Richmond enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1815-1867, 1835-04-14
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and exercise their rights unnuenced by Banks and of
fec hunters, and oifccolders and the rich men and
the barbecue men, the freedom boast is worth
button we are not all men Of learning, have we
all undergraduates TO know every thng done ON Tho No
nuc1i stage But we know whether not we are Fe-
deroSts or RePuGiicdnS!-whether are in favor of a
strong G0re'ont that consults its own will and moi Tho
will Of the people This. we surely know and how
mscacuating have too many Of BEEN in supporling
and countcnancing men that act against us But ,nLs,
do VIC support them? Merely because they are ac
quantances esteem and are unwillin n 90 voo
is hcrc no difference between private aud public cons
deraons Suppose the advocates of the Alien and Sc
duon Law, and of arisocratic and nonarchical prnc
PIES mad been kept IN power and place by this fall re-
spect Tor their bcraty their persons or their hvpo
critical professions, what would now be the condition of
the country! Gen. Hamilton and the majority of The
Cockade Federal Party laughed at the idea of the
Peopc being capable of government and AT onr
pertinent OF Democratic or Republican Institutions, This
experiment eVen would not have been made. without
civil war, If Gen Washington had not consented TO act
as me ISt FTeSident--to put the thing in moon--and
had not declared that the experiment sboU he
fairly tried at the risk of every drop of INV blood ~
IL has been tried 1t has gone smoothly under some
ana roughly under other auspices. The same proud
riSocratc party have increased since the death IL os
OF their monoc1tic fathers Marriages alliances and
the accumulation of acea by cunning devices of pape
systems pFtcuegeS aonoPoles proeciions and similar
oeSp0IuS ways oil giving one man the advantage over
another, have all increased the number of or
Every day convnces me more and MORE that the per-
manency of free institutions depends ON the inte;
gence The hrmness and the virtue the main body of
tue people In the nature of things we may sometimes
expect To he cheated, wheeded and actually d,ncd. h,
there Is an elastic reaction in Democracy on which ,yn
place our main hope The friends of raonarchb in eff
feet If not in name, with Hamilton nj their bcaI snor
Gu at inc uea mat the PeOpe ought were capable of
managing any thing connected with Government
NhSte are inc old Federaiss now? Dead, 60 ponaiMe
yet hvng under the name of Whiys-(C,od so 90
the mark , They more numerous than ever and
nave lost nothing OF their principles Because they
nave seduced many of the time serving or mid Re-:
Pupcahs TO Join their ranks is that should
stuck to men who have abandoned us and our princip
Nan IL DC expected that any consistent sincere Demo
Graf VIII vote, on political questions with the Federal
iss! impossible. We have been too LONG supine and
ihdherent giving way 10 preferences for ncinbos and
personal friends; until Republication is almost road u,
Oh Church Itbecomes us TO consider this matter and
whiie we may make our principles triumphant no mat
Ter VINO TAILS Our enemies tell vote aeaiaa ons
man, because he supported the Proclamation the Force
b, and is the friend of Jackson and gaycv insist nm
on us I" vote for another who did the uery same a
ana is equally the friend of Jackson. Surely these elee
they arc very simple themselves S'' %
Does man vote and act with the Federaiss and
lihS that Tue Republicans will vote for him How ma
ny OF the Opposition for Administration candidates,
None They go all in body and why should we not
no we owe 1t to our country, principles to
ourselves TO do it, The hue and cry about Despotism
usurpaiion, Tyranny Corruption, are the war-whoops
OIL party stre--they the alarm words of the enemy
But who ought they to frghten Do the Peope see md
icel these things except through the screws of the ma
per Nobility Can we believe that scb loro mart &c
The Senate and such majority the House Of Renre
senatves are blind and corrupt into the baroaiu? Arc
they uniaititul: Have they sounded this alarm And
sha we be driven by the noise Of the enemy Or shall
we let them sect our candidates. and help elect lhen
1es-poor passive souls we are to be fyiOhenod and
nofo ID
versarics This will dove must act for ourselves
at the polls and insist upon our servants rcpresenfng
our principles and obeyiMg nSrUcfonS-or else we
may let all our boosted freedom 10 the dops To tho
rolls! Is the word There let us do as we please
And unless we vote against all Foderalsts and the can
ddaes of Fedcralsts we have no rigbt TO CLAIM, MON,
'e''''P III 'ie soclety OF REPUBLlCANISM.
TO THE DEMOCRACY OF ViRGiNiA&EIIiNSo, >
IL would little become ms, my Countrymen in the pre-
sem eecons 10 desert our best friends in time of need
adv cn,c,, IL,
we do not require it, In the midst of all our denItc
heretofore and particularly in the transactions have
adVeTted to previously the Democracy of The North
nave stood by and fought the battle manully in tho
midst OF all manner of oppression, of ridicule terror
by the Bonkites, and heightened Arstocrnts
Regardless Of sectional feelings or preiud;ces hev
nave not stopped TO enquire whether the man who shall
DC selected TO carry into execution those PRINCIPLES ON
which they believe based our dearest rights and ;ber
ties resides in the Northern Southern or Western Coo
tons OF the Union; but they are DESTROYS only of En
ing "hether ne be firm and true disciple Of those Dc
mocratc Republican doctrines and PRINCIPLES Which
were settled by tue civil revolution of 1900 Seh bov
ing Deen the liberal and patriotic conduct Of our North
ern brethren, if it shall be decided that Northern "a
mocrat is the choice Of our party at this time would if
hoa DC ierai, nnwlse and unpatrioc 20 say we will
nave holnihg 10 40 with him, he is Northern man
sew fanatics IN the North have been making nois aoy
our slaves Ergo If select Northern man he ,osi
necessarily interfere with that species of oor rrr,
what would be the effect of such course If ~
IL would necessarily cngender the most deadly fud he
INC worm ana south, and lead perhaps ultimate
gHHIf IN.
cans OF Virginia. you liberal aud patriotic 20 TO-
quire any appeal TO induce you to deal out To Won,
DetDien IN other sections, the perfect iir,,ee and
IOeIality Ct the seven Presidents who have GllcJ
ihe Executive Chair FIVE have been Southern mon aud
heither OF The two Northern Presidents BELONGED tn our
party. IL happens, then, that the Republicans Of 1.-Two
Noftn nave never had President from their section and
snouid we cay now, if they express desire TO
nave onof Would II not nc ungcnerous now TO saw
we VIII not tolerate Northern President bccansyy.
lorsooth, lew fanatics Of The North have inicrfrrrd
with the subject Of cmancipotion =" If l.; ii 1870
100, mat the entire North with the few exceptions aIluJ
ed TO- have set their faces positively against suc iic
ference II Mr. Van Duren be thpselectcJ candidate Of
the democracy Of the North il has by elcctoncerjDg
oemagogucs been asserted, that the State Of New York
rom htf PIedOninatDg weight, viii forever lord
" over us How ridiculous .how absurd that tvyooy
three millions Of people should be able Gf they were i
ng) TO govern II or VI millions II u.s. fellow
700 weak ana untenabc TO require relulaton
democrats OF Virginia. on elected President 10 car.
~ INTO practice The leading tenets Of your creed aud
mas nc deceivcd Yous Mo- hesitate not in answering
Tor you, bat he bas moi Ills term il shortly To expire
ana begins To be time TO look about successor Md
here Jet me say Beware Of whom YOU take counsel do
you not find The enemy stealing into your canp tsuy
9l manner OF artice 10 deceive and mislead YOU
10 you not see the bypocritical Whips holding ont IN
you tempting bait by which they hope 90 heogle Won
700 elected President Jackson without the aid or ady
OF The newlybaptised Wings, but with all kinds Of vn
Perauon and abuse Of the scurrlous Grade bead
upon INN by the pure, Jeacrol,nf aud repnbIeaH
Uhigs, too F
You have approved Of most Of the measures If Con
gacksons Administration. Yon could not do otler,is
ne mas had more difficulties encounter than anv Other
President ever had.
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