Richmond enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1815-1867, 1840-08-07
&c Democracy. by sustaining our honest and fearless
rl:zr ,I,r;.tr,a Martin Van Buren,.

,of Democracy. by sustaining our honest ana ieafiess
Chief Magistrate, Martin Van buren, D. ,s,o
cer,Iemen. The subscribers wishing 10 make public
the reasons for leaving a party that We have belonged
to, one of us ever since he was entt'ea u u sote' nv
others, for the last SIX or eight years, nuI no" 'ee eoh.
PEELED 10 relinquIsh the wing party, 10 ~ s"Ppotn
ibose who can better understand the principles that
lately have governed the Wing party than we can
We have looked in vain into our wing papers vi a.,
discussion and good reasons tor supporting ".n''di
| Harrison. They call out Old Tip-the Her"-Hreh'
G.n.ral-numerous battles, &c, &c. Now be may be
All they sav of him: hut we do know tina, at a meeting
nj his own officers during the war, his whole course
was condemned, and proceedings signed by Hiliiath
Key Bond, who was Judge Advocate, at present a mem
her of Congress, from Ohio, and published. we kD"w
that hp left the brave Col. Croghan with one hundred
and sixty men 10 fgh, a f"rce Of SIX hundred, and never
went 10 his aid, but ordered him TO retreat; which he re-
fused to do, and, By SO refusing, gained a glorious VIC
tory. We know that he rrs'gn'd his commission ~
the middle of the war, when, it he had been Il good W.
neral, he would have been the last man I" have lett IT
W., know that .Jarks son was appointed (inost fortunately
for The country IN his place. We know tliatt III" Us.
Senate struck his name out of a resolution OF thanks,
and let other names sland-that body would be most
likely to know who were worthy ana VINO were IN
worthy The Wings say he wall make better LINES, IT,
cannot make the sun 10 shine, nor the ram to descend,
nor the products to grow, and when The fruits OF the
earth are riprned, if they should not be wanted IN To-
reign countries, and there was more than coma De-
consumed nj home. he could not cause 1t 10 bring
ligh prices. He could, however, by connecting
himself with banks and spectators, force all com
mnGitirs, together with labor and every Thing else,
into the hands of the Wing MonopOlIsrs, and advance
the prices u little one year, only 10 crush them and
bring ruin and dcsnlatinn upon the whole community
the ncxt-for every extraordinary rise must have al
most Immediately an extraordinary fall, which leaves
us all in a much worse state than AT frst-faI and stea'
dy prices are what producers and iabnrcrs most want
As We find the Wing party pretty generally made NJ
of bankers, spectators, and mon"p"lis's, we can
guess the kind of times they want, but which would
prove 10 Us and the laboring classes generally; IN Tact,
all classes, except The bankers and Spectators, BIZ
TER instead of better times. We do not beller,
the Wing party honest; if they were, they would
declare, and allow General Harrison to declare
openly and without reserve, what their OPINION:
and principles were, not be constantly referring
us to this or that speech, when not one in a mi
lion ever knew tina. he made one; and If he has express
ed an opinion upon Banks, Abolition, Sub-Ireasury
Bankrupt Law, and all other questions, why do not inc
Wing papers ~republish thrm-or why does he mol
write one single letter touching all these things, ad
allow t TO be published in all the papers in the country
that would look honest at least-tncts are wanted IN
such a contest as this, not mere assertion; and MT van
Bnren has given his opinion openly and boldly on al
these subjects. And, more than all, he voted ioI
and approved of 4 law for selling white men into sla'
very who were too poor TO pay the fine and costs
for driving n horse, for instance too fast IN the street
or across a bridge, or for knocking n man down
who had most grossly insulted you or your wife
or tamily-and 10 recrive ihIrty-nlne las!es on The
bare hack if they ran away from their tyranls before
their time was up. For these md other reasons We
the subscribers, cam 70 any longer with the Wing
party.