Richmond enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1815-1867, 1840-03-03
r. NJ. JOHNSON.
"MONSTROUS DINNER"
The Richmond Wing SAYS of the dinner eaten We!

| The Richmond wing says oil the dinner eaten yes
terduy by Clay for the benefit of lIarrison
The dinner will take place on Tuesday evening neSt at
O'Clock We hear TIM hsrr are about 500 subscribers already
1t was indeed "NoNsTRoUs DINNER, if the object OF
the principals engaged in it be considered. Mr. Clay
| has again become TABLE ORATOR, and is working for
HARRISON upon the primer pie that he devoted HIM
self, at similar dehauchcs for the benefit OF Adams.
Harrison is pledged to give way, at the end of four
years enable Clay, (bandn9 together corrupt par
| ty, swaying every thing under the dominion of the
great Bank lie hopes 10 establish in the nterm,) to
come in for the succession. 1t is the vain hope, thus in
spired which has put Clay in notion TO the i'm
beetle person whom he despises more than he hated
| Adams, when lie bargaincd with him.
The last Libcrator Garrison papcr) points out what
the Southern FcdcralstS have sacriccd-what present
humiliation they have consented to sufer-what risks
to take in pursuit of this gnis utuus-Mr Clays vi
sionary ambition. The Liberator says
SIT will be remembered that balotng for candidate at liar
Henry Clay every trial. effected. The
South rr, dta,ed cs 1t tried TO get slave holder
nominated and co9M not succeed solely BECAUSE VA.
Ii antave the free States that defeated slave
Y at The South h , The Ws s mGa naks S M Gay y
conceded all TUE, SouTHERN DELEcaTioS
SUPPORT HARRISON,
Rur IT MAS NECESSITY, ASp Sor or CHOICE"
And why the selection of man-made avow-
cdly to satisfy the Anslavery party, when the cues
ton was between him and another greatly preferred
by the majority Of those represented in the non
mating conventon-submtled to ''ds act Of ncccSsi
n? What interest has the South in the elevation of
such man Harrison, that it should be willing to
quiesce result produced by the majority submitting
10 the minority, in convention, and when that result
prescribe the preferred candidate of the party max
ing the nomination, "BEcAUsE HE is a SHAREHOLDER,
Every man must know that the Southern Federal
lists recognise the doctrine nculcated by the result
at Harrisburg, in the hope that the Abolitionsts,
like the AntiWasons, will presently become so ldcnt
ed with Federalism, that when their great cver-thc
Banks again established they will be able to
all as consolidated body, and that Mr. Clay may be-
come the head OF the system of consolidation Mr. Clay
himself would pander to the principles of which he
has become the victim, did he not fancy that, by the
political machinery he could bring to bear, under
reckless Administration of Federalism for four years.
be would be able to operate upon the newborn al
lies of Federalism OF the North TO induce them to
yield their principle that no STAKEHOLDER should be the
candidate Of the Federal party. Mr. Clay, in proposing
receive and refer their petitions, IN condcmnng the
course of Southern men, of all sides, in rejecting
these petitions, and joining in the attempt now max
ing TO sacrifice the Northern Democrats who gave that
VOTE shows ardent desire even thus early TO prop-
tate Abolition prejudces. He looks forward to the
time when Abotionism and Federalism will be one
and the same. Hence his late movement in the Sc
nate, which has brought the Democratic majority of
that body under the ban of the Abolition party as that
of Mr. Cost johnson has done in the other branch The
same paper which rcloces, we have seen above IN
the rejection OF the STAKEHOLDER candidates. the vote
brought about by him in the Senate the other day lin
which he sided with the Abolitionsts against the
jority) thus:
tA discussion has taken place in the Senate, Mess
Calhoun Clay TaImadge and Webster In both branches
right petition has been deliberately denied the people,
question the welfare of the Repubc The effect
aocious and alarming is swell the tide of anti slavery
ment bring the country perceive that either slavery
be pu down or liberty perish The sure il
win be The demon Of oppression has again effected
q triumph over the rightS ifnan-
sYet laugh not in your carnival of crime,
Too proudly, yc opprcssors.'
Endurance has passed its bounds and rebu'ion is at hand
Go to, now-wecp and howl" ~
And now he goes to Richmond to make ''earniral,
to put down those who called oppressors" by the
Aboonists, because they sustain the Government as
established by the Constitution. He goes to pour out