Richmond enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1815-1867, 1834-03-14

ueY hoped TO OBTAIN ny TINS nc0Ilous and rovengetu
combination?
With what pride does the great champion announce
In his bulletin of this winter. the victories they have
achieved. When we assembled here last year." says
he, I'VE were full of dreadful i0rebodmgs On the one
hand we were menaced with civil war, which, lighting
upn single state nigh, spread its flames throughout
one OF the largest sections of the union On the other
cherished system of policy, essential the successful
prosecutionof the industry of expos
ed imminent danger of destruction Means happily
applied by congress TO dpi both eaanites. The country
reconched, and Our Union become band of
friends and brothers" With what complacency do
these gentlemen arrogate themselves the honor of
having eXtinguished the flames of civil war-of having
reconcied the country and made union once more
band Of brothers with what complacency do thew
declare that cherished system Of policy has been saved
from the ruin with which it threatened by hostile
executive, that had sworn its destruction Who kirMed
this cira ,car? One of these very allied leaders and his
parzans--for what purpose!-for the avowed purpose
OF destroying that cherished system Of protection And
after they had to an open rupture and compelled
the government to interfere for the protection of the
laws, then they ground arms, meet in conclave form
a"hoy alliance" extingush the flames and snatch the
cherished system from impending destruction And
now these gentlemen have the efron,ery come for
ward, and ask you to confer upon them the honors and
rewards of pariotsn-of pure, disnterestcd patriot
ism-fhe one for having extinguished the flames Of
civil war, which his own obstnacy, and unbendng adj
herence to false system had enkindedihe other for
having saved from destruction that cherished system
which, above all things, you wished to be destroyed
Now fellow citizens will you, you forsake those
who have stood by you through evil and good report
who have sustained your in the day of battle;
who have sustained youin the still more perous conflict
against corruption and misrule: will you forsae those
who have proven their patriotism and their devoedness
to your interests win you forsake them and follow
after these false prophets who promised peace but
there is no peace; who promised us health, but behold
trouble.
In the slight review which we have given of the acts
of the present administration, we find many things
worthy OF our entire appreciation We find that all
the doctrines of Virginia, which deem so essential
to the preservation of our Federal Union, have been
sustained and pracced, far as it possible under
existing circumstances to practice them. That scheme
of corruption and oppression, misnamed the American
system, has been nearly destroyed by the untrng and
extraordinary efforts of the present administration
Well did MIR. Clay excaim that, " BY the Sd of March,
1897 if The progress Of inn0raioa continue there ,oiH be
scarcely restige remaining Of The government and its
policy they eris'ed prior to the Sd Of March 1929"
The potcer Of internal improvement lies crushed beneath
the reto. The bank has been off from all its splendid
schemes of wealth, power and perpetuity, by The peo"
Z" The system Of protection Of american industry cas
Snatched from impending destruction al the last session.
only by the compromise. These great and trium-
phant achievements, for which this administration
deserve immortal honor.
We not blind and indiscriminate admirers how
ever, of your present chief magistrate some things
have been done under his sanction which cannot
give our appreciation In the proclamation itself there
doctrines which many of us do not sanction. That
document was written at time of great excitement
and ALARM and, it should not be of surprise
that principles introduced into it, the full force
and tendency of which the President had not time duly 10
weigh and consider. According to the Interpretation
of many of there doctrines contained in it, which
neither accord with the Presidents practice nor the
opinions expressed in his other official documents
there doctrines founded assertions assumed as
facts which in truth not facts according our UNI
Outstanding of INDEPENDENTLY the doctrines
deduced from these assumed facts unsound. In the
practice of the administration also, there have been
things which we condemn. Removals from Office have
been made, for which we could adequate cause
Some too, have been placed in situations of and
profit whose avocations character and qualifications
worthy q
cutive favor.
But shall we condemn and forsake administration
which sustalns every principle we hold dear--which
has stemmed the torrent of formidable opposi-
tondespised the volics of caluny which were poured
upon it, and has done to correct the abuses of
government and To restore it to its republican practices
than any administration since the days of Jefferson?
shall we forsake those men who have pursued our
policy on those great questions, which have agated
this republic from its foundation merely because they
dives themselves of the ailties of humanity o.?
then indeed would conduct be marked with much
folly that of the who could turn his back upon
the sublime temple of Diana, the beautiful structure
of the Parthenon, because he happened to discover
fracture in the wall, blot OH the Parian column
which supports the noble edifice.
Do we hear you say, fellow citizens, all these things
forgive; they trivial indeed, when brought
into comparison with the great deeds performed by this
administrations but this last overturns at single
stroke, all the good that has been done-this last and
browning of tyranny and us,rpaton cannot tole-
rate We have sustained chief magistrate through
evil well through good report; we have never
forsaken him, because believed him to be honest
and ardently devoted to the welfare. But we
sustain him longer. His recent course shows
plainly, disposition usrp all the powers of the
government, to unite purse and sword in the same
hands, and to convert our republic into elective
monarchy. Such forgetfulness of the reposed
in him by condng people, such thirst for absolute
sway such an eager grasp after power, we cannot
away with; he must be abandoned to his fate. We
beseech you, felow-czens to be hasty in your
decsions pause before you declare this your debe-
rate opinion. Remember on how many trying occa-
sons you have supported him, when these same cla-
mors were raised. You supported him in his upon
the Maysvlle road you supported him in his noni-
nation of Martin Van Buren, which was rejected in the
senate by combination of these opposing fac
tons. You supported him in that hour Of trial when