Richmond enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1815-1867, 1835-04-17
Richmond, Va. Friday. April n
- The acTs and the ARMS Of Mc WHIGS.


1T properly. Had we scope and verge enough -
we would cast our eyes over the whole Union
ana show the discordant elements of which the Wings
are composed the common interest which binds
them together the Nationals and the Nulli6ers the
Bank and the AntiBank, the Tariff and the Tariff
Tie Internal Improvement and the anti Internal Improve
ncnt, the friends of Clay, Calhoun Webstcr-the Spin
ning Jennes OF the North and the Cotton Planters of the
Soutthe tribes, languages and tcnets which enter into
their composition, and not less mixed and
GUS than those who contributed TO the erection of
the Tower of Babel We would show the various means
winch they exert the complicated nachneru which they
employ, the misrepresentation which they circulate
the injustice which they extend TO Gen Jackson The
reckless opposition which they display towards Admi-
nstraton, which has arrested the madness of local I'm.
provements, reduced the enonty OF the Tariff WROUGHT
more 10 put down the monster Bank than any
'coufd or could have done; removed the Indians from
The territories of the States; contributed essentially 10
restore the Jeersonan Era OF State RIGHTS adius,d
our long standing claims with Foreign Nations which
had dehed all the diplomacy of his predecessors and
raised the character ofour country TO an unparalleled Gle
vahon among all Foreign Nations We do not pretend
10 assert that has not committed some lame ntale cr-
rors but, taking the good along with the bad we do not
hesitate To say that deserves the warm The
country and VIII receive the loud applause poscrty
nut poth our Tune and space limited n present
we cannot now undertake detail all the plans of the
Uppos.on and The arms with which they have attacked
inc present Administration. We cannot wander over
Tue surface OF the Union, and the general history
oil the most anomalous party which has ever disqracc,
Sitee country, since the days of the Coalition of Lord
must bound views the horizon of our
own Home.-We shall sketch by few strokes of the
pencil only the course of our own Whigs.-Look at the
carry the State. "
list, Politics. 1t is said, makes acquainted with
suaSe Deuieows Here you find the old Federalists of
Loudoun and Berkeley, associatcd in the same army
with The modern Nullihcrs of Gloucester and Williams
burg Here we discover the Black Cockade men irhno
side by side along with those who would have rallied up
der the single star of South Carolinanow SEEMING Inv
common consent, TO adopt the White Flag rs a tempo
ay nag TO cover their purposesaburng all their own
leaders, and taking of the Jackson mcnthe Mill
her himself supporting Procamationist and Force. Bill
mainland the Federalist throwing up his can in honor
OF an Anti-Bank, nti-Tariil politician
Seiy ny virtue OF panic, which the Bank and the
wing orators IN the Senate contributed TO raise these
Hgina wings had contrvcd to majority in the
Legislature, last Spring. They declared their deerni
naiion to reelect quasi and alternative Bank man in
Tie Senate OF the u States-An awakened Pconle saw
their object and resolved on their part TO connteract the
mischief they had done the Polls and to instruct their
seIvanis;-Bnt these instructions scofled at and
riucuied.-Epthcts were heapcd upon them to bring
them INTO contempt. They called Bush Instrue,
eloISlhe sovereign people who signed them, were
SAID TO be corncrcd and fuddled-and every effort was
maze TO save W. Leigh, by sacrificing the People
Inc struggle was too successful Mr. Leigh was re-
eeced contrary TO the wishes and instructions of the
ie"Pe But tins was not all! No effort was spared To-
uve their opponents from the Offices which they so long
ana faithfully discharged. The very moment they met
an effort made To surrolant the old Sneokcr bv a
poiu ana 'Passloned partizan The Public Printer was
eected by men, upon pretences who had voted for
nm Tor years The most experienced member of the
Executive Council set adrift.-Thus for the FIRST
tme was the generous soil Of the high minded Old Do.
nnioh stained by political Prescription for opinions
3d-But these various abuses produccd n eoc,r -
the public mind-and the Republicans determined upon
another effort to redeem the State the polls The Sprnn
elections came on and what have we seens We have
seen means exercd for retaining their ill-goten and
InnS "hnses ra""r which s.1;ei1i erery
cool ana rejecting God forbid that we shoud
charge these acts upon the whole of the Whg party
lhero are many hgh-mnded and honorable rnen anion
hem-and when they recover from the heat and cxces
meht OF The moment; when the smoke of the battle HIS
passed away, they will be the first condemn The means
nave oeen employed, and TO blush for the abuses
Oh theIr pnrtizans Many Of them will disdain the use
which has been made Of the White Flag They will pro
nounce IT. as we have already heard few of the cool
est OF theif party, as an outrage-as a surrender of
eir own principles to the purposes of parly-as an un-
worthy attempt TO divide the Republicans wrest
the election from the hands of the People and
transfer II to the House of Representatives Iftbes
temcn do not also hereafter admit and regret the
misrepresentation which have been circulated during
the campaign, it will only furnish another melancholy
instance OF the deusons of political fanatcism What
cauInnes have not been propagated about the Arch Ma
gican' Men who supported the nomination of the Bal
u ,Ie Conventon-men like John Thomson Brown,
WHO pronounced IN the Legislative Caucus of March
| 1852, that Martin Van Buren, Hbas mn entire coyG
aenee are now capable of believing the most cx-
tiaVagant reports about his opinions Reckless par-
uZans are now denoupcing him as an aLolitioaist
which ms own Mississippi Letter and which the letter
OF ms distinguished advocate at Washington, most ex-
Picty contradics The honest preiudices of religions
zeal have been nvoked--and in Albemarle Goochiand
ana Essex, he has been communicated as a Papsti
lie has been abused FcdcraiSt when his own cee-
nra'ed speech OF ISS proves him TO be only one of
the most uniform but of the strongest advocates
winch the cause OF State Rights possesses But these
deusons must pass awayand the political character
OF the Magician must finally appear in its genuine
eolours.-We, who go for the Candidate of the nreat
republican Party with old Nathaniel NIacon-we who
VIII CLAIM, ask, accept of nothing from Mr. Van Buren,
should he be the candidate of the party and the fayore
Oh te reoPe have no hesitation in saying that we know
oil no man. since the days of Jefferson who has been
more unJustly and UNANIMOUSLY treated.
But these not the only Objectionable means 10 which
our opponents have resorted to carry abe day We
would pass over the exertons of towns Once there
was time when we heard the slang about Richmond
rarity, sounded from end of the Common WI sh To
uc DINER we then came in for part of the mpuation
and we knew it to be unfoundcd But the efforts which
are making by the Wings fRchmond arc seen and felt
Ihcy believe their objects TO be legitimate and inst
MANY OF them persuaded that they are xeriing To-
gal influence for the good Of their country But the
TACT not less true, that they possessed Of numerous
reehods beyond the boundaries of the City-tha their
influence Is fei IN several Of tho surrounding and de-
baabe counties IT deeply felt in the election of
Chestcrheld on Monday last, and it unaucstionaby
turned The scale in favour of w. r. Johnson Its
SAID here were 81 votes given 10 him from this CITY up-
on the ordinary freehold rights, and only from 40 to Is
in favour Of Elamrhese votes contributed TO Give him
The majority of 9j-upon which he declared the re.
! turned Delegate Of the county Of Chesterfield
! But still moreThe right of suffrage itself has been
virtually ubuscdVotcs have been manufactured i'm other
places for the purpose Of carrying an election
Leigh said during the Convention that though he had
known many TO buy fcehods in order cntlc them
selves TO receive The votes Of others (he) had never
known any man TO buy land merely for the sake of &C.
curing right to vote, however trivial the cost would
! be-. The remark is no longer lrue.-Mr l., did moi
foTesee such state Of things the present when deeds
are made on waste lands to give he right Of voting eren
TO others.
But Of all the encroachmcnts which have been mad.
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