Richmond enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1815-1867, 1840-08-04
7o YEE EDITOR or the ENQUIRER.

ain nv hurried letter Of Saturday last, stated tina,
Mcssrs. Calhoun, Colquitt, and Black, addressed our
citizens OH Thursday, instead ui Wednesday evening
observe that sGrrcnsvi!le is used in place oil 'Gran-
wills Mr.. ii. was IN GranVIiie, wheil lie "folc "
"Mr. VIM. c. Riyes addressed orr citizens on Monday
evening last. He was unwilling to identity hiinSril
with The great Wing party: and addressed his remarks
mostly 10 his old Jackson Republican friends. DO
moi, think ,kat the Justly mcrtcd praise he bestowed
upon Cen. jackson, piraScd lbs nsr .trtcmdS rery m"ch.
lie sad, tsat he did no, take Mr.. Van Buren, on me
faith Of villa, he had done as a statesman; but upon ms
pledge 10 "lollow in the footsteps OF his iIiustrious pre-
drceSsor." H argued at some length, TO prove That
Mr.. " Il. had not been true to this pledge-as Gen.
Jackson was against the Sub-treasury, and Mt '. d.
had brought il forward and continued TO press IL upon
the county,, until i had become the law OF the land
II Gen. ~Jackson's testimony was adm'sslple' | u''hh
Mr.. r. should not have taken it IN part-aS ne must
have known that Gen. Jackson had expressed ms
warucs, appro baton of the Administration oi WI. IAN
Buren,, and part ,cuIarly with regard TO the Sub-ireaSHry,;
at struck nc that his POSITION could not re sustained
b. any one. un.t ~ he possess'd The mos' uh!ii:''c"
cro,ism. Mr. Van Buren'S administrator has gwen
oTTcal satisfaction 10 the Republican party, on the
grounds. that he has ny 30 this time acted out the great
nrinciplrs which he p.Ctc1sed, when he had me warm
support of Mr.. Rives. MIR. Rives has changed his OPT
Mons both as 10 pr.nc' pes anu u m L a"u I'd 'r
his old Jackson friends 70 rally 10 ms standard.
"What standard does be RAISE Pr9tSsediy una OF
Conservatism; and when he may have cameo some
recruits 10 that standard, ~ "nnl i,'ah"rI ~ an.s ~
be Disposed ocs Mono oliver that ! could learn rom
his speech, t!Iau 10 hand thcn' over - q . .e u'"a, , =
of the mighty Daniel, Who In $ becoi'eHLc great Sp,''t "
mi" Rcpubiicauism. Mr.. Ri.es thought, tnat as MT: '
Buren, had been an Office no lder so long, 1t was l,nle
10 put him out. thought FROM me nature DE o""e.S
he had held So long, and with 5 , mnch OF deserved vi.
fdcnce from the peo oLe, that 1t was ratier an arg"'
mcnt in his favor. NV ,urpris. was great, wien he
claimed the office which Mr.. Van Buren, hoios' io'
Gen. Harrison, on the g4oL nds that he had bteh al
Office holder for nearly The last halt century
"When saT that he sparmc.' the Wings, | 90 no.
think that the expression in a fgulatIVe sense Is stEa'heu
as lie did not once address himself to the wings, ana
as il was By their invitation that Ne maze me SPe"ch
here: ! think n gentleman of his uaIiteness would nave
said something complimentary to tue GTfnt Democ'"tc
Hhip party, if his conscience or his GDnSerfuhre posi-
E0n would have admitted of his dnesg so. lie ne
slowed more praise on the Administration of the elder
Adams, than have heard for the last ten years from
any Virginia state snan, be his politics NUT hey may
The DRIFT of this was soon apparent-as he began 70
Irxtol the Rcpubiicdn d0ctrincS Of Gen. liatrr;on, he
was disposed to impress upon the minds OF ms bearers
that Gen. II. might have been a very sound it,2"Dn,
can, and at the same time, extended the support ne aa
To Mr.. AS administration: and he could only nope %
do This hv making Mr.. Adams much less OF a fede-
raIist than we have been taught 10 think Inn; so mat
Gen. lis RepHhicdniSm would not be so much COM
promised by the support he gave TO MIR. As admins
tratIon. ,
ale spoke Of some charges which we're advanced
against Gen. II. TO prove, that he was n federai'st' ana
as he defended him from one after the other, as hesthe
could, he stated that he had mentioned erery Charge
which had been brought against Gen. II. TO convict. nm
OF being a Frdcralist, and that the charges were untrue.
Gle then began to show that Gen. "A was good oio-
| fashioned Rel ublican of the Jefferson school. | ieIt,
that with all his acknowledged ability, this would be a
very difficult task; but when he produced his authority
the whole matter was in n 'snut shell. lie ciaineu
that the speeches which Gen. II. made at VIncennes
and Cicyiot, breathcd throughout the purest spirit OF
.r fcrsoniGn Rcpahiicanism! In his ChevIot speech'
Gen. II. says: 81 have thus, fellow-citizens, ende~or'
ed to explain 10 you the principles upon WHICH the
Government Of our Union is formed. ] recommend
10 You, however, the Proclamation OF the PRESIDENT o,
the e. =, issued on the 10th of December last, ana
the speeches of Mr.. Webster, delivered in the Senate
of the u. S. at the last session of Congress, in answer
TO the arguments of Mr.. Calhoun, as containing Tue
most eloquent and satisfactory exposition oil those PI'h'
ciplcs that have recently been published. by ISSUING
that Proclamation, | think Gen. Jackson has rendered
= service 10 his country Of greater magnitude than ms
splendid victory at New Orleans. Here we nave
doctrines which we have always understood Us ""'"
Fcderai, claimed as the purcst Republican p',o'p.S
by Mr.. Rives in support of Gen. HARRISON 5 ca'nis ~
Republicanism. He tickled the fancy OF his new ir'emas
By the eagerness with which lie eHpresseu A' "'"e
renee TO State Rights doctrines.
az " onld like to know how any one could unoiush'hS-
" talk about State Rights, who claimed me cia
ton and Mr.. Webster's defence OF II, as true nePu anir
canism. I have stated hat he dd not a1nless n' ~ ot
10 the w nlUs. llCuVH HC ha - - III.
The nrospects of Despotism, and all that sort OF "hls
manic talk. if we should continue our present aoie' Hitn
and nd patriotic President, he said, that he once sat by M ihe
side Of a virginia Senator, who said he he d.. did not 70 m IeaI m BE-
D. sri ~ g;r,;I;ng the ground when he buckled il
m ns h %ay y Ne s'1 appeared &c to treat this very seriously,
nd ,oid Ms that Alexander the Great was not a large,
man-and he believed that Bonapaiie was a man o.
small size. Here he did address a U't'S, ny turning 70
Mr. Furt. who had seen Bonaparte, to correct him IT he
was not right.
uOur friends here did not lose sight OF the fact, ina
Mr. R;ves, in trying 10 make US break off from ou'
straight forward, old fashioned Republican principles
could desire nothing more than TO mana Us ' eon.
narv. whose principles are such that neither their can
!, didnte for the Presidency, their mighty leaders or .ne.
travelling Electors, or the great Conservative :"
, vow them"
HANOVER COUNTY. r
All meeting of the Democratic citizens 0, Isto
he'll 4 at the Courthouse on the 2oth day d 'Ss,, wa,
'f ~ hIfp 4 OlI