Richmond enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1815-1867, 1835-04-03

10 their fate and suffer that party whose aim has ever
been to concentrate all power in the General Govern
ment TO the detrmen and oppression of the States
your rulers? Have had satisfactory
evidence OF the eachey and abuse of power inscpara
Bile from this party What heresies too gross to be
preached and practsed upon you during the admnsra-
ton of the elder Adams Have YOU forgotten the griev
Gus and burdensome taxes under which the people then
groanedle creation OF standing army and the tyranny
ot tho Alien and Scditon Laws-in virtue OF which, the
President might, without evidence trial, decide who
should ENJOY the privileges OF citizenship, and
quenty who should be deprived of those rights and c
zensrce born citizens, ncarcerated in dungeons
for opinions sake, and the liberty of the Press suspend
cd! Was not the voice OF your mother State first raised
IN opposition TO those abominabe abuscsand was she
not among the most active pull down that obnoxious
Administration, and to elevate her favoc Jefferson
the Presidency Under his Administration, the Govern
nent was conducted in the most happy and equitable
spirit Another, and another, Republican President in
The persons OF your Madison and Monroe successfully
filed the Presidential Chair, and administered the Go
ycrnment in the purity and simplicity Of Republio-
But what sudden and lamentable change wrought
when, by the bargain and corruption of John Quincy
Adams and Henry Clay of the Federal party the former
was elevated to the Presidency The exploded doctrine
OF forced construction and broad implication was
then renewed. The public money lavished upon
Internal Improvement by the General Government
the constitutional power TO impose high and harden
some Tariff for The protection ofdomestc manufactures
was claimed, and the wight of InstI ucon (tat rtt so
tdefy deSpiSed and anicd under foot toi insult yOur
oicn Sdie Legislature was denied by John Quincy
Adams himself, in his famous complaint that 'he arm
fthe Representative is pasied by the will of the con-
stituenI" The Republican party, indignant at the
imposition palIned upon them, by the House of Re-
representatives., in the person of the Federust John @
Adams and acuatcdby the noble and overwhelming
spirit that guided them in their opposition his father
with force MOTTO be resisted hurled the mpostor from his
seat and placed Gen jackson the head govern
ment Thus again did the Republican party ship of
state under their guidance and detraction with all her
highly cooured painting oscenes of danger exaggerated
or wholly ideal held to the gaze OF IAN asonished peo
pie, by Mr. Leigh and his associated panic makers in the
Senate and the whole train of disappointed hunters
bank men, &C., &c never tarnish the wreath which
glorious bound around the temples of our We
nerable President. hat 10
out of Office desperate struggle about be 10y
the federaiss TO give us the next President. Believe
II, Felow-citizens the contest waging between the
Democratic and Wing parties is nothing more than a
renewal of the old conflict between the Republican and
Federal parties The doctrines of Hamilton
citating under the imposing party name of Wings The
name OF Federalist had become obnoxious and odous
and was OF necessity dropped. Can palmer evidence
OF the fact be required, when John q. Adams,
Henry Clay, Daniel Webster and host of other leading
edeTass, sun maintaining the old Federal doctrines
headn@ the ranks Of ,Le Whas e'Sv Aaams ana
TO this Can any Republican, who claims 10 be
considered disciple of Jciierson fight under
the banner OF those who have repudated his encs
fause ieowcitizens and ask yourselves the question,
In whose company shall we be found when enlisted
among the Wings? Henry Clay, the defeated asprant
John u Adams, the obnoxious eXPresdent, and the
Hartford Conventon-man Daniel Webster will be your
Generals. And how comes this reconciliation about
Have they renowned their old Federal doctrines and
come over to the Whgs No-very they are Federalists
yet Then you must renounce your own Republican
principles and go to the Federast, if you be found
IN the ranks of the Wings. And you renounce the
faith OF the Old Domnionthc land that gave you birth
you cherished and protected you and re-
gardess of the blessings of liberty and equality and of
the abundance poured into your laps, by bountiful
Provdence your to the foes whom your fathers
successfully conbated? Then indeed, would be the
day OF foul degeneracy and wreched recreant spirit
The brightness of Virginia escutcheon would then have
been obscured by the most abominable aposlacy. A
proud consciousness, Feow-citizens that we have no
to this gives impulse to the language of this ad
dress There Is intelligence and virtue enough among
the people, even in abused and misrepresepted Virginia.
tn si1Tn he hlirnn a
and palpabe dsobedience of a refractory Legislature
Senator of the Federal school would not now be palmcd
upon you With that party however instructions are
nothing!
transient panic, upon false conclusions gave maio
Tity OF hgs at the last Spring elections which majority
were resolved to carry out their
did they in the face Of sacred instruct the contra
ry, elect Mr. Leigh r six years. TO the Senate of the u
States Is it congcfaI with your profcssed Ie
Fellow citizens OF Hanover, to have out of the
Federal ranks to preside part the destincs of
your State? If not then Judge whether MIR Leigh he
longs to that school of politicians not lie justified
the Alien Lawopposed the Administrations of MIR Jeff
ferson and of Madisonwas against the last War-asup-
porter OF the Administration of @ Adams, ( think
certainty not an oPposer-and favorable to the election
ofHenry Clay. He tells you, he thinks the Bank uncon
sttonai but believes it cxpedent and promises
tor % Bank, n tnSrHCcd to ito What, then becomes
OF his oath to support the Constitution if he is willing
to violate it when instructed? That Mr. Leigh friend
TO the Bank, is evident from the fact that he has never
uttered reproacE against it, though proven to be sink
OF corrnpton well by the frest implication from
his own language Hear the language of his Petersburg
Thai opnios founded ON LONG and n.ous no
thing would be ultimately choice of evils lie
would toll them, that the objection National costit-
few very fo other States of,hs U"on ,hnt "nd
Administration should cXpedcn Whenever at any
moments the opinion OF It's policy
tion.' 'r " $50 'Fi"
Agoia, in the speech and in the same strain he
continues
h difficult concre hoe this nation could hang toser in
IT'S present state OF political without
general uniform currency OF Kind
And Mirdiy:
"Al things considered the Of National Bank would
present "SeJ as the easiest method az least
UNIFORM currency Tor the whole Union;
be resoHed by those who thought institution
utional as well a. exPedcn adopted the MAORI
And then, those who
must take that scheme of National
would be most capable Of good aud least capable And
thus happen question ultimately Il, he
decuedthc question we should have consider
our teeth, be- whether there National Bank or
not, but what sort Of Rank"
Is there candid and intelligent man. who after read
ing the above extracts, will not acknowledge with all
MIR. Lelghs constitutional scruples there is an awful
squirting at National Bank Can Mr. Ieiob will,
all these undenabe objections represent Virginia. Docs
he belong 60 the Republican School? Will he carrv
out the doctrines of % and 80? impossible Then
ellowcitzens, it remains for the People of virginia 10
rise en- maSSe at the April elections and vndcae their
hgh character Tor constitutional liberty and consistency
and to annu the obnoxious vote rven for Senator in
the last Legislature. Virginia cannot have suffered so
great derelicton of principle, abandon tho loy
standing she has nob maintained ever since the time
Oi CROMWELL TO descend to the ranks Of her old oppo-
nents, the Federalists newly ycept Wings The truth
Is prejudice and hatred for the President has wrougt mn
Tue feelings OF many to such pitch Of frenzy that rec
less o principles long cherished they throw themselves
INTO the ranks of the foe and battle apans their former
hpra