Lynchburg Virginian. [volume] (Lynchburg [Va.]) 1829-185?, 1836-08-25

io'u-dna "heh II more recently declared that
North Carolina was welded 10 Van Buren, Rat,
according to our simple arilhnctic,n neiller can
an Buren, he elected by the States. We lhrn rc-
tort the query OF the Enquirer mol an election
ov the House the direct result of hccpine him in
the field And, if there be any Thing real in the
approximations OF the Enquirer, should the friends
OF ' an not Withdraw h'ai And why notl Is
not Judge White an orthodox politician, the En-
quircr itself being the judgcs If he be, why not
drop Van, and let the battle be fought between
Harrison and White Oh, no. This would not
suit the Enquirer. An election by the House is n
very dangerous allar-but ;le Enquirer, we ven
ture to say, would sooner hazard all the evils and
penis OF such a contingency Than to surrender its
iavorite, although Judge White, ON all the great
questions involved in the issue, comes decidedly
nearer its creed than the man whom it supports
And does the Enquirer think TO exact from the
Wings sacrifice which it is not prepared to make
itself Or does it think TO trgh,cn them into the
support OF its iavorile, by continually holding up
scarc-crow, which evidently has no real terror
for itself If it does, it rcckons without its
host"
Again--the Enquirer asks
What opinion are we TO form Of party, which
frames IA double, uncommitted ticket, for the pur-
pose of ca ching gulls on both sides of the noun
tains Asking the people to vote blindiod for
their Chief Magisiratc-and making il matter of
Indifference, which of the two candidates they pre-
fer, though both have protested the most contra
dctory prime pies ON almost every great question
which has been submitted to their decision Is it
no Inc buubuu I,.lnxinn trirl md
sion that has ever attempted upon the minds of
the People 7"
We care very little for the " opinion of,he
Enquirer, seeing that it has most happy facility
of changing its opinions, according to cireumsian-
ccs. 1t once denounced Gen. Jackson as a
cursc"-i, now wor>hips him as an idol. 1t once
eulogzed Hugh l.. White aud Gen. Harrison to
the skics-it is now in the ranks of their enemies.
And we might 90 through the calendar of our dis
tineushed men, and the files of the Enquirer, since
1904. will show thar they have been alternately
dciicd and denounced just as they happened to
Cooperate with or to thwar the views of ll,ai Jour
nal Nor is it worth while 10 defend the policy of
the double, rncommitted ticket" 1t is both
| single and committed in one thing-and that is,
Imposition to Ian BWtn-and every Anti-N AN
Buren, NAV consistently vote for it, We might, if
it were necessary, show that there is very wide
discrepancy between the opinions expressed by
Gen. Harrison in his letter to Shcrrod Williams,
Esq. and those avowcd and acted upon by Judge
White. But there were, the discrepancy Is not
greater than that existing between Van Buren, at
time and Van Buren, al another II ours IS a
- IniIllp Iicl, pt''--iIlpr irL )
pledged to support " double, uncommtted" man
=" two single gentlemen rolled into one'-a man
who has belonged to all parties aud deserted all
WHO has, at one time, expressed opinions which
he has renowned at others, and advocated mra-
>ures of policy Which he has afterwards opposed
with the proverbia vchemencc ola rencgadc--a
political chameleon, shifting his hues with the po-
>iiion in which he has been thrown, and playing
with principles children do with toys,-cherSh-
inc them today, only to trampe upon them to-
morrow. II either White or Harrison be elected,
they will either do, what Gen. Jackson promised
reform the character ofthc government, reduce
its expenditures, aud confne its operations within
It's constitutional orbt--that is all the people de-
sire, and it is more than they anticipate from
the election of Van Buren,.
Passing over two or three of the Enquirers in
,errogatorics which sufficiently answered in
the foregoing remarks, we come 10 the following !:
Is he (Gen. lIarrison) not the friend of Inter-
nal Improvement in every variety and every
tent p
We answer, No 4; and the Enquirer must know
it. SO far from it, in his letter 10 Mr.. Williams, Gen.
Harrison expressly deprecates the evils which must
result from the exercise of the internal improve
menl power by the general government, and refers
to the policy of returning the surplus money the
several States, the best means of prevent
ing its exercise, and constituting powerful
gumcnt in favor of distributing the surplus. And
the Enquirer makes Gen. Harrison's opinions
in favor of thus dsposing of the surplus revenue
an argument against him. we may be permitted to
say, that Mr. Jefferson himself, whilst PRESIDENT
in one of his Messages to Congress- express Y
commended 10 Congress the 4" partition" Ito
use his own strong Iangnage,) among the several
States, Of whatever money might accumulate in the
treasury beyond the necessities of the federal 90
vcrnmen,. Are Jcgtrsoaian doctrines out Of fash
ion at the Enquirer Office
But to cap the climax, the Enquirer adds
Mr. CLAY has inst declared for Grn. Udlyi-
son-What think YOU of the endorscr ~
Why, that he is one ofthe s. oblest men that