Richmond enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1815-1867, 1839-03-28
TEE "a NSERH.iTLL,E ADDRESS


part in peace.
TIE CONSERVATIVE ADDRESS
We Law before readers this morning t%o very long
papcrs which have fallen upon columns like sort
Of avalanche. ! hey sweep almost every Thing else
away; and leave scarcely an inch of ground for The
most meagre comments Ii was an accidental conJunc-
lurr that NJ PrHdiron SpCtC and the Conservative
Address came out iogeher-bul they now, as it
were cheek by pw il will be well FOR our readers
10 knock their head, and compare their tone and
principles together The paTison will 10 shed
no little light upon the merits OF each AS 10 the Orator
Of RappalIannock, We will be content TO dismiss him
with single remark. We hope, that his compliment
at the close Of The Speech will be found correct,
than his prediction. Upon that subject, We remain IN
shaken Every account that aches us from he country
that the good People Of Virginia ARE uP, and will
do their duty ~ May In that event, shall escape
from the exile 10 81 Helena 10 which he Wing Prophet
hos been gracious 10 condemn Let them take
care the People do not conSign them 10 The es
tiny which they have figured cut for the Republican
party. 1t will require more rgor than sleeps in his
tongue aud power than exists in the Wing presses
aided they mny be by those Simon PurrS, The grand
Sanhsdrm OF the ultra Conservatives and their PTtry
Council IN this City, TO carry the State. These last
pre politicians 10 vain direct their Pahan arrow at
the "unprncIped pf,y leaders and scurrous psrtizan
Editors, they courteously pleased to call them;
but il will be Neither the Wings their vir.
iua allies carry he Stale. Beshrew our hearts -!
Can they really expect drug The sagacuus people Of
Virginia 10y such speeches and such addrcsses: No
no We conure friend OF Rappahannock not to al
tempt to haliUo before he has got out OF the woods
Bat what shall say OF the address: We would
chcerluy address ourselves TO its sophslca statements
and lis assumed facts; If we had room 10 embrace our
structures But the whole paper takes much space
ii is wordy and windy as II is said, one OF the Con
seIvulives has styled it
Prom on food. extended long and large,
Lay I"Giing rood
that we have room for any commensurate comments
We would speak with all due respect Of It's authors and
its signersbut constrained to say, that the errors
wf.ch they have committed, stood in need Of much
ADLER paper, will not say, 10 justify their acts, but TO
e.,rnuale their misconduct They will find other Re.
rrcrS perhaps, expose lis sophis,res are lore.
ed Ia compress present remarks into nutshell.
The Address comes from small band Of FOURTEEN
II We were 10 believe them. they were The only Simon
pures Of the land, before whom 1.-THE enlightened viz
tuous and patriotic people of Virginia, ultimately to
bog down. But their fate Is Ia be read in the pro-
pherc words Of Major funcey-"l for ore, Mr. Presi
dent Dnly protest against giving III my adhesion 10
party, whose principles and motives Of action are un
known 10 me- and whose light is under buSEe!i and
uLo must sam driadie party into inSigH!fcdnce
Yet this dninutve band, not on claim 10 be boiler
and than body else: bul in the recent cleo
tons they expected to control the other great par
ties Of The Commouwtah-to arbitrate all questions Of
peace 10 convert the whole People OF Sirgl.
MIA tdeir anon ous faith, and bring them at last 10
! their peculiar standard. Ore thing, at least, s plain
that, like other small bodies they make great deal If
noise They .uI! Of Professions Of sound aud fury,
siguiiying nothing.
Another thing is also evident. We state il with
great regret aud we doubt whether Of the Sgnrrs
Of The whole extent which this Address will
conduct them. II they 20 on in the path hch tiIaces
them they will he lTrcsislIhy swept into the Nhiil
pool of Whggery. How it be otherwise: There
but two great parties in this county, The RepubII-
cans and the Federa!Is,s. third distinct party is
monster--lt cannot long exist; and Il must "dEin6c
into Bsgnifcance. But udgng from the face Of this
paper alone, how do lis political aimilIes tend Do these
gentlemen contradict The report, that Mr. RIves was not
friend OF the present Adnlnslraon:-Nr r. is now
private ci,Izrn lie is free from those shackes which they
had rdiculously placed around hm-lle need not now
button up his opinions in his dou6etBut do they now
! declare he is friend to the Administration; No-Do
they even say that they themselves lis friends: No
So far from tlhat they express their disposition 10
pause in the besowal Of Uheir) confidence the Ad
minisIra,on Where they express any feeling towards
the two great parties in the country they seem tolean "a.
hcr TO the Wings, than TO The Republicans They speak
with evident pleasure, and in supplementary strain OF
| the Whigs-whst they make not sing lie remark OF The
Republicans, but to blame their and disparnge
! their motives. Even some Of the great landmarks,
winch have hitherto served to distinguish the two parties.
sought 10 be obtea,ed by such remarks % these,
that 1.-The opinion becoming almost universal, that there
is no necessity for the establishment of National Bank
10 regulate lie currency administer the finances OF The
couniry The system Of Internal Improvements by The
! General Government seems, by common consent TO be
dLdndoncd and the controversy about the Tariff for pro
lection has been il is hcred terminated by the celebrated
Compromise Act Of ls3} Are these the prepared
10 battle the grent issues, which now before the
country Are these the politicians to war, might and
main, agans, the Wings Or. is not this language too
well calculated propiiiale the Wigs and 10 court
their support for Mr.. Riyes with whom.these Simon
! Pures are determined "to sink swim
There propositions scattered through this
sophstica address, which we should be prepared 10
flute, il had The space 10 spare for then-We touch
bu, fec Of them.
Why say, that Mr. Masons frie nds could at any time
have decided the contest, when tney themselves could
so much more easily have done it Blu, their modesy
required the mountain 10 60 To hahomet, instead OF Ma
| homet 10 the mountain
Why say there just reason, for the feelings which
were shown for Mr. Rlves-when he kept in the dark;
hen the Republicans could understand him; when
they MIR. Clay taking part for him; when they saw
| the Wings taking him up; The Wing Press urging him,
in order to put down the Administration when the
effect of that would have been to put in MIR.
Clay and give up every great principle for which Viz
GINA had been struggling for years pas II requred no
ghost to have This consequence-and to have an
| swered such an argument as this.
Mr. Rives would have been elected by his own Repub
can friends f they could have but understood his bear
inrs Is not ridiculous then 10 say, that Mr. K was 10
be inundated on account Of his Senatorial lndepend
ence-and his opposition 10 the Sub-Freasury When
/ Mr. Rives first elected he saw nothing am:ss IN
showing his hand. Why should hs scfupe at this
! ime'
Why repeat that large portion Of he s'ra.sced