Richmond enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1815-1867, 1840-03-21

s. more moment, that he friends Of graduai abolition
" shomd remain united amongst MemSeir"s, than that
" Mr. Prestons amendment (by the way this gentle
" man is the Jthig candidate in the Senatorial
" District of Montgomery, &c, for the Senate OF Viz
gina,) should be adopted, that any scheme Should
" nO,r be adopted. But, mark the prediction the large
. stakeholder WILL at last BE- left alone to fight the battle
" lie will be the u only person MT convinced hdt SId
rCryisa hatno community flourish ander us
" crushing md annihiiang mcght-atto toieratc IL is
" 10 shear Itrgina hcr strength, and fna0y make her
" The hcrer Of GOOD md dra,ccr Of Vutcr to The
Pocertul States mhich approach her border. Now,
doubtless Gen Harrison Will endorse these opinions
very sound and in happy harmony with the sentiments
avowed by himself ut Chevlot Ohio I'm 1889, Mr..
Peasants hoped TO The day when Hirgina sua
should not shine Virginia slave, while in year
after, hrs friend the General expressed the hope, that
he might 1--we to the day when ia North american
sun should not shine slave: the phanthropc feel
ngs of Gen. Harrison being expanded than those
OF Mr. Peasants whose heart then longed for abolition
an prgfntn at no remote day.
Now, IT suits th- purposes Of your party to assai Mr.
Mcdowell as an Abotonist desire to know when
the Wing party refused to vote for Wing, whe
Their he is an Aboltonist not. VIII you Mr..
Peasants deny that Mr.. Samuel Mcdowell Moore Of
Rockbridgc thorough going Aboltonist in 1892
and that yonr party have since tried vain to elect
him the place of Mr.. Craig, the present membrr;-
And who is Mr.. Charles James Faulkner of the Virgo
MIA Senate but " hg-a flaming Abolitionis in ls32
might be named but il is unnecessary. By the way,
let suggest to the Wing the proprcty of enqurimg
whether lis ally, Mr.. VIM c. Rives, did not while
in France write letters TO Virginia. advocating the abo
lition of slavery. Such charge publicly made in
the newspapers, and the writer has never its truth
cOntroverlfd at any time.
Trmpora mutaatar, et IN Ills.
In 1886 You all proessed TO be excessively alarmed
about Mr. Van Burcn's views to Abolition Then,
you aud the Wing predicted, that his election to the
Van Buren declare Incorporating hostility to aboli
ton in the District; IN vain did he declare that the
Constitution prohibited Congress from interfering with
slavery the States You denounced and voted against
him. but fortunately for the country, your hostility
frutcss He was elected and, in his Inaugural Ad.
dress, announced his fixed resolution to veto any bill
upon the subject Whatever you profess, your hearts
will nvountarily acknowledge, that he and his friends
in Congress have stood by the South and sustained
slavery with unwaverIng patriotism. His conduct has
belrd predictions upon this, as upon other sub
ects yet you striving 10 turn him out and place in
the Presidency man who has avo"cd himself in favor
of the emancipation of yonr slaves, and regards the OBJ
lect and dear TO his heart-a man. who voted
Tor the high Tariff Of lS2S, without nsructons-who
supported the administration of j Q. Adams, through
thick and thin, and friendly to the admin stratum
of his ilihcr-a man. who has gone the whole length
the subjected Internal lmprovtment-wno IS III Ia
vor Of distributing the proceeds Of the public lands
among the States, when he knows that the inevitable
effect must be, augmentation of the Tariff, winch
he is willing TO abandon on "'rhrn grass Sha gro,c
IN HE streets Of .NDrtok md CharieSona politician,
who admits the constitutonalIty of Bank, and who
If elected at all must be elected by those who have
been and now the ardent and strenuous advocates
of such an institutional man. who has recommended
Mr. Webster s speeches, as containing doctrines, and
whom (mirabic dc;uJ you and ''the little Expungcr
have safely discovered be s'thc true Democratic
d;date - II Cen Harrison be ..the true Democratic
CANDIDATE, pray Heaven in its mercy deliver our
country from such Democracy. II he be 4 Democrat
then you all have sadly mistaken the creed of Demo
crazy, else Mr.. jefferson did; and for one, not
yet prepared to believe, that Mr. Rvcs or you under
stand Democracy, well the lllusrious sage Of
Monticello. Mr.. Rives having deserted his own and
the true Democratic party, seeks 10 throw dust into
the eyes of the people, and conceal his aposacy by
saying Gen. Harrison is "the true Democratic candl-
date. And by the way, it seems that all of you
getting tired of the name of Wing, and wish to be bap-
Izcd again. You originally the Federal party;
then, the National Republican party; then, the Wing
party and failing TO obtain what you desire, the
Summum 60num, TO wit, power, under that flag, you
are now clubbing yourselves as the "Democratc Wing
party" THIS name is becoming quite fashionable;
and the Wings Of Washington City have appointed
committee Of seyenty-sIx, with General Jones at the
head and they pleased to call themselves ssthe Re-
publican Committee of 70 Bless me, how you ap.
pies do swim. If you fail to humbug and mslead the
people by trick, then you resort to another. eve
of Mr.. Pleasans's /" Chameleon Richmond Wing" He
once had Constitutional flying at the head OF his
paper, and preiXed to the word owing, but suppose
M thought he had supported so many unconstitutional
measures that it out OF the question for him pro-
frss to be unconstitutional Wing, while he had al
most invariably advocated Federal men and measures
The word Unconstitutional was standing rebuke of
his political susan ntolcrabie eyp.sorc, which he
could no, long bear to behold and which finally fell
victim to the 'Expunge.
The Editors Of the Wing, with modesty which is
highly characteristic, and with the usual decency Of
their parzan leaders, have been pleased to denonnce
the Republicans of this and other States MS "Iocofocos
sRorucs and Rnyasts, "hard-tiscd and huge-paw
Democrats; and lastly, "the spoilers" Wings of
high character for intelligence and honor have stopped
so low indulge IN such slang, when speaking Of
those who happening to think differently from them,
have not hesitated 10 support Mr.. Van Burens adml
nistration cordially, independently and zealousy Such
language tend only TO exasperate without convincing
ntimdating your political opponents and those who
permit themselves TO indulge in 1t, fail, sooner
LATER receive the contempt and the of those to
whom such epithets applied, as well as of every in
tclligent and unprejudiced mind
The Editors of the Wing have long since rendered
themselves ridiculous by their abuse and vulgar
busterng and surely you need not desire to share with
them that odium which properly attaches 10 them,
Editors of one of the rockies and vulgar prints
that ever dsgraccd North America. / am happy 10
know, that very many of the most intelligent men in
your ranks decidedly dsapprove of the Of the
Wing: and it is matter of regret, that all OF you
should not admonsh Mr.. Peasants and his coadutor
to amend their own lives, politically before they
launch out their anathemas against their enemies.
have asserted, that your leading organ, the Ric!-
mond Wing, has advocated Bank of the Y. States;
Internal Improvements by the Federal Government;
protective Tariff: Notification, and the Snb-lreasu-
~; and will add Abolition. 1t has moi only ad-
vocaed every one of these measures, but It has also
opposed every one of them. Let the Richmond Wing
dare to deny the justice of these charges and call tor
the proof The Editors shall then have it, taken, re-
batim et Etcrdtim, from their own editorial articles.
Thank God, my magazine is well supplied with the
weapons which they themselves have furnished and II
thew challenge and desire continuation of the war,
they are welcome all the fame they can win in the
contest To them and TO you, am not personality
but politically hostile; and if speak plainly, do
50, because the crisis demands and requires every
man who processes particle of patriotism to come to
the rescue too party man, because hclievc
great principles cannot be sustained without party
panization and cooperation. Thus thin king, | am,
nevertheless of the opnion that both of the great par
ties which agitate our country, too much I'M
der the influence of party spirit. claim exemp
lion The indu nrrh,ns