Richmond enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1815-1867, 1840-05-26

Now they call travelling Federal preachers ih'o 'e'f
service as subelectors and employ them III reve"Ss
their political party who were ovettnro"n " 49, Inv
Buren, during the war, enemies OF the country as y
CHARGING that he was opposed to the war ne h's,y
the Countrywide legislative records OF TIE 5ta.G VI "
York-prove Griswold statement 10 DC one VI W,
sest and most impudent falsehoods ever uttered WI
Van Buren, raised his political reputation upon tne
lv hold inhexible and perseverng cxerlioh whicn ne
rave to his country in the last contest with Great br-
tain As Mr. Butler, late Attorney General OF me
Ji,,sd States. and now District Attorney for New
York, shows in his letter 10 Nr. Garland, Mr. an
Buren, embarked in the controversy aga,hs. "'r''
Brtain with In. General Administration, before the
war commenced. Mr.. Batter says "lhrrr eHS no per-
son in the aie of his orndoe, ,rho hat g'rcn" more r.
frie,d support to HE Of the General G"rsrn-
ment during he hoe pcriod cMe restrictive *stem than
Mr. Vas BrKEN He says, that the great mass OF them
nbe Republicans with whom Mr.. Van Buren, acted so
from being opposed all belligerent measures against
Great Britain were in favor of more decided policy
than had been pursued to'rards her. IL REGARD TO
Mr. YAN RunEx, THIS WAS PECULIARLY THE CASE,
and yet another part of the letter we nave named
from Virginia. we are told ale (Nr. Gr'swodl alleges
thut Nix Vas BrREN dit oppose ne 'car mi" pune
opinion drore him into its snPporE
The public documents which We have pnnshcd,
taken from the archives at Albany show that Air V
Buren, was from first TO last, the right arm oil uoV'
Tomrkins in prosecuting the war and putting down
the Federal party who had command IN the House OF
Representatives Of New York His coqurnce rcsound-
ed not onlv in the halls of legislation, but in great
public meetings. in behalf of the measures OF The HoV'
eminent at Washington, while the struggle Tor ascen
dency was waged in the State of New York, between
the war and anti parties The press teemed WIN
productions from his pcn appealing to the patriotism OF
the people 10 sustain their Government against the
double attack of reasonable Federalism operating ins
donsly to paralyze the energies OF the Government
and the physical force Of the foreign enemy IN the
field Ofthese appeals have recently submitted con-
hp
| They were not made in vain during the war; and we
trust their republication by US now VIII mol be useless
! The Republicans trumpied under the lead OF Temp
kins and Van Buren, The Federal party was put dow,
in both branches of the Legislature of New York, and
Mr. Van Buren's classification bill, called by the fedc
ralists the conscripon BILL was destined to throw the
weight of the great State upon the lines of the enemy
This more than any other event, contributed TO turn
the tide against the British in the North If New ork
had fallen into the Hartford Convention scheme, very
different fortune might at this day attend our now peace
| ful and prosperous Union.
! 1t at the goomcs period OF the struggle OF par,
ties in New York. that The Federasts a Hudson passed
the resolution refusing 10 render militia service nose
who acted this resolution when called on to do nI-
tary duty refused and were court artaled, ana they
appealed to the civil courts Tor relief They were met
by Mr. Van Buren,, who exerted his eloqnencc to bring
them to punishment by the judgment OF the court TO
which they appealed The Federal party now, through
their corrupt press, by way of retaaton reverse the
facts and ascrbe the very resolution for passing and
acting upon which they arralgned and Pr"secu.
ted by Mr. Van Buren,, 10 Mr.. Van Buren, himself!
This new species of revenge, which consists i'll laying
their offences upon the who punished them, is no,
confined TO the newspaper organs of the Federal party
or such missionaries Griswold Mr.. Satonstall, a
member of the House of Representatives. who, as
member of committee of the Massachusetts Legisa-
ture brought in the resolution which originated the
Hartford Convention, is of SHE EIecntirc Conn
mucc of the Federal iunto at work daily in this city,
in scattering such Bank misrepresentation as we have
now exposed, against the Chief Mag israe, whom, from
the moment he entered political life, to this hour, they
have always looked upon as a most formidable enemy
/ TO their principles and DESIGNS.