collared and marked over a.
gain, before we begin to make another President
No man here knows aeho IS ioko. Mr.. Webster
stand high at Court. The Kitchen Cabinet are
frightened by his cross visage even within the por-
tails Of the SaactIm, the Mansion House of the old
lion. Poor Blair is awfully alarmed in this crisis,
but the old President should be taken from his
charge and put into better company. Kendall is
not now to be seen till after dark, though he must
find the democratic party in all this labyrinth, and
whatsoever, among US, does find it, will most likely
become the next President Of the United States.
AS for Modification, it is all dying away here,
Webster and Calhoun won't fight. 1t is a shame
that some of us have come many miles to see one
nulity TIE other, and that MIR, Clay has thrown
cold water upon then. and all the war is over, with.
OUT any killed or wounded Wha, an uproar our
country has been in for some months land now
it is all to be like a false cry Of fire | will cry
peace, peace, after Calhoun and Webster have met,
and no. ae&ge,