Richmond enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1815-1867, 1839-10-01

Respectfully, COMMITTEE.
The Warrenlon Times of Saturday says that" Thomas
NJ Amber Esq of this county (Fanquier Ya.) lately
said $40 coo worth Of Malticaus Trees the produce OF
less than haJ an acre
The Late Louisa Dinner
We lay before renders pretty punppnt criticism,
the sayings and doings the ind Wings
who administered public dinner TO MI Rives some
DAYS past The shot Is fred among the whole cnvey
and il is ten bul Of the wounded pigeons
discovered by their hullprng Since The Star PINNED
its sriclures The public have been admitted more behind
the curtain, md have thus had opportunity Of see
ing the pr0digious speech of the Table Orator IL fills
twu broaGsidrs Of his hppce Charottesve and
by The form in which il is printed is intended To be
broad through the Commonwealth. II is The last
spasm Of published eloquence, which is likely to he
made before the Senatorial eleclion-and MIR Rves has
the e(nre pn all the cunning ri bis hand upon tBut
we are free to say thai although parts "f il specious
enough il is destitute Of The fierce of argument and
lidy Of principles which necessary 10 reco'nmend
any politician his cause TO the People OF Virginia
There is besides very little original IL is principally
the eehn OF his former Address There s the same de-
velopmsnt OF his views upon the Sub rrasury-ihe same
exaggerated snphsms which first publicly indicated his
settled and porlenous antpathy TO the Administration
upon the question of The sale of the Bonds OF the u S
/ Bank He meets what he calls count in The Bill OF
Indictment against him, in relation To Crittenden BILL
and then hp proceeds to more general matters which
will all be duly crili csed hereafter
The whole spirit of the Speech is characterised 10y
tha, "juag!rry" and "pocal casuistry, Is hch he is
pleased charge upon the Enquirer and it's school
Mr. Rves blnks the true question tie mIsrrpfesenis
the real p,6ctiruL issue which is at this time before the
country !" |, is no; The Sub Treasury, upon Inch he
displays species Of mcnomana-lt Is not whether he
has displayed any independence in his opposition 10 this
measure; or whether he has been prosecuted for that
course MIR R,ves knows better. He knows, that It
he had shown the proper spirit towards his old friends,
and Ia the Administration. which maintains all his own
propssed constitutional principles in opposition 10 the
! Wings and their candidate. that hn would have
| pitI he he
have been re elected Senior Of the United States;
and that it not his SubTTeasury position, lot
| the embiliered spirit which he has shown towards
his old friends; his obvious Abandonment Of their;
his apparent desertnn his ancient enemies; his will
ngnesa take Office from them, and his not TO he mis-
taken aiiliaon the Whigs, which have occasnned
their want of confidence in him. The true issue is not
hat he states it But il is this: Martin Van Buren, and
his measures as Henry Clay and his measures? The
former with whnm he differs only on one Pnint-an
| the latter with whom he has differed every great
Constitutional principle including The Bank Of the U.
States itself On this issue, 1t is now obvious thai Mr.
! Rves will not heartily cooperate with the Republican
party He good tells, that unless Mr. Van Buren,
abandons The Sub Treasury, he will oppose him-and
even If he were TO abandon il, Mr. Won Buren, Is
not sure oil his support Mr. Rives knows that Dir.
Van Buren, will not abandon it, VIII he abandon his
own Pc, Bank General Depose system, But has not
AR Van Buren, much right to adhere to wnt he be.
eves be the best measure, as Mr. Rives has to stick
To hs-which has also been rejected by Congress, and
is more unpopular With th" nation than either the Sub
! Treasury the National Bank The ground therefore,
which Mr. r takes against MIR v Is cuts Inn OFT entIrey
from all support ofhis election his adm nistrntinnand
| like frank and honest man. he had het'er aVo" IL al
once VIII he soy with his idus Acho'es (ScDalor F"n
aine) that is early 10 proclum his selection: The
time is pressing when every man mus, boldly take hs
stand II only last week TINT The " hIgs mel ~
Stanton to orga nize for the eeron-ondn sixty days
more, the Harrisburg Convention meets to make nc
minaiion Mr. Rves would le of his cre.:-
| i, by saving now what his friend MIR. famndge did
twelve months ngo: and nvow .uncompromlsng hosii-
| uy 10 the re election of Marlin Van Buren,. 10 take
any other course is only to pursue the juggling casuis.
| try which he charges upon others. How IDLE 10 charge
! upon those who differ with the Administration upon
this single question, That they prefer The election offs
friends TO that OF the Wings with whom they differ upon
81 many a,ore important questions! How idle 10 say,
ths, the Bank Of the S. may be defeated without the
votes Of Mr. v b s friends, by his own vote : How
long if dppendPd upon This curious casulst would he.
that we should have the aid of this Veto Take Mr. KS
course-reuicp he does, in the triumph OF the wings
not oniy for member of Congress- bot even for an Abo
linns, Governor Rner) and how long would II De, be
fore Mr. Van Buren, would be showed out-H. Clay put
in his pace-the old Virgnin doctrines, to which Mr.
R professps attachment now, ns Judge White did IN
1871 would be- secuted out of pracice-and Wing ny
nasty with National Bank in lis train, fastened up
on Old Virginia Such would inevitably be the result
of Mr. Rvess cnsustry, and his juggling course-but
| 10 Acr THE lsl Of the Louisa dinner:
(From the VuLicy Star.)
THE RlVES DINNER.
"The Dinner given by the Wings and Conservatives
of the County, oil LOUISA came Oh nC'
sordance with the promise contained IN our last Pappr
we now proceed TO the comments on the speeches deli
yered-thp letters read-lhe various toass given IN by
the motley group II seems that there were politicians
of al! sorts Blue Light Hartford Con-
ven,ion Federalis,s Wings proper. and that Spartan
bnpd who claim all the RePubIicansm al The virtue
all The conss,ency-a who have been chrispned Con
servatves The guests present were Mr. hVes, John
M Patton and that little great man who has made so
much noise in the Legislature and elsewhere Nc Sena
tor Fonaine Each of these gentlemen addressed The
Company and as have heen expected, repeated all
all their former decar abou, their own consistency
and the hor,id Inconsistency of Mr. Van Buren, and his
suppor,ers-denounced party and partizan eeIng-dis
coursed very grand"quen,y about Republican pIncl
ples-eulogize their frmness and independence
and, 10 cap all, proclaimed themselves the only true
friends of their counys rights and their country oesl
interests -,
The speech Of Mr. Rives reported but from The
notices of il which have seen in the Madssoniah
and Who we are led the conclusion, that It's wnoie
DRIFT was 10 show that w. C. Rires OF the great
es, and best as well Of the most Pefsetut'o
aud endered of all The public who are now upon
| the political stsgp-and that of al! the public men VINO
hav bee spoken Of for the Senate OF the S'aes' ne
alone was worthy OF the sation-We are ioc 100, 'hat
ne skinned the corrupt crew at Washington, whose
revolutionary and designating doctrines are bringing
oud