Richmond enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1815-1867, 1840-06-26
Results Of Democracy and Federatsm-WAGEs OF

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FOR u ENQUIRER.
Results Of Democracy and WAGES OF
LABOR.
Whilst in most sections of the Union, the people arr
complaining of hard times, and the wrecks OF individual
ruin are 10 be seen on every sidc-whilst each MAJ
brings US the tidings of some appalling fraud or trenien
dous explosion Of a bank or other corporate company
and whist the State governments are, many OF them
staggering under the weight of still accumulatIng III
debteGness, it is pleasing to reflect that the Fedora
Government presents a brilliant contrast to TINS gloom
scene.
As a nation, we can proudly boast that we are FREE
from debt. Twelve years ago this picture was reversed
Then the Federal Government was III debt, and tn
people, the corporations, and the State Government
free from debt.
These strange and opposite results have arisen from
! systems OF policy, as opposite as the results themselves
The Fedora! Government has been conducted b. ID"
lnocratic administration on Democratic principles
whilst during the same time the affairs Of too many
individuals, corporations and State Governments hay,
been administered on Wing principles. The latte
have been initiating the bubble speculation till it burs,
rearing up an enormous credit system, which has 4
length fallen upon lis builders and crushed them am!ds
is ruins; whilst the former, cutting itself adriit from
the credit system, avoided all speculation and practiset
economy. Now, amid the general distress, our Ma
tional Government presents a glorious illustration o
the advantages of a strict adherence TO the Coustitu,
liDN, ana al lNtplinIFCdH pThutI anu SlIlIlltllN. va
admiration is still further excited wien "" reflect tia
nj the same time the Government has so happily rio
itself of debt, and even distributed a surplus among
the States. 1t has also been daily drawing less in the
shape OF taxes from the hard earnings of the people
Never, since the DAYS Of Jefferson have the taxes i'm
posed by the General Government been so light as now
All his is owing to the election from Office of Adam,
and his Federal clique-tllc election OF Jackson ant
Van Buren,, and consequent ascendancy Of Democratic
principles. Ia Adams ; time the Government had al
ready been infected with the specializing mania-ln,
tcrnal improvements on 4 vast scale were contemplated
and troops Of engineers were prrvading the country
4 heavy Tariff, Tie hand. maiden of the system, hat
been passed, and stood ready 10 supply the means e
conduct a road 10 the Rocky Mountains, or erect u lighI
house to the skics.-Nisionary schemes of Improve
mrnt had even been approved of by Committees of Con
gross 10 the amount If two hundred millions of dollars
when the NiaySville Veto put stop to the system, anc
dispcllcd The golden dreams of its authors.
Yet the people of this country are now urged to TURF
out this Administration, whose incumEcnts have beer
instrumental in producing this amount OF good, and tc
put into Office the very men WHO would have had tho
General Government pursue the same mad career o
heavy taxation, extravaganza and speculation, which
has produced such bitter fruits for those who have prac
tised it. Aye the very man, who IN the Senate OF
Ohio solcmnly proposed to postpone the payment o.
The public debt, with a view oil encouraging moHnt"c
iurcS. as well as executing lnterna! improvements!
Bv opposing Tie Tariff, Internal Improvement, ana
IIt BilIN, anu ny CullI'p Il'h' IN = = - az
The Government has excited the combined hostility o
all the chartered wealth Of the nation. One common
interest has lcagurd together all those, who ENJOY spc
cial privi!cgcs-al! those who live IN luxury and IDLE
ness on means rxtorled by partial legislation, from the
industry Of the mass of The people. They have called
to their aid, too, the fanatic sects of anti Masons and
Aho!itinnists-i tit allies for those who wage the war OF
Privilege against Liberty.
To YOU, the mass of the People who ask for no spe
cal privileges, who have no sinister pecuniary m;e'
a a.. l.at x,.1n o. n
alone can the Government look for support-all you
ask at the hands of Government is 10 protect you IN TIT
cmjnvIncnt cs the fruits Of your own labcnr, and I" tn,
Won no more thar is necessary for the support OF az
economical administration. lou would not nave w
vcrnmcnt interfere 10 reguiute ,""' ;.i~-'"'"i PURSUITS
10 raise or Geprcss prices, nor 10 make money Tor you
You know. that such is no; The proper business Of so
vcrnmcnt, and that all experience proves that sic'
interference IN the private GgdrS q m'H IS "'""gS a
tcad,d rjM rHtnO"S consequences.
In the past conduct of the Administration you hav
the best guaranty of lis future impartIali,y; and impair
TALLY is all you ask.
In the noi,lcd host OF the Opposition there is no
one banner raised, whose inscription does not porten'
hostility 10 EQUAL RIGHTS AND Misunderstanding on
( Captain who is not distinguished for consistent Fede
ralism or recent desertlon.
Believe not this privileged army, when they wouh
lull Won into security with the Syren song oil hlghe
prices for labor. Depend upon il, your labor is bcs
PAID for when you get all the pay yourselves. So'
Wi! not INA II easier 10 support l'uiS''N'H III" y''
families, when 4 rag nobility is quartcred upon you
industry, living in ld!cncss and luxury upon part O
those fruits earned by the sweat Of your brows.
In China it is a maxim, and a wise one too, "ttlat 10
every IDLE citizen there is one who suffers from want.
The Wings have reversed this MAXIM, and are contin"
ally preaching from the Press and the Senate Chambe
the new doctrine, that ''the more numerous the lnXU
rious oilers in q community the better oil that comlnu
ntv is Ia other words, that labor is better pal
when there are 4 thousand banks, with their hundre'
thousand stockholders, officers, &c., living upon the Ia
barcr. l,ran when the laborcr has 10 work only for hun
self. This doctrine has moi, even the merit OF orrginaI
". having been obviously borrowed from In" lndra
practice of taking a log of wood on their shoulders I
rest themselves when tired with walking. These mo
dpst bank gentry now propose to mount your back
assuring YOU that it VIII tighten your burdens: but 20
will tell them, you have yet 10 learn, that "paTt q
mankind we're born with saddles on their backs, an
the other part booted and spurrcd to ride them
RANDOLPH OF ROANOKE.