Richmond enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1815-1867, 1840-05-08

"hr. PRESTON, says the American, aIs A MANNER
PECULIAR TO HIMSELF, AFTER ExuoRrISG THE WurGs
70 USE THEIR ANTICIPATED TRIUMPH AS NOT ABUSING
~ LEFT THE GRAVE FOR MOMENT rHE GAY.
ALAS, POOR DEMOCRATS! FAREWELL, DEAR Loco
r"'os' YOU HAVE HAD Your DAY. EVERY HAS
MS DAY IT Is NECESSARY, MR. VAN BiKES, THAT
YOU SHOULD GO FOR DIMINISHED WAGES, ASD Tur
%. MIX. SAYS roc SHALL GO FOR DIMINISHED WAGES
Mr. WISE was called for, and he said "rnAT IT
WOULD AFFORD MN GREAT PLEASURE 70 ADDRESS
r"ta ON AZ OCCASION 50 DEEPLY INTERESTING 70
MS FEELINGS. liz WAS SORRY 10 SAY THAT THE STATE
VI MS HEALTH WOULD NOT rLRMlr sucn Az Effort.
w SATURDAY LAST, lie HAD ALMOST HIMSELF
h""N II ADDRESSING TwENry-ri,E HUNDRED OF ms
fEhLoW'cirizENs OF DELAWARE, Ash he SOW FOUND
HIMSELF TOTALLY ISADLqUATE TO TIE TASK Al.
DRESSING TWENTY-FIVE THOUSAND
Nir, ootrHARD, the solicitor of the Bank who eXcr.
clses ms functions and receives his pay from it, in vr
Tue OF ms Senatorial service, told BY the Ame.
rlcan, MADE BRIEF AND ELOQUENT ADDRESS. HIS
LLusioNs TO New JERSEY WE'VE HAPPY
And (sast, though not east) We informed by the
same print:
"MR GRAVES OF KENTUCKY FOLLOWED WITH
foRciBLE AND STIRRING APPEAL. OTHERS WOULD
HAVE SPOKEN, But THE HOUR ApMoxlsnED Az Al.
JorRNMENr.
And this was the grand consummation for which, II
we are to believe Mr.. Wise, twenty-five thousand gen
emen orsook their homes and he'd to Baltimore from
the rcmo;eSt parts of the Union At $50 head land
tins IS moderate sum ior gentleman, OH such an er
rand, 10 eXpcnd the expense of this convention would
be one million, t,co hundred and fifty thousand dollars
How does this look IN connection with Mr.. Webster
statement that all agreed $ We have hard times and
cried out tor change and for hard cider the remedy
Certainly the young men who could spend million
and quarter TO make HOLIDAY in the streets of Bal
tlmore, could command at home some better entertain
ment than is found in log cabin and hard cider This
famous motto is meant for the people generally
for the glorious volunteers who now fill Baltimore with
riot and confusion These pilgrims to the Monumental
CITY expect something more from Harrison than hard
cider TO requite them for the abos and expenditure
this devou journey, it indeed the expense out OF
their purses aud not that deep Golfer which looks
for re punishment from that change which Mr.. Web
ster, in prophetic and SO anxious tone, halls al
hand.
In default of all exposition of the advantages be
attained BY the people at large by SHE CHANGE much
insisted upon by Mr. Webster-in default Of any expla
nation of the measures or policy BY which the pro-
missed benefits were to be achieved for the community
the auspices under which the assemblage brought to-
gether hy the Federal politicians moved at Baltimore
throws 4 light which will with MANY 10 clear
up the mystery Mr. WEBSTER himself was put
at the head of this "army with banners" "Seven
handsome open barouches, (says the National In.
telligencer,s Corrresp"ndent( each drawn by four
white horses, contained the Wing members of Con
grcss MR. WEBSTER WAS In THE FIRST
IBAROUCHE." All the bulletins we have seen con-
cur in giving Mr.. Webster the lead in this Harrison
The correspondent then roes on thus TO enrol
the names of his immediate followers
"Mr. Bell Of Tennessee, Mr.. King of Georgia, Mr.
Gushing, Mr.. Graves, MIR. Curtis, Mr.. Hoffman
sIr Wise, Mr. Stanly, Mr.. Corwin, MIR. Mason oi
Ohio, Mr. Fillmore, Mr.. Morgan, Mr.. Mitchell, Mr.
Williams of North Carolina, Mr.. Clarke OF New York
Mr. Garland, and great many others of the House OF
Representatives, among the company
And where was Mr.. Clay: He had no place in the
procession it seems althous he present Did he
decline station in the pageant because the precedence
or did he refuse lend himself part Of the osten
.a;ion in Harrison parade: The fact that ebsier
headed the Convention in his barouche, spoke the
eve what every we'll informed mans reflection must
long since have made known 10 him Webster, by
putting ms weight III the scale Of Harrison, at Harris
ru really reduced Mr. Clay TO the ranks, while he
put himself in the harouche which heads the body ol
Federalism rallied under the OF Harrison.
While the political glorIiicatlon was gong forward,
of which we have extracted the account from the OPP
position prints gical events took place, which
we might have supposed wonld have commanded more
interest among Of feeling than all the sensclcss
uInnerv thev describe. Several persons OF respeca-
blty lost their lives the course at the day, and yet
the heartless hrong seem hardly to have inquired how
il happened Our readers will see how one incident IS
mentioned by The in,eli." ncers correspondent The
Baltimore American dSposcs OF the whole together, al
the end of his account of the parade. with much less
partculaty than he notices barrel Of hard cider in
tie rear Of the cob,a md gonrd suspended by
The Editor gives particulars of the deaths, but SIM
ply says:
that several lives were lost ycste
young man. Thomas H. oash!n, was killed III an ARRAY
in Baltimore street,