Richmond enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1815-1867, 1840-11-06

any assembly OF MsSOurians without expressing his
thanks for the honor which they had done him in their
repeated elections to the Senate OF the United States
He had been elected for TWEEN yve consecutive years,
being the longest period for which any American citI-
zen had ever been electedD twenty nj which he had
served and had served as 10 endeavor TO show by
Actions thnn words, his gratitude to the State
which had highly honored him. He had refused all
appointments which would take him out of their
vice. Embassadies departments, had been offered to
him, both by Gen Jackson and Mr.. Van Buren,: ne
might have heen spending his time long SINCE and now
foreign courts, or in department at Washingtoni
he preferred The service of his kind and ndulgen,
constituents and remained III the place TO which they
had raised him. Time had answered the imputation tina,
he had supported Gen Jackson and Mr.. v b. for office
Time had shown that these imputations unbound
ed, and that the of men mt rytrt rgs cou
ict together without bargain, and support each other
without pay. His service had been dsinteresed, 70,
only in his own person, but in that of his relatives
He had quartersd kin of his the public In the
twenty years which he had served in the Senate, and
his friends in power almost all the tne no offices OF
contracts had gone TO his blood. He had asked no.
thing for his KIM in answer to of their applications
for Office he had told them work. and to look to the
people In this, he was not only acting d'snterested
| ly, but giving an example which mis- ht operate for
the public good by checking the passion tor office
which wus becoming violent in country. Besides
declining office, and remaining in the station IN which
the kindness Of his constituents had placed him Mt!
said he had endeavored further TO show ms gratitude
turning all his attention to the appropriate duties Of
his sation-to legslaton-to useful and practical ie
gislation-to making good laws for free people he
had nothing to do with men or with politics, IN the Sc
nate chamber lie made personal partizan speech
es there. Utility was his oblect-good laws lis means
and he had endpavored pass the laws which applied
the affairs of the people, and which were for the public
rood. Actions spoke louder than words, aud by his
actions he had cndeavoed TO show himself grateful te
the State which had conferred upon him the unparalle
I'd honor of quarter OF century OF continuous ser
vice in the American Senate.
Mr.. b. complimentcd the State upon the high cha.
racer which it had gained by keeping SO nearly out Of
debt and preserving Democratic character and above
all upon its increased nority al the August election
He was on the Atlantic board at that time, and wit
messed the frantic exutation with which the Oppose
ton looked to the conquest of Missouri. They were
perfectly of their conquest They believed the
people of the State could never Withstand the new and
| formidable tactics which brought to bear upon
them; that songs and cider, coon skins and gourds
| log cabins in cities and canoes on dry land, barrels
on poles big balls on wheels, and professions with
banners, all irresistible arguments that they
would charm and lead captive THE IGNORANT
MULTIrUDE," and give 10 Federalism lis long desired
triumph over Democracy They believed all this, and
could not restrain the triumphan feelings which the
anticipation inspired The first news confirmed their
hopes; it from the city of ST. Louis; and was i'm
possible TO comprehend that the city of ST Louis was not
the State of Missouri Finally, the full vote in.
Eight thousand majority! Two Thousand for Democracy
more than it got before! Such was the defeat in
stead of the victory, which the coon skin tactics and
hammered professions had brought upon them! The
friends of Democracy rcoiced. The friends Of Missouri
reoiced. Her Senator reoiced. Ii was the joy not OF
victory party, but Of Man over HE attempted de-
gradation the Joy of freemen and Republicans
species novel as was degrading as
demoralzng 1t was nsulting stupid as II was WICK
ed aspeces ofeectioneerng which was buresque up
popular elections contempt of popular intelligence
satire upon form Of government, mockery oil our
Constitution insult and outrage upon the memory OF
its framers This their joy and loud and long was
the applause, universal the praisc-whch was be-
slowed upon the young state for the noble ebuke which
her vote implied She rebuked the authors OF these
tactics-she vndicaied the dignity Of Mas and OF
popular government-she resented the insult which
had been offered TO the people and their government
and she did il in the way becoming freemen-hy an in
creased and overwhelming vote at the polls This was
the cause of the exulting JOY which spread through
every patriot heart at the news OF the Missouri cleo
ton. And it in August, so let it be in Noyem-
ber Another increased and overwhelming vote is
wanted not for the sake of the election but for the
contempt of popular lntcgence-as warning TO the
future repetition Of these tactics and baboon
exhibitions among the people of Missouri.
MIR. B. said II has not been his practice to make pc.
litical speeches. either in his State Others, he
had received and declined above forty invitations oil the
kind in the last six months. He did NJ; consider him
self making speech now, but acting part
al Convention ofthe Democracy of Missouri which
measures TO be discussed and proposed for the
good of the State, and from which action, and beneficial
action, was expected to flow. In what he might say
he should have reference TO men, 10 parzln po
l,tics. He descended Ia personality, faction
in his speeches. He did not vi,uprraie parties
He did not complain oCthe existence ofpntca parties
/ They inherent in the nnure Of free government
They grow out Of freedom of opinion. They exist
ed wherever there freedom-always had-and
forever would. 1t was absurd to condemn them, pre-
posierous complain, just to stgnatize them in The
mass. The mass OF every party was hnnest-so sand
Mr. Jefferson. The mass of every party equally
honest in its intentions, equally sincere in its con
vlcons, equally patriotic IN It's ohlrc's. Not so wit
every individual of the party, aud still less with every
leader These often have selfish and ambitious and
even criminal designs Of their own designs to be
avowed, but to be concealed from the mass and
ed up from view by extravaganza professions for the
public good Time, the great arbiter of all questions
and the only true witness for all men, finally gives 10
every his place. and to every party its due and
from his sentence there is no appeal. Believing the
Democratic party in the United States which adhered
to the measures of Mr. Jefferson be the party of the
Constitution, and the safe exponent Of its Republican
principles, he (Mr b. should advocate the and the
measures Of that party, without mpugnng the in
tegrity Of the mass of the opposite party, whose
leaders, whatsoever night be their professions, walk
ed in the footsteps, and pursued the measures Of
General Hamilton. He was for Jefersonan De-
mocracy, not in professions, but in measures but he did
not propose 10 make party speech, much less part
IAN speech He lifted himself above the mud and mire
of partizan poltics-above the tainted atmosphere o.
personality and scurrlity; he TO the elevation Of
principles and measures, and far as he should touch
political subjects at all, he reason why he
should not be listened TO patiently by one party as
the other. He citizens of both parties presents he
saw reason why they should NOT be so present. he
was public man, speaking public occasion; and
neither his disposition, his breeding, the habits OF
his life, could lead him to be offensive dsageeable
TO them.
We meet, said Mr.. B., on the eve of Presidential
election; but it is not for that election alone that
meet. If that was all, we might have spared onr.
selves this trouble for the Presidential election has but
one way go in Missouri. (Great cheering) But
want it to go that way strongly, powerfully, over
whelmnely 1t must be no drawn battle-no debatea-
BILE victory-no equivocal sign of temporary supre-
macy The Democracy must triumph, and triumph
in style TO rebuke and explode the novel and de-
grading system of eleconeering which, for the first
time in ty-one years of Presidential elections, has
made its appearance among US. We must turn out
for the November election; we must give the DAY
to our COUNTRY: every Republican must do his duty:
every comfy must advance and improve upon her