Richmond enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1815-1867, 1840-06-26

be no wonder, if Harrison should lose the confidence of
both. lie has come out, you say, and re-atiirmed the
sentiments OF his Vincennes speech, in which | do not
think he once mentions the word Abol,tionists. He
speaks OF emancipation societies. and If he had not
raised a bubble Oh the term Abolitionist on another &C.
casion, and said he meant "Humane Society" &c. his
letter to you might weigh a feather. You and Harrison
too, must have believed his Vincenncs speech was per.
ttcily familiar to the Abolitionists, whose influence car
RED his nomination over Clay at Harrisburg. What a
mockery then IN HIM to re -atiirm the sentiments of this
speech. How ridiculous you make yourself in proclaim.
ing thus great revelation, after having applauded your
Hero Tor standing mute 1T is well known throughout
the whole South, that in 1885, when Gen. Harrison made
his Nincenncs speech, he hoped TO be President. Gar
rIs1n 5 crew OF fanatics were comparatively %lnsignIli-
cant; they were not then, as now, organized into Il p-
litical party; but, such rs they were, all FEDERAL
WINGS, from North Bend to Richmond, and espe.
cially Elector Lyons, made desperate efforts to asso-
cIate them politically with Martin Van Buren,, and by
that means inlure his popularity in the slavcholding
States, IL was the constant theme of their stump Ora.
tors-ilie hurthen of the Wing Presses. None were
more active and clamorous, then, than yoH, MIR. Flee
tor Lyons. You called meetings at the Capitol; ha-
rangucd most yociierously; convoked the Clergy and
appointed committees of vigilance. The calm, good
sense OF the People proved too hard for WhiGgery in
that contest. Martin Van Buren, was triumphantly
elected. He told these fanatics plainly that their mad
schemes would find no favor from him, and incurred
their bitter and %undying hatred. Did you, Mr.. Elcc-
tor, give hun any credit for this: When it was found
at the Harrisburg Convention that these people could
no longer be used as Wing capital against Martin
ian buren, by falsely associating them with him,
and that they were no longer TO be condemned as
a little squad of "weak and ~presumptnous emancipa-
tors, las Harrison calls them in his fincennes Speech
but a regularly organised political party, with sufficient
influence to control the Harrisburg nomination, and as
all good Wings 'sprefcrrcd the Devil to Martin Van,
Buren,, and there was no chance for Clay, what more
could have been expected of Southern Wings, under
the circumstances, than the adoption Of Harrison, who
presented, 10 their delusive hopes, a chance d put out
Van Buren,, whom they hated, because he possessed the
confidence of the Republican party; The Vincennes
Speech makes no pledges against political Abolition.
lists, and even If 1t did, they would vote for Harrison
III preference to Van Buren,; for they act, in all things,
with the Wing party. You are all brethren agitaors.
Can you hope TO escape the retributions Of an honest
peoples Indignation, when they shall have had time TO
reflect on these things: One in your exalted station
will, of course, affect TO ''pass by with contempt the eff
fusions e an anonymous scribbler.' This is quite ne.
cesar, 10 the maintenance of your mock dignity, and
quite Characteristic of that lordly party that SO cordially
despises Van Buren,, because of his Democratic origin
and his firm and sleudlast dc eviction to the political faith
of Thomas Jefferson. He now bears alofl the stand
ard of Democracy, and I%nterposes her broad shield
between the people, and a cabal, whose Objects power,
TO impose their credit upon us in the form of bank
paper, (Which they Will redeem or not, as best suits
their avaricc,O in exchange for our labor and our pro-
duce. Here lies the main ground Of Wing opposition
TO Van Buren,. He has touched the bubble on which
many a paper great man fancicd himself riding into
You feel that you must sink without a
Hero TO save you. You may Gfectio rsat these truths
from an '~'anonymous scrihblcr with silent contempt.
Truth from an anonymous source is as much truth as
if spoken or written by 4 Lawyer.E lcctor. You may
contcmn it-feiit you must. You, as well as Rives,
were a "Jackson Republican" lOu went off on the
Proclamation; he hung on. Extremes have met on
an old black cockade Fcderalist and warm supporter Of
the hefesies of the Proclamation. You protested to be
a State Rights man.
"Amd dos. thou now fall over 10 my foes;
Thou wear a lions hide! dpir il for shame.
And hang a calls skin on those rrercant limbs
Your political a%ntipode,
a DEMOCRAT.