Richmond enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1815-1867, 1840-12-15
POLITICS..
FIRE OF THE FLINT.
fran RrynHicaR J0rrn0iS.

Eriracts fr0m Republican J0brnMS
From me Coiumbus (.Niss.) Dsnoerdt
The popular, Democratic majority IN the iate eec-
ton in South Carolina least ~ 600, rahrr 0oo
Huzza for the palmetto State. With her, and gi"rinns
Old Virginia f--leaders, we shall irrl SAFE, IN W.
,ur., against the combined forces OF black cockade
F.dsralIsts, modern Wings, Abotonists and anti
Masons.
Tur Rysr1r-Od Pilgiaia-Tl,e Presidential cleo
on has resulted in the triumph "' the Federal parry ny
n very larre naiority and their candidate VIII most
nroboblv rn into office with a majnrity IN ms favor IN
bn,h Honsrs of Congress. We intend, at our earliest
leisure To present in series OF numbers our views
upon The matter IN which opponents conducted the
canyass the causes Of our defeat, and the probable
consequences To country OF the success of the
Federal party We must content ourselves to-day
with referring readers TO two articles this paper,
on the result, one from the Washington Globe, and the
other from the New York Evening Post
But though beaten in most OF the States, we nave
saved t.r c,,adel-Od Virginia, the mother OF States
and of Statesmen has gone tor US She has cast her
vote Tor Martin Van Buren, by majority nj niue less
fhan 2O00 She has rebukrd her rrcraant snns-flar-
rison ana Tyler and R,ves and cnng I" her principles
We hail this result with rxultaiion and lny-it com
pensaes Tor tht JOSS Of half dozen other States we
would anos, rather he beaten with Virginia on orr
side than conquer with her against She viii form
n raily,np pont for the Republican party, and will be
AGAIN as she was in IcOo, ''llie hlghearer Of the
(F,om iae ithaca fN. j. .JoarneLJ
Wu,r ARE WI TO uAvE:-The Wings have now got
the mower 10th IN the State and nation. To the men oi
their choice are entrusted the powers delegated BY the
people to their Let them execute their trusts
faithfully with eye to the permanent good oi me
country and they will receive the support of the people,
but should they prove false their trusts transcend
the bounds Of their authority, Just relrbuti"n Will
oyar,ake them Our Liberties depend upon the honest
exercise by our servants of the power delegated TO
Them Those powers particularly specified IN our
written constitutions and If the public servant has
ru, 10 step one inch beyond the limits there prescrb-
ed ne can go any distance farther If, as supposed
necessity or convenience shall require he exercise
powers not already bestowed upon him, then written
constitutions are no safeguards 10 our liberties No
matter what temporary seeming or actual advantage
NAV flow from the exercise OF powers not granted, II
never shond be done Ii constitutions are deiec-
tive there is way amend change, abrogate them
bnt while they st,nd they should he held the sacred
safeyuards Of liberties and he who dares 10 violate
them should be considered sacrileglous wretch When
law is proposed the first question should be, IS II
constitutional, IL there any reasonable doubt rs to
its consti,uionaty. it should not he passed Unless
the peope will conne their agents TO The exercise of
the powers conidsd to them they never can be free
While the Constitution stands the power OF The ruler
is limited BY the will ct the ruled; but when the Con-
stiu,on falls the peoples servants arc servants no
more; but as the possessors Of unlimited power, as
much d-spo.s in those countries where there are no
written Constitutions. 49,
We intend to state what we expect the Wings will
do They will first indirectly assume the State debts
bv the issue of land scrip. This will require them
next 10 impose High Tariff, and lastly National
Bank, owned by the General Government and the
States. Are these things constitutional Will they
not be runous? questions which the people must
decide.
From The sagusta (.Noine) .fge)
THE PROSPECTS, AHEAD democrats IND every
thing in the present TO encourage them, and much III
The future TO stimulate thcm acticn In the existing
state OF political combinations, their principles are un-
oups,innably in the ascendant The enemy who has
obtained office pay and plumber has not reached the
DOVER as yet, Ia carry out his obnoxious doctrines
g. no Dan nj q
front undebauc unscduced and unterrifed, it can
rely upon the nth 10 rally with it, and put down the
new administration, if it hazards single movement
in the direction Of Federal principles. The S"uth IS
honest incorruptible and Repub can. Its rejecting
planters are now in error, not in fault. Virginia will
right them Time viii RICH, them. Events viii right
them. They now with MS, Though not ct US
Northern Federalism goes forward in tec midst of
pers, and upnn road full of quicksands. Aside from
the possibility, that under the new apportionnnnt "i
political power which viii be developed by The late
census, they may seize npon the public lands as a
make weight in political arrangement and again tie
the West to the East, by p!uudering the country,
possibility cl"gged wi'h thousand obstacles, no Gle
ment Of strength is visible for them in the future
Every thing f'rebodes Tor them loss and decay and
for their opponents triumphant recuperation from
their late disaster. They are IN false position al
together: They have obtained the Government,
but not the power to carry out their principles. ihey
will be forced by the moral cnmpnlson winch results
from the character Of their followers, To disgust mnder.
ME men by a ruthless prescription ct opponents from
office and at the time, the cnrrupt fac"ns which
gave them power, donned to disappointment nj
their hands The tariff party an the bank party must
Harrison dynasty, with what grace they may, while
the politicians, who have deceived Them, ingenious
beyond the reach Of ,nagnation If they
friends to supply the place of old ones
lFsoa tac Portsmouth, IN HI Ga.au.1
We very cordially respond 10 the cali of the Editor
OF the Enquirer in adopting the Virginia and Kentucky
Resolutions the pole star which is TO guide through
the contest now about to commence. No sooner had
the result nj the late election become known, than
came to this determination. The principles of those
memorable resolutions should be- widely disseminated
Finding they Were, in this region nearly out of print
we were abnnt proposing Ia print edition of these
solutions with the action of the several New England
States thereon, together with the report or review
Of Mr.. Madison, in 90, 1870, with the action thereon
and the instructions of the Virginia Legislature to
their Senators in Congress- in relation To the repeal Of
the Alien and Sediuon Laws, and the repeal of the
Standing Army, against which Gen. Harrison made
speech. We had old copy of thesr, Of some forty
years standing, and only waiting to BE- able 10
supply three lost leaves, which had contained
some important part, when the resolutions
and report appear in the Glube. We intend giving
them all possible. 1t must be on the plain
principles of these sound opponents of the Constitution,
that Democratic doctrines again 10 become ascend.
ant, and it is only BY strict adherence to them that
we ought 10 expect success.
From the ytrnon, Spirit efA. assl
IHE DEMOCRATIC PREss.-We have no wish to urge
upon our papers, throughout the country, Of bit
terness and ilbera hostility upon the Administration
that is to be- bu. do urge upon them that they fall
not into apathy and supneness; that they keep the
great principles Of the Democratic party before the peo-
pe that by their zeal and energy they allow not the
people for one moment imagine or dream that the
party are disheartened or ntimdated The Fcderasts
declare that there is 10 be an smagsmasion Of par