Richmond enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1815-1867, 1840-05-22
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THE I.YNCHBURG yIRGINIAN.

THE LYNCHBURG VIRGIN1AN.
f Shame upon you, Democrats of Lynchburg, Camp
bell Pittsyvana, Bedford, Franklin, Henry and Others
within the sphere of the operations of this Fedora
f Wing organ, that YOU will permit it to 60 uncheck
cd and unex posed in its dishonest carecr.t deals IN
slang and sander-misstaes, msrepesenls, and cheats
with perfect mpunity-and large portion OF the no
nest Of Virginia blinded, cheated and mis-
led By it, simply because they no other lights, than
its false fghiS.
This hurried communication is called forth, BY read
ing in the "Virginan of the 9th inst, several editorial
and borrowed articles calculated and intended to pre-
JUDGE and msead its readers In most impudcnt ar.
tcle Mr. Van Buren, is damned as an ultra Tariff man
Is he on that account, unworthy of the support of the
f Vlrgnian: Are not It's Editors ultra Tariff mem Are
they not now cooperating with the ultra Tariff party.
striving elect ultra Federalis and ultra Tariff
10 the Presidency? Did they not support the ultra
{ Federal and ultra Tariff Administration Of Acssrs.
Adams and Clay, Have not these Editors Tor the
last years, been the tame followers of Henry Clay,
who prides himself upon being called ''the Father of
the Tariff and Internal Improvement systems, and
who has denounced Andrew Jackson for ''crushng
those systems and Martin Van Buren, for walkng in
the footsteps of his ustrious predecessor Who,
them the false accuser-thc Ergnlan, or ITS leader
The Eirrinian in damning Van Buren, Tariff man
or CLAY in damning Jackson for crushing the Anne.
rican SYSTEM and Van Buren, for 'walkng in the foot.
steps;
But why defend Mr.. Van Bhren's upon the
Tariff We have too long been engaged in tame de-
fence permitting the sins and designs OF the enemy to
90 nexposed Grant that the President has in or
two instances voted in opposition TO the views aud in
teress Of the South Of his btteres enemies can
testify that John Randolph declared 10 the assembled
voters of Charlotte, that he IVAN Buren, was ''nore
n Of Virginia politician than any North of the Po-
tomac and as much of an anti Tariff man, he darsd
to be- in other words, his constituents would permit
him to be-and il is notorious to every man now con-
versant with the state of parties and party feeling
North of the Potomac that the principal objection to
n, he the hipctI
renders his re election all Doubtful is, that he is too
much Of Virginia politician to suit the views and
schemes Of the Northern Fedcraists-and, II may be
affirmed, without the fear Of reintaton, that nineteen
twrntieths. if not all The enemies of high Tariff
North Of the Potomac, mis- supporters. Whe-
thcr then, his opinions of the protecting policy be or
tlodox or hetcrodox have less TO fear from his elc
vation than from the elevation of The auomaon
didac whom the Vrrginian snppors.For, the Firgi-
MAN knows and every body knows, that far rs he
has enough TO be ultra upon any subject, he is
an ultra-Tarif and Internal Improvement maitland
s the avowed advocate of measures and the only
measures that possibly again fasten high Tariff
upon us-whilst in the leading measures proposed by
Mr. Van Buren, there is chance for renewal Of the
protective policy extent that the South need fear,
or even begrudgc to their manufacturing brethren.
He has avowed his hostility to rcviving the Internal
Improvement systcm-denonnced the policy and un-
consttutonality Of raising money for disribWion or
for any purposes except 10 support the Government
within the sphere of its constitutional powers and Tint
upon scale Of strict economy The friends of high,
unequal and oppressive Tariff, and know that upon
economical scale of expenditure, without distrtb"
tire system, an Internal improvement system, the
people will not bear the bur,hens of high Tariff
and hence is that every FederaIs who seeks to in
vert and pervert the workings Of political system
by making the people dependent upon the Govern
ment, instead Of the Government dependent upon the
people, opposes and denounces Martin Van Buren,.
The Virginian hnrps upon pamphlet copy of n
| speech Of Mr. Van Buren,, delivered in Albany-and
gives batch of extracts from it, Why is that speech
1.-The whole speech kept behind the curtain: Ont with
it, say ]: and my life upon it, the extracts gwen by the
Yirrinan give false and Intentionally perverted vc:v
Of The drift of that speech Was it not aimed against
the gcters up of the Harrisburg Convention, who pro-
ectcd the famous ''Wooen's Bill and the Tariff of
| ls2s: Did not Mr. Van Buren, the people against
the schemes of those who were striving TO make the
Tariff political hobbv' And was it not that
count that he instructed to vote for the Tariff of
| 1928
The aforesaid Virgnan Of the 9th has other articles
which should like to notice, If | had the leisure
One harps, usual, upon the Missouri Restriction
Every candid man. North of the Potomac will admit
that of the Wings of the North there not, perhaps
dozen to be found who at all conspicno at the
time of that famous controversy, who acted less OIL
fensive part than did Mr.. Van Buren,. And it is no
torous, that the Nrnnian warmly supported John Ser
geant for the second office in the Government with
the knowledge that he the most vehement and
fiery leader against the South, upon the Missouri ques
on-and although not so. notorious, get 1t IS now
proven by "recorded history, that General Harrison
Welded the constitutional ground upon which the
South stood, and voted to draw line through the Mis-
sonri Territory, beyond which shareholders could not
90, without giving up their slaves.
! But word to another article in the Nirginan of
the 9ih-Thc Editors glory in Gen. Harrisons views
of the Abolition question: and profess boldly willing
ness stake the whole contest upon comparison be-
tween the President and Harrison upon that dark sub
ject." Federal Whigfke they put on the boldest
face when in the tghtest place. for, of all the rotten
docrines-of all the ncendIary principles
tenarced by Southern man, in Presidential aspi-
rant-the sentiments and doctrines Of Harrison the
most rotten and incendary. Let every intelligent
reader carefully anayze Harrsons views, put forth
by his organs, and it will be seen, that whilst lie
endeavers to concilate the South by denonncng the
schemes Of the Aboltionists as unconstitutional and
dangerous, regards the Sates(mark you, he avows
no opinion 10 the District of Columbia,) yet few
short lines farther in his speech he brings forward his
orn plan for emancipation, declares it to be ian object
near his heart-and looks ''forward to day not very
distant, when a North American sun will not look
down upon slave" And what is this plan' Why,
to make use Of the power and money of the Fede
raj Government to buy up our slaves. Has the
man enough to know the meaning Of his
own professions just minute beof What be.
comes Of his talk about the Constitution 1t is talk
without meaning-Fo in this plan he throws aside the
written Constitution, and throws the whole matter upon
the consent Of the States holding the slaves He
for interference By the Federal Government ,ciM our
Stare property-against the ground upon which Mi
Van Buren, and our Northern friends sustaining
our rights. Their ground is, that the Federal Govern.
ment has no right 10 interfere with u.s. seven with the
consent of any, or all of the slareholding States
These Mr.. Van Buren's words. They aim a
death-bow at the Abolition agitators. Harrison plan
on the contrary tends to encourage agitation to exor
the consent of some slaveholding State Touch moi
this subject, is the ground we taken this we are sus
tanned by our Northern friends will the South-w
the friends of the Constitution and the Union abandon
this gronnd Readers of the Virginian, Of the Rich
mond Whig and of the Yeoman rebuke the traitoron.
course of those who smoothing over the ncendia
ry doctrines and Vaccinations of this automa,on can
didate and his keepers Admit the right of the Fede
raj Government 10 interfere with our slaves In any