Richmond enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1815-1867, 1840-12-04
Tuscaloosa, Nov. 10th, 1910.


From tae Rockingham R,gister.)
The agony 10 over, and WM. HENRY HARRISON IS
President elect an event we did not antici pate a few
months ago. We calculated, rs we thought, with rea.
sonable certainty, that the old Democratic Keystone,
and his native Stale, New York, and the entire South,
would GO for Van Barren; but in this anticipation, IT
seems, we were mistaken, wofully mistaken We are
beaten but we take to ourselves some consolation in
the reflection, that the true Democracy everywhere,
the friends of The Union and the indepsadeat Sovereignty
of the States, have acted ~nnbly-have done their hest
TO sustain their principles and to re.elect their dis
tinguishrd chief; but they have been o~verpowered,
Observation-Disclosures in the dust and by what
means: means, which impartial history will brand with
infamy means, when now the battle IS over, aud the
smoke blowing away, will be deemed degrading by
every honest man, of whatever party Means,
which, if they continue To he employed, mud with the
success which has lately offended them, will GO far TO
prove the truth Of Alexander Hamiltons opinion, that
the people are incapable of self government, and that
those who administer tie Government must sustain
themselves by bribery and corruption. But we will
not cease to hope and believe, for the sake of humanity,
that there is intelligence enough and virtue enough left
in the country to restore, IN due time, tn their legitimate
ascendancy and rule, the principles nf Democracy, as
summed up in the Constitution ofthe u S. The means
employed BY the Wing party in the recent contest, and
by which they have succeeded in overthrowing the pre-
sent Administration and seiz'ng the reins of Govern.
mcnt, are as extraordinary as they have been, many Of
them n 'vel, and even ridiculous. An aggregation and
conjunction of parties and fractions of parties, such as
had never bef"re been witnessed since the CREATION
The Hamilionian and Adamsonian Federalists were
the nucleus of this aggregation. And around this
centre rallied Anti Masons, Abolitinnis's, Conserva.
tives, States Right Wings, Banks, Bank Presidents,
Bank officers of every description, stockholders, fund
mong~rs, specolators, money borrowers, and nearly
every man deeply in debt, from reckless or imprudent
dealing; a large proportion of the mercantile class
Tins aggregation Of parties and interests include the
money power of our own country, aided by the money
power Of England. And this money power has been
employed without stint, and with tremendous effect,
by bribery, by corruption, by the distribution of papers,
and pamphlets, containing the most palpable and bare
faced Misrepresentation and falseiioods; ny professions,
banners, shows; by appeals to the lowest passions OF
the lowest OF the people; by exhibitions of gourds,
coon skins, live c"ons, log cabins, hard cider, empiy
barrels, and by drunken revels, and Il has been said, ad-
ministering parched corn, and hard cider sacramcn.aily!
By these and by such like d,sgracctul and degrading cp-
planes, have they carried the election oftheir certificate
Hero. T"these add the conceal,ng their real sentiments
and claiming those of their npponenis-claiming to be
the true Democratic, or Jefersonian Republicans.-se
cretly circulating one set of opinions for the North
and another for the South. After all we rejoice 10
believe, as we think we have good reason to do, that
the true Democracy Of the country hive not been Sc
duced from their principles and their cause, by all
these low and shameless appliances. For the Demo-
cratic vote has been greater at the recent election, It is
believed, than that by which Van Buren, was elected in
1886. In Virginia, there is little doubt but this is the
fact, though the Wing vote has been increased BY the
Conservative secession, with the Little EIpunger at
their head.-Virginia, the proud Old Dominion. The
rallying point of Democracy in 1900. And now the
rallying point Of Democracy in 1910. Always proud
of my native State, now prouder than ever, that she has
80 nobly withstood the seductions, the h~umbugs,
the falsehoods, the misrepresentation that have been
90 industrionsly circulated and at so much expense
And that the little Expunger has been able to carry
away with him from The Democratic to the Wing par
y, so few of our citizens. She stands as a rock in the
Of the ocean, mistaken and unmoved by all the
storms and pillows that have beat against her. Other
States have been loosened from their Democratic moor
ings; bu, Virginia maintains "the faith once delivered
to the saints" Never has voted for q Federal candi-