Richmond enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1815-1867, 1839-02-07

a,i u.c, il.n .tstt upon truth. We n=hL then have
abb 10 appreciate NE J"sness OF "r nj"
In-ut ih.i l. llis not satisfy. II must Proceed
iron. .i.lng ness 10 tie convinced For my own
part hesitate AFFIRM that this dues sa.siy, II
must be irnuI willingness TO be decelved
h. writer ~ determined 10 Consider MI lIIVes as
victim Offered up, By The Sub Treasury portion o Tie
Administrator, party for opposing the Executive 10
dr-rvedly unpopular which, was ce"ounc
ID hy Grne!ai Jackson and The whole hrpubcah parry
IN I-Il. wncn Genera! Gordon brought 1t FORWARD -
MS view oil the may be met by two oosefVau"hs
The first Is, the Administration party are not dI-pos
ed prescribe MT Rves for dtt nee win ,he
Executive That subrc, That assumption IS d beg
gng al the question. They say they have we'll !ound.d
Tears that Mr. kvrs IS altogether ulIruated from his
party; and they punt 10 his butter speeches. to his un
friendly attacks IL his political associations to hs
Philadelphia letter, To his Conservative Pamphlet ms
non cnmma!!sin the Presidential e!eciIon and to
the w-born zeal OF leading W rigs III his avur Tor
evrdp"crs uf re fac, Prove them by that testimony
rhIch Tie nGtarc II tie case ptuniy udmJ, That they DO
hm injustice. rnd, nay HE Tor II they will De rraGy 10
pau ihe wrong. But IS "A Democratic Republican
reilly crduuus to believe that The hIgs would
suppcrl MIR Rres, # Mev uei aS.UTtd lie would
Il, uceiu,ii aiIlae with them What cafe they Tor mere
opposition 10 the Sub Treasury, u he is unchanged IN
his Eos. resistance all The other obu"xiuus nea
sures of Mr. Clay: Let allow 10 the Wings only
reasonable portion Of intelligence political cors'sen.
Cyl and the bare fact Of their disposition 10 cont.
hir RIyrs III the Senate, ground al least OF SuSPt-
ctDR if pregnant proof OF oposacy: The time was,
be- jus. reasons for dsiru: but now, when all The Wing
pr, ssts from Maine Georgia camoIous Tor MIR.
kvrs election, grsvry told that his clam to
continued confidence vi the whole kepuc!Ican par
y" IS not even to be doubted
The other observation called for by The above pre-
srnlrd by "A Democratic Republican, respects The
charge Of Inconsistency upon those no opposed urn
GOfGun proposition IN lea. and are no" 10 favor Vi
The principle ii Dy"rce. his cnorg" Ike the Cuckoo
note has Den repeated from leader 10 follower,
Thai Eeup!e 10
Evr~s particular friends forget, hat as 10 one feature OF
The Sub IigsUry scheme, aud that, To hun and them,
the most uOno1mus, Qhe sptc!" .satUie.) We The
humble advocates of this Crservedly unpopular m,a
sure political lesson from his celebrated speech
January lcjl ha- lately been most conCusIS,iy
shov.nJy "A Western FIrginan" Bot. passing tins BY
wrrr Is the inconsistency OF opposing Gen. Gordon
propos,ti I-;i ana Of beng satisfied that
ca led or by the public interests: At that unr
State banks were m successful operation and n"bpcy
dreamed "' lhrIr suspending payments The m-asu!e
proposed by Gen GORDON, had not been considered by
the people; very Little discussed before II de
cte and believed to br !ntenCed 10 eTbGrtass The
Administration fiscal operations Under these
cumslahcrs, il vas rejected. But, IN ISL the Banks
stopped spsc!e payments, the public credit almost
destroyed and became necessary 20 call special
s"n Of I"ngI"ss, al great expense ~ The Treasury. to
devise way and means 10 preserve the Government from
bahs rupcy. Then the season OF reflection, end
al crnyicnn "n the minds of many, that although lie
banks igl be ultimately solvent, yet that from their
therefore, a. unht dep"sares Of the pubic money
# they iirled altogether. This Il change of OPT
nlon certainly but where IS The political inconsistency:
| employ machine (hc State banks which greatly
prefer to annnrr. uhr S Bank ana laud and mag
niY its nrSs and unwilling change ipr any
un;red exprrIu-nt In the midst Of nv anucIpatIuns
Of is eXCciiencP II tails SUDDENLY 10 pieces
and because viii depend upon it no longer, my neigh
hnr 81 CUlpabe hCkencss. and INSISTS shall
lry 1t aran. This Is The 'hpad and front o my Ui-nd
he DI he cn of
Is reucaIcd with such ''i'efa'inn, and no more
But the letter Of Mr.. Rr-s which /. TO silence oil
CAVALIERS, and disspate every doubt entertained by the
Smb Treasury party Of that gen,irnans tftcndshp for
III, administrator we'll vIndIcale "iiS Cdlu H. he
cuuiInurd confidence OF The uhO'e Republican party.
lis correspondent informs hnr that runUrs are IN cir
cuaii"n ~ his disposition 70 affiliate with the Wings
that he counting thrI favor and that 10 the
" ue. he lad d. clarrd himself IN favor "i Mr. Clay
This mode q" putting thu enquiries certainly leaves great
la To Mr.. Rirrs and he has very odrliy aVailfd
himself OF it, And what does he say: Dues he deny
that hp d. p0stG To affiliate with llr W hgs-0r That
he has cmurird their iagGror even That he had not de-
cared himself for Mr. Clay? No-fle says nothing Of
The kind. except by implication and inmuendo Ills
words ara " The you speak ot o that class
U! HrthfCHS, OF which II has brrn my fortune i"r the last
two years more 10 b. almost necessarily the theme
He then alluGes the different Of the Sub.
Treasury party. aud Of sume Wing wGi'rs and hopes
iI,Sr rUinduictory interpretations =" his Conduct
might serve Ito destroy each other. dnG 10 prove ("hc
is rfur) that vii! 20 with neither the Wing The Sub
Treasury party, when believe either ni them 10 he
wrong Now can any man on earth make out from these
general definitions, whether Mr. is his lime more
disposed 10 affiliate with The Wings than the Adninstra
ton parry or with The latter than The former; He will
20 wuh neither, when he thinks th' m III The wrong
and Mr.. Clay or alr. Wright, strung party men as
try are, would say, aud every other man who does n"
wish 10 r branded Us political rogue But he goes On
add ain regard 10 the Presidential election. which is
10 lake place two years hence, sta'ed 10 you very
frankly, that thought would be improper for me,
standing IL the position d." 10 c. mint myself to any 81
the candidates. have neither d0ae tHeRdCd Ia do,
ang L,ny Inconsistent wi it, Now mark this phraseo.
lrsy LEARNED the school of dplumacy. Mir. Rves
dues say he has al this lime preference Of
candidate 10 anothernor even that he has not made
known such pirerr but that he has not committed
himself lie thinks stGndiBg IN tie pnSuiCn he doeS,
(wha position; tina, of Senator from Virginia , wUuld
b. Improper Tor him to commit himself. Now thrre
such reason assigned before for n"n.commal!sm
the subject Of the Presidential election The
mitmrnt OF which he speaks, means nothing more, as
prove, in my former communication, than The expires
sion OF favorable opinion for the other candi
date at tie time chCn ii is uttered Such c0nmItme IS
have been made by the most distinguished men IN
the country, Un all former occasions They will be
made the next winter by a legislative caucus. They
have been already male by conventions III some OF
the States. There is scarcely Senator or Rrpresen
talive IN Congress, or member Of our own LPgsIa-
ture, leading politician in the country. whose sem
trTens on the subject not avowed and known -
Aud yet Mr. Rves, for fear suppose that i! they
favorable In the present incumbent oil the Presidential
Chair, il "may encourage him in which he
would otherwise fear press. and "nuIlfj his op.
position 10 the SubT'asury, thinks improper to
,Hn himself HIS 'pnstlon may render 1t dangerous TO
his prospects OF political advancement, 10 commit
himself but Tor the soul Of me- understand why
IL would be improper in any other sense. Unless all
usage all CUSTOM ali former example, has been wrong
II Is not improper.
Mr. Rvrs then goes say: IL have desired plan,
our Conservative STANDARD on higher ground lha, OF
pJiaripic, not devotion men, Here again oi
Those plausible generaties which will venture 10 say
has been IN the mouth of every who deserted
parry "PrncIp!es, not men, is their hackney ed
to In only is this sphosm of any value. II
public servants desert principles, they Ought be aban-
doned themselves; for private attachments ought Ia
Yell to The public good. But have no mode Of car
ryng out our principles but through the agency of men;
and support, and commit ourselves to men, who are
the best representatives of our principles Who cares