Daily Richmond Whig & public advertiser. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1833-1840, 1834-12-01
From the Charlottesville Advocate.
TO WILLIAM G. RIVES. ESQ.


The motto no less true than trIte, which will
here meet your eye, has been either unknown TO
you az politician, or you have fopudiated IT, as
incompatible with the means you found it neces-
Sary tn employ To promote your ambitious designs.
NV object is not To reflect upon yonr private cha
actcr, fer that is very i1ir;-hor will represent
you a "croOsjng the pregnant hinges Of the knee
that thrift may follow favning." Although vow
have ofentimeS been accused Of 1t, whether Just
ly or unjustly your conscience will hest inform
you. do not intend TO write your life though
NJ some future time. ! contemplate review in 2
your political career, To expose your inconsistent
ceS to- the people. and to shew them that you have
basely betrayed their best interests, and sacrificed
their most cherished principles on the altar of
selfaggrandizcmcnt. a new fact has been late
" revealed which exhibits you in the light of the
most insineere and jesuSiical politician, that
these corrupt times could possibly produce II
can be established, that whilst you were the rep
rc>enlnuve IN Congress Of this an,i-Tarifr dis.
trst whilst you opposed the Tariff system in
Congress and denounced il among the people. at
the very time you secretly volunteered your seTvi-
ccS 10 n distinguished gentleman in this district
and did actually procure for him Sundry docu-
mentS for publication, tsprove that Jefferson and
Madison, were both supporters Of that system,
and YOU secretly furnished these documents for
publication when yen were sustained by the peo-
pic as an opponent Of that system, upon grounds
of constltutionality and cXpedSncy. In ordina-
~ times, when the public mind is undisturbed by
vrXed questions of constitutional law, you could
find no apology for sustaining a principle which
your constituents believed ysu 10 be opposed TO-
When these documents we're furnished by you, il
will he rccollectcd that the country, and especial
ly the southern portion vf the Union, was rock
ing with excitement on account Of the unconsti-
tutionstity and arbitrary exactons OF the nafari-
Gus tariff system. II was at time when YOU
were clothed with the high and responsible Office
Of representative in the national councils, that
you assumed the Visagc Of Janus and presented
an anti-iariG face to the people, whilst you ex-
bibited a tariff face to the distinguished advocate
'of that system, 60 whom You had volunteered
your services. But your nSinccriiy does not
stop here. When you we're in nomination for
the n. 8. Senate. Won we're written to by Maior
Yancy. who cnquircd Uf you your opinions an
The subject If The tariff.
You replied, lam dHii-duG IT mistake not
YOU condemned the tariff in very strong terms in
your memorable speech on the Force Bill.-You
then opposed the tariff publicly, and sustain
ed u privately and powerfully, for the documents
which you furnished for publication, carried
with them tho powerful and imposing sanction.
which the names Of Jefferson and Madison were
calculated 10 impnrl Ia tbem.-But the question
may be asked why this political lrickery on your
pau7 Ianswcr that You were ALWAYS in favor NJ
the tniin, bUt representing an nni-tarih dis
irict. Won dur,t not avow IT, But ifthegc docu.
mcnis hal fcvouiionizcd the district then your
shaoklce would have been broken. and the opin.
ion. Of the people made congenial vita your own
These arc facts, and you afc challenged to deny
them. CATO. -